Archives for June 2007
Daily Variety’s Bart Wins Daily Hypocrisy Award
Variety Editor in Chief Peter Bart’s columns — and the books based on them — are always charming, but in his latest he pokes fun at Procter & Gamble for communicating internally with their own, letter-heavy jargon. THIS from the man who leads a publication that regularly speaks in its own esoteric idiom? Instead of [...]
Check out the launch of Copywriting.com
Early plug for Miguel Alvarez’s new site, www.copywriting.com, which I’ll be diving into as soon as I find some time. It’s just-launched, but Miguel is a smart cookie and I’ll look forward to seeing what he has to say. Miguel, congrats!
Score one for the Yahoo! search alogrithm
The world seem so Google-obsessed that I just had to share this one, highly particular and eccentric brief adventure in search. My wife and I want to take our six year old daughter to see “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” this season, and it happens to be playing at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum here in [...]
Schizo “Spider-Man 3″ & the Problem with Superhero Movies
I know I’m late to the game here — and for sheer snark I can’t imagine anybody topping Anthony Lane’s withering New Yorker review — but here’s my capsule analysis of the problems with the latest entry into the Spidey series. Narrative is key to memory, and the more coherent the story the easier it [...]
