http://webcritiq.wordpress.com My very honest and unbiased views on what's out there. Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:24:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://webcritiq.wordpress.com http://webcritiq.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/architectural-beauty/ http://webcritiq.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/architectural-beauty/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:24:36 +0000 webcritiq http://webcritiq.wordpress.com/?p=7 ]]> I’m happy to join the fanclub of  www.bldgblog.blogspot.cominteresting, news worthy, smart.  if you love architecture, the urban landscape and a nice read on it all, this is as good as it gets. 

]]> http://webcritiq.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/architectural-beauty/feed/ 0 webcritiq http://webcritiq.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/adweek-doesnt-suck/ http://webcritiq.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/adweek-doesnt-suck/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:42:33 +0000 webcritiq http://webcritiq.wordpress.com/?p=5 ]]> A good friend of mine use to say “it doesn’t suck” when he thinks something is okay.He wrote on the blog www.adaged.blogspot.com  that it takes11 daysfor people to get used to new stuff.Well, it didn’t take me 11 days to discover that Adweek’s new site doesn’t suck.www.adweek.com I find it nice and clean. It feels uncluttered despite containing a lot.The option to read a short quick version of the top stories or a longer oneis a new rather clever little devise.I was always somewhat disappointed that Adweek’s old site wasactually worse than www.adage.com despite being a somewhat nicer paper book.

]]> http://webcritiq.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/adweek-doesnt-suck/feed/ 0 webcritiq http://webcritiq.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/3/ http://webcritiq.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/3/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:12:18 +0000 webcritiq http://webcritiq.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/3/ ]]> I start with some old news.r/ga’s work for Verizon. www.Verizonbeatbox.comI don’t think it’s live any longer but it’s on r/ga’s site. It’s an example of how different a brand can be on the web compared on the street.
However I always thought the two were one. We all live in the same submarine. The websphere, or homesphere, or jobsphere, the schoolsphere, the streetsphere, the TVsphere, the print magazinesphere, the hemisphere, we’re all living there.  
The disconnect is not r/ga’s fault, it’s the client’s fault. If I was the client I would listen more to r/ga.  I’m 50, I have a few mobile devices, as do my wife and my four kids.I’m 50, and I connect far easier with the work of r/ga than the usual nerdy and ugly dross coming from Verizon.I’m 50, but I’m not dead yet. Verizon treats me as brain dead for sure.Verizon’s old fahioned mainstream work is old school at its worth. r/ga is new school.A pity that Verizon sees the new mainstream as some sort of niche.
The brand is annoying. Because most of their advertising is annoying. 
www.rga.com/large.html  www.Verizonbeatbox.com 

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