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What do Jay Cutler and Ted Williams have in common? The life changing, “WTF”...

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.” Listening to sports radio the other day, one of the commentators noted how social media played an alarming role in the national...

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On the road and in the blogosphere, I can’t forget my moral compass.

To write or not to write… As most of you know, I’ve been traveling. Right now, I’m in sunny Los Angeles and before that I was in sunny Palm Springs. Beautiful places, no question, especially where...

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My home Internet is down so I had to go out and get me some.

“Say, buddy, do I need a password to log on?” I’m having problems with my Internet. Maybe it’s the summer storms besetting Chicago or maybe one of my routers is faulty. Most likely it’s my Internet...

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Old habits in a new world: a meditation on copywriting and blogging.

One develops habits as a copywriter. For instance, I need to see what words look like in a layout to truly assess them properly. The art directors were right: a block of copy is a visual. It needs to...

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Online ‘self-disclosing’ has a creepy vibe but it can also be a revelatory...

“And then when I was nine…” According to a recent story in USA Today, more and more people are disclosing what used to be considered very private and personal information via social media precisely...

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No new post since the Super Bowl. What kind of blogger am I?

Yikes. I just realized my last post went up the day after the Super Bowl. In social media time that’s like a million years ago. Lame I know. When I started Gods of Advertising waaaay back during the...

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Sorry, web marketing gurus but blogging purely for numbers is missing the point.

Is Blogging Dead? was the title of the presentation directly before mine at SXSW. Asking and answering the question was a spritely woman from an aggregator website. I cannot recall her or its name. As...

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It was seven years ago today…

“Blogging, eh…” Seven years ago in October, I began this blog. I’ve since written 882 posts. If I’m reading my stats correctly just over one million people have visited Gods of Advertising, far less...

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Blogging as topic roulette. Dare I say what’s on my mind?

My home office: a cheap cigar, a Diet Coke and thou! Oh, dear blog what shall I write? It’s been more days than I like to spend away from you. But work, family and the great outdoors call me away....

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Actually seeing your words: a brief meditation on copywriting.

One develops habits as a copywriter. For instance, I need to see what words look like in a layout to truly assess them properly. The art directors were right: a block of copy is a visual. It needs to...

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