The Downside

About Anna Nicole Smith, who was today found to have died from a drug overdose: “clearly this is a woman who led a very troubled life - a lot of highs, a lot of lows.”

You may have seen some of McDonald’s’ (where does the apostrophe go there?) ads in their So good, it’s almost embarassing campaign. Not only does the tagline itself not make sense, but the ads were downright bizarre.
Exhibit A: The ad below with the woman who either looks high on glue fumes, or just plain [...]

Just when you thought the Internet couldn’t become any more cynical, along comes Payperpost.com, a site that pays “professional bloggers” to pimp products and services. Here’s the deal: if you have a blog, you can pick from a list of products and services to write about, and each one has a bounty that you [...]

I guess Bezos is getting tired of the ecommerce biz - Amazon has just released their Askville Social Q&A service, a competitor to sites like Yahoo Answers, MSN Live QnA, and my own Answerbag(which predates all of them, incidentally. Not being snippy, just pointing it out so the title of this post doesn’t sound [...]

I always wonder why people copy business models that haven’t taken off. If you’re going to improve upon the model, that’s cool, but if the existing model isn’t exactly a hit, why copy it with the exact same model?
Amazon apparently looked at barely-recognized mobile Q&A service AskMeNow and said to their collective selves, hey [...]

Ever have a loved one die, but think that a boring old wood coffin just doesn’t do them justice? Well, your prayers have been answered. Thank you Oxford Coffins for giving us Colored Coffins. Here are a few of my favorites:

And for all your death and dying needs, be sure to check [...]

With Microsoft’s release of the Zune today, we are that much closer to my orgasmic scenario of having our media accessible anywhere, any time. While it has some neat forward-looking features like wireless filesharing, some marketing genius decided to release the Zune in white, black, and brown…way to counter those geek vs. cool-guy Apple [...]

In my browsing of Yahoo! News in the morning, I have come across this ad several times. What in blue blazes is going on in this picture, and why does it make me want to apply for mortgage? Someone needs to have a little talk with the ad designers over at Lowermybills.