Spoonfedtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1421632009-06-20T10:38:28-06:00Trying not to take it at face value.TypePadAway we gotag:typepad.com,2003:post-683128372009-06-20T10:38:28-06:002009-06-20T10:42:26-06:00Interview with Vendela Vida, who wrote the script for Away we go with her husband, Dave Eggers. Basically, she just took all the funny and surreal things that happen to you while you're pregnant -- people relaying their terrible labor...lizhoppAll marketing, no goodstag:typepad.com,2003:post-646846052009-03-26T17:31:30-06:002009-03-26T18:16:58-06:00Ford is spending a lot of money to market their hybrids, like the Ford Fusion. It looks like a pretty great car. And there are lots of tax incentives to buying a hybrid right now. But just try and find...lizhoppIs this mess over?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-646596292009-03-26T09:05:45-06:002009-03-26T09:05:45-06:00Did you see the front page headline of The Denver Post this morning? It epitomizes the reason that print newspapers are going extinct: "The Ecomony: Is this mess over?" Yeah, sure. Obama did a press conference, and it's all fixed,...lizhoppNick and the candlesticktag:typepad.com,2003:post-645011892009-03-23T08:25:23-06:002009-03-23T08:25:23-06:00Nicholas Hughes, Sylvia Plath's son, commits suicide.lizhoppDamage controltag:typepad.com,2003:post-631308432009-02-20T15:50:01-07:002009-02-20T15:50:01-07:00Now here's an example of some really good damage control PR (I'm a bit late on this one...): On 2/3/09, The Denver Post ran an article: "Boulder firm tells investors to expect heavy losses," saying that "Agile Group, a Boulder...lizhoppThe ripple effecttag:typepad.com,2003:post-619893462009-01-27T13:42:11-07:002009-01-27T13:42:11-07:00I just can't get over how the change in our political climate has spurred such a change in our unbiased media. In addition to the 60 Minutes story about West Bank settlements, the past few days have seen these articles...lizhopp"This is the goal. And this is the reality."tag:typepad.com,2003:post-619210662009-01-26T09:18:16-07:002009-01-26T09:18:16-07:0060 Minutes last night aired a report on what has really been going on in the West Bank for the last fifteen or so years: Israeli settlements being built on the hilltops with the express purpose of making a two-state...lizhoppThe year of needs vs. wantstag:typepad.com,2003:post-612054962009-01-11T21:56:28-07:002009-01-11T21:56:28-07:00I just received a marketing promotion for an ultra-luxury item: if I buy 10 treatments of Rejuvenex, I get 10 free Botox treatments. Call me crazy, but it just doesn't excite me to get "free" Botox. It's like Mercedes or...lizhoppAre you buying it?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-608549762009-01-04T16:13:25-07:002009-01-04T16:13:25-07:00Way back when, when I worked at an ad agency in San Francisco and began the first incarnation of what would eventually become this blog, I chose the name Spoonfed because I felt I was part of the huge media...lizhoppObama's Tribetag:typepad.com,2003:post-581220642008-11-06T09:28:48-07:002008-11-06T09:28:48-07:00Seth Godin has done an insightful analysis of the marketing of this election. In a nutshell, he says that McCain, who always appealed to the less conservative Republicans, took a big risk to get the socially conservative, Karl-Rovian-"base" by naming...lizhopp