This Nov. 8, even if you manage to be registered in time and have the right identification, there is something else that could stop you from exercising your right to vote.
The ballot. Specifically, the ballot’s design.
Bad ballot design gained national attention almost 16 years ago when Americans became unwilling experts in butterflies and chads. The now-infamous Palm Beach County butterfly ballot, which interlaced candidate names along a central column of punch holes, was so confusing that many voters accidentally voted for Patrick Buchanan instead of Al Gore....
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Here's a look at why bad design of ballots could impact some votes in the election. I hope Donald Trump isn't reading because he might use it as an excuse for a lawsuit about the "rigged election." ;-)
The Republican candidate for White House appeared to use an unusual adverb in his debate against Hillary Clinton. Or did he? Jon Kelly investigates.
There was a moment in the first US presidential debate when lots of people asked themselves: "Did Trump just say 'bigly'?" Followed quickly by: "Is that even a word?"
It came during a discussion on fiscal policy, when, Donald Trump told his opponent: "I'm going to cut taxes bigly, and you're going to raise taxes bigly." Or so many thought, anyway....
In September, Hillary Clinton released a devastating attack ad on Donald Trump, in which young girls are seen looking at themselves in the mirror while Trump's offensive remarks about women—in particular, their looks—are heard in the background. The ad, titled "Mirrors," has gotten more than 5 million views on YouTube, and has been hailed by many as one of Clinton's strongest ads of the year.
Barack Obama's 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe, told Slate last month: "I do think that Clinton will look back, particularly in suburban areas where they will be able to really drive good margins with women, that the ads helped. That ad where they show Trump's words and children listening? That stuff works!"
Now, Kathy Griffin has springboarded off the famous spot with a great parody of it. It's not subtle, but it is hilarious. Check it out below. Note: It features lots of NSFW language....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Kathy Griffin does a very funny sendup of the Clinton campaign's Trump attack ad and she gives the Donald big shade. Funny and recommended viewing if you like political satire. 9.5/10
Excitement is building for the final of the three US Presidential debates.
We’re excited to have a scoop about Donald Trump’s final debate strategy courtesy of a leaked email shared with Sean Hannity and me (The PR Coach) from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Polling reveals Trump opportunity
Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway’s secret polls have turned up some potentially explosive insight that could help the Trump campaign mount a PR and political comeback according to the email from Conway to Trump.
The secret national poll of registered voters found BBQ was more popular than Hillary Clinton by a whopping margin of 76% to 24% nationally....
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New secret Republican polls could pave the way to a new last-minute political strategy and potential campaign comeback story of the century.
It suddenly hit me while listening to another Trump tirade. What happened next nearly blew my mind.
Not to give The Donald too much credit for his undisciplined tweeting but suddenly I realized that his entire campaign is built on a foundation of clickbait.
The very same linkbait that drives millions of spam pageviews online daily is also what allowed him to outfox 16 other serious Republican presidential candidates.
And when the presidential campaign debates take place, Hillary won’t have a chance!...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
The Donald's campaign strategy? Clickbait! You read it here first.
Donald Trump’s campaign has undergone some major reshuffling in the past few weeks, and his latest staff shake-up proves that his troubles are far from over. Early this morning, the Trump campaign announced that it’s fired the man in charge of explaining what Donald Trump is to gorillas, with no official word yet on who his replacement will be.
Yikes. Things are not looking good for Donald.
Trump’s gorilla outreach has been a part of his campaign since day one, but the program’s fledgling results have left many wondering about the fate of its leader, longtime Trump family ally Jeff Hawkins. Hawkins’ role in the campaign was to build awareness of Donald Trump among gorillas by positioning him as a good, strong alpha male who is skilled at crushing things. But like so much of Trump’s campaign, this expensive initiative couldn’t get out of its own way....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Running out of voters, the Trump campaign PR team is floundering according to ClickHole.
Thursday’s Single-A minor league game between the Batavia Muckdogs and State College Spikes was interrupted by a fan on the field.
That fan was a sheep.
Presumably on hand for some sort of promotion, the sheep slipped onto the field when a stadium gate was opened, according to the announcers' conversation.
The grounds crew was able to guide the woolly visitor off the field eventually, but it wasn’t happy.
Maybe it just wanted a better view of the game....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
You know you're in the minor leagues when... baaaaaater up! ;-)
Facebook isn’t ending spam. It just wants better labeling on the can.
As Mike Isaac and Sydney Ember report, the world’s largest social network is changing the rules for how outside content is listed on Facebook. Clickbait, or headlines that “withhold or distort information,” will be featured much farther down.
