Today was not a good day to be in charge of marketing for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim “Aqua Teen Hunger Force“.
Turner broadcasting, which owns the Cartoon Network, admitted responsibility in today’s quagmire that brought Boston to a standstill. Guerrilla marketers had hit the streets and placed several magnetic lit versions of the character Err [...]

Microsoft’s Vista went on sale today and no one seems to care.
Seth Godin had a great comment on this photo:

I absolutely adore this photo from the Times. Not one smile in the bunch, never mind ebullience, mania or even pleasant anticipation.
Just because a marketer says something is amazing, exciting or just plain wow doesn’t [...]

Illustration by The New York Times
Nielsen, the big name in audience ratings and other media metrics, will soon be adjusting its numbers for TV viewership to account for students while they’re at school.
This is a big deal for programs such as Comedy Central’s Drawn Together, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Colbert Report, [...]

We’ve been keeping an eye on Steve Case’s new playground, RevolutionHealth.com.
We’re not as interested in what they’re all about, but rather how they’re going about starting up and letting the world know about their existence.
Today RevolutionHealth launched what it’s calling a “preview” of its site. To kick things off, they secured an exclusive with [...]

We have a problem with the latest DIRECTV ad that features Christopher Lloyd in updated Back to the Future scenes.
The main point of the ad, which was produced by Deutsch Inc., is that DIRECTV supposedly has a greater long-term capacity for HD channels versus standard cable.
The question is: Do new HDTV set owners really care? [...]

Readers seemed to enjoy the Zune unboxing, so here’s the first iPhone one to surface.

Gotcha! Those kids at Engadget are so sneaky.
Can’t wait to get one? Print this out and stare at the countdown. Trust us, those are for real.

Now that you’re inspired by the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods, you need to be able to graph your data. Google spreadsheets isn’t quite there yet, so you need some help.
Enter Swivel.
Swivel is a social-based online graphing system that can also make your private data look good. It starts to cost money when [...]

What would the world’s most popular logos look like if they were Web 2.0-ified?
Something like this:

Via Micro Persuasion.

Or so that’s the way it worked when Lev Grossman at TIME got a sneak peek of Apple’s iPhone.
From the article:
If you’ve ever wondered how it works, this is how it works: I don’t call Steve, Steve calls me. Or more accurately, someone in Steve Jobs’s office calls someone in my office—someone at a much [...]

Just catching up on Seth’s blog where he calls out the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods from visual-literacy.org.
We’re in accord that it’s a twisted alteration on the periodic table – along the likes of the Table of Condiments that Periodically Go Bad.
Still, it’s a great cheat sheet for all sorts of sexy graphs. Plus, [...]