Archives for September, 2007
Scenes from an apartment in Brooklyn: the Mets
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Item One. On things being over.
The Yogi Berra quote “it’s not over until it’s over” has a special place in my heart. Where some take it as a “damn the torpedoes” shot of never-give-up affirmation, as a Mets fan I know the stark, unvarnished truth: the Mets are up by six in [...]
“Kind of like Mission: Impossible”
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
That’s what NBC’s Jeff Gaspin has to say on the network’s efforts to offer a compelling video download service after thumbing its nose at iTunes. From the NY Times article:
Under the new NBC service, called NBC Direct, consumers will be able to download, for no fee, NBC programs like “Heroes,” “The Office” and “The [...]
Email Notes: Two Good Ways to Fuck Things Up
Monday, September 17th, 2007
It’s funny: I don’t both to write much about email these days. For the most part, that’s because most of the email that I see these days falls into the great undifferentiated pool of average…neither particularly good nor particularly bad.
But then we have times like this weekend, when examples just jump right up [...]
I’d be happier if I believed this was really the end…
Friday, September 14th, 2007
SCO files for Chapter 11.
Let’s talk brand, shall we?
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Over on CNET, Elinor Mills appears to have been wildly unimpressed with the conversational marketing summit. While there’s some interesting stuff to chew on in what she has to say, I’m surprised and a little taken aback by how aggressively Mills rejects the idea that brands are conversations:
And what’s this with the slogan of [...]
Inside Sony’s “ringle” decision-making process
Monday, September 10th, 2007
Reuters article: Music industry betting on ‘ringle’ format
As the recording industry wakes up from its summer slumber and starts thinking about what will motivate the consumer for the holiday selling season, the major labels are getting ready to launch the “ringle,” which combines the mostly defunct single format with ringtones.
Each ringle is expected to contain [...]
Notes Related to the Apple Special Event
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Oh, the irony of it. Just yesterday I emailed Starbucks PR, asking whether there was any additional public information available on the Starbucks music download stations that Howard Schultz had teased at the start of this year. I guess I know why I didn’t hear anything back, now.
I just walked back into the [...]
