• Just An Online Minute... Bringing Sexy Back With AgencySpy
    If you mistype AgencySpy, you get AgencySoy, the more lactose-intolerant version of Matt Van Hoven. Yesterday was exciting in the lives of agency types, frigid media types, and ground-hogging cube-poppers. One, the lull of pre-gobble-fest brain checkout was broken by a stuffed turkey of a different sort with the breaking story of yet another amateur sextape... via cell phone. AgencySpy broke it, Gawker, showing class as always, posted the full video (and don't think I didn't watch it on my own time, from my home computer, of course), and it was the talk of the AgencySpy party at The Hill …
  • Just An Online Minute... Keeping It Poppin' With WIRED
    The call of gadgetry was louder than the red wine throb from the Ad Council ceremony the night before, so I bundled up and walked over to 15 W 18th Street for the VIP pre-opening party at the WIRED Pop Up store. I don't get pop-up stores. I mean, I understand the point, tangible glittery marketing and product/advertisers caressing, but item wise they're always so limited. I hit the Brooklyn Industries pop-up a month or so ago and I was severely disappointed by the inventory. However, it also wasn't a party. When you're in a store with free nibbles surrounded …
  • Just An Online Minute... The Ad Council Serves Meat And The Public
    Brian Williams scared the crap out of me last night. No, he didn't leap out from my juicy slap of steak or throw a potato croquette at me. He wrapped the frightening reality of America's economic slip 'n' slide in a whole wheat tortilla of humor. His delivery was smooth and honest and his words honored the Ad Council and the honorees and contributors whose Public Service Announcements (PSAs) bring attention to those in need, the people who can't help themselves, and the people who need to look in the mirror and identify where they need to change.
  • Just An Online Minute... Fireworks For Lunch With The IFC Media Project
    Unfortunately, because of my baby face, I'll never be taken seriously regardless of how many asexual pants I own. This is also how traditional "we were in the trenches during the civil war" journalists treat bloggers. Gauging from many an eavesdropping session and even at the panel that inspired me today, matured career reporters, journalists, and columnists still view blogging and online news dissemination as kid stuff. Gideon Yago and the ballsy team at IFC aim to scoop out the current news media litter box and identify what the cat really dragged in, good or bad, with The IFC Media …
  • Just An Online Minute... The CPC Shows You Their Pearly Whites
    I jump at the opportunity to sit in on any awards "show" covering something or some phrase I've never heard of. Come on, my history is bleeding-edge tech comms, so custom publishing actually is new to my career phrase. I want to learn, don't you. I'm also a big fan of the Rainbow Room, which will always hold a warm spot in my heart due to the Detroit takeover. Put Rainbow Room together with the Custom Publishing Council's Pearl Awards and I do believe that even on the froggiest of nights you've got a recipe for entertainment. It doesn't hurt …
  • Just An Online Minute... That's What She Said
    Oh phooey, let's talk about YOU and ME and where WE are today, why don't we. I dug back into the garbage pail that is a blog archive and discovered the re-debut of Just An Online Minute as a social diary of the media industry (online and off) launched on May 12. Are you kidding me? Our relationship is only 6 months old as of today?! I feel like we've been together much longer that than. Maybe it feels longer because we've been through so much together already.
  • Just An Online Minute... You'll blast your eye out! You'll blast your eye out!
    Listen and listen well, my media and PR friends, I am about to tell you a tale. It is a tale of flowery wording, a rainy evening, and misleading language. This is a cautionary tale for media and PR alike and the moral is, "We all know what you really mean." The submoral is, "Thou shalt deliver promised hors d'oeuvres." This is a tale, my friends, of the Eyeblaster Awards.
  • Just An Online Minute... An Ad:Tech Bash Of Epic Proportions
    Hey hey everyone! It's another West Side Party Story with an advertwist for advertypes during ad:tech. Oh I know, just when you thought it was safe to go near Javits, the booth bunnies pull you back in! So what does an advernerd do after being pelted with squeezy balls, cookies, business cards, "oh by the way"s, leveraging, SEO, and, yes, even expo hall margaritas. Duh, they head to the EPIC Advertising "most exclusive ad:tech NYC party ever" to drink responsibly at the premium open bar and dance prudishly to songs by The Carpenters. Or exactly the opposite of that.
  • Just An Online Minute... Blogging And Beers At The 23/6 Election Night Party
    It's almost time to move on, but first -- the third and final official election party wrap-up! Hosted in the hallowed Huffington Post halls, with a room full of live bloggers gulping vino, a video camera or two, and a mishmash of blogging types, mag types, pr types, and randoms, this nerd fashion-splashed bacchanalian bonanza put the cherry on top of this American pie. Did anyone embarrass themselves? Maybe. Was it me? Never!
  • Just An Online Minute... Hot Dog! It's A Naked Party
    I've never said I'm the most mature person in the world, which is why I snickered and tittered gleefully when, in response to the question "So, what election parties are you hitting?" I said, "I'm going to the NAKED election party." The statement is two parts immature, one part erroneous -- since it was actually a Photon party.
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