Comments on: anyone impressed by that http://blog.deadpansincerity.com/2008/08/anyone-impressed-by-that/ a weblog by david miller Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:22:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Barney http://blog.deadpansincerity.com/2008/08/anyone-impressed-by-that/#comment-3 Barney Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:46:35 +0000 http://blog.deadpansincerity.com/?p=10#comment-3 Actually, the department store opposite would've been a brilliant target for mimicry. Are people that discerning though? The old "Any publicity is good publicity" might just trump all your arguments. Another important point is that a regular news outlet is worse than useless if you don't have regular news and an individual familiar with news+words+subejct matter ready to back it up. Arguably people have no taste, an inability to find fault with corporate entities, and no great reasoning power. Having a vacuum shoved under your nose with a neon label marked 'valuable content' is empirically bad news. I don't know if this was the case here, but it's a good one to crack out in similar situations (i.e. pseudo-marketing exec comes out with 7-year-old's English coursework as serious-brand-initiative). Actually, the department store opposite would’ve been a brilliant target for mimicry.

Are people that discerning though? The old “Any publicity is good publicity” might just trump all your arguments.

Another important point is that a regular news outlet is worse than useless if you don’t have regular news and an individual familiar with news+words+subejct matter ready to back it up. Arguably people have no taste, an inability to find fault with corporate entities, and no great reasoning power. Having a vacuum shoved under your nose with a neon label marked ‘valuable content’ is empirically bad news. I don’t know if this was the case here, but it’s a good one to crack out in similar situations (i.e. pseudo-marketing exec comes out with 7-year-old’s English coursework as serious-brand-initiative).

]]> By: Michael Banovsky http://blog.deadpansincerity.com/2008/08/anyone-impressed-by-that/#comment-2 Michael Banovsky Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:19:12 +0000 http://blog.deadpansincerity.com/?p=10#comment-2 Brilliant post, and I may have to steal that saying of yours. It's not O.K. to settle for the status quo — we have department stores for that. Cheers, M! Brilliant post, and I may have to steal that saying of yours. It’s not O.K. to settle for the status quo — we have department stores for that. Cheers,

M!

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