Word of the day: Reproductive outsourcing. (Source: NYT, 3/10/08) Factoid of the day: “When the fourth season of ‘The Office,’ an NBC comedy, had its premiere in September, one in five viewings was on a computer screen instead of a television.” (Source: NYT, 3/10/08) Advice of the day: Mark Cuban offers 12 rules for startups. […]
Thursday’s garbage post triggered a large (and alarming) amount of mail. The responses fell into three categories. 1. Dozens of you said your city was even worse. 2. DC residents agreed there’d been a change in our fair city, though John Whiteside and others say the change pre-dated Mayor Fenty. 3. And Sven Cahling of
Today is one of those days when I silently vow never to travel again. Already I’ve experienced one canceled flight, one multi-hour delay, and one missed connection. And I haven’t left Washington. On days like this, it’s nice to get notes like the one below, which I received from Nico Van Der Hoven, of the
Tuesday is garbage day at the Pink House. The trucks usually rumble through the alley before 8:30am. But this Tuesday, the trucks somehow skipped our house. Since all of us generate a lot of garbage (and not just the rhetorical kind), we faced a long and smelly week. So yesterday, on a whim, the missus
Things have been zooey here at Pink, Inc, world headquarters, so the blog has been rather silent. Sorry. We’ve been working to redesign this site and to build out another site devoted to Johnny Bunko (which you can see in its embryonic form here.) I’ll try to get back in action soon. My calendar isn’t
“More than a quarter of adult Americans have left the faith of their childhood to join another religion or none at all . . . Sixteen percent of American adults say they are not part of any organized faith, which makes unaffiliated the country’s fourth-largest ‘religious group.’” (Source: NYT, 2/26/08)
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BusinessWeek is the first publication out of the gates on Johnny Bunko. Read Susan Berfield’s story — headlined “Career Advice from a Comic Book” — here.
Just signed up for Dopplr, which several people had recommended. Search my name on the site, share your sked with me, and I’ll share back.
That’s not a question I ever asked myself — until earlier this week when I heard an excellent presentation from John Seifert of Ogilvy. Seifert made the case that without a major overhaul in what they stand for in and how the connect with consumers, many brands are in deep trouble. He described the work
