Loser, Litigious Ad Agency Folds

The litigious and arrogant New York advertising agency, Warren Kremer Paino Advertising, which sued the Maine blogger for exercising free speech, has done far more than drop its case: it has folded, says MediaPost.

UPDATE/CLARIFICATION:

I should’ve read more carefully beyond the sensational MediaPost headline, "Puzzling Lawsuit Brings Down Agency," which I linked to above.Read the rest

Someone Has to Pay for TV. But Who? And How?

 

“Someone Has to Pay for TV. But Who? And How?” is the title of a good column in the Sunday NYTimes by Randall Stross about the changing model of television programming and advertising in the age of digital-video recorders (DVRs) and viewer propensity to skip ads.Read the rest

My Adventures In MySpace…Chapter 7…How Do I Change My Marital Status On MySpace?

(An Ad on MySpace)

Occasionally I check to see which phrases are drawing visitors from search engines into AttentionMax. Given my MySpace chronicles, I guess it’s not surprising that four of the top 50 search phrases this past week were related to MySpace.Read the rest

Waiting For Pain Is Painful…And Television Commercials?

Dread lights up like pain in your brain, the New Scientist reports:

The feeling of dread lights up the parts of the brain linked with pain, making the experience so uncomfortable that people choose to end the wait for an unpleasant experience sooner, even if it means incurring a penalty.

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