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No Brand is Safe

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Interesting fall out from Rush Limbaugh slut-gate in the US. Advertisers are shocked, shocked to find their brands are running during  controversial programming. One of
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Ad Networks and the Duality of Man

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Navigation tabs are not an obvious source of comedy. But on ad network sites there are two tabs that tell a joke that is, well, a joke. Pick a random ad network site and
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Channeling Shirky, The Web is not Passive

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Treating the web like TV – as we have mentioned before -  is an issue with amazing tenacity. And where the Web-as-TV thing is most dangerous is the conception of h
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Web 2.0 Authenticity Continuum Spring 2011

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Facebook – Authenticity high. Generally, OK with everyone. Unless you are a do-not-even-own-a-tv, reactionary progressive whose house is only heated to 50°F (10°C
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Still afraid of the big bad Web? Really?

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A friend of mine recently tipped me to this cool tool for the paranoid: http://selectout.org/ Visit that site to find out which of the 115 different companies listed R
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Was it just fun while it lasted?

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In the US, the Titans are about to clash. The results will likely be Huxlian. The collateral damage will be consumers & non-titan businesses. And the only one who see
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Break me off a piece of that Big Apple

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This week, despite all that extra security and talk of “resistance”, the Hippo  jetted off to AdTech in the Big Apple. Yea, we know .. another show, more spo
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The way we live now

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This post is like a sermon or more like a soapbox, we have always wanted to get up on that little wooden box and have at least one or two people listen and shake their he
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Scamville strikes again

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Online advertising is like a frontier town in the American West. It is a young settlement perched on the fringes of civilization where miners, fortune seekers, Christians
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Hippo seeks pleasant company to occupy desk in Dusseldorf

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Yup. It’s true. We are looking for THE most hip-hop Account Manager to join us in our Dusseldorf headquarters. Awesomeness to follow. Reporting to the CEO, GlibHipp
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