Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World's Hottest Agency to Find His Soul

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 7:31 a.m.
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Photograph by Mike Piscitelli ... Alex Bogusky, the Elvis of advertising, has left the business. Is this a New Age midlife crisis or his greatest rebranding campaign? ... "The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men -- the man he is and the man he wants to be." -- William Feather ... Alex Bogusky, advertising Dadaist, postmodern media manipulator, pop-culture Houdini, daddy of 21st-century advertising, and now a seeker of meaning on

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Suddenly, Everyone's an Expert on Fixing Oil Spills

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Published June 3, 2010 at 5:05 p.m.
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When it comes to halting the gush of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, we've heard all sorts of ideas. Nothing seems too outrageous at this point. From Kevin Costner's oil separation technology he invested in after the Exxon Valdez spill, to the possibility of using James Cameron's underwater robots he developed while shooting Titanic. Even tossing a nuclear bomb down the pipeline doesn't seem too unrealistic when large groups of scientists begin to rally behind the cause. Ideas are great, but what

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Infographic of the Day: Privacy on Facebook Is Vanishing

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Published May 10, 2010 at 1:43 p.m.
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Privacy has become an "opt-in" feature on Facebook--and that has massively changed the service ... Facebook privacy settings are eroding. But the scope and speed of that transformation has happened fairly quietly--maybe because we've never before had an infographic that lays all the changes out ... The chart was a personal project created by Matt McKeon, who by day is a researcher at IBM's Visual Communication Lab (where Fernanda Viegas used to work) ... It's concentric rings show the groups who

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Day Two at the World Economic Forum on Africa

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Published May 10, 2010 at 6:25 p.m.
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How do information and communication technologies influence innovation in Africa? Robert Fabricant's third report from World Economic Forum ... The second day of the World Economic Forum on Africa was packed, with one head of state after another marching through with their entourage. The big showdown was Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe's appearance on a panel with Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's current prime minister, to discuss Zimbabwe's future. Everyone was eager to see if he would put on a

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Don’t Miss Out on the Get Your Ezine Done Group Training Program Early Bird Special!

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Published April 22, 2010 at 10:22 a.m.

You know you need a regularly distributed newsletter, or ezine. You don’t want to miss out on potential customers, and you certainly don’t want to lose the customers you have; and the best way to this is through constant communication. Your community, your customer base, needs to hear from you regularly. Why? With the constant [ ... ] ...

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Xobni's BlackBerry App Re-Thinks Contact List, Reorders by Importance, but Can It Save Blackberry?

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Published March 16, 2010 at 6:16 p.m.
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San Francisco-based startup Xobni today introduced its first mobile product: Xobni for BlackBerry. It takes a different approach to contact lists than traditional systems, and integrates the new system deeply within the BlackBerry OS ... Instead of a traditional alphabetical list (the alphabet is so uncool these days), Xobni for BlackBerry scours through your emails, text messages, phone calls, and other communication to create a new contact list in order of importance. Even better, it can be

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Close Encounters With the Space-Age Restaurant at the Center of LAX

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Published Feb. 19, 2010 at 3:52 p.m.
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Back in the '90s (not the 1890s), we were asked by Eddie Sotto at Walt Disney Imagineering to help out with the design of the Encounter Restaurant. This restaurant is in the Theme Building at LAX; the building in the center of the airport that looks like a giant flying saucer. Recently the entire building was renovated andthe scaffolding that's shrouded its spider-like legs will soon be removed for first time in almost two years ... I have no idea why it's called the Theme Building. If it were

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The Winter Olympics Uniform Review: Part Deux

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Published Feb. 19, 2010 at 3:51 p.m.
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Ok, now that the games are in full swing and the official team uniforms have been exposed to millions around the world, it's time to sharpen the pencils at the judge's table. I must admit some of my earlier concerns have been dashed as I've had the chance to see more official team attire, particularly for Team USA ... How hot is that luge suit? These guys have to be the closest thing we have to "no-fear, hell bent on a need for speed" hot rodders. So, how better to suit them than with a

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Connecticut Woman Business Owner transitions to Business Coach

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Published Jan. 26, 2010 at 4:13 p.m.

As time went on, Cindy began working more and more in collaboration with her VA clients on marketing and business plans, creating collaborating teams as well as assisting some clients in changing their business model. Cindy’s clients found growing success through Cindy’s strategies, systems and effective communication strategies ...

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Do-Good Design: Incubators Made From Car Parts and More From Upcoming Cooper-Hewitt Triennial

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Published Jan. 11, 2010 at 6:50 p.m.
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A year ago I told myself that social design would thrive in reverse proportion to the stock market. As soon as the Dow hit 10,000, I suspected, designers would abandon their humanitarian projects and resume work on $6,000 pendants. So much for the wisdom of a cynic. The Dow now gyrates above 10,600 and social design is thriving. Where's the evidence? In May the Cooper-Hewitt will show more than 100 do-gooder designs in its National Design Triennial. The Cooper-Hewitt is a branch of the

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