SpinThicket.com - Mumbo-Jumbo Great source for PR news, thinking and gossip. http://www.spinthicket.com/ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:57:16 -0600 (Mumbo-Jumbo) The Future: Social Networks Will Fly Like A Led Zeppelin http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=165186 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=165186 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Video: Alan Keyes with Mike Schneider on Bloomberg TV talks philosophy, politics, the GOP and Democratic candidates. http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=145830 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=145830 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Scientists Decode Dog Talk http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=130919 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=130919 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Welcome to the Fifth Estate: This manifesto examines the integration new and traditional media http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=115926 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=115926 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Was this the year Americans branded ourselves stupid? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=104950 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=104950 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Does social media marketing talk to audiences, stakeholders or communities? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=85482 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=85482 (Mumbo-Jumbo) How to eat in San Sebastian on just six meals a day http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=66778 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=66778 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Science proves Democrats and Independents are crazy. http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=45274 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=45274 (Mumbo-Jumbo) If you can get past the newspaper's correction, it appears that cops are more likely to frisk black people during traffic stops. 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They're breaking away. If you listen to fools... The Mob Rules." Yep. A "Hey! 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Feel better about making minimum wage now? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7668 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7668 (Mumbo-Jumbo) A sampling of the world's gas prices http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7661 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7661 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Oops! Bush calls immigration bill "amnesty" in a true Freudian slip http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7639 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7639 (Mumbo-Jumbo) College librarians urged to think more like gamers and less like "digital immigrants" http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7625 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7625 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Vice President Exempts His Office from the Requirements for Protecting Classified Information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.” http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7544 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7544 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Interesting U.S. map adaptation quite cool http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7533 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7533 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Circumcision, still the most commonly performed U.S. surgery, procedures declining http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7480 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7480 (Mumbo-Jumbo) TB victim's parents spin in his defense: mysterious audiotape of CDC's comments will supposedly be released one day http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7097 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7097 (Mumbo-Jumbo) new erection pill derived from walnuts approved in Malaysia http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7070 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7070 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Crude oil prices continue upward trend as high season approaches http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7052 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7052 (Mumbo-Jumbo) It's official: size doesn't matter, personality and grooming does http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7002 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=7002 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Dear PR person: If you're so good, why does my inbox think you're spam? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6773 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6773 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Even thin people are fat...on the inside http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6547 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6547 (Mumbo-Jumbo) English fractured yet again on Chinese park sign http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6509 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6509 (Mumbo-Jumbo) "Soldier Blogs" to be monitored more closely by Pentagon http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6236 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6236 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Joe Lieberman says bloggers are responsible for "vituperation toxicity"; politicians continue to be responsible for bullshit http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6196 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6196 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Pfizer "educates" consumers about Viagra with gibberish http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6170 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6170 (Mumbo-Jumbo) National Association of Broadcaster president blames rise of social media on poor traditional media terminology - whatever dude http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6163 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6163 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Wikinomics Applied to PR, Social Media http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6160 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6160 (Mumbo-Jumbo) John Edwards says there's no such thing as a "War on Terror" http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6144 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6144 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Cocaine energy drink the 'anti-drug'? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6047 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=6047 (Mumbo-Jumbo) When did "nappy" become the new n-word? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=5619 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=5619 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Pizza as healthfood? Baking at higher temperatures for longer increases the antioxident content; wasn't there a study not too long ago that said antioxident's don't do anything for you? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=5034 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=5034 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Is "carbon-neutral" just nonsense jargon? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=5016 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=5016 (Mumbo-Jumbo) The evolution of the word "slut" http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4989 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4989 (Mumbo-Jumbo) "War on terror": a three-word mantra that has created a culture of fear in America http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4984 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4984 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Unfortunate acronyms: Observer Media Group = OMG! http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4865 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4865 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Newspaper editor's internal memo is buzzword heaven -- make that hell http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4847 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4847 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Alberto Gonzales uses White House's pet phrase: "Mistakes were made." Um, what mistakes? And by whom? Passive voice and accountability just don't seem to go together, do they? