What was BBH Labs thinking? Michael Sebastien at PR Daily is on the money in saying that “it might go down as one of the biggest PR disasters of the year.” New […]
Qwest/CenturyTel merger: do you, Triceratops, take this Brontosaurus to be your lawfully wedded wife?
It was announced yesterday that Louisiana-based CenturyTel is buying Qwest, marking the second major takeover in ten years for the Denver telco. I have some history with the US West iteration of […]
Business and social media: American companies growing up, sort of
Ever since the Internet began gaining popular awareness in the mid-1990s, the topic of how businesses can productively use various new media technologies has been a subject of ongoing interest. Along the […]
Comcast and the amazing invisible bandwith barrier
By Martin Bosworth If you’re a Comcast subscriber who likes to use your connection for downloading videos, playing games, or anything more intensive than surfing the Web and checking e-mail, watch out–your […]
FCC wireless auction: Google wins, AT&T wins, Americans lose
By Martin Bosworth Today the FCC set its guidelines for how the newly available wireless spectrum frequencies are to be auctioned. In a nutshell, the FCC agreed that networks built on the […]
The Internet is dead! Long live … television?
So says Mark Cuban. Now, I’m typically a big Cuban fan. But I’m looking at an AdAge report on his remarks from yesterday’s Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Summit, and I’m […]
Campaign mobile: it’s 1996 all over again
Every time a new medium catches our attention we have to endure this awkward period where people who have decision-making and spending authority but no understanding of the medium at all treat […]
Campaign mobile update: from bad to worse to what the heck?
A couple days ago I had some comments on Obama, Clinton and Edwards and their respective mobile marketing activities. Turns out I was wrong about a couple facts, but finding that out […]
Obama campaign [third] to launch mobile, [third] to screw it up
[UPDATE: turns out he’s not the first after all – see comments below for details.] I’ve been yarping for months that no political campaign had yet launched mobile. There’s this massive youth […]
