Slap Chop Rap

As if we couldn't get enough of Vince Money, introducing the Slap Chop Rap:

Creativity-Online design blog

Creativity-Online has just started their own design blog. I'm sure this is going to be a good one to keep up with and check regularly: http://creativity-online.com/?action=blog:section§Id=681

Uncredible Wiki? Who knew?

This is the very reason teachers and professors don't consider Wikipedia to be a credible source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Irish-student-hoaxes-worlds-apf-15201451.html?.v=1

Apparently Dublin University student Shane Fitzgerald posted a fake quote by Maurice Jarre shortly after his death. The quote showed up on blogs and news articles around the world. An entire month went by without anyone saying a thing.

"I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn't come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something Maurice Jarre said, instead of something I made up," he said. "It would have become another example where, once anything is printed enough times in the media without challenge, it becomes fact."

Everyone in journalism, learn from this...

"I didn't want to be devious," he said. "I just wanted to show how the 24-hour, minute-by-minute media were now taking material straight from Wikipedia because of the deadline pressure they're under."

Time to make the donuts

Well, school is done and all I have left is my internship. I've walked with my friends and have finished college. Onto the rest of my life. I love to learn and will continue learning as I mosey along. Good luck graduating class of 2009, and good bye all my wonderful friends. Well, it's time to make the donuts...

My life on tv!?

It's like my life on tv! Well, sort of. Apparently James Edmund Datri of the Cincinnati Ad Club wants to "improve the industry's image" by creating a reality television series about the National Student Advertising Competition, or NSAC. This is the campaign that Ball State AAF enters every year and have been very successful in. This will apparently give both students and the general public a better idea of what the advertising industry actually does.

"One of the issues we have when it comes to public policy is that people don't have a very good perception of us," he said. "I want the public to see that advertising is so much more than [Madison Avenue], and I think by showcasing NSAC on a reality TV show, we're going to generate a positive perception of our industry that could really be a game changer."

Well, out w/ one show ("Trust Me"...r.i.p) and hopefully in with another. If it goes thru, I can be one of those old college grads who just can't give up the 'ol days!

Read the entire AdAge article here.

Those eyes!!!

Was anyone else annoyed upon visiting the Creativity-online website today? First thing, giant eyes on an ad page before entering. Then after I enter, there were three of them. One banner ad across the top, one to the right, and then a splash page covering the entirety of the page. The same animation, in three places. It's reasons like these that people stop paying attention to online web ads and click them away. As it turns out it's a co-op ad combining the movie "Monsters vs. Aliens" with HP computers. But still, people just don't care, and definately won't care about your product if you annoy them as much as you did me. It's crucial to find a harmonic balance. Rushing the consumer with ads definately won't work. Stay subtle, and if it's interesting enough, people will click. Just play it safe and don't scare them off. *shivers* (those damn eyes)

Tweet for Jesus?

Oh boy! So now the Vatican is tech savvy and down w/ the social media. That's right, Cardinal Sean Brady wants us to Tweet prayers for our loved ones. "Make someone the gift of a prayer through text, Twitter or e-mail every day. Such a sea of prayer is sure to strengthen our sense of solidarity with one another."


Read more in the AdAge article here.
The article also talks about the end of youtube, twitter, and facebook.