This one was too great not to post. I’m going to have to agree with Nelson Muntz here, but I do love to pick up a copy of The Onion on a nice Austin Saturday morning and read my horoscope over some breakfast tacos at Polvo’s.

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Every Sunday strangers from all over the world share with me their most intimate secrets via a beautiful (and sometimes equally disturbing) blog called PostSecret.com. The blog was started by Frank Warren, who is often referred to as “the most trusted stranger in America.” Every day he receives secrets from absolute strangers that divulge the […]

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The viral and Alternate Reality Game (ARG) marketing effort (which I’ve previously written about here and Andy here) that has been hitting the masses for the new Dark Knight movie just got that much more interesting this October. At the beginning of the month, the whysoserious.com domain that has housed previous efforts got a cool […]

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This past June, Treehugger reported that Timbuk2 was going to team up with RootPhito build a messenger bag by pressing (laminating) recycled billboards, grocery bags, posters, and the like.  The bags will be called Lamitron, and their development process has been closely watched by influential bloggers including Cool Hunting, Wired and PSFK.
Here are a few prototypes:

I dig […]

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The best marketing is authentic.  It doesn’t need to be polished by admen; rather, it is an organic, pervasive manifestation of the company’s culture at every customer touchpoint. 
Two local pizza shops are cases in point.
College Kids

Austin Onion taps into one of the two most lucrative markets for pizza in the country: college kids.  Their shop on […]

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