Posted in General, Writing on May 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Justine Henin announced her retirement from tennis today. She’s 25 years old. I’m not a big tennis fan so, in the normal course of things, this probably wouldn’t register high for me. But, perhaps because of her age, I read the entire article and found this comment from her coach, Carlos Rodriguez:
“Because of […]
Posted in Branding, Business, Marketing, People on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
You can spend all the money you want, run all the ads you can, do all the community work that needs doing … and then? This happens:
Tim Hortons rehires fired woman
As you can see by this update on the story (which was originally about an employee being fired for giving away a 16 cent timbit […]
Posted in Music, People on May 5th, 2008 No Comments »
There are all kinds of writing. The autograph, for instance. Today I found something I had forgotten I had, Louis Armstrong’s autograph. My father loved jazz and went to all kinds of clubs etc., and saw all kinds musicians. Armstrong, who he saw many times, was one of his favourites. One day, he got Pops […]
Posted in Marketing, advertising on May 4th, 2008 No Comments »
I like this post by Doc Searls. I particularly like, “… Advertising itself is a bubble in the long run, because it’s guesswork even at its best, and making it better and better only improves a system that has been flawed fundamentally from the start, because it proceeds only from the sell side, […]
