I’ve been a pretty avid Arcade Fire evangelist for a few years now after being introduced to them by an old roommate then seeing them at ACL; they’re innovative, refreshing and put on one hell of a show. I was delighted (but not too surprised) to find that their new video was incredibly cool. You’ll […]

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It’s good to acknowledge an old campaign that worked and it’s ok to bring it back to life. Actually, sometimes it’s better than ok - it can be even more successful.
I applaud Office Max. Welcome Elf Yourself 2.0. Hopefully, the start of a Christmas Holiday tradition. I expect an Elf Yourself 3.0 next year and […]

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I’ve been a bit behind on my blog reading lately and just came across David Byrne’s (yes THAT David Byrne) post from a couple of Saturday’s ago on Social “Hateworking”:
It seems to me that this was inevitable. Once you have the existence of social networking sites you have to take the bad with the good. While it might […]

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I ran across this little commentary on the future of spending for online advertising at GigaOM and thought that I’d share. From November 7:
This being the week of ad:tech, news of online advertising has dominated the conversation: from MySpace’s hyper- targeted ads to Facebook’s new ad system to broadband advertising systems introduced by companies […]

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advergirl has an interesting post (via AdRants) asking her readers for help in identifying what makes a Web 2.0 site. I personally like the way she’s broken down her examples into “Web 1.0″, “Web 2.0 in the raw” and “Web 2.0 by a brand.”
A newsletter sign-up form from our client, AARP, shows up as the […]

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