http://taooffau.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ The world according to a 30 something ad exec, father and arm chair political critic en Vox Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:43:51 -0500 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/what-is-wave.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(FAU) http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/what-is-wave.html?_c=feed-rss http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/what-is-wave.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:43:51 -0500 So I have a Google Wave account and have not been able to spend much time playing around with it. At first glace it appears to be an attempt to unify email, chat and social networking all into one web base application. 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The ongoing plot lin... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/you-mad-men-quote-of-the-week----if-its-bad-dont-use-it.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf39c8a90cb8f0123ddb0ac82860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> advertising mad men http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/your-mad-men-quote-of-the-week----i-got-nothing.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(FAU) http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/your-mad-men-quote-of-the-week----i-got-nothing.html?_c=feed-rss http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/your-mad-men-quote-of-the-week----i-got-nothing.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:59:58 -0400 Really? One scene in the office? OK, no ad related scenes = no ad related quote from FAU. Sigh. I suppose this show had to have a crappy episode at some point. Still, there were two interesting non-ad related lines: - "There is an old rule in... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/your-mad-men-quote-of-the-week----i-got-nothing.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf39c8a90cb8f0123ddbe488f860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mad men http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/your-mad-men-quote-of-the-week----this-is-not-going-to-help.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(FAU) http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/your-mad-men-quote-of-the-week----this-is-not-going-to-help.html?_c=feed-rss http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/your-mad-men-quote-of-the-week----this-is-not-going-to-help.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:06:28 -0400 This one needs little introduction. Sterling and Draper get on to the elevator in the morning and after exchanging pleasantries this ensues: Sterling: Ogilvy wrote a book. I got the galleys. They want a quote or something. Advertising is al... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/your-mad-men-quote-of-the-week----this-is-not-going-to-help.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf39c8a90cb8f0123f16540e1860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> advertising mad men wunderman http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/your-mad-men-quote-of-the-week----its-about-letting-go.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(FAU) http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/your-mad-men-quote-of-the-week----its-about-letting-go.html?_c=feed-rss http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/your-mad-men-quote-of-the-week----its-about-letting-go.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:00:00 -0400 This was a big one. Last weeks episode of Mad Men was stunningly brilliant on a number of levels. But once again, I found a moment of pure truth for those of us who actually work in the biz. Here is the set up: the British firm that purchased Ste... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/your-mad-men-quote-of-the-week----its-about-letting-go.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cdf39c8a90cb8f0123dda63568860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> advertising mad men http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/ma-men.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(FAU) http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/ma-men.html?_c=feed-rss http://taooffau.vox.com/library/post/ma-men.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:09:05 -0400 My disdain for all things Boston is well noted. So is my love for Mad Men. So you can imagine this caused a little internal conflict: For the record, I thought this was brilliant (especially Joey McIntyre as Rogah). 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