In The Political Brain•, Westen mentions that the Republicans are remarkably good at making their values appear to be the values of the majority of Americans when it comes to controversial issues, even though the polls consistently show that the Democratic positions are actually more similar. This is due to two things, Westen says. First, [...]
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Posted in Advertising on August 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Last one, I swear.
If you were carrying a few extra pounds, wouldn’t this totally make you want to buy clothes from Lane Bryant? Charming, chubby-size clothes?
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Posted in Advertising, Drugs on August 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So looking up drug ad pictures for my last post, I came across this (via AdFreak):
I can’t read the small type, but the gist seems to be: “Is your wife too depressed to cook you breakfast? Pump her full of uppers, and you’ll have eggs and bacon again in no time!”
[Not that I'd [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Drugs on August 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The good old days of drug advertising
Does this seem like a ridiculous waste of time to anyone else?
Federal regulators plan to study whether relaxing, upbeat images featured in TV drug ads distract consumers from warnings about the drugs’ risks.
Of course they do. That’s the point. The good news is, consumers — distracted by that [...]
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“OMG! Talk about casual chic! He’s dirty. He’s sexy. He is so money. Only Jeremy Darling could make a formal occasion look like an after-party… and for him, it probably is.“
Via Outta Mind Outta Site, the next step in online advertising: inserting ads directly into “the blogstream.” Sure, businesses and politicians have been trying to [...]
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Posted in Branding, Copyright, IP on August 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Bad news for street vendors and discount retailers alike: fashion designers are currently pushing for copyright protection for their designs. They’re claiming that knock-offs of haute couture fashions (i.e., those “Coach” purses sold by the guy on the corner) are harming their sales, and Sen. Charles Schumer and a gaggle of designers are backing [...]
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… because I’ve already written about 27 billion posts today but I like these posts too much not to say something …
OldManCoyote compares radical anti-abortion activists to Islamic terrorists
And before all you radical anti-choicers get your Jack Bauer underoos in a bunch and accuse me of comparing you to terrorists, let me clarify: [...]
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Looking for even more ways to avoid interaaction with the real world? Ning is a “meta-networking” site that allows users to create their own social networks for whatever they want to. On the front page of the site right now (I’m assuming it changes daily) are networks for something called the Brooklyn Art Project, the [...]
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Posted in Advertising on June 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A friend of mine observed the other day that the conversation surrounding the whole “green” phenomenon is eerily reminiscent of the hype surrounding tech start-ups in the dot.com era. I can’t really make that comparison, because I was too young (and insolated by the rolling hills and illicit drugs of the Hocking River basin) [...]
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You know it’s sad when it’s a wee bit before midnight and you haven’t even hit the half way mark for work. Alas, if only I had an extra hundred dollars to spend, I could hire a work-servant to do it for me! I could then spend my day blogging about which color line metro [...]
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ABC News:As 21st century women dominate the universities and continue to climb the executive ladder, and metro-sexual men explore their feminine side, it’s harder to define what it means to be a woman
In the mildly frustrating category of the week … why is everyone so up in arms about this “new” birth control that allows [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Privacy on May 21, 2007 | No Comments »
While pursuing the free articles in the Wall Street Journal today, I came across this one on “microtargeting” and Sara Taylor, a former top strategist in the Bush-Cheney campaign. She was a major force in the re-election in 2004.
“Ms. Taylor helped perfect political “microtargeting,” a system for squeezing votes from neglected segments of the [...]
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I don’t understand this kerfluffle over these ads. The ads, for online-dating-service startup Chemistry.com, feature a gaggle of attractive young people who were allegedly rejected from another online dating site, eHarmony.com. eHarmony is all riled up and asking media outlets to stop running the ads, which they feel make the site appear discriminatory and racist. [...]
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What kind of former Texan would I be if I didn’t mention NASCAR! Just the world alone sends me in to shock and awe memories of going to lunch with co-workers timed around NASCAR laps. No, I am not joking. I have to say, I watched a few laps. Which makes me all more ready [...]
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Posted in Branding, Business on February 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In a leaked in-house memo that came from the chairman of Starbucks stated a slight turn for Starbucks.
Starbucks has a plan to expand its menu to include things like hot breakfast sandwiches
While that does in fact sound tasty, Starbucks is out for you. In the midst of competition, Starbucks is going back to you.
However, [...]
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