This is news????? ONE WHOLE PERCENT?? This is the type of ridiculous media coverage that, unfortunately, turns things into reality. Too many Americans take what they read from “reliable” sources and use it to guide their lifestyle choices.
What about the fact that gas is approximately 25 cents cheaper than it was during the 4th of July holiday? To me that’s news. You can bet it would be blasted all over the papers and local news if the price jumped another quarter.
If this is where my insurance rates are going, ‘m glad I’m no longer a AAA customer. By the way, I’ve seen traffic and business increase a bit this year up at the golf course in Greenbush—three hours and roughly 200 miles north of metro Detroit. Report on that MSNBC.
That’s why I don’t lift weights: because I don’t want to wear shoes like that.Your caption made me laugh out loud.
That little microphone looks funny. It looks like it’s waiting for the guy to respond to the fact that his arm is twisted around like a Star Wars action figure at the bottom of my kid’s toy box.
What does the mainstream media do now?
“This is the beginning of the end,” as wrestling commentator Gorilla Monsoon used to say. The Internet has forever changed the way we consume news and with the announcement of Barack Obama’s running mate, we’re witnessing the beginning of the end for the mainstream media.
Everyone who signed up for Obama’s text messaging campaign was the first to hear his decision to make Joe Biden is VP candidate. I’m sure reporters at the New York Times and CNN signed up for the text messages, but there’s no way they weren’t scooped by blogs around the world. Their stories had to be run through an editor before they hit the paper or the website. It’s pretty unbelievable that when the announcement came out I could have learned about it first at Joe Blo’s blog as opposed to the AP.
Just another sign that we’ll rely less and less on the media to provide us our news.
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A couple of months ago I heard Seth Goldman, founder of Honest Tea, speak at the FUSE Design Conference in New York. At the time, I wrote a post questioning how his company could carry on its…
Brand survey »
I saw this over at Brand New and took this survey developed by the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Here are my results:
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Is August the new December?
For some reason this year it seems like more and more people are taking extended vacations that last the entire month of August. Sort of a European approach to work.
Has anyone else noticed this? I see more blogging about it and I hear about it from clients and their businesses.
I like what Seth Godin has to say about this slower time of year in this blog post. As a result, I’ve pushed up the re-design of SOZO | Pivotal’s new website to be completed and launched before Labor Day weekend.