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Apr30	More Green for Google... Even in the Red! George Parker April 30, 2007 Know More: Online Ads Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, who with his shareholdings in the company is now richer than Croesus, announced today that Google is gaining market share in China and is rapidly catching up with popular search engine, Baidu. What he didn’t focus on was Google’s cooperation with the Chinese government to censor the results on “sensitive” subjects such as democracy, civil liberties and religion. Still I guess when it comes to the almighty dollar, or in this case, the rising yen, we can all leave our scruples at the cash register. After all, Eric has to start working on his second billion! . Democracy Dollars... Right Eric? Posted at 9:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr30	Get that Humvee out of my front yard! George Parker April 30, 2007 There’s a new ad campaign in the UK to actively discourage people from driving 4X4’s. Can’t say I blame them. The sight of Humvees and other monsters clogging up the roads of Great Britain makes you wonder how anyone gets... Continue Reading Posted at 5:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr29	Paris Hilton has already checked out Sir! George Parker April 29, 2007 So I just got back from Colorado Springs, where I was judging the AAAA Student Awards competition. Colleges of advertising and marketing compete against each other as they present for a significant piece of business. In this case a chunck of... Continue Reading Posted at 9:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr27	Just what you wanted... More TV! George Parker April 27, 2007 Yesterday’s New York Times had a good piece on Joost’s (From the guys who brought you Skype) move into Internet TV, and how it’s going to look very much like regular TV with the signing of some heavy advertisers. The... Continue Reading Posted at 9:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr26	Las Vegas goes "Limey!" George Parker April 26, 2007 Tesco, the biggest supermarket chain in the UK has finally decided to dip its toe in the US pond, but not with mega-stores, going instead for the small-store concept under the “Fresh & Easy” banner. Right now the web site... Continue Reading Posted at 2:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr25	What do Paris Hilton and the New York Stock Exchange have in common? George Parker April 25, 2007 I have to admit that the stock market, whether it be the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ, has always been a bit of a mystery to me. Yes, I have and do own stocks, just not as many as... Continue Reading Posted at 5:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr24	iJail for Steve Jobs? Not a chance! George Parker April 24, 2007 Having worked on the Apple account several times over the years when Steve Jobs has been at the helm, not at the helm, and back at the helm, I’ve followed the fortunes of both the company and it’s somewhat volatile... Continue Reading Posted at 9:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr23	Your future as a journalist, or blogger, or text messenger! George Parker April 23, 2007 If any of you out there are considering embarking on a career in journalism, you may want to take heed of these words of advice from Craig Newmark…. And who might that be? Only the guy that founded craigslist, which... Continue Reading Posted at 10:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Casino Royale - Shaken, not stirred! George Parker April 23, 2007 If you’ve seen the new James Bond film, Casino Royale, at either the cinema or on DVD, you may remember a very short cameo appearance of Virgin Airlines Big Cheese Richard Branson passing through a security arch at Miami airport.... Continue Reading Posted at 8:35 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr22	Microsoft says you can have any version of Windows you want... As long as it's Vista! George Parker April 22, 2007 After a barrage of complaints, Dell is to once again offer Windows XP on new systems, responding to angry online customers. This reverses a Vista-only policy Dell moved to since the release of Microsoft's latest 800 pound gorilla of an... Continue Reading Posted at 5:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr20	Google the Gorilla Grinds on! George Parker April 20, 2007 There’s something about Google that is inexorable when it comes to momentum and a feeling that it will swallow everything in its path and just keep coming. Ergo, the news that Google delivered very impressive quarterly financial results Thursday in... Continue Reading Posted at 8:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr19	Sanjaya Malakar is over. The Fat Lady has finally sung! George Parker April 19, 2007 I’ve never been able to understand the US’s obsession with “American Idol.” Which is actually a TV transplant from the UK and the fertile brain of Simon Cowell. The big news today is that that the world’s worst singer, Sanjaya... Continue Reading Posted at 