Archives for July 2008
BoingBoing Brouhaha… L.A. Times Misses Story
Down below the fold of today’s entertainment section at the print edition of the Los Angeles Times is a nice little “Web Scout” column by David Sarno about BoingBoing editor Xeni Jardin quietly unpublishing posts that linked to her former close friend or relationship partner (Jardin is unclear about this, as is her right) Violet [...]
Links for July 7th through July 8th
Things I’m tracking for July 7th through July 8th: Perfspot – Social Marketing Blog – Big-name brands booking ads on Facebook – Mindless Ones – Nice comic book blog recommended by my friend Ben. New Magna Ad Spend Reports from Brian Wieser and Robert Coen – always worth a look… How Portfolio Will Get Paid [...]
Capsule Review: “Wall-E” is GREAT, but it’s NOT a movie for kids…
Kathi and I saw “Wall-E” last weekend and loved it: typical Pixar brilliance in that it’s utterly atypical. But it’s SO bleak, so dark, so sad in so many ways… it’s just not appropriate for most children. Certainly not my seven year old daughter and three year old son. Although I’m confident that they’ll see [...]
Links for July 2nd through July 6th
Things I’m tracking for July 2nd through July 6th: For Marketers, Viruses Just Won’t Cooperate – NYTimes.com – A nicely skeptical take on so-called "viral" marketing from the NYT. Sustainable retreats – Los Angeles Times – Personal Technology – WSJ.com – Whedon to Pioneer New Distribution Model « NewTeeVee – A new project from Joss [...]
OK, so maybe newspapers aren’t DEAD…
It’s the morning of Independence Day and my 3 year old boy might want to watch fireworks tonight. Being a good digital daddy, I hopped to Google and typed “fireworks encino” into the search box and clicked. Nothing. I messed around with a few alternatives (the zip code, July 4th) and still got nothing. Yahoo, [...]
