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It’s all about instant gratification. The past couple mornings watching the Today Show I’ve seen features about people trying to live without their modern conveniences, including Forbes managing Editor, Dennis Kneale and a family with four kids. It is both funny and sad to see how much they, and we, rely so heavily on instant…

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A couple of months ago, Kelly posted about trying to find talented individuals to work with us at BLASTmedia. Last night I had a great opportunity to have dinner with the Dean of Liberal Arts at Purdue University, Mr John Contreni. He treated me and two other Purdue and Liberal Arts alum to a great…

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So, I contacted an editor at Geek.com about reviewing a new game from our client Phantom EFX. There were a few good things that came as a result. ONE, the editor at Geek.com (Brian Osborne) requested a copy of the game and TWO, we discovered that he only lives about 15 minutes from our Indy…

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You may or may not have heard (and/or care), but this past weekend, pop-singer Britney Spears went to a hair salon and shaved off all of her hair. This obviously caught the attention of the media and of the millions of people that love Britney and have followed her career for years. It has left…

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Clients like coverage, but clients LOVE national coverage! It has been a great day at BLAST, and it’s not even lunch time…we had two clients in national newspapers today. One of our newest clients, Data Drive Thru, is included in Walt Mossberg’s personal tech column in The Wall Street Journal. Walt discusses new ways to…

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I’m wrapping up a week of traveling and catching up on some reading and thought I’d pass along two items that caught my attention this week: The first is a fantastice video I stumbled across on YouTube. For you Web 2.0 ers, I think you’ll enjoy. One of my favorite photographers and all around cool…

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BLASTmedia polled some of our favorite journalists this week and asked them, “What is your biggest pet peeve when it comes to PR people?” We deleted all the responses reading “when PR people ask me what my PR pet peeves are.” Here are the answers… PJ Jacobowitz, Product Review Coordinator – Ziff Davis Media/PC Magazine“This…

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I just wanted to take a moment for Mr. Bicep and me at CES. I love this dude. (this post is dedicated to Travis, who I found out this weekend is a subscriber)

Challenger, Gray & Christmas is at it again. The Chicago-based consulting firm, famous for its productivity studies (usually around the NCAA Tournament), has just released a study about lost productivity around the Super Bowl. They estimate that American employers will lose about $820 million in productivity from their workers, the biggest losses obviously in Indianapolis…

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Whew! We’re back from a very crazy week in Las Vegas for the 2007 CES. While most people we talked to were fairly underwhelmed by this year’s CES, we here at BLASTmedia beg to differ. This year we had 8 clients at CES and to say that our clients knocked it out of the park…

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