Blogroll
Tags
Advertising Advertising Age Amazon Blog Blogging Brands Brands Are Opinions Clay Shirky ComScore Content Convergence Creativity Crowdsourcing Digital E-mail Earned Media Element 79 Engagement Facebook FAIL Flickr Google Ideas Internet iPhone Marketing Media MediaPost Mobile New Media Olson Online Public Relations Social Media Social Networks Story Surprise Television Traditional tv Twitter viral Web 2.0 Word of Mouth YouTube-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Rah on Doing Social Media 9-5 Means You’re Doing It Wrong
- Dedicated_Dad on A Nation of Unlocked Doors, Digitally-Speaking
- Old Ad Guy on Still Wondering If Facebook Is Relevant to Marketers?
- Dennis Ryan on Start The Week With Perfect Event Outdoor, But Hopefully, You’ve Finished Eating Your Morning Bagel.
- Kathryn Talty on Start The Week With Perfect Event Outdoor, But Hopefully, You’ve Finished Eating Your Morning Bagel.
Archives
- December 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
Tag Archives: Y2K
Selling the Apocalypse: The Challenge of the Morning After
It’s becoming a common storyline. First, you introduce the unthinkable (“A mother of a child beauty pageant contestant injected her own eight year old daughter with Botox!”). Next, various news organizations run with this sensational story, assembling a cadre of … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising
Tagged 1994?, Balloon Boy, Botox Mom, Harold Camping, Olson, The Rapture, USAToday, Y2K
2 Comments
The Rise of this Misinformation Age
I blame Y2K. Or more specifically, the hysteria that built up over the moment the clocks would hit the first second of the year 2000. At that point, every computer and microchip would…well, they would do something. Something awful, something … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising
Tagged "Crawling Back to You", Gulf Oil Spill, Hurricane Bonnie, Information Age, Misinformation Age, New York Times, Pitbulls, Tom Petty, Y2K
2 Comments
What A Wonderful World It Might Be…
I was researching a project last night which led me to this 1930s-40s in Color (Set) on Flickr. The photo below wasn’t really germane to what I was looking for, but like so many other stream-of-consciousness digressions on the web, it … Continue reading