Eavesdropping on Business-Speak, by John Stodder
Posted in Marketing, Media, Transportation on Aug 14th, 2008
“Hit & Run,” a blog offering of Reason magazine, rats out a recent Ladies Home Journal article on the danger of drivers running red lights, which they claim was concocted to advance the interests of three private companies that make red light cameras.
Halfway through the article, there’s a box with a header set in bold […]
There must be an interesting tale behind this week’s Rolling Stone cover story (link is to an excerpt only) about the Eagles.
According to the rules of celebrity marketing, the timing is a little off. The Eagles have been touring since March. Their new album, Long Road out of Eden, came out last October and has […]
I disagree with the premise behind this recent post on Pajamas Media — that America will soon have a glorious future of news without reporters. I hope the writer, news futurist Steve Boriss, is wrong, and if he’s right, I’m not so sure it’s a gain.
However, there is no doubt that the web has […]
Posted in Copyright, Internet, Marketing, Media on Mar 3rd, 2008
That’s how marketing theorist Seth Godin described the music industry in a recent talk to its executives. Emphasis on “was.” The industry now appears to be headed by CEOs who not only bemoan the loss of a time when a few companies controlled the music industry and could count on free marketing […]
Posted in Accounting, Employees, Media on Jan 8th, 2008
*Updates added at bottom.
Could be the writers’ strike, could be the IRS, could be something else, but Axium International, a firm that handles payroll and other financial matters for major-studio and independent film productions, abruptly shut its doors today and told its employees to go home.
The Hollywood Reporter quotes sources as saying company president […]
Posted in Accounting, Internet, Labor, Marketing, Media on Jan 3rd, 2008
Actor and writer Eric Bogosian has an insightful take on why the AMPTP is taking such a hard line against the WGA that I’ve seen yet. He e-mailed his hypothesis to top entertainment industry reporter Nikke Finke, and it’s up on her blog.
Bogosian says, in essence, that entertainment producers are worried about how […]
Okay, yes, I’m being sarcastic, but you have to understand. All too often when I was a youngster, my father would come home from work to find my brothers and me lying on the floor, watching “The Three Stooges” or “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” whereupon he would ask in a sneering tone, “What intellectual, […]
This is a business, not political, blog. Advertising and public relations are, however, an important part of business. The biggest traveling carnival of PR and advertising rambles around the country every four years–calling itself a presidential election–and it’s hard for an old PR man not to talk about it. So let’s talk.
On New Year’s Eve, […]
Here’s something I didn’t know:
Copyfraud is everywhere. False copyright notices appear on modern reprints of Shakespeare’s plays, Beethoven’s piano scores, greeting card versions of Monet’s Water Lilies, and even the U.S. Constitution. Archives claim blanket copyright in everything in their collections. Vendors of microfilmed versions of historical newspapers assert copyright ownership. These false copyright claims, […]
After a relaxing holiday weekend, today is the day the Writers Guild of American and the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers are supposed to resume negotiations.
Nikke Finke, the showbiz industry blogger who has led coverage of this story since before the strike began — tripling her page views to 1 million per day, […]
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