Relying on the ‘wisdom of crowds’ to guide you while forgetting that sometimes that produces shoddy folk-art and lowest common denominator output.Technically I shouldn’t use the word ‘tard’ since it is offensive to people...
Topics: Asshole Marketing

From 1983. I remember reading this book obsessively as I tried to develop my own versions of Zork . I was in middle school learning how to write a language parser. Nerd!470 N=1480 IF MID$(A$,N,1)=" " THEN C$=MID$(A$,N+1,3):IF...
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Andy Sernovitz (blog), author of Word of Mouth Marketing and general marketing bad-ass is hosting a small-group word of mouth marketing seminar. Usually he only does private training for companies at a very large price, so this is a rare chance for 50...
Topics: Business Blogging, Marketing

I like how we’ve now coined a word for a vacation where you don’t have enough money to leave the house: staycations.AAA Vice President Mark Brown says the slowing economy and high fuel prices "have pushed some Americans to what we call...
Topics: News

A thread on Metafilter looks back at Chuck E. Cheese and ShowBiz pizza places where a cavalcade of animatronics would serenade youngsters as they alternately tossed pizza down their gullets and played video games. One commenter boils it down:Robot...
Topics: Marketing