NYC Ad Agency Retracts Lawsuit Against Blogger

The litigious and arrogant New York advertising agency, Warren Kremer Paino Advertising, which sued the Maine blogger for exercising free speech, has dropped its case. Considering that all marketing agencies have no choice but to make social media part of their mix, I’ve got to wonder how Warren Kremer Paino is ever going to save itself.Read the rest

I’ve Adopted Social Bookmarking Link Posts

As you probably have noticed, I’ve added daily link posts to my blog by using del.icio.us. If you know all about del.icio.us, then skip this post. If not, read on…

I use del.icio.us, the social bookmark service owned by Yahoo!, which lets me bookmark and tag (create text descriptors to) any Web page I would like to make available to myself anytime in the future.Read the rest

The Media Business And Its Disruptions

The Media Business And Its Disruptions…That’s the name of the new blog from the very smart Mark Green, SVP of media at ACNielsen, the huge global market research firm (which is affiliated with the company I work for). Mark’s offering some in-depth analysis on the changing media landscape and confronting key issues that most traditional media- and market-modeling types often deny.Read the rest

100 Entries On AttentionMax: Take My Reader Survey

This is my 100th entry on AttentionMax! Any thoughts on the content, conversation or direction of my blog? Do you like it? Does it suck? Or is it awesome?

Please join the cool crowd and take my two-minute survey here, and don’t forget to enter this password: maxrocks

The deadline to take the survey is May 12, 2006 at 8PM EST.Read the rest

Ad Agency Bullies Blogger, Now Needs PR Firm

I wasn’t going to comment on this advertising agency, Warren Kremer Paino Advertising, over its suing of a Maine-based blogger who exercised his right to free speech. But to champion this bloggers’ cause, I’ve decided to join the mob and regurgitate AdAge’s summary:

An ad agency that specialized in travel advertising is suing a Maine-based blogger for defamation after he began to post regularly about the work the agency was doing for its client, the state of Maine.

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