9:58 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr18	Blackberry down? The end of civilization as we know it!!! George Parker April 18, 2007 "CrackBerry" addicts can rest easy tonight. They don't have to go cold turkey anymore, because service for their beloved Blackberry was restored this morning by Research in Motion, the Toronto company that sells BlackBerry's and its e-mail service, says its service... Continue Reading Posted at 7:47 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr17	Congratulations Chicago on becoming the US Olympic contender. When you've sobered up, you might want to figure out how you're going to pay for it! George Parker April 17, 2007 I certainly had to laugh when I read the news today that Chicago has beaten out San Francisco and L.A. for the privilege of being the US candidate for the 2016 Olympics when they will go head to head with... Continue Reading Posted at 8:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Google versus Microsoft... To the death! George Parker April 17, 2007 If you needed further proof that Google will eventually take over the known universe, today’s announcement of the last major component of the Web-based productivity suite that Google continues to insist is not a competitor to Microsoft Office might have... Continue Reading Posted at 5:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr16	NASCAR... Will the world's dumbest sport soon become the world's most expensive? George Parker April 16, 2007 There’s been a lot of press recently about NASCAR’s shrinking appeal, to both race goers and TV watchers. All kinds of theories have been punted about why this is so. Everything from just too much of it, to it having... Continue Reading Posted at 9:47 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Just in case you can't get too much of a good thing! George Parker April 16, 2007 I may have mentioned in previous posts… Of course I did… that I recently hosted a panel at the PSFK Conference on Trends, Ideas and New Marketing Inspiration in New York at the beginning of March. Far be it from me... Continue Reading Posted at 8:58 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The least dangerous thing you can buy for a boy is... "The Dangerous Book for Boys!" George Parker April 16, 2007 Veedub posts a very astute comment to my “Retail Therapy” post of yesterday pointing out how these sights are like crack cocaine to these very impressionable kids. But he also points out what he’s going to buy for his five... Continue Reading Posted at 8:35 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr15	Just what a six year old needs… Retail Therapy George Parker April 15, 2007 I’ve always been led to believe that one of the cardinal rules of marketing is to get early adopters while they’re still malleable. That used to mean young adults, then teenagers, then pre-teens, and now pre-pre-teens… Or whatever the latest... Continue Reading Posted at 5:58 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	YouTube "Down Under" George Parker April 15, 2007 Just to prove there’s “One born every day,” irrespective of where they are on the executive totem pole, an Australian teenager has apologized to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for pretending to represent the national broadcaster in demanding the removal of... Continue Reading Posted at 10:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr14	If you thought YouTube was expensive... Check out DoubleClick! George Parker April 14, 2007 Friday of last week, in its relentless aquisition spree, Google beat out Microsoft in the bidding war for on-line ad specialist, DoubleClick by ponying up $3.1 billion in CASH. But when you consider Google is sitting on a mountain of... Continue Reading Posted at 2:26 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr12	Pointers for YouTube Politicos!!! George Parker April 12, 2007 Wow… I just watched Mitt Romney on YouTube. Apart from the fact that he looks like his mother scrubbed his face ‘til it glows, and his wife washed, ironed and starched his shirt so much you could probably make it... Continue Reading Posted at 4:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	YouTube hosting all 300 Presidential candidates. Please wake me in two years. George Parker April 12, 2007 As a follow on to my post of yesterday regarding the British Labor party’s leap into the Blogosphere via YouTube with a very zombie like performance by Tony Blair, I was intrigued by the hundreds of news reports popping up... Continue Reading Posted at 3:44 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr11	Tony Blair does YouTube... Putting everyone to sleep. George Parker April 11, 2007 It would seem that politicians in the UK are now starting to jump on the YouTube bandwagon along with their American counterparts. First one in was David Cameron, leader of the Conservatives a couple of weeks ago. Now the Labor... Continue Reading Posted at 9:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr10	Googling YouTube... Or, YouTubing Google!!! George Parker April 