SSocial Media Breakfast in Bed?byRob FieldsFebruary 7, 2008 Hat tip to our friends over at AgencySpy. Apparently, this is Ogilvy’s offering for the Valentine’s Day timeframe. …
RRetail Sign o’ the times: NY retailers accepting EurosbyRob FieldsFebruary 7, 2008 In an effort to cater to the flood of European tourists coming to NY, area businesses are starting…
CCulture The electorate provides a clue to the cultural shiftbyRob FieldsFebruary 1, 2008 In an editorial in today’s NY Times, David Brooks focuses on what he believes John McCain will need…
SSocial Media When it comes to digital, it’s all about the nichebyRob FieldsJanuary 29, 2008 While covering the AlwaysOn Conference, paidContent’s David Kaplan highlighted some of the discussion around the fact that marketers…
CCulture Listening Post: Shrine for the Black Madonna–“Mona Lisa”byRob FieldsJanuary 24, 2008 As many of you know, over at Bold As Love, I’m chronicling what I see as the cultural…
BBusiness “Charlie Wilson’s War” and How to Get Things DonebyRob FieldsJanuary 6, 2008 Truth is, I’ve got over 100 feeds in my RSS reader. One of them is the feed from…
CCulture Culture evolves and language struggles to keep pacebyRob FieldsJanuary 6, 2008 Really great article in today’s New York Times by Kirk Johnson that looks at the ’08 campaign thusfar–including…
CCulture Best Black rock releases of 2007byRob FieldsDecember 28, 2007 Game Rebellion’s Yohimbe at Snitch, December 19, 2007 Over at Bold As Love, I was originally going to…
CCulture Still more RadioheadbyRob FieldsDecember 13, 2007 In case you’re not familiar with The Couch Sessions, you should point your browser in that direction and…
CCulture The power of scarcitybyRob FieldsDecember 12, 2007 We all know that low supply and high demand drive prices up. Makes sense, right? Thing is, it’s…
RRace Gladwell on the Black-White I.Q. GapbyRob FieldsDecember 11, 2007 Elsewhere on this blog, I’ve talked about how culture provides a context not only for how marketing communications…
CCulture Alice Smith’s Grammy nominationbyRob FieldsDecember 10, 2007 This is one of those moments when I get to say, "I told you so!" Not that I…