Monthly Archives: June, 2010
[ADVERTISING CAN BE A GAME. BUT IT’S NO JOKE. THEN IT’S CALLED AN ADVERGAME..]
Last month, the Federal Trade Commission released a video game designed to teach American tweens (ages 8-12) how to recognize and critically consume (not just downright ignore) the barrage of daily advertising tossed at their snotty faces. All of this happens through a customizable avatar (kitty mask? robot head?) between series of sequentially harder run [...]
[I THINK YOU’LL LIKE THIS FUCKING BLOG POST.]
Boy does that word carry some clout or what?
There are thousands of recipe sites out there but one was launched a little over a month ago and already is getting over 100,000 visitors a month. All thanks to a very simple concept. And relentless use of the F-bomb.
I’m speaking of www.WhatTheFuckShouldIMakeForDinner.com. Vastly more intriguing than [...]
[I WANT MY MAGIC AND I WANT IT NOW!]
The fourth generation iPhone launched yesterday. A pretty amazing piece of technology. When I heard about the video chat feature I was blown away. For about fifteen seconds. And then I heard myself saying, “Yeah, but it only works on a wifi network.”
What is wrong with me? But on second thought, what is wrong with [...]
[WHY DON’T YOU LOVE YOUR BANK?]
There are an incredible number of brands that have meaning to us. People will get in passionate arguments over which soda brand they prefer. Yet the entity that is at the financial heart of almost every one of our lives—our bank—rarely makes any kind of real attachment at all to us. From what we can [...]