A recent Best Buy ad (hat tip to CrunchGear) promoting the store's Black Friday sales includes a nod to the Muslim holiday Eid Al-Adha, which is celebrated that day. Sounds rather innocent, doesn't it? Instead of being praised for...

Come to help children in need, stay for the... nudity. According to their sign, Market Street Cinema (aka a San Francisco strip club) is currently offering the deal of the holiday season: donate an unwrapped toy and get and get an unwrapped woman. The sign kicks off with "It's That Time of Year" -- the time of year when it's perfectly acceptable to trade charity for...

If you’re a gamer, you’re spoiled for choice when it comes to Black Friday bargain hunting, with neat deals at Sears and GameStop, and some okay deals at Toys ‘R’ Us. If you’re a gamer looking to pick up a cheap console...

Ever been out to dinner and marvel with a gasp at the succulent beauty of your meal as the waiter places it in front of you?

In today’s mobile world, making sure people can find your mobile content is as important as ever.  Like with traditional search, making sure your mobile sites are indexed properly and ranked...

Seriously, how can Netflix offer unlimited DVD rentals AND free online streaming for $9 a month? And now, with my new Blu-Ray player, I can stream the movies and TV shows directly to my TV? For no...

Starting in 2010, the Give a Day, Get a Disney Day program will be giving out free tickets to Disneyland or Disney World for those in the United States and Puerto Rico who volunteer...

Previously, I explored the intersection of social media and PR and explained why it is so important communications professionals leverage digital channels. In that post I touched on the following...

Growing up I was raised by an optimist and a pessimist, my Mom was probably the happiest funniest friendliest person you could ever meet. She made sure that I was raised with an abundant mindset,...

I will be incimmunicado today, winging my way back from Berlin for 8 und a heff hours. I wrote this in 2005, but never published it widely. Enjoy...

Google has come a mighty long way regarding innovations pertaining to the World Wide Web. They are much more than a search engine. Thus far, I've divulged tips using Google...

Network TV has mostly missed out on the Oprah effect, as it didn't develop Oprah Winfrey, or any other talker who has dominated daytime in recent years. This was a great...

What's really inside your household cleaning products? It could be a bunch of dirty-minded chemicals, who are all bright and bubbly and innocent in TV commercials but who indulge in debauchery off...

What a surreal, epic week in mass media. On Monday, Sarah Palin appeared on "Oprah," then on Thursday Oprah announced she's quitting her talk show. But for all the media buzz about Sarah Palin...

Considering how naughty Halloween has gotten, it was only a matter of time before someone took a crack at Thanksgiving. That someone is Muscle Milk, the athletic drink brand, which channels Justin...

A good number of Realtors are getting on the ball and putting up a blog. This is smart. It's a powerful communication tool. It's a powerful way to build your presence online. However...

It's probably not the nekkidness usually posted here that Steve likes, but it's got the wtfness not seen in a music video or commercial in some time. Not a bad song, and as the bio says, Valley...

Trying hard to work in some party girl material before I leave, Heineken is back with the Know The Signs campaign and a Buzz Toolkit. They have a series of clips out where you can roll over parts...

In an interview with Advertising Age, Suzanne Sengelmann, VP-marketing for specialty products for Brita, discussed how offering a greener alternative to bottled water...

1 million, 5 million, 10 million…? If you guessed 10 million, you weren’t even half right. According to new data from Pingdom, Twitter users are averaging 27.3 million tweets per day with an annual run rate of 10 billion tweets. Just last month, Caroline McCarthy of CNET reported that the 5 billionth tweet posted. Pingdom’s report highlights the pattern of tweets, which appear to spike during waking hours in the U.S. However, it’s important to note here that Comscore data shows that half of Twitter’s users reside outside of the U.S.