Expect Adam Hanft to get an out of the blue call from Saudi Arabia anytime now…

Update: Christian Bailey called me today (from Saudi Arabia) and asked me to take down my original post about him. He mentioned some points which weren’t true, and was a bit nonplussed that Google might pick up on them, leading to further rumor and inuendo. So rather than pull the link down completely, I simply deleted that which he claimed wasn’t true, and left the rest for public consumption. By Peter 1) <deleted> 2) Change your name to something much more American/British sounding, like Christian Bailey. 3) Start a few Internet and Financial companies 4) Go to lots of Republican Fundraisers <deleted> 5) Create a very patriotic sounding PR Firm called The Lincoln Group 6) Get questioned by the London [...]

All: Will be on the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News tonight talking about how Paris Hilton is quite possibly the most brilliant marketing person on the planet. 8pm, Fox News Channel. It REALLY irks me that despite my best efforts not to, I find myself actually LIKING the video below. Damn it. Happy Thursday.

Google has posted their 2007 Holiday logos. Cool stuff, as always. Big fan of Mozart’s Birthday:

A car dealership in Columbus, OH, is causing a bit of a controversy with ads that proclaim that they’re "launching a Jihad" on car prices, and "one car can comfortably seat 12 jihadists in the back." "Out there" PR, good. Insulting religions and trying to sell cars based on thousands of innocents dead on both sides? Bad. Keith Dennis, of Dennis Mitsubishi goes on to say… "Our prices are lower than the evildoers’ every day. Just ask the pope! " the ad says. "Friday is fatwa Friday, with free rubber swords for the kiddies." See, this is not good. The PR you’re going to get from this (like the Columbus Dispatch article referenced above) is not worth the flack you’re [...]