http://myadportfolio.com Copywriting and other mayhem. The blog from www.myadportfolio.com. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:26:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In writing to my advertising friends at BBDO, I have learned of two copywriters that I worked with who passed away a while ago. One was Bob Mallin, a boss of mine at BBDO. He died in Dobbs Ferry, NY at the age of 51. I do not know the ... http://myadportfolio.com/?p=143 I found this interview in which Ted Sann, former Creative Director of BBDO New York, surveys the rocky field of internet advertising. At the time, he was extremely negative on it or as the article says "The people in his business who can make it work just aren't paying attention. ... http://myadportfolio.com/?p=142 I have seen an amazing tv commercial. It's a commercial that sells the charitable work of veterinarians reattaching rabbit's feet back to their original owners.Uh-huh. Because? Because people don't need luck any more now that they have Traveler's Insurance. The ad agency is Fallon in Minneapolis. It's was realized ... http://myadportfolio.com/?p=137 When you read the label on Zest soap, you discover that most the the seemingly incomprehensible ingredient names are soap. Sodium Tallowate? Soap. Sodium Palmate? Soap. Sodium Cocoate and/or Palm Kernate? Soap. There is one plentiful ingredient ether sulfonate that is not soap. It is a surfactant, or surface ... http://myadportfolio.com/?p=136 Arizona has placed a proposition on its ballot that could make a random voter a millionaire. Prop 200 proposes a million dollar lottery every two years for a lucky Arizona voter. This would certainly increase voter turnout. A local Arizona newspaper has decried the idea, saying it doesn't want uninformed ... http://myadportfolio.com/?p=134 There's a new weight problem emerging in America: sleep eating. Apparently, the often-used sleeping medication Ambien (r) can cause the problem in susceptible people. The story is chronicled in an article in The New York Timesthat tells of "emerging medical case studies that describe how the drug's ... http://myadportfolio.com/?p=133 Matt Drudge and others on the net claim the Today Show icon is heading to CBS to anchor the Evening News, a post once held by Walter Cronkite. Makes you a little queasy, doesn't it? The blog entry above claims CBS staffers are creating I hate Katie Couric t-shirts. http://myadportfolio.com/?p=132 Yes, it's true: after reports surfaced about the vice-president accidentally shooting his friend Harry Whittington, a 78-year old attorney, while quail hunting, another long-time friend and hunting pal of Dick Cheney's, Alan Simpson, the former Republican Senator from Wyoming, arose out of the tall grass to say this: "But ... http://myadportfolio.com/?p=131 This newspaper of record has come out on the issue of whether Judge Alito should be confirmed by the US Senate as a Supreme Court Justice. Surprise! They are against him. In a piece entiltled Judge Alito's Radical Views, they attack his "radically broad view of the president's power" as ... http://myadportfolio.com/?p=130 Remember the outcry over U.S. films being shot in Canada to cut production costs? Or using the Internet to allow programmers in Asia to compete with American programmers -- another "world-is-flat" bid to cut costs to the bone? Now, with the founding of Banerjee & Partners of New York, Bombay ... http://myadportfolio.com/?p=129