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“The thrill of naked guys in public aside, this marketing scheme did involve a bit of trickery.”
Advertising Age, revealing the story behind the ‘worlds’ fastest nudist’ in New York this week, who turns out to be a guy doing a stunt for Zappos, via an ad agency, Agent 16.
“Look, people the message is this: Do not tell me you cannot do this.”
Josh Bernoff, on how the Groundswell Awards, and how excellence in social media can come from anyone, anywhere.
“If there’s metadata in there, that’s public record.”
Dan Barr, attorney for the Society of Professional Journalists, on the Arizona Supreme Court decision that now requires public entities to disclose Meta Data, the ‘hidden data’ embedded in electronic records.
“A Friday afternoon news dump…”
Huffington Post on the list of visitors to the White House, released on Friday. The list includes lobbyists and prominent people
“It comes down to data and money.”
Story in Fast Company, that ‘Facebook plans to Geo-tag your life’ by linking geo-location information to users actions on the site.
“Let the little dogs lap, Mr. President. It’s good for the nation’s spleen.”
Kathleen Parker, on the noise from Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh on Obama’s attack Fox News
“For Rush and Glenn and Balloon Dad, the allure of media attention is too powerful to be curbed by a sense of social responsibility.”
John Del Cecato, of AKPD Message and Media.
“So there you have it. Ignite a future for the high-profile navel-gazers of tomorrow with your own bottle of Twitter wine, which goes for $20 a pop.”
AdRants, on Crushpad’s use of Twitter on wine labels
“It’s winemaking, which is usually for us a four or five person endeavor, mixed with Twitter.”
Michael Brill, president and CEO of Crushpad, the winery teaming with Twitter and the pro-literacy group Room to Read.
“Let’s hope the Millennial Generation isn’t becoming the latest Lost Generation.”
Chad Graham, in the Arizona Republic, on how graduates are worried about the present job outlook, their future and even retirement.
“My ‘maternity break’ will end in mid-November.”
Charlotte Shaff, CEO of The Media Push (who blogged about her pregnancy) interviewed by Linda Vandevrede at ValleyPRBlog.com, on ‘Pregancy and PR.’
“First, I felt that after five years my blogging was getting long in the tooth….”
Steve Rubel, SVP and Director of Insights for Edelman Digital, interviewed by Tech Crunch
“For the people, for the planet, for jobs, for you!”
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on the role of the UN, on the anniversary of the United Nations, which falls today –the day the UN Charter on 24 October 1945 was formed.
“the largest-ever social change event on the Web…”
CNN, on the third, annual Blog Action Day. The topic this year was climate change. According to Blogpulse, number of posts about climate change on a given day shot up by 500%
“Sometimes I feel like we’re a colony of ants who’ve come across a cell phone…”
Peter Hagoort, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. He was speaking of the way the brain processes thoughts and speech in milliseconds, but scientists still puzzle over how this happens.
“This is punitive. This is not just a matter of, ‘This is for the good of the company or the good of the nation.”
Banking analyst Nancy Bush, on the Treasury Dept, demanding that outgoing Bank of America CEO Kenneth D. Lewis returns about $1 million he received so far this year plus his $1.5 million salary for 2009
“iTunes is a pain in the posterior, and I never use it unless I absolutely have to.”
Sallie Goetsch, (she of the Podcast Asylum, a podcast and blog consultancy) in a contribution to For Immediate Release podcast
“Is print dead? No, but it just got a little less tasty.”
Jen Zingsheim, of Custom Scoop, on news that Conde Naste will be shutting down Gourmet Magazine
“In the surround-sound media environment of today, there is no shortage of places you can go to see an expert’s view of business and where it is headed. What I took from the first day of the World Business Forum, however, was just how important passion is as a common thread in the people (and their organizations) who are accomplishing something.”
Rohit Bhargava, on the World Business Forum
“While 60% of employees use word processing daily, only 42% actually create documents.”
Forrester Research report on technology adoption in the workplace.
“In a real-time, social media world, marketing has to react immediately to the successes and shortcomings of operations, product development, legal, finance, customer support, and the idiosyncrasies of company personnel.”
Jason Baer, on how social media gives everything a marketing focus.
“A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out.”
Tweet by @lspearmanii
“Hi! This is your aspirin bottle calling. I haven’t seen you in a while…”
Peter Svensson, of the Associated Press, on the technology that connects the pill bottle cap to an AT&T network.
“Does our Cicero even glance at his speeches before reading them in public?”
George Will, conservative columnist for the washington Post, on Obama’s overuse of words and concepts in his speech at Copenhagen.
“Nice headlamps”
Headline of a billboard ad for a Northern Ireland used-car web site, that got the advertisement banned in the UK. The accompanying visual was not about cars…
“There’s nothing quite as insecure as a television anchorman.”
Kent Dana, the news anchor for Channel 5 (KPHO) in Phoenix, and previously anchor of Channel 12 (KPHX), retiring after a 30-years work in the news business.
