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 “quit” [...]
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 is [...]
