There’s something rotten in Appleville and thy name is Gray Powell. Gray Powell, if you don’t already know, is the alleged Apple boob who left the next generation iPhone in a bar. Gray is quickly becoming a cultural touchstone: He already has his own gag Fan Page on Facebook, and as of this writing, The Fake Gray Powell already has over 2,500 fans.
Continue reading → Is Gray Powell an Apple Advertising Shill?
We all knew this dark day was coming: Today, Twitter announced plans to poke outside advertising into our update streams. The Twitter blog post announcing the change in functionality and the shift in tone is cleverly written, but the writing has now not so invisibly been placed on the proverbial wall.
Continue reading → Twitter Pulls the Embedded Advertising Trigger
There is a Universal Human Context that can be tapped and empowered by the proper execution of iconic political urban graffiti. Here’s one stunning example that says it all without saying a single word: America is now more about bombing people than lighting the way to lead them to freedom.
The other night, I was half-watching television and half-listening to the radio when a commercial popped on the TV screen. I thought someone had changed the channel from TLC’s newest fetish show, Our Little Lives and I was watching a comedy skit for a new product called “Booty Pop.”
A couple of days ago, in our Memeingful blog, I wrote an article called — “Stealing Janna Sweenie” — that dealt with an un-named seller on an un-named commercial website that was using Janna’s good name and American Sign Language products to sell really ugly postcards and other knickknacks and trinkets.
Today, I am ready to reveal the rest of the story and to publicly identify CafePress.com as the commercial website involved.
Continue reading → The Deceit of Cached CafePress Keyword Artifacts
See the Black Man in the top image? Ooops! Now you don’t see him in the same image below. Both images are Microsoft advertising. The grinning “Black Man” is for the American market, while the goofy “White Faced Dude with the Black Hand” is for advertising market in Poland.
We know I don’t think much of Twitter, even though I Tweet Boles Blogs Network updates. I’m sort of the lonesome stepchild standing in the street yelling to everyone around me — “But the bird has no feathers!” — while the restless crowd around me Tweets about Twitter’s beautiful plumage.
Over the weekend, my Twitter rage was redeemed by Twitter itself as it finally confessed its utterly dark yearnings in an official blog post telling us they only value protecting the identity of celebrity and fame and not the everyday ordinary Twit like us.
In 2006, the New York Times confirmed an annoying niggle that was driving me batty: Songs were being created with cellular phone ringtones intermittently interwoven in the background of the music to encourage your ear to listen to the unfamiliar song with a dedicated, if cryptic, authenticity.
Super Bowl 43 was played last night and the Steelers beat the Cardinals 27-23 in a barnburner for the centuries. The problem with the NBC broadcast was not the game, but rather the massive, and unnecessary 10-foot frame of spectacle, commercialism and crass self-promotion that overpowered the delicate watercolor of a beautifully executed game of football.
Continue reading → A Ten Foot Frame for a Five Inch Watercolor
Dr. Phil, Oprah, Judge Judy.
Advertising for a crumbling humanity.
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