So with the news on Wednesday that Dell was laying off workers around the globe, but wouldn't commit to how many, or where these poor fuckers will soon be queuing up for food stamps... I went hotfoot over to the......

i've spent the last year and a half writing a procedural thriller. most of the feedback i've received focuses on the fact that we never get invested enough in the characters. the message came in different forms. some said i hadn't developed my characters enough, some said they weren't sympathetic en...

Check out this fucking uber lame brain Web site inviting all the brain dead principals of brain dead BDA's to come to San Francisco and learn about "The New Realities!" Or, as they say in the first paragraph... We live......

Loyal bean eaters in one of my favorite cities tell me that SEVENTY people are getting the axe today at Arnold... That's a fucking shame. Arnold has done some great work over the years, and from what I've heard, it......

So amazing, so illegal. What are we going to do with you, future? That’s my pal, Jonathan Coulton, remarking on the disruptively talented Kutiman, who has made an astounding series of YouTube video remixes that’s lighting up the web and (one imagines) generating a lot of wood amongst our...

So, I just got an invite to blow five hundred fucking dollars to "Gain Recession Marketing Insights at DIGIDAY:MOBILE - Only a Few VIP's Seats Left!" And guess what? If you shell out the money... "You'll hear how Ogilvy North......

First of all, the organisers of this year’s festival deserve credit for a great series of fixtures, with some smart and courageous decisions on artists and staging. Second, they seem to have done a good job with ticketing, with far fewer of the good seats at events going empty (and seat alloca...

I learned a lot from Steve Paskin. Steve was an art director at Lowe during the time that we (innocent) worked with them, and he worked on most of our campaigns. He's a gentle, generous man, a great art director and a good writer, even though he might not consider that last bit to be his thing. Befo...

Hey... Don't want to be a giant wet blanket here... But I just heard from one of my deeply embedded spies that major layoffs are looming, yet again, on the Ogilvy, New York, horizon... I, personally think this is a fucking shame, 'cos over the years, I've freelanced and made buckets of money at the ...

According to yesterday's AdAge, WPP has finally crept ahead of Omnicom to become the world's largest ad conglomerate. Perfect timing... Just as the ad biz is descending into the pit, with forecasts that ad spends will be down as much......