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Re: Canada Goose

nickgoodey — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 11:03:07 -0000

Another reason people are wearing 600 dollar Canada Goose coats. They're a lot cheaper than the 2000 Moncler ones...

Re: Don't Suck

nickgoodey — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:28:20 -0000

Don't suck .It sounds so simple. Yet 95 percent of companies find it impossible to achieve. I was going to say that older companies like United or Chrysler would find it harder to not suck ...but then how do you explain BMW?

Re: Affordable Luxury In The Apocalyptic Economy

nickgoodey — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:13:00 -0000

It's definitely true that in a recession people retreat to affordable luxury. Not just to keep up appearances but also because buying a small 'luxury' item, be it Molton and Brown soap or an APC shirt , give us respite from the 'real' world for a while.
However, there is one other thing worth mentioning in regard to our coming economy, related to the possible election of Obama. If he does make it, he could do worse than feed a 'we're-all-in-this-together' spirit (what we in Britain call the Dunkirk spirit) and call on people to do things in their community and for their country, in true JFK style. It would certainly make people feel important again. In absence of being able to afford a MAc book that is.

Re: The Real Digitial Revolution - Political Edition

nickgoodey — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:42:45 -0000

Where HP has it wrong is that they assume that the existence of a new way of communicating and gathering information means that the old rules don't apply. The truth is that is only half the sentence . It should read 'The old rules don't apply. For a while'
Because sooner or later , and probably sooner, politicians and businessman and anyone else that needs public influence will start figuring out a way to manipulate these new vehicles for their own ends.
As we know, this is already happening and has been happening for a while.
The only way to beat this is to do what people have always done. Come up with something else that they don't know about and use that until they do. Always keep innovating and discovering. It's the only sure fire way to engage with original thought, rather than sloganeering and posturing...

Re: The Real Digitial Revolution - Political Edition

nickgoodey — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:24:58 -0000

The information is out there. But so is the disinformation. And often it's hard to tell the two apart. Also, people being what they are, they tend to want to believe the views that agree with their prejudices. So they create a potent arsenal of 'facts' that support their views, conveniently ignoring the readily available information that would bring those views into doubt.
In conclusion, the amount of information, and the way we can access and process it ,has changed due to new media. People, however,haven't.

Re: Curing NASCAR Blindness

nickgoodey — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:42:41 -0000

'I keep thinking Palin's next step, if she loses, is her own talk show.
She'd be a natural.' wrote Alan Wolk

I think if she loses she'll start her own secessionist state called 'The Real America.'
Todd will be VP with Special Responsibility for Snow Mobiles....

Re: Curing NASCAR Blindness

nickgoodey — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:36:45 -0000

'and nickgoodey, i'm not sure who you're talking about.' wrote toad's sixth reader

I think it's best summed up by an old editorial heading I remember from the Sun newspaper aimed at Prince Charles which read' The Sun says stop thinking' . thinking being the cause of his lack of understanding of the average guy...rather being born in a palace. Which was OK apparently.

Re: Curing NASCAR Blindness

nickgoodey — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:58:46 -0000

Why do the Republicans have a knack for finding more populist candidates? Is it the Kennedy legacy? By this I mean Kennedy was such a success for the Dems that they always look for someone similar ( upper-crust, old money) and therefore often end up with Kerry-types as the candidate....

Re: Curing NASCAR Blindness

nickgoodey — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:32:38 -0000

'every nation has its rural less-educated class too. they just don't hold them up as being somehow more noble and aspirational than the well educated, articulate and more informed. '- Toad's sixth reader

Well, in my homeland England they do. I think America gets this attitude from it's Anglo-Saxon 'roots' so to speak. England also has a strong history of anti-intellectualism that is reflected in the popularity of Sarah Palin.

Re: Life In The Fishbowl

nickgoodey — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:36:40 -0000

I could go either way on this depending on mood. Sometimes I think the world is coming to an end because of new media...other times i think it's a brave new beginning.

I'm sure similar things where said about the demise of 'rational thought' when radio become popular, and again with TV. And as for sitting in a large darkened room with complete strangers, watching gigantic images of people moving about on a screen- witchcraft!

Seriously, I worry more about the level of education children receive in schools, and the quality of the parenting they receive, than I do about the effect of texting and facebook.

Re: Sister Souljah Time

nickgoodey — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:09:49 -0000

"Let me offer what I think is the most important undercurrent question of next year's election: have Americans tired of conservatism, or have they merely tired of corrupt and incompetent conservatism?"
Michael Tomasky in liberal UK newspaper 'The Guardian'

Re: Sister Souljah Time

nickgoodey — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:43:44 -0000

I have a confession. I am an elitist. I'm not proud of it. But somehow, without my knowing it, I have become one.
I know the difference between a sauvignon blanc and a chardonnay
I believe animals are for stroking, not shooting.
i inwardly sneer at pick-up trucks.
I fine Jeff foxworthy lamentable.
I use the word lamentable.

