Privacy and DRM

Personal information should be protected under copyrights as well as privacy laws. The government of Canada is about to release a new bill which will see Canada follow the US with Digital Rights Management. I would like that to extend to my personal information I created everything about me on facebook. I would like corporations [...]

Banksy in Toronto

I am a huge fan of Banksy. I think his work is thought provoking and relevant to modern times. I am a little unsure of his recent works however. He is releasing a new movie called exit through the gift shop. What concerns me is the recent spat of work in Toronto, I noticed one [...]

Just donate the money

They say that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Well hell hath no fury like Dave when he feels cheated either. I recently bought a bottle of Dawn dish detergent by Proctor and Gamble. I bought it because of this ad So yes, the advertising works. The song by Joe Purdy titled Wash [...]

Don’t waste your effort

Shoppers sent me this email with the headline: “Shoppers Optimum PLUS Bonus Offers – Just for you!” The problem is, it isn’t just for me. It has nothing to do with me. I have never bought cosmetics in my fucking life. Nor is it personalized in any way. There is no “Hey Dave,” or “Dear [...]

Epicurius might be right

I am currently watching some documentaries on philosophy and in particular with happiness. Epicusius felt that happiness came from the simple things in life, and that as Biggie pointed out, the”mo’ money we come across the mo’ problems we see.” He set up a home in the outskirts of the city, bought a huge house [...]

What a great ad!

Nike courage

Everytime I watch this I get goose bumps. That’s a sign of good marketing. However, to really experience it, read the profiles of the athletes. http://www.nike.com/nikeos/p/nike/en_US/courage

This Ad stinks. Who cares? Only one metric matters.

Business Week has an article about letting users of social networks rate advertising through the use of things like StumbleUpon. While social networks is a great way to reach a segmented audience there are a hitch that I think have not been addressed. There have been countless ads for products that, at the end of [...]

Greed and shame

So the CBC lost the use of the theme for “Hockey Night in Canada” and while no one else will say it I will, shame on Dolores Claman. That’s right, shame. CBC paid for that song many times over. She received royalties every time it played and after negotiations broke down, went and sold it [...]

Cats for Corporate Sponsorship

I was watching live blog updates of Steve Job’s presentation at WWDC and a thought occured to me. If Apple keeps naming their software after endangered cats, perhaps they could spend a little money, say one percent of total sales to protect that animal. The next OS is called snow leopard and heaven knows it [...]

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