So as I write this, the newly re-christened SciFi Channel is ringing the bell at the NASDAQ to celebrate their name change to “Syfy” (Siffy?)  and the Twitter hash tag #syfy is alive with unanimous pans of the new name: “Worst. Re-branding. Ever.”  That might be a stretch, but so is the new name. Wired magazine [...]

First, though, let us take a moment to grieve for the famed Crunchberry, recently determined to be not real fruit.  Gasp! A California woman recently filed a complaint with the U.S. District Court that she had been purchasing ”Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries” for the past four years in the belief that she was eating real, live [...]

I’m a few weeks late on this one, but I still couldn’t resist. The AIG brand is dying. Massive debt, government bailouts, and huge executive bonuses, coupled with excessive media coverage and concern on the part of taxpayers everywhere, has left the brand on the brink of collapse. So, how does AIG respond? By removing [...]