Remember the whole hoopla going on when the characters from Mad Men up and started Tweeting? It was Fall of 2008, the show was in its second season, and the controversy erupted when AMC started DMCAing Twitter into shutting down these “infringing” accounts. After a huge backlash, the profiles were un-suspended and the rest is [...]
Last night, in a special election to replace the late Senator, Ted Kennedy, my home state of Massachusetts elected its first Republican to the senate since 1978, Scott Brown.
Massachusetts has never elected a Republican senator during my lifetime. I’ve never known anything but Democrats (except for one Governor, once), from my home state my ENTIRE [...]
Note: This is actually way better if you’re first seeing it during a Dollhouse commercial break on Hulu, without the spoilers of the youtube video title and static screen (below) giving away what you’re about to see.
In the course of just 30 seconds the ad takes you on a ride of intrigue and suspense that [...]
A friend of mine, pro skater Patrick Melcher (significant other to SkinGraft’s Katie Kay, and 2nd place Moustache World Champion), just completed the pilot for an action sports / reality show concept he co-concocted called “Good Times Roll.” The gist is: Melcher and his BMX buddy Jon Peacy get dropped down in a random city, [...]
As some of you may know, I’ve got an open relationship with this sort of pop-sociology / marketing-strategy genre I have been cultivating here, at Social-Creature. I also have a tendency to get into long-term situations with fiction (more on that soon!), and every so often ring up poetry for a late-night booty call.
Every so [...]
I don’t usually repost other people’s advertising commentary, but in this case it’s about an ad that I also happened to see at the same time as the author (left), but was unable to look at it long enough to articulate my own reaction due to the reasons described below. It was written by Jason [...]
Writing about the aftermath of the public outcry against Tropicana’s packaging redesign earlier this year, which ultimately led to the OJ cartons reverting back to the original art, I mentioned Mountain Dew’s “Dewmocracy” campaign — an interactive, story-based online game which resulted in 3 new Dew flavors designed and developed virtually entirely by fans.
Tropicana, I [...]
Some love from One+, a magazine for the global meetings & events community, which selected me as a featured PSFK Purple List Member in their November Branding issue:
More:
…of the full article here.
…on PSFK here.
…on The Purple List here.
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Yesterday I saw the message above appear in my Twtitter stream. To my complete shock, I had been nominated for “Best Blogger to Follow” on Mashable’s Open Web Awards. So, even though this is totally getting filed in the not-like-I-think-this-would-really-happen-or-anything category, I’ve been encouraged to post something about it here, and suggest that perhaps you, [...]
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