TechCrunch is reporting that Google and Digg may be in the final stages of what looks to be a $200 acquisition of Digg by Google. I dunno.  This seems insane to me.  Digg’s user base, while expanding basically consists of the gang at Abraham Harrison a lot of technology, marketing and social...

During the Cold War, each side had a frighteningly effective deterrent against nuclear first strikes: Threaten to launch an apocalyptic nuclear retaliation. The strategy — aptly named MAD, for mutual assured destruction — paradoxically cemented peace. Such "thinking about the unthinkable...

It’s not happening fast enough. It’s happening at a rate that will only hurt the everyone. Social media should be fully integrated into the strategy of a marketer. It should be an automatic and active ingredient. No longer should it be viewed as an afterthought, a piece of add-on service...

Reckoning A decade ago it was real easy for media companies, agencies and advertisers to simply transferred their revenue models online and “adify” the web with banners. Guess what, display ads do not work well in this medium. Hasn’t from day one and has continued to get worse. Now comes word ...

It is Monday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. This week, something amazing happens as we both Chris and I are on the podcast. We’re even talking at the same time! However, it was a good week to get back together as we had a lot of “hard&...

A recent article in ABC News paints a fairly grim picture about the current state of blogging. According to the article, as well as the Media Law Resource Center, there have been 159 civil and criminal court actions taken against bloggers since 2004 with countless others threatened into silence befo...

Saw Batman today (the free movie tickets worked!). I’m not much of a graphic novel guy, but it turned out to be one of the best movies I’ve seen all year. Side thought: Is it really impressive that a movie broke a box-office revenue record when even a matinee costs $8 now? If the goal is...

I’ve been following this attempt by Joseph Jaffe to get Delta Airlines to make amends to him after they royally screwed up his trip from Newark International to Atlanta to Sao Paulo, Brazil. They really made a mess of his journey and he’s got every right to be angry. And they haven’...

The first time I returned to Paris since moving to America as a child and not having yet considered bread like I do today; I just by lucky chance walked passed Poilânes bakery on  8 rue cherche midi.  By simple fate of my wife visiting clothing boutiques, I was able to visit the most fabl...

Filed under: Pfizer (PFE) This post is part of a series on celebrity spokespeople who ended up doing serious harm to the brands they were hired to promote, or vice versa. See how we rank the 20 top spokesperson fiascos. Remember the early part of 2008? Britney Spears was nuts. The economy was not in...