10, 2007 Did you ever Google YouTube… Which is kind of funny, because YouTube is now Google! Well, whatever! If you do, what comes up is “Google – Broadcast Yourself.” Which may have been what it used to be about… Namely yourself.... Continue Reading Posted at 8:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	YouTube... ITube... WeAllTube!!! George Parker April 10, 2007 Continuing with my erudite dissertation on YouTube, all you need to consider when trying to figure out the popularity of this collection of videos featuring acne encrusted teenagers shooting themselves via webcams, as they attempt to lip-synch Rumanian heavy metal... Continue Reading Posted at 4:13 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	YouTube... Everything you could ever want to know! George Parker April 10, 2007 Confused about Web 2.0 - Social Networking – Second Life – Consumer Generated Content – YouTube - MMORPG’s? Forget about it… All you need to know is that Google paid $1.6 billon for YouTube. And as Sergey and Larry haven’t... Continue Reading Posted at 3:50 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 9	100 million iPods! 1,000 million iPhones? George Parker April 9, 2007 If anyone out there has been living on another planet for the last two or three months, you may not be aware that we are little more than two months away from the launch of what is destined to be... Continue Reading Posted at 3:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 8	Charles Simonyi... On top of the world! George Parker April 8, 2007 As you sit reading this, Charles Simonyi, the ex Microsoft software architect and multi-billionaire, is becoming the fifth non-military dude to be shot into space. Right now, he’s on his way to the International Space Station onboard a Soyuz spacecraft... Continue Reading Posted at 8:17 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 7	Grinding out "Grindhouse." George Parker April 7, 2007 It’s funny how movie advertising works. Remember all the hype about “Snakes on the Plane?” Tons of pre-release publicity and advertising, but it bombed. In spite of the blood, horror and shock you would have expected to make it a... Continue Reading Posted at 9:21 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Knut the Polar Bear... Destined to be "The Real Thing?" George Parker April 7, 2007 With all the fuss over Knut the baby polar bear, currently hanging out and being the star attraction at Berlin Zoo, I’m just waiting for Coca Cola to jump on the band-wagon and come out with some kind of TV... Continue Reading Posted at 9:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Larry King... Barely "Live" on satellite radio! George Parker April 7, 2007 With the proposed merger of Sirius and XM satellite radio channels, the big selling point to get FCC approval is apparently that consumers will now have more choice of quality programming. Then I read that XM is about to launch... Continue Reading Posted at 8:55 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 5	Julie Roehm... Strike Two! George Parker April 5, 2007 The much ballyhooed plans of a group of major advertisers and eBay to launch an auction system for buying and selling national TV ads hit the skids today when the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau indicated that its members, including most of... Continue Reading Posted at 7:57 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 4	The employees of P&G are really sorry they killed your dog. The company couldn't care less! George Parker April 4, 2007 I just love the way Procter & Gamble Co. today rushed out with an ad campaign in response to the nationwide pet-food recall stemming from the contamination believed to have killed or sickened thousands of pets. What’s funny is that... Continue Reading Posted at 9:55 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 3	Why Best Buy might not be the best place to buy after all! George Parker April 3, 2007 I am sure that I have bought stuff at Best Buy’s in the past, sent in for rebates, forgot about them, and never got them when promised. So yesterday’s news that its stores have a secret Internet Web site that... Continue Reading Posted at 8:05 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 2	We can put you in a new home tomorrow... We can also move you out the day after! George Parker April 2, 2007 Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that on every web page you pull up dealing the horrors of the sub-prime mortgage fiasco that’s happening right now, and how it will increasingly affect the housing market. Not to... Continue Reading Posted at 2:13 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 1	Why can't the main street media get it right? George Parker April 1, 2007 One of my pet peeves, as I've posted before, are people writing about advertising in the main stream media, who obviously have no idea what they are talking about. Today's piece by Dominic Rushe in The Times Online in the... Continue Reading Posted at 3:42 PM \| Permalink \| Comments

