Entries Tagged as 'Pop Culture'

But Microsoft doesn’t make PCs…(updated)

October 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

You’ve seen the new Crispin, Porter + Bogusky campaign for Microsoft, first the Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld roadshow followed by the supposed next phase of the plan, the cavalcade of real people and celebrities claiming to be “a PC.” This first came to my attention with the cover of Fast Company’s June 2008 issue that pretty [...]

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…and I’m not a PC.

May 27th, 2009 · No Comments

This is a continuation, in a way, of my previous post entitled “But Microsoft doesn’t make PCs….” Mac has responded beautifully to Microsoft’s latest condescending ad campaign where they pay folks to buy a PC and as these folks browse for the appropriate computer, at a big box store, they invariably have a dismissive comment [...]

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Movie Theaters, America’s One True Place of Worship

August 5th, 2008 · No Comments

“Television will kill the movies!” That’s what Hollywood was afraid of in the 50s. That’s when wide screen “epic” film formats were developed and movies like Cleopatra and Ben Hur came to represent the movies. The idea was that filmmakers had to come up with something that would clearly draw audiences away from television otherwise [...]

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