It’s an interesting change, because Facebook is moving beyond ranking other outlets’ stories based by how much traffic they’re getting. Now, it cares whether that traffic was obtained somewhat deceptively.
Two of the examples Facebook offered are telling. They were headlines that said “The Dog Barked at the Deliveryman and His Reaction Was Priceless,” and “When She Looked Under Her Couch Cushions and Saw THIS … I Was SHOCKED!”
Jeff Domansky's insight:
No-o-o-o-o! Say it isn't so! Come on Facebook, everybody loves these headlines.
Hey there, marketer. I’m curious … what’s really going in that day-to-day work life of yours?
When you say you’re working from home, are you actually being productive? When you have a deadline, do you wait until the last minute? What are you actually doing on LinkedIn? It's time to speak the truth.
Below are 15 graphs and charts showing how we really spend our days. If you can relate to one, click the “Pin It” button to share it with your friends and colleagues. And don’t worry, we won’t tell your boss. ;-)...
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Truthy! Check out these 15 charts and graphs that describe what life is really like as a marketer.
Without fail, I almost always forget to put up an out-of-office email message when I'm headed out for vacation. It's one of those things I remember just as I'm shutting down, or sometimes even after I've already left. (Heh, sorry guys.)
Since I usually throw them up in a hurry, I don't take a lot of time to get creative. However, I remembered to put up my OOO message early this time around -- so I decided to do some Googling for funny, clever, and snarky messages people have used in the past.
Here are some of the gems I found....
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Summer fun! Check out some funny autoreplies to use in your next out-of-office email message.
Reporter Jonathan Pie thinks politicians should just answer the fucking question. To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please emai
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Always-funny, pseudo-reporter Jonathan Pie goes ballistic about British politicians who don't answer questions without a sound bite. I'd love to see him go after Trump.
As I watched holiday re-runs of the Lord of the Rings movies, I wondered if there might be a term for the way Gollum adds syllables to words.
Note: Gollum is a fictional character in The Hobbit and its sequels by J. R. R. Tolkien. In Peter Jackson’s movies, Gollum is played brilliantly by Andy Serkis.
Gollum frequently adds a sound or syllable to words, especially plurals. For example:
Donald Trump capped off his performance at the final US presidential debate yesterday by—bizarrely, apparently apropos of nothing—interrupting Hillary Clinton’s remarks on tax policy to call her a “nasty woman.”
The internet blowback was instantaneous. It included a flood of Twitter snark, a “nasty woman” website redirecting to Clinton’s campaign site, and dozens of quips bringing up “Nasty,” the 1986 hit song by Janet Jackson.
Streams of “Nasty” have actually spiked 250% on Spotify, a spokesperson told Quartz today.
Republican nominee Donald Trump is known for some unusual speech patterns.
During the third and final presidential debate, Trump used one of his favorite words, "bigly."
The comment came during a contentious discussion of President Barack Obama's immigration record, where Trump asserted that Obama had deported "millions" of people.
"He doesn't want to say that, but that's what's happened... bigly," Trump said.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, bigly is actually a word meaning "with great force."
However, after the first presidential debate, Eric Trump, the nominee's son, told The Hollywood Reporter that the Republican nominee had said "big league," and not "bigly."...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Two key words from the debate last night: bigly and hombres. according to the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster "bigly" is a real word means "with great force". Kind of like the hot air from most of Trump's speeches
Marketers have no shortage of metrics on their dashboards, but they are still often flying blind. Marketing visibility can be simultaneously clear and opaque. To paraphrase Coleridge, the state of marketing is “metrics, metrics everywhere, and not sure what to think.”
OverstateGate brought a colorful rise out of Branding Professor Mark Ritson:
“This little debacle once again confirms that nobody actually knows what the fuck is going on with digital media. Not media agencies, not big-spending clients and not armchair digital strategists. From the shadowy box of turds and spiders that is programmatic to the increasingly complex and deluded world of digital views, the idea that digital marketing is more analytical and attributable than other media is clearly horse shit. Sure, it has more numbers and many more metrics but that does not make it more accountable, it makes it less so.”
In general, marketers can’t always take metrics at face value. We have to get savvier and more sophisticated at questioning the numbers we use. We have to beware of faux metrics and fuzzy math....
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Marketing is more measurable than ever. But many of those measurements come from black boxes that marketers don’t fully understand. Tom Fishburne adds his voice and humor to the need for transparency.
