Pandora’s opened a whole new kind of box.

At my internship yesterday, I was working away while listening to Pandora–one of my favorite things to do in any office setting. You get to listen to the most ideal mix ever–you don’t know what song will play, but chances are you’ll love it, since you created the radio station. Another thing that sets Pandora [...]

Have a Magical Birthday!

Greetings from sunny Los Angeles! On my first day here, driving from LAX to my new apartment, I noticed a billboard with a rather familiar mouse. For 2009, by offering guests free admission on their birthday, Disney has offered themselves recession insurance. At a time when the vacation industry will be taking a bit of [...]

The King kills the peasants

The latest crazy little scheme from Burger King has left some with fewer friends–literally. The new facebook application is the brainchild of agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky (I seem to blog about them a bit too much, don’t I?). How it works is simple. Decide which of your friends on facebook you’d rather eat [...]

The copywriter for the Economist is a genius.

I would have paid money to have come up with that line. I’m a new reader of the Economist, and I’d never seen their ads before. There’s nothing to them, other than a genius line that stands out from the signature red background. I have no idea who does the ads for the Economist, but [...]