Sabrina Maharaj: our newest FreeAssociate
We have a new junior media associate — Sabrina Maharaj — who’ll be helping Jammie Cotton with our clients’ ad buys. She interned at De Waal & Associates public relations, […]
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Crowdsourced furniture and accessories
Retailer Stylefactory.com is trying something new: putting the things they carry up for a vote to Make or Drop them, based on prototypes you can view on their site. It’s […]
MsgFiler for Apple Mail
The productivity geek in me has surfaced again. I’m a guy who really doesn’t like using a mouse any more than I have to when I’m reading emails or navigating […]
Shakespeare meets Mudmen
I don’t imagine that the Bard of Avon ever saw a Papua New Guinea Asaro Mudman. But that hasn’t stopped director Darryl Hovis and costume designer Shannon Kennedy from turning the fairies of A Midsummer Night’s Dream into denizens of that Southwest Pacific island forest. Or us from creating a wild new visual approach to the play…
The calendar app that respects your mother
The calendar app that comes on the iPhone sucks. It’s fine for viewing what you’ve got on your schedule, but its interface is pretty horrible for an Apple product. Entering a […]
100 year old Russians
Color photography from the 1910s? Yep. My sister in law, Mariana, who lives in Stockholm, sent me this link to a fantastic collection of color photos of Russia, created a […]
Neil Patrick Harris’s RENT at the Hollywood Bowl
“What’s a review of a musical doing on this blog?” you ask. I say, “Why not?” We saw the Hollywood Bowl Spectacular production of RENT last night, and were more […]
On being acquired by Amazon
One of the web’s weirder retailers, the irrepressible Woot! has just been bought by the Bezos Behemoth. “So what?” you may rightly ask. So this: They put up a blog […]
Time-lapse space shuttle video
Some things have to go in my blog because they are just so cool. This time-lapse video of the space shuttle Discovery is one of ’em. I love how beat-up looking it […]
What? No focus group?
I just found out that Dan Pallotta blogs at the Harvard Business Review. Pallotta’s a legendary — and in some circles, infamous — marketer of charity events. He started the […]