Ubiquitous Marketing

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If we can’t trust ourselves, can we trust the machines? (Insight Magazine, HuffPo)
Dems say no (SF Chronicle)
Diebold says yes (AP)

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Lawsuits filed over AOL search data kerfuffle (AP, via Consumerist)
Poynter: the TV show? (E&P)
New Yorker discusses toast, but not my Toast (New Yorker)

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No one can agree on what constitutes facts anymore (E&P)
Jonah Bloom, AdAge EIC, digs Edelman.com (AdAge)
Sponsors love Cool Zidane, despite tarnished finale to career (WSJ, via Post-Gazette)

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And how they’re going about it all wrong
As I wrote here on Thursday, Fox is running static ads, bypassing consumer’s desire to bypass ads. Times reports:
Jon Hollett, a Fox International spokesman, said the company was experimenting with ways to get its messages to DVR users who routinely breeze through ads without antagonizing real-time vieweHollettroadcasting a flat, [...]

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I had the pleasure of going on the BBC programme World Business Report the last two days on behalf of my employer to discuss the HP “row.” Good times. If you want to see the clip, you can (sorry for convoluted instructions) go to news.bbc.co.uk, click on more audio/visual news, search for HP, and view [...]

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One of about seven-hundred calls for HP’s Mark Hurd to come clean (BusinessWeek)
People to complain about Starbucks 5% more (AP, Yahoo)
Wal-Mart’s competitive reason for selling generic drugs (FastCompany.com)

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This is a farce.
Read this.

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Fox runs static ad, bypassing consumer’s desire to bypass ad (AP, New York Times) more on this later
HP: woods impossible to navigate (USAToday.com)
UPDATE: WSJ reports that wood path led through communications team (WSJ)
Yahoo, Facebook acquisition? Reportedly in the works (TheStreet.com, citing WSJ)

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My boss had an interview with Scott Baradell of Idea Grove and Media Orchard fame. In this interview, she let slip something that had been consuming quite a bit of my time.
But I can tell you — and let the blogosphere break this story! — that PRWeek will on September 28th be launching free blogs. [...]

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