A few months ago, this video produced by Scofield Editorial, Inc. made the rounds virally among us creative industry types. It’s well done, and it poses a compelling question: what if customers in normal retail settings – where no one ever questions the price of things – behaved the way marketing people often treat their [...]

(NOMO part 4 of a series of 4) Don’t blame John Mc Cain. Or at least don’t blame him for his problems with “alphabet soup”. Most acronyms are actually “nomonyms” – our word for unhelpful abbreviations, to which we say “NOMO!” We also discussed initialisms like “IBM” – which are also usually a really bad [...]

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 [...]

And when I say “consumer” I mean “consumer”. But unlike the objects of our host’s consumption, this way of thinking should never be a “sometimes food” for smart differs. But the big question is: which of these plates are you going to buy?