August 25, 2008
Crain’s Business Journals are fairly masturbatory to begin with, and their email-lists are intensely frustrating (they don’t have an “unsubscribe” link, just a “manage subscriptions” link – that you need to login to your account to manage, but I never made an account, or subscribed in the first place, so I can’t “manage my subscriptions.” Meanwhile, these fascists are selling me as an “opt in” subscriber, I’m sure).
Now, Crain’s Detroit has teamed up with one of the numerous, mostly state-funded, non-profit groups trying to rejuvenate the hottest city in the country … hottest because it’s usually on fire. Of course, their solution, A website! Yes! That will save our city. It needs a website. What sort of website would do the best saving? Why, a Community Site for Young Creative Professionals.
From their email announcement:
Detroit Make it Here is the only Web site designed to inform, to empower, to build and to unite metro Detroit’s creative community. It’s a central gathering place where strong journalism and respected data intersect with stories from real people.
Allow me to address the “only web site” thing …
How does one “respect data?” I can respect the source of some type of information, but that certainly wouldn’t be a business publication in the business of gilding the flaming turd that is Detroit – and it definitely wouldn’t be someone who includes the infinitive form for every item in a list. Just the first “to” would do, and it would do without making you sound like a moron with a stupid website (one word, no caps, moron).
Other than semantics, is a website designed for creative people to talk to each other going to save Detroit, or even take a tiny baby-step in the right direction? Will anyone even use it? If people use it, will it be for anything more than asking other people for money who are only there to ask for money themselves?
Detroit Renaissance Inc. could spend their money better. Stop making websites. Just stop. Everyone. The web is full. No one cares about your website. Stop it.
Also, your website doesn’t scroll in Safari.
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August 5, 2008
I don’t know how much ATT paid to be the title sponsor of this year’s Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, but if you went to the festival which was, “delivered by AT&T,” you wouldn’t have had any service. Since all of Grant Park was on one Cell Tower for ATT, the circuits quickly overloaded and those iPhones turned into iPods.
Now, i know what you’re thinking, but this is an irony obvious enough for even Rage Against the Machine fans to catch.
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August 5, 2008
The inside-back cover of AdWeek is a full-pager for Microsoft Advertising’s MiXX event. One of the Advertising Week 2008 events, it looks like one of these good ol’ fashioned industry-back-pat, I give you an HJ if you give me … that sort of thing.
The headline for this event reads:
Create. Innovate. Evolve.
Which is the least creative thing I’ve read all week. Those three words are the most over-used since “dude,” and “like,” so the first thing Microsoft is telling me about their event, which is supposed to help me be creative, innovative and revolutionary, is that the people throwing it are lame, trite, and possibly mental patients. Were this ad appearing in High Times Magazine, it’s possible that the target audience would take words at face-value, and not read into the meaning behind the word choice, but this isn’t High Times … this is AdWeek.
Reading further down the page, we get this lovely nugget of how to say absolutely nothing at all …
Join thought leaders from the entire advertising ecosystem to explore creativity, innovation and the evolution of media. The possibilities will change the way you think about relationships, playforms, brands, agencies and even yourself.
Well, they’re right about one thing – I feel better about myself after reading that.
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