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'Bacn,' While Nicer than Spam, Still Clogs Inboxes

The web has given birth to yet another word that defeats the laws of the English language. "Bacn" refers to email that's not quite spam, because users actually want to read the contents. These could be newsletters, bid notifications, niche product news or social networking updates. Nonetheless, the growing volume of this type of email significantly clogs inboxes. Since the term was first used  [...]
Posted: Friday, August 24th 2007

Forbes Editor Outed as 'Fake Steve Jobs' Mastermind

Fake Steve Jobs, written by an anonymous blogger posing as a caricature of the real Steve Jobs, was revealed as the brainchild of an editor of Forbes Magazine, according to The Times. Senior Editor Danial Lyons of Forbes was discovered by Brad Stone of The New York Times, who used old-fashioned sleuthing to get t  [...]
Posted: Monday, August 6th 2007

Presidential Candidates Use Web to Lighten Up

Contenders for the presidency are using web videos and other online media to beat professional comedians to the punchline, reports AdAge. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Bill Richardson have all used humor in the first rounds of ads they've produced, mostly for online, and occasional TV, distribution. Some efforts, such as Hillary Clinton's pick-a-theme-song approach (  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 30th 2007

Talk of Cheaper iPhone Sets Apple Stock on Cloud 9

Shortly after speculation from a JP Morgan analyst that Apple would go Nano with the iPhone, shares of Apple leaped 1.5 percent to $134.50 from its 52-week high of $133.34 from Friday, according to The Globe and Mail. Apple's stock h  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 12th 2007

NBC: P2P Piracy Hurts the Corn Farmers

NBC made a borderline absurd case against P2P piracy at a recent FCC hearing, stating that if file-sharing piracy were to end, corn farmers would have greater profits and "buy more farm equipment," reports Zero Paid. The idea is that in a world without online piracy, people would go to the theaters to watch more movies. They would consequently buy more popcorn, putting mon  [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 28th 2007

Lulu CEO: Web Ushering in 'Golden Age for Words'

From metaverses and the blogosphere to wikis and cookies, "weblish" not only brings a new vernacular with it; it also totes entirely new sensibilities and theories - even if they make some shudder semantic disgust. These new web words are being accepted by dictionaries and winning literary prizes, according to Cyberia, a Globe and Mail blog. The word "blook," meaning a book based on blogs, was celebrated by the Lulu Blooker  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 26th 2007

NBC Digital to Produce Webisodes for Netflix

NBC will produce a series of three-minute webisodes for Netflix, according to a press release. Titled "I Love This Movie!," the broadband show will highlight a different classic film in each webisode and will be broadcasted on the Netflix member website. The show is an original idea and production of N  [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 14th 2007

LOLcat Fever Sweeps the Internet

A new form of entertainment and communication currently sweeping the Internet is simple, funny and mind-numbing. It's called "lolcats," or images of cats with poor, grammatically-unsound exclamations attached to them, reports Globe and Mail. For example, one cat exclaims, "IM IN UR FRIDGE EATIN UR FOODZ." Arguably the most famous involves a cat asking,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 31st 2007

Metrics Need Measuring, Say Ad Groups

Three more advertising trade groups have echoed the demand that Nielsen/NetRatings and comScore metric systems be audited, reports ClickZ. A statement issued by the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Association of National Advertisers and Advertising Research Foundation made the request, following the Interactive Advertising Bureau's call for independent auditing. The groups seek to ensure the methodolog  [...]
Posted: Monday, May 14th 2007

DaDaism Lives Online with Cheddarvision

In lieu of watching a typically apathetic Gen-Y'er bare all on reality television, witness the perhaps meaningful development of a large cheese wheel in Westcombe, England. Critics may balk but the site, Cheddarvision.TV, has already served over 950,000 viewers. The Westcombe cheese sits aging in a work farm owned by Tom Calver, who asked Dom Lane of the West County Farm  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 19th 2007

FuckedCompany for Sale - TechCrunch Buying?

FuckedCompany, the documenter of the dot-com boom/bust and repository of leaked info from failed businesses, is up for sale, according to Wired. The site started off chronicling the fallout from the demise of the dot-com startup bonanza. Lately, though, it has shifted to track the failure of more mainstream companies. Shortly after the announcement of the site's a  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 2nd 2007

Roehm Accuses Wal-Mart of 'Smear Campaign'

The fight between marketing exec Julie Roehm and her former employer Wal-Mart got a bit uglier Wednesday when she issued a statement saying she is a victim of a "smear campaign," writes the Associated Press. Roehm challenged Wal-Mart's allegations of certain improprieties, such as having an affair with a subordinate, and said there was no valid reason for her dismissal: "Wal-Mart is insinuating   [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 29th 2007

