{"id":2005,"date":"2009-11-17T15:42:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T23:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2009-11-17T15:42:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T23:42:44","slug":"ads-are-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/geeked\/ads-are-evil\/2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Ads are Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I interviewed at my current job (many many years ago) one of the interviewers asked me what I thought about ads.  I told her I thought ads were evil, but a necessary evil.  I still stand by that statement.  Though I&#8217;m trying to modify how evil I think they are.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hard to work with ads everyday and still believe they&#8217;re evil.  They don&#8217;t seem evil.  I work hard to make them work.. therefore if they&#8217;re evil I&#8217;m an evil minion.  It&#8217;s not a comfortable place to be. **<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIn a blog entry by Guy Kawasaki entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/2006\/09\/is_advertising_.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Is Advertising Dead?<\/a>&#8221; he discussed a Churchill Club panel that he moderated called Next Generation Insights (video available.  Worth viewing all the way through).<br \/>\nIn particular in the blog entry Guy noted that to the panelists:<br \/>\n&#8220;Helio is the hot phone (though none of them had one). I had never heard of it before!&#8221;<br \/>\nI thought about it for a while and I think this is an example of Advertising actually working. *gasp* I know.. I know.. stick with me here.<br \/>\nNone of them had a Helio.  But it was the coolest thing -ever-.<br \/>\n**Many years ago  I got called the &#8220;Evil Queen of Ads&#8221;.  I guess the evilness is rubbing off on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I interviewed at my current job (many many years ago) one of the interviewers asked me what I thought about ads. I told her I thought ads were evil, but a necessary evil. I still stand by that statement. Though I&#8217;m trying to modify how evil I think they are. It&#8217;s hard to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":[],"wprm-recipe-roundup-description":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibergeek.com\/resultstypical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}