I don’t usually share comic strips, but this one hit too close to home… Coincidentally, Wired magazine just published a related (albeit much more scientific) article about how “The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains.”
Entries Tagged as 'Random Observations'
Nailed It: “Pearls Before Swine” Captures Us Hopeless Weboholics
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Random Observations
Tags:ADD·Internet·psychology·Web
A Walk Down Memory 6th Street: My Vintage SXSW Ad
March 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Atomic Tango News, Random Observations
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC + former Record Industry Adman Funny to see all the young ones chattin’ away on the Twitter ’bout this year’s South-by-Southwest festival, aka SXSW. What used to be just a good ol’ fashioned music fest in the unvarnished heart of Austin is now this slicked-up multimedia [...]
Tags:advertising·MCA Records·music industry·South-by-Southwest·SXSW
Not Clear On The Concept: Dell’s “Green” Ink
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Random Observations
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC & Ink-Devouring Eco Junkie I have a love-hate relationship with my Canon MP500 printer. Love because it prints out professional looking photos. Hate because its insatiable thirst for ink is robbing me dry, like NYPD cops in a perfume warehouse.
Tags:Canon·Dell·green business·greenwashing·NextLife·printer ink·Responsible Marketing
Doing Good isn’t Good Enough: Cold Reality for Social Entrepreneurs
February 21st, 2010 · 7 Comments · How To Tips, Random Observations
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC & Social Entrepreneurship Instructor Some people just don’t get it. I’m not talking about the willfully ignorant knuckle-draggers on the Texas State Board of Education. (They’re so beyond not getting it, they’ve gone full primordial.) I’m talking about the highly educated, wealth exuding finance execs who [...]
Tags:Adlai Wertman·Arianna Huffington·change·entrepreneurs·finance·Huffpost Impact·James Stancill·marketing·Nau clothing·SBA·social entrepreneurship·social media·University of Southern California·USC
Relationship? Relationship?! Sorry, Corporations, Consumers Just Aren’t That Into You
February 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Random Observations
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC and Capitalist Relationship Counselor Dear John Corporation: Let me begin by saying that our times together have been good for me. I mean it! I definitely see the value in being with you… to a certain extent. So what I’m about to say might seem cold [...]
Tags:consumers·CRM·customer relationship marketing·Facebook·marketing·one-to-one marketing·social media·Twitter
Fountains of Youth: 6 Reasons to Follow Young Marketers
November 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Random Observations
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC, and Veteran Marketer Trying to Get Jiggy with It In my quest to find value on Twitter, I began by following a lot of marketing people, including several ad agency heads and veteran PR people. I wound up unfollowing most of them — except for the [...]
Looks That Kill: Fashion Ads That Go Beyond the Call of Beauty
November 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Random Observations
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director of Atomic Tango LLC (Again, I’m immersed in an intensive midterm-grading campaign, so I can’t rant as usual. Yes, I hear you sighing with relief. However, I can share with you this fun British ad from 2007 that didn’t receive enough exposure this side of the Atlantic….) [...]
Tags:advertising·fashion
Overkill Alert: Chief Reputation Officers and Other Executive Excess
October 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Random Observations
by Freddy J. Nager, the guy at Atomic Tango LLC who calls himself a “Fusion Director” Not since Sarah Palin claimed “executive experience” has anything this silly been uttered about top management…
Tags:brand management·branding·chief marketing officers·CMO·corporate politics·executives·marketing·Microsoft·reputation·Ron Shevlin
Notes for a Screenplay: If Real Life Were Like Twitter…
September 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Random Observations
by Freddy J. Nager, Screenwriter Wannabe and Part-Time Tweeter INT. CORPORATE CUBE FARM – DAY One guy is following another guy really closely. “I’m following you, so just follow me back, OK, OK, just follow me, please follow me, follow follow…”
Here Kitty, Kitty: Mac OSX Cougar Revealed
August 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Random Observations
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director, Atomic Tango LLC I’ve been on a blogging hiatus in order to complete grading my students’ exams. (And you thought I was on vacation — ha! We marketers never rest!) Then I came across this spoof of the next version of Apple’s operating system, Mac OSX Cougar. [...]
