The Entroporium

As an old print hand, the collapse of the magazine business model has been a sad thing to observe and play a small part in.  The typical big US title – think something you’d pick up at the airport or (tellingly) from a waiting area –has staked its business for decades on printing & distributing [...]

With all the fuss over the empty luxury seats at the new Yankee Stadium, I was mildly surprised to find something similar happening in my own backyard.  At Sunday’s A’s-Rays game at the Oakland Coliseum, all the ingredients for a great day at the ballyard were in place: sunny April weather, last year’s AL champions [...]

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New blog post: The Quaker Oats Bellwether http://entroporium.com/?p=405 [#] 4:09pm | via Twitter Shared Innovating Through Recession (Andrew Razeghi, Kellogg School of Management) 4:12pm | via Delicious Today’s earworm, courtesy of KFOG on the alarm, is Margaritaville. Friends & countrymen, I will spare you the blip.fm link for this one. [#] 4:20pm | via Twitter [...]

Quaker Oats, one of America’s great venerable supermarket products, staged a complete relaunch of its brand over the last two months.  The campaign has won kudos both for its general positivity in these otherwise dark times – sick of bailout-themed ads yet? – but also for the way that it reframes oats as a “power [...]

Virtually unremarked upon in the hullabaloo last week over the imminent reissue of The Beatles catalog is its tie-up with Rock Band.  Obviously for marketing reasons its no coincidence that The Beatles Rock Band will arrive on the same day: September 9, 2009.  (Prepare for “Number nine, Number nine, Number nine” to feature strongly in [...]