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<title><![CDATA[Social Media Is About Cultivating Community, Not Corralling Cattle]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bob GarfieldWere you ever in a public place and became aware that     a guy nearby was frantically scribbling in a notebook, a disheveled lunatic madly writing as if the future of     the world depended on his accumulated observations? 

Yeah, that     was me yesterday. Not being the curious onlooker. I was the lunatic.

I was scribbling notes in s]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Quit Wasting Your Time and Money Trying to Produce Viral Videos]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/quit-wasting-time-money-making-viral-videos/234046/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob Garfield
Fishing for rainbow trout? If you&#039;re lucky, and you catch one, it&#039;ll probably weigh about 2 pounds. If you&#039;re extremely skilled and God loves you, you can hook an 8-pounder. You will not catch a 42-pound rainbow trout.

Oh, it&#039;s been done. Such mutant rainbows exist, and it conceivable somebody will hook one. But it won&#039;t be you. You a]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:11 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple, Amazon, Google or Comcast -- Who Will 'Win' TV 2.0?]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/apple-amazon-google-comcast-win-tv-2-0/233689/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob Garfield Deep into your NCAA brackets, are you? Comparing with your friends about how your predictions are shaping up? Maybe over a beer and barbecue. Yeah, here&#039;s how pathetic I am: I talk to my friends about the future of      television. Not even light snacks are served.




My best pal for these geek-a-thons is      Steve Rosenbaum, who run]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:08 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Murdoch Reveals Bieber's Dark Secret: A Future Timeline of the Hacking Scandal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bob GarfieldThis week in London, more fallout from the Murdoch hacking and bribery scandal. Media regulators are reviewing whether News International is      fit to run BSkyB, the satellite channel of      which Rupert Murdoch owns 39%.  

That was one development. Meanwhile, two Scotland Yard chiefs have disclosed that      their kids received int]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:20 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Project Baby Slobs Shows That Sharing Works Better Than Branding]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/twins-eating-lunch-shows-sharing-works/232920/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob Garfield There will be a moral to this story, but first I must report that       my adorable twin grandsons, bless their hearts, have had a touch all week of       something viral.

	Closing in on a half million views, all told. Yeah, babies Oren and Oscar are the stars of       "Twins Eating Lunch," which has racked up 200,000 look-sees on Yah]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[McD's Pit Bull Brouhaha a Perfect Storm of Loathsomeness]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/mcd-s-pit-bull-brouhaha-a-perfect-storm-loathsomeness/232695/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob GarfieldEvery so often the universe presents the perfect package: an enterprise so monumentally loathsome that       you can safely despise everyone involved.

The subprime crisis comes to mind. The Mideast peace process. The NFL lockout. Real Housewives of       Anywhere. Aryan Nation. Congress.

Which brings me to the McDonald&#039;s commercial. T]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:03 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Rot at Apple's Core Could Sicken Consumers -- and Its Business]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A correction has been made in this story. See below for details.
Bob Garfield Let&#039;s start by        talking about how great Apple is       .

Apple is        sooooo great! 

This week its fourth-quarter earnings were announced. On the strength of        phenomenal sales of        15 million iPads and 37 million iPhones, the company recorded profits]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Advertisers Will Be Last Line of Defense in Decency Wars]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/advertisers-line-defense-decency-wars/232124/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob Garfield
Here&#039;s a sentence I never thought I&#039;d write: The future of         cultural civility depends on advertising.
	
Heaven knows I&#039;ve spent a good part of         three decades excoriating individual advertisers for various assaults on common decency. And one chapter in "And Now a Few Words from Me" surely lays waste to the transgressive me]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:31 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Secret Found Inspiration in Perspiration]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Harley-Davidson. Whole Foods. Patagonia. Plenty of           room for passion there. But what about categories that           aren&#039;t so emotionally charged, such as consumer packaged goods?  Try plumbing the depths of           a deodorant, looking for inspiration in perspiration.  




Which is           why we offer one case history with which we]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ignore the Human Element of Marketing at Your Own Peril]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/news/dawn-relationship-era-marketing/231792/</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Year&#039;s resolution: Stop living in the past.

