Perhaps this post may be a little to close to @MarkFairbanks rant post about ads before ads, but I just must. Why? Because this is ridiculous.
Seriously. Stop with the “Do you really want to leave this page?” popups. Honestly. Really. Just stop.
May 26th, 2010
Written by Mark Fairbanks
@markfairbanks
We interrupt this ad to bring you an ad
A funny thing happened to me on the way to watch the new Nike “Write the Future” TV spot @addy_dren had just tweeted. An obnoxious Honey Bunches of Oats banner ad took over the page.
Yes, that’s right. On my way to willingly engage with one ad, another one intrusively stopped me from watching it.
To quote Colonel Walter E. Kurtz: “The horror, the horror.”
Tagged with: ad units, Advertising, banner ad, broadcast, Digital, engagement, experience, Honey Bunches of Oats, Nike+, social, TV spots, twitter, World Cup
May 19th, 2010
Written by Mark Fairbanks
@markfairbanks
Google Chrome, you’re like trying to break up with a hot girlfriend
I want to do it, but I can’t.
Google Chrome is so unstable it drives me nuts.
But then again, it’s so damn sexy I can’t see myself with any other browser.
Tagged with: browser, Daniel Clowes, digital satire, digital tools, Fascinate, Firefox, Google Chrome, grainedit.com, HootSuite, Incognito, RSS, Sally Hogshead, TED
May 10th, 2010
Written by Cynthia Thomas
@deziner
Overcoming Creativity
Over the last several months I’ve been participating in a discussion group (IRL… can you believe that?) centered on the topic of removing roadblocks of our individual creativity. It’s been a fascinating journey to say the least. Not only is the subject of creativity wide open for interpretation, but openly facing how you might be sabotaging yourself in the manner can be a bit eye-opening. Nonetheless, I delved into the cerebral examination of what creativity actually is, and is not, and have landed on a few key descriptors…
Tagged with: creativity, emotions, human behavior, motivation, Philosophy, Simon Sinek, TED, unGeeked
May 7th, 2010
Written by Mark Fairbanks
@markfairbanks
Friday morning bacon: Shame on you Subway edition
It’s Friday Morning Bacon time, when we celebrate all the smart | inspiring | cool | hip stuff that we saw on Twitter in the past week. We curate the best that we saw and place them briefly on a pedestal—the very pedestal that we permanently reserve for the greatest of all things, bacon.
So it was much to my chagrin that while enjoying a drive along the lake this week, I heard a new radio spot for Subway that—to quote Michael Corleone—insulted my intelligence. The spot in question claimed that “pepperoni is the new bacon.” Being of Sicilian descent (like the aforementioned Mr. Corleone) I can say that pepperoni certainly is delicious. But let’s not get crazy Subway. It is definitely not the new bacon.
With that, we serve you this week’s platter.
Tagged with: AJ Bombers, Alex Bogusky, Alvin Toffler, Bac-Os, bacon, behavior, beliefs, big data, Bud Caddell, Carol Bartz, Future Shock, leadership, London, MIT, privacy, retweet, Richard Huntington, Simon Sinek, Subway, TED, Tweetdeck, twitter, Undercurrent, www2010, Yahoo!