Facebook has tweaked its New Feed algorithm many, many times in its attempt to keep the posts you see relevant, but the change it’s rolling out today may be the most important one yet: Facebook is vowing to kill clickbait.
Facebook has tweaked its New Feed algorithm many, many times in its attempt to keep the posts you see relevant, but the change it’s rolling out today may be the most important one yet: Facebook is vowing to kill clickbait.
It’s a potentially huge move, and one that makes journalism better for almost everyone involved.
How it works
Now Facebook is filtering out clickbait much like Gmail hides spam. It’s detecting specific words, structures, and styles in titles which “intentionally leave out crucial information, forcing people to click to find the answer.”
Here are some Facebook-provided samples of titles you will be seeing a lot less of:
“When She Looked Under Her Couch Cushions And Saw THIS… I Was SHOCKED!”
“He Put Garlic In His Shoes Before Going To Bed And What Happens Next Is Hard To Believe”
“The Dog Barked At The Deliveryman And His Reaction Was Priceless.”...
While a lot of behavioral change will come with the Internet of Things, some people are attempting to cause a bit of that change right away.In a push to help shoppers save money, a company has created a programmable handbag with built-in robotics that causes the bag to vibrate, flash and self-lock when the shopper enters a ‘danger spending zone.’
The iBag2 (yes, there was an earlier version, which launched in Australia a while back), is the brainchild of the personal finance website finder.com in the U.K.
The rather high-tech bag was designed by a New York fashion designer and a team of engineers crafted the robotics features....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
The latest IoT innovation? A handbag that vibrates and auto-locks to prevent compulsive spending. Parents may rejoice but teenage girls will not be amused. Price? Only $5'000!!!
The latest IoT innovation? A handbag that vibrates and auto-locks to prevent compulsive spending. Parents may rejoice but teenage girls will not be amused. Price? Only $5'000!!!
Real Money has done the math and shared their findings in the infographic Examining the Real Cost of Donald Trump's Wall, designed by DesignBySoap. It appears that the actual cost of the wall would end up being 2-3 times more expensive than the publicly released estimate. Luckily, even many of his supporters do not believe he will build the wall. You can see the details of Trump's plan, as well as some statistics on how Americans feel about it in the infographic above.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Yep, we'll build that wall and I've got a bridge to sell you.
How much do you love your smartphone? Aaron Chervenak loves his enough to want to marry it—and he did, in a little chapel in Las Vegas. In a video that document the “slightly unorthodox ceremony”, Chervenak discusses the reasons why he wants to tie the knot with a piece of technology.
According to him, “we connect with our phones on so many emotional levels—we look to it for solace, to calm us down, to put us to sleep, to ease our minds”, which to him is what a relationship is about.
While this unconventional union is not legal, Chervenak hopes that his wedding would “act as a symbolic gesture to show how precious our smartphones are becoming in our daily lives”....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
I thought what happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas? Weird weekend fun!
this is a humorous article about a man marrying his i-phone since it is the place we go for comfort and solace and happiness. Although it is meant to be funny it has a serious message behind it, we spend too much time with our phones. Our phones are with us more often than we are with our significant others, we even use it to connect to them. It's a bit of social awareness to get people to realize that we need to put our phone down sometimes because when it becomes more important than real people, there's a problem.
France is one step closer to becoming the first country to set a curfew for email, after a bill banning companies with 50 or more employees from sending emails after work hours recently passed the French lower parliament.
The bill’s next destination is the French Senate, and if passed, it will be sent back to the National Assembly to become law. It would require businesses to define the work hours in which email can or cannot be sent, and is intended to reduce workplace stress.
Studies point to email as a major headache for consumers, with reports correlating checking email with negative health consequences....
Lord God you know. Lord God you know why the timing of emails sent re being used in negative manner and for others gain Lord God get In the midst and destroy these bondages for the weapons of warfare are not carnal Lord God we wrestle not against flesh and blood but wickednesses and rulers of darkness in high places that come to enslave your people and control and manipulate our lives but Lord God you are for us a and you are more than the whole world against us. We are not conformed to man plans or evilness but transformed thru and by you Lord God and we thank you for keeping each and every one of us in Jesus name Thank you Lord God.
That dog won't hunt, but it will rack up debt via chew-toy impulse buys. Canada's Zulu Alpha Kilo is well known for elaborate self-promotions, like its recently revamped agency website poking fun at agency websites. But the shop does have real clients,...
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Here's a look at why bad design of ballots could impact some votes in the election. I hope Donald Trump isn't reading because he might use it as an excuse for a lawsuit about the "rigged election." ;-)