January 2010
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December 2009
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October 2009
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September 2009
5 posts
Hahahahaha… (Mom, Dad, I’m happy that you follow me online though :P)
via The Onion:
How to Stalk Your College-Bound Child Through the Magic of Social Media - mediabistro.com: BayNewser
August 2009
6 posts
This is so cool. Scan a barcode with your iPhone and this app will show you the price and information! (This app is only for this specific store’s products, but eventually it must develop into something for like Amazon or Zappos or eBay that will work for EVERYTHING!) How awesome would that be?!?!
Spadout Mobile
Apparently, advertising causes everything to suck. Oh well!
via: AdFreak
July 2009
3 posts
An awesome explanation of social media and marketing (it’s a SlideShare presentation, no audio required).
June 2009
12 posts
The Beatles Rock Band →
I want this SO HARD.
Click through to watch the commercial!
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May 2009
17 posts
I’m deadly tired from the flu that I’m currently fighting, but Adurday is too important to disregard! So, let me just say- this ad from the 80s gave us a timeless catch phrase that I remember even though I wasn’t born yet. I’m not sure if Wendy’s actively did anything to encourage the phrase’s adoption by popular culture, but if they did it certainly worked.
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One of advertising’s classics!
I almost used this campaign as one of the case studies for my thesis, but my thesis advisor told me not to. Oh well. I still think it applies very well to my general argument that the most effective advertising appeals to cultural subsects and is based off of pre-existing cultural trends.
However, I think that Mac users tend to be less anti-establishment...
Random Thoughts of the Week
1. I just drank a lot of coffee, so hang in there, this post should be long and babble-y and incoherent. Woo! My favorite. :-D
2. I really need to get a new job or a second job or something. Hanging out at my apartment all day has only led to three things: (1) lots of video games, (2) obsessive cleaning, or (3) cooking more than anyone could ever eat. I already cleaned the entire apartment...
Food Star: How Does "Iron Chef America" work? →
I am watching the food network and was wondering how iron chefs can be so awesome and I stumbled upon this site. I know all you secrets now, food network! Muahahahaha!
One of my favorite Nike ads of all time and one that I critiqued in my senior thesis.
Btw, I’m making up my own meme and it will be ADurday! (Like Saturday, but with advertising!) Woo!!!
Leave your own comments and critiques below!
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Gary Vaynerchuk VS Lee Clow: the marketing match... →
I left a looong comment on Edward Boches’s blog again. :)
Ad agencies are as clueless about social media as... →
This is from the blog of Edward Boches of Mullen. I left a comment here today. Check it out!
Dracula: 5 May →
I’m reading Dracula in real time. It was written as an epistolary novel (like a diary), so the entries are posted in the blog on the same day that the journal entries are dated.
This is a very cool concept, but it has one huge fatal flaw. I wanna read the next entry now. I have no patience. And I refuse to wait until my interest is gone! I’m seizing the moment!
Does anyone know...
dELiAs > Hiawatha Flat > shoes > flats →
I want these shoes SO BAD.
Brain-Twitter project offers hope to paralyzed... →
Social media will change the world!
This is one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time.
It is MAYYYYY!!!!
Classes are finally over, my thesis is handed in, and I can SLEEP AGAIN! Hallelujah! And I can finally work long enough to actually make enough money to pay my rent again! I will have time to do my spring cleaning! I will have time to do laundry for the first time in like two months! This is all kinds of wonderful!!!
Speaking of paying the rent, I had a fabulous interview...
April 2009
21 posts
Look to the left or follow me on Twitter @captain_pete for my live commentary on the E3 Expo. Also, see a live feed of the event here http://ow.ly/3VeM.