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Rich Pasenow — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:30:25 -0400

Facebook has targeted ads???

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Rich Pasenow — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:57:33 -0400

I will only be impressed when I see this commercial:
(Wide shot of Jerry Seinfeld onstage at comedy club)
Jerry: Ya know what I can't stand? No, not airline food, because they don't serve food on airlines now. Not that they ever did.
(Audience laughter)
No, I can't stand people who think Vista is a awful program.
(Audience boos)

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Rich Pasenow — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:56:16 -0400

A variation on the above question: If an operating system out in the woods needs to spend $300 million and hire a comedian 10 years past his prime to shill for it...does it make a noise? Discuss.

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Rich Pasenow — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:28:40 -0400

I think the question is flawed because it assumes that extensive PR guarantees success. PR is only one factor, and in most cases, a pitifully small one, in the success of any product, technology or not. Read about Hush Puppies shoes in "The Tipping Point," for instance. Can anyone name an example where it was mostly PR that made the success of any product?

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Rich Pasenow — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:37:05 -0400

Hmmm, let me take out my graph paper and sharpen my pencil. I am now drawing a reality curve, which measures the irrelevancy level of the federal minimum wage in most areas of the country. Next I plot out a curve measuring the success level of eight years of Reaganomics Redux to see where they intersect. Oops, they don't. I would add a ceiling measuring CEO pay of these poor companies forced to pay the workers flipping the burgers and foaming the lattes poverty wages however my paper is only 11 inches tall.

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Rich Pasenow — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:14:29 -0400

Absolutely, for a $500 surcharge per ticket. Then the airlines can use the money to purchase Bose noise canceling headphones for each passenger, calibrated for the frequency of cell phone talkers, which conveniently has been scientifically measured at just about the same as a jet engine.

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Rich Pasenow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:23:12 -0400

Is it any more acceptable than a baseball player getting $20 mil a season? At least the CEO is running a company that employs a lot of people, provides a product or service that people want, and is darn good at doing it, one would hope. The baseball player, well, plays baseball. The other consideration is that neither the baseball player or the CEO pays themselves these huge salaries. They are given this money because someone with control of the purse strings--whether a board of directors or George Steinbrenner--thinks they are worth it.

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Rich Pasenow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:08:43 -0400

Had a brilliant answer but forgot it while waiting for my Vista computer to boot up.

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Rich Pasenow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:51:35 -0400

Shall we also bring back prohibition to curb alcoholism?

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Rich Pasenow — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:42:24 -0400

Just like in 2003