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Tying Your Credit Card And Web Activity Together? Priceless.
Forget the merger of Amazon and Google into Googlezon. Here’s a combo that has more immediate potential for harm. From the Wall Street Journal: Using Credit Cards to Target Web Ads The two largest credit-card networks, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., are pushing into a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Google, Googlezon, Jay Rockefeller, MasterCard, MediaPost, VISA, Wall Street Journal
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Occupy Boston Herald Edition)
The Boston Herald is totally preoccupied with the Occupy Boston protestor, as its 141 articles found search results indicate. And one story the feisty local tabloid absolutely owns first emerged in Thursday’s edition: Occupy Boston expels 2 finance team members Occupy … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, finance team members, Occupy Boston, outcast, unpaid assistant
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A World’s Serious (2011 Edition)
Well that was one for the ages, no? The hardworking staff will leave the play-by-play of the St. Louis Cardinals’ knee-buckling victory in Game 6 of the World Series to others and go straight to the color commentary: • Twice Fox … Continue reading
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Tagged A World's Serious, AP, Fox, Jack Buck, Joe Buck, Mike Fitzpatrick, Ring Lardner, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers
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Scott Brown: I’m Not Oily
Yesterday the hardworking staff noted the $1.9 million (according to Roll Call) ad campaign the League of Conservation Voters has launched against Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R-Is The Truck Gassed Up?) over his environmental record. To refresh your memory: … Continue reading
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Tagged LCV, League of Conservation Voters, Roll Call, Scott Brown
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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Rick Perry Real TV Spot Edition)
After scaling a series of misleading videos out onto the Internet (like the drive-by Misleading, which neatly lives up to its name), Rick Perry has launched an actual paid ad campaign on TV. Transcript of the ad (which is getting … Continue reading
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Tagged First Read, Iowa ad, MSNBC, Politico Playbook, Rick Perry
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New York Times Op-Id Columnists
Compare and contrast in clear idiomatic English: Joe Nocera’s New York Times op-ed on Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography, and Times Op-It Girl Maureen Dowd’s take. Nocera’s piece is all about what Isaacson was unable to accomplish (“In ‘Steve Jobs,’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Joe Nocera, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Op-It Girl, Steve Jobs biography, Walter Isaacson
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League of Conservation Voters: Brown Out
Scott Brown’s gone to Washington. And something’s gone horribly wrong. That’s the opening line of this TV spot just launched by the League of Conservation Voters: The rest of the script: Brown sided with big oil — taking thousands … Continue reading
Correction o’ the Day
From Monday’s Boston Globe (pay up, yes?): Editor’s note: A story in yesterday’s Arts section on visiting New York museums for free omitted information on the museums’ addresses and free hours. It can be found on Page 2 in today’s … Continue reading
Product Place-mint In New Jason Reitman Film
From excellent Sneak ADtacknaut Jeff Francis: [L]ast night I saw a secret screening of the new movie directed by Jason Reitman (Up In The Air). I thought of you and your Sneak Adtack site. The movie, “Young Adult,” contains excessive product placement, … Continue reading
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Tagged Jason Reitman, Jeff Francis, product place-mint, Sneak ADtack, Up in the Air, Young Adult
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