Archive For August, 2010
Late comedian George Carlin shares his thoughts on religion in the video below. Ignore the Portuguese subtitles and animation.
I saw two examples of great ad placement on my recent NY trip. The first was an ad for prostate medication posted in front of the urinals at Citi Field. Great targeting. The second example, and I’ve seen these in Seattle too, was the Zappos ad in the bottom of the security bins at the [...]
Gary Vaynerchuk sensed there was a huge business opportunity in wine, learned everything he could about it, shared that knowledge and passion about wine with the world in a home-made video-blog (Wine Library TV), which became a huge viral hit, which turned him into something of a social media celebrity (over 850,000 twitter followers), which [...]
These streets will make you feel brand new. I spent the last few days in New York for the Affiliate Summit conference. The speakers were great and I brought home some good ideas to move the biz forward with. This was my third trip to the Big Apple in 13 months, and even though I’m [...]
Well which is it? There’s this new song out called Way Out Here by Josh Thompson. It opens with the line, “Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun.” A paradox, no? If an all-knowing and all-powerful god is protecting your house, why would you need a gun? By the way, the [...]
Mochi the giant shih-tzu spends most of his day napping. It’s a rough life. His favorite spot is the couch right next to my desk. A few weeks ago Pico came over. Neither one wants to be the first to close their eyes, so they have this staredown. Finally they’re convinced it’s safe to go [...]
