Adam Mansbach is a marketing genius. Actually Adam Mansbach is an author – and an extremely successful author as of a couple of weeks ago. He writes novels, but has not been the huge success that every author yearns for. At least until now. He recently wrote a children’s bed time story book. It is [...]
You may have seen reference in the media to a new Rolling Stones documentary “Stones In Exile” shot during the year long orgy that the band conducted during the recording of Exile On Main Street – which is about to be re-released. As you would expect the Stones have been doing some PR to support [...]
Sometimes I come across something that is too good not to share…. even if it is breaching copyright….. #11 posted by webmonkees, July 22, 2009 5:22 AM Dear Sirs at Speed Camera Cash Cow Inc: On May 20th, 2009, I produced a exclusive series of artistically inspired portraits of my vehicle. I have initiated a [...]
Before the kinds of graphics that we get now accompanying all the products that we consume….. there used to be a warmer, friendlier kind of advertisement…. Here is a repository of those ads and the artwork found from a story in Boing Boing: They did beautiful artwork back then….
I see that now Dick Parsons – CEO at Warners – is planning to sue YouTube (Thanks John Batelle for referencing the great headline “Time to SueTube”! originally from the boing boing blog) And as John says: Be careful, Dick, for a shot across the bow may bring a broadside from the other side. And [...]
Sony has blundered badly. Its attempt to digitally protect CD music is backfiring. Spectacularly. Three weeks after the problem was discovered, Sony is still on the media front pages. Still sees fireworks. For all the wrong reasons. And every day there is a new twist. A new disaster. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> This [...]
Some weeks ago Richard McKinnon posted here a story about a blogger who analyzed the copy protections software included on new BMG/Sony CD releases. It turned out that the software was extremely invasive. The story spread across the blogosphere like wildfire. Today there is a story that they have now pulled the software out of [...]