Welcome to Singapore. Having lived through the 5K from hell, I’m back, chairing the Mobile Content World Asia 07 Conference.
Last night the conference unofficially started, with a few of us touring the sites of Singapore and winding up (naturally) at a Mexican restaurant. (famous for their margaritas.) I was thrilled for everyone else as I […]
It was a fun day. Thanks, Interference, Turner, Comedy Central, and the city of Boston for giving me lots to talk about!
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Fun day.
I, on the other hand, get caught proving it. A lot.
I love my job.
Props to T-mobile and Danger for allowing me to do it from anywhere. Even on a ride up to altitude. (Was answering a reporter on a query about a client, btw.)
AT had a nice few news days…
http://www.geekfactory.com/FOX-Chicago-063006.wmv
http://www.geekfactory.com/NBC-Houston-070606.wmv
Also, NY Times on Tuesday, the International Herald Tribune on Wednesday,and the Times Dispatch on Thursday.
Not too shabby.
Apart from fulfilling their dream and telling them "I’m engaged,"(Sorry, not yet…) I would assume that this has to be an announcement that makes mom and dad happy:
Their son is a published author.
Go me.
Now please help me improve my Amazon rank from the 400,000’s into something a little bit better.
tNot an ad, per se, but a bunch of students from the University of Florida set up a flash mob and copied a PSP ad. Well done, in my opinion.
See it below:
FYI, this is the ad they copied:
Well, this should go over well.
Basically, Apple’s lawyers are arguing that unlike journalists or whistle-blowers, all online media does is "feed the public’s insaitable desire for information."
And that’s different from a journalist, how, exactly?
ZD writes it up this way:
Its lawyers say in court documents that Web scribes are not "legitimate members of the press" when […]
99.9% of me thinks that this has to be an April Fool’s story. Right?
Anyone have any thoughts?
Because I’ll tell you - if it’s not… I’m SO THERE.
Ultimate Detox Spa Planned for Phuket, Thailand
UPDATE: It’s quite fake, and it looks like Luxist got taken.
Chevy thought it’d be fun to piggyback off the Apprentice and allow people to create ads for their Tahoe SUV.
Good idea in theory. Except that not everyone likes Chevys, SUVs, or things that (in their words) guzzle gas and destroy the planet.
And their promotions agency didn’t see this coming because WHY?
Chevy Ads Chevy won’t like…
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz…
Alka-Seltzer set a world record yesterday for the largest buffett ever known to man - 510 dishes in front of 850 hungry customers at the Las Vegas Hilton.
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Very cool. Props to Bayer. Sorry I wasn’t there to eat. That wouldn’t be eight-thousand hours in the gym or anything.
If anyone knows Alka-Seltzer’s PR […]
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