ETCH-A-SKETCH, BOSTON Image by lumierefl via FlickrRelated articles by ZemantaPop Culture Classic Etch-A-Sketch Toy 50th Anniversary and Contest (connectwithyourteens.blogspot.com)July 12, 1960: Etch a Sketch? Let Us Draw You a Picture (wired.com)Etch A Sketch turns 50: amazing art created with the drawing toy (telegraph.co.uk)Wall of Fame: Etch A Sketch Celebrates 50th Birthday (blogher.com) … [Read more...]
TWITTER FRIENDS NETWORK YOWZA
July 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via WikipediaJust click. Related articles by ZemantaYowza!! launches affiliate program to get more small businesses to use their mobile couponing service (intomobile.com)Yowza!! adds new restaurants and merchants to its mobile coupons service (intomobile.com)Carrie Underwood Weds! (perezhilton.com) … [Read more...]
TONY AUTH, MAD MEN, AND THE U.S.
July 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Re-uses last year's Mad Men advertising campaign to connect to today's economy: Related articles by ZemantaAre you ready for Mad Men? (albumartexchange.com)The Mad Men Job Interview (collings.co.za)Exclusive Video: Mad Men Ladies Want More Drinking And Smoking [Mad Women] (jezebel.com)Last-minute plan: Free Mad Men viewing party at the W Times Square (timeoutny.com) … [Read more...]
NO SOCIAL MEDIA, PLEASE, WE’RE EXECS
July 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image by Christian Steen via FlickrProbably might have guessed, but it still struck me as fairly hallucinatory to sit through a dialogue between David Weston of ABC News and Nancy Gibbs of Time magazine (scroll down) recently at the Chautauqua festival without hearing the words "Social media," "twitter," iPad, Iran elections, Fort Hood shootings, or any slugs from the past season that demonstrated the explosion in software and hardware dominating the news sector. Related articles by ZemantaCNN Execs Won't Admit Why They Really Fired Octavia … [Read more...]
RIP: Mackerras, Pekar
July 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Sir Charles Mackerras via last.fmTwo heroes died this week, here's Norman Lebrecht on Sir Charles Mackerras. People rave about his Mozart and Haydn, I swear by his Brahms:"His achievements, in my view, are twofold. He was the first, after Neville Marriner, to seek fusion between period-instrument practice and modern orchestras, achieving wonderfully transparent Mozart and Beethoven performances, especially with his last ensemble, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He had been due to work with them this summer at the Edinburgh … [Read more...]