“This is the biggest investment we’ve made in a national launch … “This is not your grandmother’s instant coffee.”“
Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, on the launch of Via, the instant brew
“rather than submitting their images and videos to mainstream media organisations, they post them online on Facebook, Twitpic, or wherever their friends are likely to see them.”
Robin Hamman, visiting journalism fellow at City University, London, commenting on the social media use during disaster and tragedy.
“This whole things has been quite scary.”
David Letterman, admitting he had had an affair with an employee.
“It is a whole other universe of risk.”
State Rep Steve Farley of Tucson, on texting and driving, as Arizona considers a bill to ban it.
“… Which is another reason why news operations don’t publish all the good news we hear about. There would be no room for the rest.”
E.J. Montini, commenting on All the Good News Fit To Print.
“But you have to remember if you have a conversation on the wall, you could be opening up the entire conversation to the public.”
Robyn Itule, an account manager with Armstrong Troyky, a PR and Ad agency in Phoenix
‘Then out of nowhere this big wave, as tall as the sky, hit.”
A 21-year old woman in the Pacific Island of Samoa, on the devastating tsunami that hit the area, followed by an earthquake in Sumatra.
“There’s always truth in snark.”
Chris Brogan, during his presentation at New Media Atlanta, commenting on the back-channel tool, BackNoise, saying “always confront the thing you are fear most head-on.”
“We sound like a support group for superheroes. ‘By day I do this, by night…’”
Joe Michels, on the Phoenix iPhone Developer Group, or Pi.
“The more times he is required to write “I will not call the president a liar” on a special blackboard set up in the well of the White House, the bigger hero he will become to a large chunk of the population.”
Michael Kinsley, on the Joe Wilson umbrage against Obama.
“Hello, Kevin Rudd. We are Anonymous. We have been watching you.”
Hackers who sent an anonymous message via a video and a manifesto (on this web site), to Australian Prime Minister.
“Google economist sees good signs in searches.”
Washington Post article on how search is predicting an economic recovery.
“From a technical perspective, the recession is very likely over at this point.”
Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman
“My answer is not the answer, it is an answer. If you have a better or different answer, put it in the comments.”
Josh Bernoff, on a post that responds to social netiquette questions he receives.
“Fox knows that spewing this kind of sensationalistic crap to reporters will get her lots of press.”
Missy Schawttz, of Pop Watch, commenting on on Megan Fox’ rant against Transformers director Michael Bay.
“Some days we talk about the weather. Some days we talk about the ‘Chicken Dance.’
Alecia Dantico, on building community using Twitter.
“How’s the German car-maker whipping up an alt-fuel frenzy? With videos of lawnmowers.”
Fast Company review of ads by Audi, that rumor has it, might announce an electric powertrain
“Study finds prime time on the Internet is 11 p.m.”
Findings from a new study that shows there has been a shift in surfing times.
“So when I get upset about A BRAND NEW $1,300 APPLIANCE NOT WORKING, it’s not like I’m getting upset about the fact that my butler has bad breath.”
Heather Armstrong (a.k.a. Dooce) who blogged and tweeted about her Maytag washing machine on August 26th. It included a Tweet that went “So that you may not have to suffer like we have: DO NOT EVER BUY A MAYTAG. I repeat: OUR MAYTAG EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN A NIGHTMARE.”
” @dooce We are trying to contact you by phone. Please DM me with your contact information. Thank you!”
Response from Whirlpool, via Twitter on the night of August 26th,
BTW: Guy on phone at Maytag headquarters was phenomenal. Super nice, super helpful.
Heather’s response to Whirlpool’s response.
“Phoenix has a reputation,” Moriarty says. “Joe Arpaio. Dry heat. That kind of junk. It’s not a personality…”
Jonathan Mcnmara, in Phoenix New Times, on the attempt by Jeff Moriaty to create cultural identity for Phoenix.
“Malicious pseudo-environmentalists”
Review of a ’scareware’ vendor, reviewed by ZD Net,which calls it “a new social engineering tactic” (with a promise to donate $2 to save the Amazon forests).
“He took the long view. He never gave up. And though on most issues I very much wished he would give up.”
John McCain, on his friend and Senate adversary, Ted Kennedy who passes away this week.
“IBM is trying to push this debate onto social nets via the most convenient device–the remote you’ve just used to switch channels. “
Fast Company story on the new move to get TV viewers to micro-blog from the couch.
“I would say I’m a different GoDaddy Girl.”
Erin Kalin, a mother and singer who is the latest GoDaddy Girl, who hopes to be a role model for young girls.
“I like to call that person The TMI Guy.”
A post from CaliberPulse, on how each one of know someone who posts Too Much Information
“a kind of virtual race to get as many people online by the Olympics alongside all the real physical races that will be going on.”
Martha Fox, the British government’s digital champion.
“It’s a balance between the issue and the (one) person …“Pick people who symbolize the issue.”
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