Archive for May, 2009

ogilvy on recession

May
21

I’ve always looked up to Ogilvy & Mather as one of the premeire ad agencies out there. It’s like they wrote the rulebook.

I recently bumped into a new minisite posted by Ogilvy specifically on recession. www.OgilvyOnRecession.com. Just another example of their brilliance.

another twitter complaint

May
21

It bothers me that people go on twitter like once every 5 days and tweet like 20 message in one sitting. It knocks all my other tweets off my homepage, can’t you people spread out your tweets a little better? There should be a twittering ethics guide. Maybe i’ll release this as my first publication.

Why do people use twitter?

May
16

What is the point of twitter? I can see why business’s use it… and i can see why people follow the businesses for important updates and whatnot. But why do regular people send little twitter alerts about the coffee they’re drinking, and the little insignificant thoughts they’re having? Get on wordpress people.. twitter is retarted. Here’s my twitter.

Why use network solutions?

May
16

Why are people still buying domain names from network solutions at $35 a pop. They’re under $10 on godaddy, and godaddy is just a better manager.

Even worse.. why are people buying hosting on network solutions? That’s just wrong. Here are my hosting suggestions…

osx font conflict

May
16

I just realized that fixing a font conflict in OSX (leopard) actually makes the computer faster. Helvetica was the troublemaker.. i disabled any helvetica and helvetica neue fonts that weren’t “system fonts”. safari now flies. I have “manage system fonts” on in fontagent btw.