Just jettison some old habits, such as trying to manipulate prospects. Stop viewing purchasers as conquests. They are members of           a community, prepared to adore (or the opposite) not just your stuff but the inner you. Your essence is           transmitted continually via your relationships w]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Venn Friends and Influence People]]></title>
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The problem of           adapting business models, Imc2 clients and prospects often say, is           like that           of           changing engines in midair. How do you retrofit your institution without putting ongoing operations -- and quarterly growth -- into a stall?  




Seems a salient question, but the simile is           wrong. It sho]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No More Living in the Past: Garfield's 10 Resolutions for 2012]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bob Garfield"New Year&#039;s Resolution."

Those are the first words of            an essay that            will appear in this very publication in a very few days, an essay that            reimagines the practice of            marketing for 2012 and beyond. 

The package of            stories is            branded "The Human Element" and I commend it t]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:15 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Bellyachers: How Marketers, Politicians Play to Our Worst Instincts]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/bellyachers-marketers-play-worst-instincts/231532/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob GarfieldBobby has a tummy ache.


I&#039;ll pause here to allow you to process that            information. (I suggest a few  deep breaths and maybe wiggling your arms like a sprinter at the starting line.)


Whatever you do, do not panic. Your hero does not have an ulcer. He does not have appendicitis. He does not have cancer. He does not have gall]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:43 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ramen Music Has It All: Except a Huge Subscriber Base]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/ramen-music-a-huge-subscriber-base/231188/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob GarfieldIn the little box at the bottom, it says I&#039;m a consultant, so permit me to consult. It&#039;s about a startup brand that              has it all: Good content. Value added. Simple technology. A big social component. Low price. Essentially no apples-to-apples competition. Virtually zero overhead. 
Yes, Ramen Music has everything. 

Except suc]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[One Strike and You're Out: In Relationship Era, Bad PR Pitches Will not Be Tolerated]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/bad-pr-pitching-irrelevance/230973/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob GarfieldLucky me. I got a bit of               PR spam this week headlined "Contributed Article for Your Use!" The exclamation point presumably conveyed the sender&#039;s excitement about the proposition. A fellow named Dave Feistal from LF/PR in Irvine, California, offered me a brilliant bullet-point treatise titled "5 Tips for Leveraging Social Me]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:32 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Who Underwrites 'The Sky?' A Parable of Marketing Do-Gooderism Out of Africa]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/underwrites-sky-a-parable-marketing-gooderism-africa/230577/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob GarfieldCAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Serendipity meets monstrous inequity meets senility meets a number of                      hitherto total strangers meets multiple personality disorder. 

What a curious and hopeful story I have to tell.

It begins at a speaking event called Digital Edge, where the sponsors have flown me in to talk about what ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:20 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Central Genius of Apple's Advertising Under Jobs: It Was True]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/central-genius-apple-s-advertising-jobs/230239/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob GarfieldFor the past almost 28 years, I have been calling "1984" the best commercial ever made. Not that                          this is                          a controversial position; Ridley Scott&#039;s Super Bowl tour de force is                          often so cited because it so dramatically defined the new Macintosh computer and the enti]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:22 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Actually, Pricing, Not Content Is King -- and Netflix Might End up Retaining the Throne]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/viewpoint/pricing-content-king-netflix-hold-throne/230129/</link>
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Netflix. What have we learned? 




Oh, sooooo many things. When Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced, sequentially, a 60% price hike and a spinning off of                            its DVD and streaming businesses, commentators were quick to pile on: "The apparent overnight creation, rebrand and launch of                            one of      ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama Speech Was to Congress, but Target Was Voters]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/obama-speech-congress-target-voters/229724/</link>
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Who wrote this speech ... Claude Hopkins? 



Seldom has a presidential address so hinged on a call to action. How many times did President Barack Obama admonish Congress to pass his proposed jobs bill? I counted 22                                 . Twenty-two, an amount of                                  repetition falling somewhere between rhet]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Social-Media Evangelist Dons a Hair Shirt]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/a-social-media-evangelist-dons-a-hair-shirt/229612/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob GarfieldWhat a social week it was. Julian Assange wikileaked 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables straight to the internet in their original state, allowing the crowd to sift through for scandal, and allowing oppressive regimes to target                                       diplomatic sources named in the dispatches. On a somewhat brighter note, my ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:08 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hey Marketers, Give Me a Call Before You Pull a Nivea]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/hey-marketers-give-a-call-pull-a-nivea/229386/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob Garfield

Apologies in advance, but what follows amounts to an ad -- an ad for a business that                                             should not exist:

I refer to the You Probably Don&#039;t Want to Do That industry -- the practice of                                             protecting advertisers from incalculable damage to their brands be]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:36 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dentsu Hits up Canon's Publishing Partners for U.S. Open Tickets]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/canon-partners-irate-request-u-s-open-tix/229187/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob GarfieldTennis anyone?

