H-P is upping its advertising ante, spending a reported $40 million for an eight-week campaign. It’s the type of campaign that H-P hasn’t done in close to five years.
The company will engage Dr. Dre, comedian Rhys Darby and photographer Annie Leibovitz in an attempt to attract clients and customers seeking technology solutions. Why?
H-P head-shed feels public awareness of the technology-savvy are poorly served with the majority of folks thinking of H-P as only a printer manufacturer. Hello! Anybody home in Palo Alto who can think? [click to continue…]
WARNING: Some language in this trailer may be objectionable to some viewers.
My relatives, friends and colleagues who have a relatively normal grasp on pop culture (they’re not cutting edge but they’re not dragging behind) knew nothing of the movie “Kick-Ass” until I told them about it. Now, it’s all they can talk about. [click to continue…]
Two weeks ago we asked if this year’s Super Bowl ads were misogynistic. One of the more objectionable (to many) was this ad for the Dodge Charger. The video above is one of the more popular responses. And a word of warning, the language is NSFW.
As our favorite blog, AdFreak points out, isn’t it great that Super Bowl ads are important enough to piss people off?
I am a Foursquare freak! The site lets people tell their networks where they are and what they’re doing. It also tracks the places you go and gives you points. Each week, I battle it out with my pal Jennifer J. to see who can go more places on a weekly basis.
Then I learned about Please Rob Me. It’s a site that will keep me from broadcasting my location ever again. I could still use Foursquare, I think, and just not send my location out via Twitter or Facebook. [click to continue…]
The George Polk Awards in journalism were presented Tuesday and one was given to the unknown person or people who recorded the death of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan.
