"Big Brother pizza delivery"

As one of the commentators points out, this YouTubian video may be 5 years old, but looking at Facebook's public culture where everyday we share our preferences, thoughts, etc. this simulated reality will be arriving sooner than we expect.

"Closet psychology"

"The desire for closet space in homes - a desire that seems to be never satisfied - has a deeper psychological meaning. Closets are the time capsules of the family life (...) each time the door is opened, all his possessions, past and present, fall out."
- Ernest Dichter (1960)

"Survival of the focused"

"The Internet may impose a 'survival of the focused,' in which individuals gifted with some natural ability to stay on target, or who are hopped up on enough stimulants, forge ahead while the rest of us flail helpless in a Web-based attentional vortex."
-- Brian Knutson in "Is the internet changing the way you think?"

"Kids and technology"

Please come back ZX Spectrum 48K.

"Actions Speak Louder Than Jingles"

"Many banks need to wake up and stop pretending nothing much happened. To put this crisis behind them, banks should act and communicate differently by building cognitive, rational trust with actions that back up their words. Whatever happened in the past, they need to start treating customers as kings and not recipients of their largesse, particularly the small business customers so hurt by the collapse."

- Russ Lidstone in AdWeek

"Welcome to the Screen society"

---------- > "10 Ways We're Really Spending Our Time"

"Facts on food culture"

Wal-(s)mart

"Technology will drive all sorts of changes, especially in our industry. We have to develop the right channels for customers to shop when they want, how they want and where they want. Think about giving everyone with a mobile device the platform and the information to buy the exact product they want at the absolute best price anywhere in the world."

-- Mike Duke, Wal-Mart's CEO

Keep it simple

It's simple. Traditional media pushes messages. Interactive media pulls conversations. Both are needed. Period!

Selling through analogies

"Divorce gift list"

From "Wedding lists" to "Divorce lists":

"Debenhams, the high street retailer, has launched what is thought to be the UK's first 'divorce gift list' for couples ceremonially untying the marital knot.

Divorcees are expected to list large plasma screen TVs, computer games and non-iron shirts high on their lists to help them get over their break-ups and readjust to the single lifestyle."

A great analogy

"Some guys like to seduce a new girl every night at their local bar. It may be fun for them, but the drinks get pretty expensive. Relationships are more meaningful and more cost-effective in the long-run because the maintenance costs are easier on the wallet than a series of seduction tactics."
-- Sylvain Perron, Edelman Digital Canada

The return of simplicity

"These are the humble makings of a revolution in progress: Macaroni and cheese. Timex watches. Volunteer work. Insulated underwear. Savings accounts. Roseanne. Domestic beer. Local activism. Sleds. Pajamas. Sentimental movies. Primary colors. Mixed-breed dogs. Bicycles. Cloth diapers. Shopping at Wal- Mart. Small-town ways. Iceberg lettuce. Family reunions. Board games. Hang- it-yourself wallpaper. Push-it-yourself lawn mowers.

(...)

After a 10-year bender of gaudy dreams and godless consumerism, Americans are starting to trade down. They want to reduce their attachments to status symbols"


[Source: Time Magazine]

"Better Xmas presents, now!"

"Don't people realise that after 90 years on this earth I've enough socks, ties and bloddy bubble bath?"
-- Albert Summers, member of a pensioner's group that is campaigning for better Christmas presents (in Sunday Times)

"3 Stages"

The material evolution of mankind:

1) Hunter-Gatherer
2) Consumer-Colector
3) Consumer-Swapper

"Noblesse oblige?"

"There's that saying, that one has to suffer to be beautiful, and it's not true, you don't. If you really suffer, it shows on your face - you get wrinkles and a bad posture."
-- Christian Louboutin, Sunday Times 22.11.02

"Less action, more talking"

"3 in 10 Chicagoans say they’d give up sex for a year rather than give up their mobile phones, according to a Samsung Mobile survey. 36% of women and 15% of men chose the phone. 30% of those surveyed also said they use their phones for texting more than talking."

-- CHICAGO TRIBUNE 10.6.09

[Via Iconoculture]

"Life's a list"

Life is made of lists: wedding lists, shopping lists, baby names lists, contacts lists, places to visit lists, food we should eat lists ...

"We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die", Umberto Eco in Der Spiegel.

Oh the stereotypes

"Stuff white people buy" - a brilliant "stereotypes' Bible" about the so-called white middle-class.

"Insights"

"Out for dinner tonight? Around 27% of UK women compared to 19% of men see eating out as a way to avoid cooking and washing up."

[Via: Mintel News]