Browsing archives for January, 2009

Marketing dumb

blog 29 January 2009 | 0 Comments

I love this video–it’s of two crooks in New Zealand who run into a pole. After thinking about it a bit it reminded me of some companies and how they do their advertising and marketing. Too often a marketing campaign says one thing, but the reality of the what the company does is completely different. [...]

Another reason movie studio executives hurt themselves

blog 17 January 2009 | 0 Comments

I know, some of you are my friends.. but some movie studio executives are morons.
Someone at a movie studio–they will remain nameless–made YouTube yank down a video from blogger Kevin Lee because it had copyrighted material in it. Here is the irony, he was doing a movie review on video. Yeah, he was reviewing [...]

Why I love to hate movies

blog 16 January 2009 | 0 Comments

I love movies. I love to see new movies. I’d love to see all of them every single weekend. But do you know what I hate about movies?
- Getting into my car and driving a minimum of 20 minutes to the theater- Waiting in line to buy tickets (although I’m glad I can buy [...]

Who’s to blame for the newspaper business?

blog 15 January 2009 | 0 Comments

That’s easy to answer. Newspapers are to blame. Elitism is to blame. Arrogance is to blame. I could go on but I won’t.
This is a sore that has been festering for a while. And no, his name isn’t Craig, well it is, sort of. Newspapers keep crying that classifieds are killing them–taking away up [...]