Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Obama’s Online Effort
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
There’s an article in the Washington Post about Barack Obama’s online team and how they’re using the Internet, online video, and other new media to reach voters. There’s a particularly interesting part about how they’re using social networks to reach multicultural audiences. They go into a number of different types of media, here are some [...]
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Black Leadership Forum Critical of Plans for Google, Yahoo Ad Partnership?
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Can someone explain to me why the Black Leadership Forum and the American Corn Growers’ Association (?!) are opposing a potential search deal between Google and Yahoo? Anyone?
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John McCain on the Asia Times?
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A lot has been made about the fact that the three remaining major political candidates have done very, very little website advertising. There’s a story in the advertising trades almost every week about how ad campaigns are still run by “traditional media people†who wouldn’t know interactive if it came up and bit them (which [...]
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AdAge AHAA Hispanic 2.0 Still Behind the Digital Curve
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
I recently read AdAge’s branded insert for AHAA (Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies) titled “Hispanic 2.0.” WARNING: the digital viewer AdAge has setup for viewing this publication is horrible. Did someone at AdAge not hear about HTML or Web publishing standards? My goodness, their viewer is incredibly clunky and non-intuitive. But I digress… Upon first [...]
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Barack Obama Speaks Bad Spanish
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Over at Big Tent there’s further evidence that if you’re going to wander into the US Hispanic market, you need to be sure you’ve done your homework first and have the right knowledge and advice.
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