Comments on: dinosaurspeak revisited

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:23:06 +0000

i read the first paragraph and nearly had a heart attack! thank god the following bits explained!

By: John

John — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:40:56 +0000

I’m glad I don’t have to pay you a commission every time I quote this cartoon.

By: B.L Ochman

B.L Ochman — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:52:03 +0000

There are *so many dinosaurs* out there. sometimes dealing with them feels Sysifusian (if that’s a word.)

By: neelakantan

neelakantan — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:54:22 +0000

This is a phenomenon I saw when I was in the US. Every advertisement, starting from banks and ending in medicines follow the same pattern — dinosaur speak. I was surprised, since back home in India, ads are never like that. Considering the “difference” in the audience, who are ostensibly well informed, I was surprised to see that here. Now I got it. It is just herd mentality…

By: ansgar

ansgar — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:50:34 +0000

I just like this cartoon, does it have anything to do with dinosaur speak though?

By: tomdog

tomdog — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:39:39 +0000

Hugh, how would you rewrite the first paragraph then?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:48:56 +0000

Honestly, I read the first paragraph and my heart jumped in my throat that you had been gobbled up by a giant old-world media company and had just been replaced by a team of staff writers. or a staff of stickbugs with bayonets at a keyboard. same difference.
Good call on the ditching of dinosaur speak. It’s tome for some genuine talking on these boxes we’ve set up.

By: Oswegan

Oswegan — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:41:58 +0000

Building traffic becomes a trmendous amount of work, especially when its not your day job. I also don’t think overmarketing works that well — as you are saying.
It seems you have to take sort of a “build it and they will come” approach to this thing, otherwise it stops being fun and starts smelling a lot like work.
~Oswegan

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:22:27 +0000

I am against anti-dinosaur speak in theory, but something about it makes me feel comfortable. Too much is no good, but a little bit ain’t bad.

By: Valeria Maltoni

Valeria Maltoni — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:12:16 +0000

“THOUGHT: the future of advertising is clients increasingly asking their agencies to help re-invent not just their brands, but their actual companies. The future is agencies being increasingly unable to deliver on this.”
Why hasn’t anyone been paying attention? That is where we are.
The client market in many cases is also faster and smarter than the agency, etc.

By: Kimber

Kimber — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:42:59 +0000

Actually, John, some people will pay big money to get barfed on.
Not that I’m speaking from personal experience of course…

By: John

John — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:04:36 +0000

Thanks. As time goes on, maybe we can tell stories that interest people instead of barfing on them.
xoxoxo johnonsales