Petty exaction in advertising went online this week when a  Dentsu America media executive sent an email to publishers soliciting freebies -- specifically, tickets to the U.S. Open -- for its Canon client. Scott Daly, exec VP and executive media director, asked media outlets that                                          ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:22 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Proponents of Online Self-Regulation Disadvantaged by Inability to Regulate Themselves]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/online-industry-demonstrates-trusted-privacy/229148/</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bob GarfieldAre you aware of                                                      my superpowers? I have three of                                                      them.

The first concerns that                                                      toilet-bowl cleaner 2000 Flushes. I am able to get  three, four thousand flushes out of            ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:40 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Pheromone-Laced Scent for Social-Media Set Isn't Mad Science]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/social-media-scent-leave-a-bad-smell/228884/</link>
<description><![CDATA[








Bob Garfield




Home-cryonics experiments. Psychic window-washers. Hotel-soap collections. Payphone condoms. Freeze-dried pets. Accidental anti-tank assaults on Virginia gas stations. Burglars caught sleeping in the house they are burglarizing. Hunger strikes for venture capital. Worm ranchers. 

Ladies and gentlemen, I have seen it all. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:52 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cannes Takes One Small Step Toward Catching Up With Reality]]></title>
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Bob Garfield




(CANNES) -- Well done, Nike                                                                 . By taking the Cannes Grand Prix in film for your fun three-minute World Cup video, "Write the Future," you have demonstrated that                                                                  triumph here is                    ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:04 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What Marketers Can Learn From Weiner-Gate]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/marketers-learn-weiner-gate/228150/</link>
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Bob Garfield



His name is                                                                    Weiner! Ha ha ha ha ha!

OK, there. That&#039;s taken care of                                                                   . Now let us meditate on the tiny part of                                                                    this ubiquitou]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:37 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[To What Extent Are We Ethically Responsible for Our Tech Breakthroughs?]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/ethically-responsible-tech-breakthroughs/227823/</link>
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Bob Garfield




Biotech has given us the ability to create designer babies. What does that                                                                    portend?  Mammals have been cloned. What about humans? And what about xenotransplantation, wherein a pig&#039;s liver, for example, is                                                     ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 16:19 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The 'Truth' About Facebook PR Gaffe]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/release-truth-facebook-pr-gaffe/227565/</link>
<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 13, 2011




FACEBOOK IS "LIKE"-ABLE, BUT NOT VERY LIKEABLE. DOUCHEBAGGERY AT BURSON-MARSTELLER, TOO





Famous Social Network and P.R. firm are Lairs for Sneaks, Dirty Tricksters -- But You Didn&#039;t Hear It from Us
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 14:30 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Advertising May Be the Thing That Saves Us From Donald Trump]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/marketers-bailed-beck-bail-trump/227311/</link>
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Bob Garfield




Thank you again, advertising.  

Previously in his space I&#039;ve offered gratitude for commercializing Christmas, yielding the priceless magic of Santa. But you also serve the society in so many other ways.  OK, maybe you contribute to our perverse, soul-deadening obsession with brands. And maybe you slightly hasten the, you ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:38 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Death Stalks the Twittersphere, Offering a Lesson in Consumer Exposure]]></title>
<link>http://adage.com/article/bob-garfield/death-stalks-twittersphere-offering-a-lesson-consumer-exposure/227032/</link>
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Bob Garfield


A priest, a rabbi and a witch doctor walk into a bar. The rabbi tweets, "Oy, you&#039;ll never believe where I am and who I&#039;m with. Can&#039;t wait for the punch line."

	Five minutes later, the bar&#039;s phone rings. The bartender picks it up, listens and shouts, "Is there a Rabbi Glickman here? " The rabbi takes the phone, asks the bartende]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:39 EDT</pubDate>
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