Ubiquitous Marketing

I’m really excited about the interesting things SXSW is doing to promote its festivals and provide information to attendants.
Most importantly is the fact that the music festival collected a track from seemingly every band playing at the event (713 artists) and made the compilation of those tracks available via BitTorrent. BitTorrent files are zip-like files [...]

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I’m transcribing my interview with Jay Adelson of Digg, and something struck me enough to post on here (as well as give you a taste of the article, pusher-like).
A: Sometime around the summer of 2005, we hit what I call critical mass. Over 60,000 were “power” users that made us better than any other site [...]

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Via Wonkette,
Confused left-leaning netizens who blindly decided to find out more about themselves by typing imaliberal.com in the web browser will encounter the smiling faces of GOP-presidents past and present, courtesy of GOP.com.
It appears that BushSucks.com is one of those cash cow web advertising redirects I read about in Wired or something. The [...]

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With the preponderance of blogs in the world today, each progressive day makes it easier to criticize potential friends, partners, employers, and clients. Much like celebrities, businessmen and women are going to have to get a thick skin when it comes to criticism. With however many million blogs out there, you’re going to be a [...]

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I’m incredibly excited to be going to the South by Southwest interactive festival, to take in some meetings, conferences, and, of course, tex-mex cuisine. I will be covering the event for PRWeek.com, as well as posting my musings here.
A testament to the popularity of any event, my hotel is nearly five miles from where [...]

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I’m currently writing this from my brother’s computer, on which I’ve installed Firefox. Now, I probably will never tell him about Firefox (I’ve grown far too exasperated explaining non-essential tech to laymen… he doesn’t know he should expect better than IE), and he may never use it. But this is the second computer I’ve installed [...]

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So, I often read one of the free NY dailies on my way to waiting for the bus and/or subway. Working in media, all of the for-fee publications await me in the office. So, I’ll often check either AMNY or Metro to see where I should place my daily focus.
AMNY today ran a dubious trend [...]

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What to make of the new Gallup poll that finds blog readership is not growing, despite an overall increase in time spent online?
Gallup’s latest examination of Americans’ online habits finds that one
in five Web users read Web-logs, or "blogs," either frequently or
occasionally. Though this translates into 40 million readers, it
relegates blogs to the bottom pack [...]

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That Fox decided to show that last four filmed episodes of Arrested Development in one block is a bad sign.
That Fox decided to show that last four filmed episodes of Arrested Development on a different night than its normal schedule is peculiar.
That Fox decided to show that last four filmed episodes of Arrested
Development on a [...]

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It’s funny how the slightest bit of provocation can weigh enough to undermine a competition.
Give the Grammy to Kanye West; you’re capitulating. Deprive Mr. West of the Grammy; you’re showing the world you are incorruptible by the arrows of negative attention.
Of course, if the Grammy’s actually awarded merit, this might not be called [...]

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