Confusion over Colbert Parody on YouTube, Viacom Sued

Conflicting reports have emerged over whether Viacom ordered the removal from YouTube of a parody of The Colbert Report, writes CNET. Initial reports claimed Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, issued a take-down notice targeting a parody of The Colbert Report titled "Stop the Falsiness." When those reports surfaced, the Electronic Frontier Foundat  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 23rd 2007

Congdon in Infomercials while Vlogging for ABC News

Amanda Congdon still considers herself just a blogger even though she's video-blogging for a major news organization, ABCNews.com. However, Congdon is also performing in infomercials for DuPont, according to CNET blogger Daniel Terdiman. Staff journalists at most news organizations would likely be fired if such a thing were discovered, yet Congdon wrote a   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 21st 2007

Blog Post Gets Wieden in Hot Water

A post on the blog of Wieden + Kennedy's London office has caused some industry hand-wringing, reports AdWeek. The post is an overview of the visit by Wieden and other agency executives to Nokia's Finland headquarters. The group was arriving to hear a presentation from Nokia related to the pitching process they're all involved in. While there wa  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 20th 2007

Yahoo, MTV Announce UGM Site, Best Movie Spoof for MTV Movie Awards

MTV and Yahoo have announced a partnership to launch a co-branded website featuring user-generated media tied to this summer's 2007 MTV Movie Awards, according to MediaWeek. Through the soon-to-launch Movie Awards contest, users will be encouraged to submit short clips parodying the popular movies that are to be honored during the awards presentation. The best s  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 16th 2007

Ask.com Launches Guerrilla Effort against Google in U.K.

Ask.com has launched a guerrilla marketing campaign in the U.K. to curb Google's 75 percent market-share dominance there, according to CNET. Posters showing a hand holding a megaphone and urging people to "Stop the Online Information Monopoly" recently began appearing in London subway trains and stations. Ask's name is not on the posters, but the company plans t  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 15th 2007

McDonalds Campaigns Promote Cream, Sugar

While having a McDonald's employee splash some cream and sugar in your morning coffee may sound like nothing to write home about, the fast food chain has launched two campaigns to promote the new feature for its Premium Roast Coffee, according to ClickZ. McDonald's tasked Tribal DDB, Chicago to create the tongue-in-cheek TV, print, radio and digital ads, while it had agencies Moroch Partners and Inspire  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 13th 2007

Confessions of a 'Facebook Stalker'

Used by millions of college students, social networking site Facebook allows people to access personal info, such as pictures and relationship status of friends and casual acquaintances. With so much personal information online, it can be hard to separate what one has learned via face-to-face interaction from "facebook stalking," adding a new complication to physical meetings. "I meet new people, and that's the worst, because I'  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 9th 2007

Coulter's Edwards Slur Causes Advertiser Backlash

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter's recent derogatory remarks against Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards (she implied he was a "faggot") have led to advertisers' backing away from buying space on the conservative columnists' website. Advertisers began jumping from Coulter's site after liberal blog Daily Kos  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 8th 2007

Anarchist Hippies Claim Attack on John Edwards Second Life HQ

The virtual terrorists who stormed the John Edwards Second Life campaign headquarters identified themselves as a longstanding Second Life "invasion group" called "Patriotic Nigras: e-terrorists at large," reports 10 Zen Monkeys. The group posted the claim on John Edwards' campaign blog, saying they vandalized the campaign HQ "for the lulz." The person who posted the claim,  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 7th 2007

Racist-Marxist-Neocons Vandalize John Edwards Second Life HQ

Second Life has been hit by one of its first instances of political vandalism, with John Edwards's virtual campaign headquarters defaced by apparent supporters of George W. Bush, according to blogger Lyndsay Beyerstein (via Pandagon). The vandalism inclu  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 5th 2007

Honda Licenses JibJab Video for Presidents' Day Ad Campaign

For the first time, JibJab is licensing one of its popular online skits for use in a Presidents' Day ad campaign, partnering with the New York and Long-Island Honda Dealers Association for a two-week broadcast and online promotion, MediaPost reports.  The spots feature visuals from the "Presidents' Rap" video (AKA "Founding Fathers") - but wi  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 12th 2007

No Resuscitation for Kissing Mechanics Spot after Gay Rights Criticism

Snickers had planned to extend the life of its "Mechanics" spot - which depicted macho mechanics reacting badly to an unintentional kiss - by asking people to vote on multiple endings, with the favored ending to premiere during the Daytona 500 on Feb. 18, writes Promo Magazine (  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 7th 2007

Wii Used for Weight Loss, Physical Therapy

With gaming console Nintendo Wii's initial release came reports of people hurting muscles and experiencing soreness due to the physical exertion caused by playing virtual games such as bowling, tennis and baseball. Apparently, that was just one side of the coin. At first, Nintendo dodged the reports of injuries, saying the Wii was not meant to be an exercise tool. However, that h  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 5th 2007