The fact is I don't know how to reverse my 'tendencies', as I'm too old to volunteer for a tour of duty in iraq and have no reason to move to Alaska.
... what can i do? Time is running out for me and feel in a couple of years i might turn into John Kerry and start releasing pictures of myself windsurfing.....

Re: Sister Souljah Time

nickgoodey — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:31:45 -0000

We maybe in a time where if you're in the coastal elite, you may well earn a very good living... but you'll never be able to elect a president. Or become one..

Re: Sister Souljah Time

nickgoodey — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:42:39 -0000

The key thing is Obama needs to be is more aggressive. I keep thinking about the documentary 'The War Room' about Clinton's first presidential campaign and in particular James Carville and how he took no prisoners. If he found out the Republicans were getting there campaign materials published in Brazil, he was one to the TV stations with that information immediately. And gleefully.
The notion that Obama needs to attack leftist critics of Palin is correct (they expose there utter middle-classness with these kind of 'Look she called her Kid Track'-style comments) but it has to be part of a wider attitude alteration that pounces readily on any mistakes the opposition makes... which they will do.

Re: The Old End Run

nickgoodey — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:01:16 -0000

Team Maverick is a classic example of the discipline of the GOP. They realized they were in a hole and figured out what they needed to do to, at the very least minimize the damage of Bush, which was to say 'We're New Improved GOP'. It's a similar strategy to Blair's Labour in Britain, which became New Labour, changing it's party symbol from a red flag to a red rose in the process.
Now people have two opportunities to vote for change - Palin or Obama.

Re: McCain's Brilliant Maneuver

nickgoodey — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:44:41 -0000

And another thing ..why do Democrats and left wingers often pick candidates that are quite patrician and upper middle class ( Kerry, Kennedy, Blair,Gore etc) while the republicans often have self-made men or women - Reagan, Nixon, Thatcher?

Re: McCain's Brilliant Maneuver

nickgoodey — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:41:24 -0000

I recommend people read 'The right nation: conservative power in America' . Written a couple of years ago by two politically neutral Economist writers, it attempts to show how the American right have become more and more influential and more and more in tune with American voters ....a must read.

Re: TV's Last Gasp?

nickgoodey — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:10:39 -0000

Maybe it's to do with having no family but the only time i've seen the Olympics is by accident on a treadmill at the Gym. Seems i've missed out on the fun.... but it also seems that in one respect nothing has changed.
Many of the commercials people actually like often don't help an ad creative's career. It's been true for 2 or 3 decades at least and it doesn't look like it is about to change anytime soon. Unless... you could introduce two new sections into the One Show. Viewer voted awards for best spots and effectiveness awards for spots. I know they have Effies but they have no credibility. If there were sections within a big credible award show like those mentioned it would begin to start the debate on what actually is 'clever' and 'creative'....

Re: 6C Is A Perfectly Good Name For A Conference Room.

nickgoodey — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:28:23 -0000

Genius. When I think of the number of hours i've wasted searching for a conference room called 'Atlas shrugged'..'I could have probably written the book in that time

Re: Kids Still Love TV. (Ice cream too)

nickgoodey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:19:12 -0000

TV may not be dead..... but the advertising that interrupts its programming is very 'under the weather.'

Re: Kids Still Love TV. (Ice cream too)

nickgoodey — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:46:14 -0000

I was in a meeting the other day where a research company told the client that 43 percent of teens watched TV regularly, making it the most viewed of all media (included computer screens and mobile devices etc) still 43 percent. Thats some decline from 10 years ago.....and even more from 20 years ago.
it made me wonder whether we were returning to the days before mass media, I'm thinking here not just of tv but also of radio in the 30's and even mass circulation newspapers, to a more localized world where regionalism was much stronger . However, we have the internet which can connect people in different continents who share the same passions and ideas...what does that mean for us?
It's interesting to speculate. I think it means we will get more bizarre thinking and sects...strange thought grows in the ground of small communities (see the mormons ) what used to be called horizontal propaganda( the ideas of your immediate community and peers) will become stronger than vertical propaganda (that of the state which always used mass media to propagate it's message)

PS You're wrong about ice cream. Kids prefer Pinkberry's!

Re: One Size Does Not Fit All

nickgoodey — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:51:00 -0000

The problem is that most interactive agencies are attached to traditional ones, who have started them into the bad habit of not thinking about the media they recommend . In the same way traditional agencies say' So Mr. Client, that'll be one 30 second TV ad, 3 print ads and a billboard. Oh and here's the bill' , so interactive shops go 'So Mr. client that'll be one Microsite, a Facebook app and 2 flash banners .Oh and here's the bill....