After attending the last CATFOA of the season, “Living in a Post-Advertising World.” The talk was solid and the discussion interesting. I had some time to inner-think on the bus. Was advertising ever “alive”?
Advertising is, by nature, unwelcome and its success (if you can call it that) is based on forced captive audiences. That’s not how it’s supposed to work. An industry’s success shouldn’t be based on some twisted Stockholm’s syndrome. (more…)
To prove journalism is in the throes of ineptitude-related shock, please visit this article from the Irish Times. Fully realizing most of you are too busy for links, it’s about a student’s experiment that led to dozens of papers misquoting Maurice Jarre in his obituary.
That’s right. Let that sink in. Because “journalists” are so responsible, thoughtful and generally over-researching fiends, some kid’s fake quote added to Wikipedia can subsequently be quoted multiple times. Even without sources. (more…)
These days you can practically do anything on the interweb. Be it grocery shopping, being an annoying friend or finding time between rounds of WOW to find someone to do your dishes, it’s all easier online.
Which brings me to this… (::shudder::) (more…)
Most people eat questionable meats processed by questionable means in factories of questionable cleanliness by underpaid (or illegal) workers with questionable hygiene practices. That’s not an issue if you can ignore bacteria in your spinach or poisonous tomatoes and milk. (Or, if you’re like me, you overcook everything to the texture of damp charcoal.) (more…)