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A Myth I Want to Believe

June 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Theory

It’s hard for me to reconcile this idea with this blog. Oh well.

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Toast indeed

June 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Letters to Brands

“For marketers … this is actually turning out, in my view, to be an ad-serving machine” – Kostas Mallios, Microsoft’s general manager for Strategy and Business Development Back in April, when Apple announced iAd as one of it’s “tent poles” of iOS4, I was pretty ready to just hold for Windows Mobile 7 and see [...]

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The Steak is so Cliche

June 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising

My friend (and former Fight-er) Dave Allen just emailed me a link to this article and asked me what I thought about it. Here is how I responded: I think the author is well intentioned, and in a lot of ways, dead on about the issues of advertising online. My issue is that I don’t [...]

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Punch the Monkey

April 9th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Advertising

The nice thing about dictatorships is that they get things done. There is no “in between” with a dictatorship like there is with a democracy, no compromise. In a way, this is what makes Apple great. Under Jobs, the direction of the brand has had a singular focus on producing his vision of great experiences [...]

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Ways of Seeing the World

April 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Off Topic

This sheet, comparing the upcoming HP Slate to the iPad has been making the rounds for the last couple days and I think it says a lot about the difference in how HP, or their customers, see the world in contrast to Apple. Note that every aspect of each device that HP pulls out is [...]

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