March 2009
29 posts
Amazon's 100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums Of All... →
For a list put together with ulterior motives this one isn’t bad:
100 Dangerous Magical Noise - The Dirtbombs 99 Passover - The Black Angels 98 To Survive - Joan As Police Woman 97 Ultimate Alternative Wavers - Built To Spill 96 Trans Am - Trans Am 95 The Discovery Of A World Inside… - The Apples In Stereo 94 Waiter: ‘You Vultures!’ -...
WatchCadbury: Creme That Egg | Creativity Online
I need a workshop or lab or secret lair to do things like this. Great work for the Cadbury “Unleash the Goo” contest in New Zealand.
Economist Summit →
Just got back from the Economist Sustainability summit. It was really interesting in one of those “are we already completely fucked?” kind of sobering ways. The link takes you to the 3 scenarios that the Economist say are most likely to happen with the stimulus hitting the market.
60% chance for success
30% chance for failure
10% chance of something I’d rather not talk...
Skimmer - We Are Fallon →
Skimmer℠ is an Adobe AIR desktop application designed to streamline, beautify, and enhance the experience of participating in your most frequently used social networking activities. It improves upon your day-to-day interaction with multiple social networks, removing distractions and providing a rich experience that is particularly suited to multimedia content.
I think this is really cool. An ad...
“The audience doesn’t imagine that all cars want to be free, or that all...”
– ‘Chaos Scenario’ Has Arrived for Media, Marketing - Advertising Age
In a weird turn of events I’m quoting Bob Garfield, he’s usually a little cheesey for me but this thought it right on. We’ve been trained by the Internet to expect everything for free which is dumb it...
Michael Steele: ‘We Are Not Warming’ - Green Inc.... →
I honestly can’t believe we are still debating this. My mind can wrap itself around the fact that doubters exist but I can’t see how those doubters are 1. in power, 2. able to politicize a non-political issue, and 3. sadly from my home state. (Not Steele but outspoken longtime embarrassment to all of us Sen. Inhofe.) Again my head hurts.
The party line:
We are cooling. We are not...
“Awards matter. They are how we measure the quality of our work against that of...”
– BBDO Worldwide President-CEO Andrew Robertson
E-mail Reveals What Advertising Agencies Spend for Awards - Advertising Age - News
Wait…what? Shouldn’t client successes be the way we measure quality? My head hurts.
President Obama Still Missing The Point: Include... →
Agreed.
From the post:
The new Obama administration was supposed to represent a revolution in participation and transparency — and while there have been some moves in that direction, there’s plenty that’s troubling, such as its recent decision to declare negotiations on an intellectual property treaty a state secret. However, more troubling is this fundamental disconnect...
“Amortality is a stranger, stronger alchemy, created by the intersection of that...”
– Amortality from 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now - TIME - Catherine Mayer
“The cognition you’ve got up there in your head — your education and...”
– Jobs Are The New Assets from 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now - TIME - BARBARA KIVIAT
Sports Leagues Figure Out Build It Online, And... →
Comments Enabled →
I can’t believe it worked.
FedEx offers free resume printing today -... →
This definitely goes with the post right below it about marketing as a service. Brilliantly simple and all that other stuff people say about great ideas.
Zeus Jones Credentials →
Really cool articulation of a company vision and culture wrapped into a sales pitch from Zeus Jones. Really liked the philosophy in the first half of the presentation. The second half is your regular ol’ credentials so you can skip that part.
WatchWatch This!
Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity | Video on TED.com
Really great talk from Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat Pray Love author) at TED. I’m reading “Self Reliance” by Emmerson right now. Her idea is the polar opposite of his idea but none the less both ideas are great.
St Vincent - The Strangers (mp3 link) →
Something I’m going to start doing more often. Here is the new St. Vincent song. Just released on her site. Thanks to twitter all the breaking news is here now.
Rush Job: Inside Dems' Limbaugh plan - revelation... →
Analysis to come
Scientists Model Words as Entangled Quantum States... →
