Danny    Thompson,    Freelance    Copywriter


The world sticks to the paved roads. The roads are paths paved by industry. The paths are trails widened by the marketplace. The trails are hacked by the Weird, who leave the paved road for the sake of curiosity and wonderment. Where the Weird go, the world follows.

Archive for June, 2006

The Name Game

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Seth Godin and Mark Ramsey are having a bit of a debate: is podcasting a good name or bad?
I understood the word the first time I heard it. It seemed a bit unweildy to me, but I intuitively grasped that it was, in essence, a broadcast of some sort in an mp3 format that one […]

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Let the fun begin!

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Bah. I hate election years.
A couple of days ago, the radios around me at home and in the car all began leaking the foul, putrid pus that is political advertising.
What if all advertising was this way? What if GM ran an ad saying:
Hey, don’t buy a Ford. Fords can spontaneously burst into flames. […]

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