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Palin VP Debate Hair Watch: Day 3
This week, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd cuttingly characterized Governor Palin’s first interview with CBS Anchorwoman Katie Couric as “junior varsity.”
It looks like we have a second round coming up tonight (although it might have been last night as CBS News doesn’t do a good job of date-marking its videos). Note two things in [...]
Palin VP Debate Hair Watch: Day 2
Continuing with Saturday’s note about how if Governor Palin wears her hair down and ear-covering at the VP debate this week it might mean that she is wearing a transmitter in her ear and getting coached from offstage…
I don’t see any new images of Palin in my quick tour through the online newspapers this morning, [...]
Palin VP Debate Hair Watch: Countdown Begins
Joseph Ledda, the brilliant man who cuts my hair, observed when I saw him last week that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin mostly tends to wear her hair up (see this sample from Google Images), and speculated that if she wears her hair down during next week’s sure-to-be-riveting-like-the-scene-of-two-Mac-trucks-colliding Veep Debate then it means that she has [...]
Short Post: Gossip Girl’s missed marketing opportunity
Yes, I watch friggin’ Gossip Girl. Get over it and keep reading.
Despite a few innovators — mostly, I think, on the feature side of the entertainment industry — the gap between content creators and marketers persists.
I caught up on Monday’s Gossip Girl episode a little while ago and was struck by one exchange between Dan [...]
Short Post: Is Email Dying?
I hate email.
If it weren’t absolutely necessary for my work and general communications with my loved ones I’d turn off email in a heartbeat and never look back. Regularly, I tell people not to email me if it’s urgent, just to call.
Right now, I have:
A corporate account for work
A generally findable Gmail account, which is [...]
