Hmm. The celebrated 100th post slipped right by me. Just noticed I’ve done 102 posts since I started in February 2007. We’ll toot the horns at 200.
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I’ve given in. I’m beaten. I’ve taken the sex out of Lonely Girl. I tried an experiment and entitled my July 3rd entry Lonely Girl 15: Sex, Mystery and Web 2.0 just to see what would happen. It’s an accurate title and I did get hits, lots of them. Still does. But a lot of them are coming through searches for subjects I don’t even dare mention. Anyway, I want my readers to be those who share my interest in higher ed marketing. I don’t care how popular I am (well, that’s a lie; I care a lot). So I changed the title to Lonely Girl 15: S**, Mystery and Web 2.0. Is that going to solve the s*x deviant problem? If not, I may have to boot her off my blog, lonely or not. I shudder at the thought of how many testosterone-driven teens are disappointed when they hit my post. And if they are getting off on it, we have some major problems with American teen males.
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Found: through Bob Johnson’s blog this site which just blew me away at the Virginia Commonwealth University Brandcenter That’s right. It’s no longer the Adcenter.
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Radio sales reps, to survive, must live in a constant state of denial. A rep was selling me on her station. I said I was thinking twice about radio in the face of iTunes, etc. She said it had not affected the listenership of her station a bit. I knew she had daughters, ages 12 and 15. “Do they have iPods?” I asked.
“Oh, yes. They listen to them all the time.”
“When do they listen to your station?”
She smiled. “When I drive them to school, I make them leave their iPods home and we listen to my station.”
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I couldn’t get out of my mind Karine Joly’s post about the study showing the TV-online activity among kids. This has huge implications for marketers.
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Found this dichotomy while surfing Podcasting News. Podcast guru Adam Curry’s company Podshow just laid off 1/3 of its workforce. At the same time podcasting network Wizzard Media announced it’s working on the “first international geo-targeted audio podcast advertising campaign.” Tumultuous times.
But the biggest news? There is a podcast dedicated to The Big Lebowski . Dude, that’s awesome . . . .
Scoble Rocks Out: Came across this from a facebook friend. Robert Scoble as rock star. Hilarioius.
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What do you do when the most popular DJ in the region goes off on a half hour rant calling you the “worst PR person in the world?”
That’s the subject of my two-part blog next week.
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