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Apr30	More Green for Google... Even in the Red! George Parker April 30, 2007 Know More: Online Ads Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, who with his shareholdings in the company is now richer than Croesus, announced today that Google is gaining market share in China and is rapidly catching up with popular search engine, Baidu. What he didn’t focus on was Google’s cooperation with the Chinese government to censor the results on “sensitive” subjects such as democracy, civil liberties and religion. Still I guess when it comes to the almighty dollar, or in this case, the rising yen, we can all leave our scruples at the cash register. After all, Eric has to start working on his second billion! . Democracy Dollars... Right Eric? Posted at 9:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr30	Get that Humvee out of my front yard! George Parker April 30, 2007 There’s a new ad campaign in the UK to actively discourage people from driving 4X4’s. Can’t say I blame them. The sight of Humvees and other monsters clogging up the roads of Great Britain makes you wonder how anyone gets... Continue Reading Posted at 5:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr29	Paris Hilton has already checked out Sir! George Parker April 29, 2007 So I just got back from Colorado Springs, where I was judging the AAAA Student Awards competition. Colleges of advertising and marketing compete against each other as they present for a significant piece of business. In this case a chunck of... Continue Reading Posted at 9:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr27	Just what you wanted... More TV! George Parker April 27, 2007 Yesterday’s New York Times had a good piece on Joost’s (From the guys who brought you Skype) move into Internet TV, and how it’s going to look very much like regular TV with the signing of some heavy advertisers. The... Continue Reading Posted at 9:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr26	Las Vegas goes "Limey!" George Parker April 26, 2007 Tesco, the biggest supermarket chain in the UK has finally decided to dip its toe in the US pond, but not with mega-stores, going instead for the small-store concept under the “Fresh & Easy” banner. Right now the web site... Continue Reading Posted at 2:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr25	What do Paris Hilton and the New York Stock Exchange have in common? George Parker April 25, 2007 I have to admit that the stock market, whether it be the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ, has always been a bit of a mystery to me. Yes, I have and do own stocks, just not as many as... Continue Reading Posted at 5:32 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr24	iJail for Steve Jobs? Not a chance! George Parker April 24, 2007 Having worked on the Apple account several times over the years when Steve Jobs has been at the helm, not at the helm, and back at the helm, I’ve followed the fortunes of both the company and it’s somewhat volatile... Continue Reading Posted at 9:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr23	Your future as a journalist, or blogger, or text messenger! George Parker April 23, 2007 If any of you out there are considering embarking on a career in journalism, you may want to take heed of these words of advice from Craig Newmark…. And who might that be? Only the guy that founded craigslist, which... Continue Reading Posted at 10:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Casino Royale - Shaken, not stirred! George Parker April 23, 2007 If you’ve seen the new James Bond film, Casino Royale, at either the cinema or on DVD, you may remember a very short cameo appearance of Virgin Airlines Big Cheese Richard Branson passing through a security arch at Miami airport.... Continue Reading Posted at 8:35 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr22	Microsoft says you can have any version of Windows you want... As long as it's Vista! George Parker April 22, 2007 After a barrage of complaints, Dell is to once again offer Windows XP on new systems, responding to angry online customers. This reverses a Vista-only policy Dell moved to since the release of Microsoft's latest 800 pound gorilla of an... Continue Reading Posted at 5:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr20	Google the Gorilla Grinds on! George Parker April 20, 2007 There’s something about Google that is inexorable when it comes to momentum and a feeling that it will swallow everything in its path and just keep coming. Ergo, the news that Google delivered very impressive quarterly financial results Thursday in... Continue Reading Posted at 8:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr19	Sanjaya Malakar is over. The Fat Lady has finally sung! George Parker April 19, 2007 I’ve never been able to understand the US’s obsession with “American Idol.” Which is actually a TV transplant from the UK and the fertile brain of Simon Cowell. The big news today is that that the world’s worst singer, Sanjaya... Continue Reading Posted at 9:58 