January 2008
47 posts
“I have written more than two hundred and fifty posts for this blog. Almost all...”
– Ad-Supported Music Central: Its Really Not About Advertising After All - My Bad
“Intimately whisper into the ears of your targeted audience like never before…”
– The headline of the media kit for We7, an ad-supported music site
“Embedded deep down in the brilliance of those entrepreneurial, hippy values...”
– Paul McGuinness, U2s manager. (not a hippy). Also, a quote I don’t a gree with
“Anomaly’s band of misfits and oddballs got themselves back to winning ways...”
– El Capitano
“They don’t realize that when they’re sharing on that keyboard,...”
– A Mom talking about her kid in Frontline’s “Growing Up Online”
If You Don't Enter Will Ferrell's Shark Contest... →
Install the Funny or Die Facebook app and win a Hammerhead shark.
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“It’s important to charge something, because the act of paying...”
– Seth on the iTunes movie rental prices.
Agency A-List: Anomaly (Advertising Age) →
We grabbed the #10 spot - in excellent company. “Don’t want to be confused with a hoary ad agency? Then refuse to get paid like one. No time sheets means developing intellectual property and hitching compensation to sales, blurring the lines between a marketing execution and a business solution and disrupting traditional notions of what an agency can aspire to.”
“Today in America, there are three times as many professional tanning salons as...”
– Mark J. Penn in his book Microtrends (didn’t see that coming)
“2008 will be all about getting ready for 2009.”
– Jerry Gumbert
“The very first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83....”
– eBay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“As a result, the music business built huge systems. They created top-heavy...”
– Seth’s Godin
WatchMilkandCookies - Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis — jendunlap
Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRESENTS →
I like reading stories like this - violent flash animation timed to music. They did an installation at the New Museum. (via)
“So I started thinking about how to make the world’s most elaborate album...”
– Trent Reznor in the Wired article about his incredible NIN ARG (via Gareth)
“Sorry. This one is NOT for the Diesel.”
– Vin Diesel’s agent, in an email to me, saying Vin was passing on a part we’d offered him on Human Giant. — Rob Huebel
“Jay-Z used to sling yay. Mac is the new crack. Jay could push those coke-whites...”
– Wired: Thoughts On the Jay-Z and Apple Gossip
WatchClips of the ITP Winter 2007 Show up at NYU last month. Music: Matthew Dear - Deserter (Four Tet Remix) — gtmcknight I only had about 30 minutes to scan the whole show, so this is appreciated. Nice one Taylor.