Category: internet
That ad series I love, forgot the company
| December 15, 2009 | Posted by caroline under in the news, internet, media |
Comparing my response to the Ally Bank commercials to the AdWeek response regarding the same series of commercials.
CJAD interview with Dan Delmar and the Internet Personality
| March 18, 2009 | Posted by caroline under ethics, internet, myself, on identity, storytelling, technology, Uncategorized |
As some of you may’ve heard, I was interviewed by Dan Delmar Friday night on CJAD radio, in Montreal. I love the guy, we go way back to j-school days at Concordia University, studying journalism. I mean, we are very different from each other in many ways but I think ultimately we share a strong…
Attention Span and Web Advertisements
| October 28, 2008 | Posted by caroline under ethics, in the news, internet, Uncategorized |
While reading a Forbes article (via CBC) on attention span and 10 things that erode our attentive abilities, I found myself bombarded by advertisements that would not even let me read the whole article! Talk about oxymorons!: http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/15/short-attention-span-forbeslife-cx_avd_1015health_slide_4.html?thisSpeed=15000 It’s only been in the past few weeks that I’ve really come face to face with these…
Online Marketing in Blogs
| September 23, 2008 | Posted by caroline under ethics, in the news, internet, technology, theories, Uncategorized |
As one of my web entrepreneur friends put it, in terms of whether the public can weed through the garbage online and figure out where the truth lies, “Generally speaking there is a 80 to 20 ratio on the Internet. 20% are intelligent and the 80% are computer illiterate. Thus they are idiots and will…
double-underlined advertising
| March 19, 2008 | Posted by caroline under internet |
I gotta say, I love it!..and hate it? It’s the sort of advertising where you’re in the middle of reading something and you are gently coaxed into something else. You might run your cursor over and a word and…ta da! Keyword= advertisement!~ In a sense, it’s reverse advertising. Typically, we may Google something that will…
blog etiquette
| February 15, 2008 | Posted by caroline under ethics, internet, myself, technology, Uncategorized |
I’ve transferred a lot of my writing to a public blog. Maybe this isn’t the best way to begin a new venture, but I figure I’ll lay my cards out from the start. I’ve been writing blogs for years, hah, on those network sites most of the time for friends, and also on some official…