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr18	Blackberry down? The end of civilization as we know it!!! George Parker April 18, 2007 "CrackBerry" addicts can rest easy tonight. They don't have to go cold turkey anymore, because service for their beloved Blackberry was restored this morning by Research in Motion, the Toronto company that sells BlackBerry's and its e-mail service, says its service... Continue Reading Posted at 7:47 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr17	Congratulations Chicago on becoming the US Olympic contender. When you've sobered up, you might want to figure out how you're going to pay for it! George Parker April 17, 2007 I certainly had to laugh when I read the news today that Chicago has beaten out San Francisco and L.A. for the privilege of being the US candidate for the 2016 Olympics when they will go head to head with... Continue Reading Posted at 8:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Google versus Microsoft... To the death! George Parker April 17, 2007 If you needed further proof that Google will eventually take over the known universe, today’s announcement of the last major component of the Web-based productivity suite that Google continues to insist is not a competitor to Microsoft Office might have... Continue Reading Posted at 5:49 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr16	NASCAR... Will the world's dumbest sport soon become the world's most expensive? George Parker April 16, 2007 There’s been a lot of press recently about NASCAR’s shrinking appeal, to both race goers and TV watchers. All kinds of theories have been punted about why this is so. Everything from just too much of it, to it having... Continue Reading Posted at 9:47 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Just in case you can't get too much of a good thing! George Parker April 16, 2007 I may have mentioned in previous posts… Of course I did… that I recently hosted a panel at the PSFK Conference on Trends, Ideas and New Marketing Inspiration in New York at the beginning of March. Far be it from me... Continue Reading Posted at 8:58 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The least dangerous thing you can buy for a boy is... "The Dangerous Book for Boys!" George Parker April 16, 2007 Veedub posts a very astute comment to my “Retail Therapy” post of yesterday pointing out how these sights are like crack cocaine to these very impressionable kids. But he also points out what he’s going to buy for his five... Continue Reading Posted at 8:35 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr15	Just what a six year old needs… Retail Therapy George Parker April 15, 2007 I’ve always been led to believe that one of the cardinal rules of marketing is to get early adopters while they’re still malleable. That used to mean young adults, then teenagers, then pre-teens, and now pre-pre-teens… Or whatever the latest... Continue Reading Posted at 5:58 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	YouTube "Down Under" George Parker April 15, 2007 Just to prove there’s “One born every day,” irrespective of where they are on the executive totem pole, an Australian teenager has apologized to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for pretending to represent the national broadcaster in demanding the removal of... Continue Reading Posted at 10:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr14	If you thought YouTube was expensive... Check out DoubleClick! George Parker April 14, 2007 Friday of last week, in its relentless aquisition spree, Google beat out Microsoft in the bidding war for on-line ad specialist, DoubleClick by ponying up $3.1 billion in CASH. But when you consider Google is sitting on a mountain of... Continue Reading Posted at 2:26 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr12	Pointers for YouTube Politicos!!! George Parker April 12, 2007 Wow… I just watched Mitt Romney on YouTube. Apart from the fact that he looks like his mother scrubbed his face ‘til it glows, and his wife washed, ironed and starched his shirt so much you could probably make it... Continue Reading Posted at 4:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	YouTube hosting all 300 Presidential candidates. Please wake me in two years. George Parker April 12, 2007 As a follow on to my post of yesterday regarding the British Labor party’s leap into the Blogosphere via YouTube with a very zombie like performance by Tony Blair, I was intrigued by the hundreds of news reports popping up... Continue Reading Posted at 3:44 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr11	Tony Blair does YouTube... Putting everyone to sleep. George Parker April 11, 2007 It would seem that politicians in the UK are now starting to jump on the YouTube bandwagon along with their American counterparts. First one in was David Cameron, leader of the Conservatives a couple of weeks ago. Now the Labor... Continue Reading Posted at 9:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr10	Googling YouTube... Or, YouTubing Google!!! George Parker April 10, 2007 Did you ever