Quote of the day goes to Adjab summarizing an article from AdAge: Time Inc. is being forced to crap a $4.5 million squirrel as part of a settlement with parties who alleged the company renewed magazines without actually receiving requests to do so and subsequently charging customers. The attorneys general from 23 states had gotten together to force the laxative down Time’s throat.
That’s a lot of squirrel.
Another one rides the bus: Ad-verse, a blog with a great name and attitude, has gone over to the light side of the force. The site closed because Eric Weaver decided to write something called Brand Dialogue (shudder). His final post: Ad-Verse, my ranty, negative-energy blog on the state of modern marketing, is closed. I felt myself getting all Grouchy Grampa on everyone, and who wants that?
ME! ME! ME!
An odd sort of spam war is being waged here at CD. Remember the item I wrote about Spam Cube, the company which is waiting for Hormel to send it a cease-and-desist letter for trademark infringement? Well someone from the Cube has been posting comments which I have to assume are some sort of a rebuttal of my argument. One comment reads: YOU DON’T EAT IT. YOU DELETE IT www.donteatitdeleteit.com
The other had a link to a defintion of spam that does not include spicey pork products. Thus I am refuted, I guess. My reply: Dude, your argument is with Hormel not me. Should they ever catch wind of your product they, with the support of the entire judicial system, will force you to invest in some new letterhead and a new URL. And, just FYI, when wondering about how to deal with blogs … this is the kind of thing that it’s better to ignore. Now you just look sillier. If that’s possible.
March 23, 2006 at 2:08 pm
I can only hope that this means that Jane magazine will finally stop sending me issues. I haven’t renewed my subcription in about four or five years, yet I continue to get them (though I don’t get charged for them). I know I’m helping their rate card, but geez, it pretty much just goes right into the recycle bin.
March 26, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Hey, thanks for the post! I had no idea that anyone liked or even read “Ad-Verse”! No worries, it IS in my nature to be just a teensy bit snarky. I won’t be all goody-two-shoes.
I hope you’ll subscribe. Take care.