Calendar Reform – I’m all for it. But can we please keep Congress away from it? I like the idea of WorldDay, which would fall outside the calendar and not be a marked day at all (Friday, Saturday, WorldDay, Sunday) once a year. That should help it get bilateral acceptance, right? Go to Nashvegas with Gavin Baker – That’s not an insult, it’s for real. He’s heading to Social Fresh.   Read More ...

I Married a Mad Man – This sounds more like Mad Men: The Movie The End of the Email Era – Someone faxed this to me. I made photocopies and sent it to several friends via USPS: "Email, stuck in the era of attachments, seems boring compared to services like Google Wave…" Hot Pink Mess – Oh. My. Rob Golding » phpBB3 WSOD (White Screen of Death) – Thanks to   Read More ...

Flashback to 1933: US ad industry digs Hitler. The article then goes on to quote Hitler at length talking about something that Americans who worked in advertising at the time already believed: that the masses are morons who respond only to simple messages repeated thousands of times… You really do see it every day in advertising–a catchy phrase is repeated often and all of a sudden it is part of   Read More ...