Google YouTube… Which is kind of funny, because YouTube is now Google! Well, whatever! If you do, what comes up is “Google – Broadcast Yourself.” Which may have been what it used to be about… Namely yourself.... Continue Reading Posted at 8:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	YouTube... ITube... WeAllTube!!! George Parker April 10, 2007 Continuing with my erudite dissertation on YouTube, all you need to consider when trying to figure out the popularity of this collection of videos featuring acne encrusted teenagers shooting themselves via webcams, as they attempt to lip-synch Rumanian heavy metal... Continue Reading Posted at 4:13 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	YouTube... Everything you could ever want to know! George Parker April 10, 2007 Confused about Web 2.0 - Social Networking – Second Life – Consumer Generated Content – YouTube - MMORPG’s? Forget about it… All you need to know is that Google paid $1.6 billon for YouTube. And as Sergey and Larry haven’t... Continue Reading Posted at 3:50 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 9	100 million iPods! 1,000 million iPhones? George Parker April 9, 2007 If anyone out there has been living on another planet for the last two or three months, you may not be aware that we are little more than two months away from the launch of what is destined to be... Continue Reading Posted at 3:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 8	Charles Simonyi... On top of the world! George Parker April 8, 2007 As you sit reading this, Charles Simonyi, the ex Microsoft software architect and multi-billionaire, is becoming the fifth non-military dude to be shot into space. Right now, he’s on his way to the International Space Station onboard a Soyuz spacecraft... Continue Reading Posted at 8:17 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 7	Grinding out "Grindhouse." George Parker April 7, 2007 It’s funny how movie advertising works. Remember all the hype about “Snakes on the Plane?” Tons of pre-release publicity and advertising, but it bombed. In spite of the blood, horror and shock you would have expected to make it a... Continue Reading Posted at 9:21 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Knut the Polar Bear... Destined to be "The Real Thing?" George Parker April 7, 2007 With all the fuss over Knut the baby polar bear, currently hanging out and being the star attraction at Berlin Zoo, I’m just waiting for Coca Cola to jump on the band-wagon and come out with some kind of TV... Continue Reading Posted at 9:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Larry King... Barely "Live" on satellite radio! George Parker April 7, 2007 With the proposed merger of Sirius and XM satellite radio channels, the big selling point to get FCC approval is apparently that consumers will now have more choice of quality programming. Then I read that XM is about to launch... Continue Reading Posted at 8:55 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 5	Julie Roehm... Strike Two! George Parker April 5, 2007 The much ballyhooed plans of a group of major advertisers and eBay to launch an auction system for buying and selling national TV ads hit the skids today when the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau indicated that its members, including most of... Continue Reading Posted at 7:57 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 4	The employees of P&G are really sorry they killed your dog. The company couldn't care less! George Parker April 4, 2007 I just love the way Procter & Gamble Co. today rushed out with an ad campaign in response to the nationwide pet-food recall stemming from the contamination believed to have killed or sickened thousands of pets. What’s funny is that... Continue Reading Posted at 9:55 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 3	Why Best Buy might not be the best place to buy after all! George Parker April 3, 2007 I am sure that I have bought stuff at Best Buy’s in the past, sent in for rebates, forgot about them, and never got them when promised. So yesterday’s news that its stores have a secret Internet Web site that... Continue Reading Posted at 8:05 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 2	We can put you in a new home tomorrow... We can also move you out the day after! George Parker April 2, 2007 Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that on every web page you pull up dealing the horrors of the sub-prime mortgage fiasco that’s happening right now, and how it will increasingly affect the housing market. Not to... Continue Reading Posted at 2:13 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Apr 1	Why can't the main street media get it right? George Parker April 1, 2007 One of my pet peeves, as I've posted before, are people writing about advertising in the main stream media, who obviously have no idea what they are talking about. Today's piece by Dominic Rushe in The Times Online in the... Continue Reading Posted at 3:42 PM \| Permalink \| Comments

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