Z-listers galore

My buddy Mack Collier has been working this new meme of sharing your list of off-the-beaten path blogs and has a list compiled from everyone’s list.

Let me add my two cents on this, some of my favorite feeds that I never see on anyones blog rool:

A Perfectly Cromulent Blog: Pete Vonder Haar is a great writer whom I originally met during my time with FilmThreat. Pete has some of the sharpest commentary around. Pete is the very model of the kind of writer more news outlets need to be hiring.

Adverlicio.us: James always does a great job of finding the latest new ads and organizing them in one convenient location. An indispensable resource for anyone looking for online ads.

Laugh It Up Fuzzball: Tracy is a hoot.

FilmPlug: Kirk Skodis probably doesn’t post as much as he (or the rest of us) would like to but when he does it’s something that’s completely worth reading.

Market My Monkey: I still haven’t forgiven Kate for stealing my MMM acronym but I’ve looked past that. She’s a lot of fun to read and someone I’ve grown to appreciate and respect greatly. Plus she’s a Christopher Guest fan who appreciates random “Buffy” quotes.

And here’s the rest of Mack’s list that he’s put together from everyone else’s posts and comments. A lot of the ones I would have chosen were already on that list and I’m going to have to make sure I’m subscribed to all these. Thanks, Mack, for doing more than anyone else I know to bring attention where it deserves.
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman’s Blog About Surprise
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
darrenbarefoot.com
Two Hat Marketing
The Emerging Brand
The Branding Blog
CrapHammer
Drew’s Marketing Minute
Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas
Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
NewsPaperGrl
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Bullshitobserver
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
John Wagner
Nick Rice
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton
¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly

Quick Takes: 12/18/06

• Good article from The Hollywood Reporter that, in essence, says that new media innovation and exploration needs to be in just about everyone’s business plan if they think they’re going to remain relevant in people’s minds.
• Speaking of THR, reviews from the publication will now appear on MovieTickets.com under the terms of a new deal between the two. Now they need to start putting consumer-generated reviews on there as well.
• Corona is getting some product and brand placement in the new boxing film From Mexico With Love.
• Ford worked long and hard to get its cars into Casino Royale.
• Thank you, oh wise men of AdAge, for echoing my constant refrain that there’s tremendous power in the online niches that are already having brand-centric discussions. Welcome to July of 2004.
• Defamer did me a solid by linking to MMM so I’ll link back to them about how Bob Dylan is honked off over Hayden Christiansen’s performance of him in Factory Girl.
• Religious groups apparently don’t get that Black Christmas is not actually demeaning the Christmas holiday (it’s more accurate to say they’re demeaning filmmaking, but I digress) and are giving the movie some free publicity by screaming about it.
• The Ad Council is partnering with Disney for a new sealtbelt-usage PSA campaign that will features characters from Cars.
• Laura at AdFreak is warning us all not to go into The Pursuit of Happyness expecting anything even remotely uplifting, despite the trailers and such.
• Jeff Wells points out that “tent pole” pictures are a necessary evil but that doesn’t mean we have to like them.
• But if those tent pole pictures start to flail in either theatrical or home video releases then the studios are pretty much screwed. (Thanks to Tom for the link)
• Anne Thompson is looking for any success stories of smaller movies using MySpace effectively to gain an audience.
• Go check out the Nerdcore for Life thanks to Clyde.