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4667 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4667 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Scientists find what could be seas on one of Saturn's moons; I still miss Uranus being a planet http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4662 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4662 (Mumbo-Jumbo) New York City Council bans use of the n-word http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4507 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4507 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Government of New Mexico determined to still categorize Pluto as a planet http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4501 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4501 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Unlocking the mysteries of Webspeak http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4488 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4488 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Dan Brown decodes freemasonry in his Da Vinci followup http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4369 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4369 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Bush learns to enunciate with help from Speak N Spell http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4237 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4237 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Virginia expresses "profound regret" for slavery http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4136 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4136 (Mumbo-Jumbo) The "N" Surrection Conference -- a four-day conference to discuss the "N" word http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4123 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4123 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Wal-Mart’s $4 generics: A great deal — for Wal-Mart http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4010 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=4010 (Mumbo-Jumbo) New President Kennedy footage could squash conspiracy theory http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3978 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3978 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Who exactly does President's Day honor? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3945 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3945 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Cohabitation now outranks marriage as the new form of relationship http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3942 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3942 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Phrasedick William Safire just keeps making up words http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3915 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3915 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Welcome to a new word: "pharming" -- meaning genetically modifying animals to crank out drugs. Nice http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3762 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3762 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Robot chairman on the 'I Love NY' makeover: 'We want to maximize its value and get input from the leading advertising agencies...on how we can best be stewards of it' http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3731 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3731 (Mumbo-Jumbo) "Articulate": code for "sounds white"? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3476 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3476 (Mumbo-Jumbo) 'Officials' from 113 countries convened to say global warming is 'very likely' caused by humans; Really?? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3309 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3309 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Bush: Cheney is a "half-glass-full" kinda guy; and you sir, are a wit-half http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3295 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3295 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Bush also thinks Obama is "articulate" -- and a credit to his race http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3287 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3287 (Mumbo-Jumbo) The secret wordsmith behind George W. Bush's deceptively brilliant speeches http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3037 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=3037 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Tag cloud for 2007 State of the Union address http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2999 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2999 (Mumbo-Jumbo) 8 vague, non-specific skills that separate performers from non-performers; my personal favorite: 'Shape the culture'--it's just that easy http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2924 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2924 (Mumbo-Jumbo) From skinheads to hookers: the slang of 65 U.S. subcultures http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2896 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2896 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Web site uses tag cloud to track the history of presidential buzzwords http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2893 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2893 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Time for a new cliche: UK rules that 4-out-of-5 dentists don’t agree http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2694 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2694 (Mumbo-Jumbo) BBC planning an entire documentary about the word "cunt"; budget: $400,000 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2560 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2560 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Check out Acronym Finder, it's a BFD resource tool for all wordsmithing MFers. http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2555 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2555 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Why is swearing so common? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2554 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2554 (Mumbo-Jumbo) True fact: the White House made up the term "surge" because they didn't want to use the actual military term: "escalation" http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2533 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2533 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Urban Dictionary definition of "hohan" http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2501 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2501 (Mumbo-Jumbo) The media terms you'll need to know in 2007 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2289 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2289 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Dusty-brained CNN Web site editors write crappy headlines http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2271 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2271 (Mumbo-Jumbo) C-SPAN catch phrase of the day: "free-roaming lens-groping" http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2149 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2149 (Mumbo-Jumbo) 'Seventeen' makes your daughter anorexic; advertising makes her fat http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2145 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2145 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Pentagon redefines "emergency" to fund more pork http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2126 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=2126 (Mumbo-Jumbo) 4,862 names of various gods, goddesses and other dieties http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1689 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1689 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Google rolls out new and wholly confusing plan for employee stock options; buy for a ton of money, sell for more money, make a small net amount...I don't get it http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1402 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1402 (Mumbo-Jumbo) "Collective intelligence" is like "military intelligence" -- an oxymoron http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1345 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1345 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Oh, NOW I understand Web 2.0 completely! http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1312 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1312 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Tim O'Reilly offers compact definition of Web 2.0 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1288 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1288 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Merriam-Webster proclaims "truthiness" the 2006 Word of the Year http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1283 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1283 (Mumbo-Jumbo) With "intelligent design" theory proving a bust in the courts, creationists come up with their next big thing: the "fine tuning" theory http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1275 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1275 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Do we need a new way of defining racism? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1266 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1266 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Zune, the MP3 player not sized for any pocket, is actually selling http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1199 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1199 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Microsoft reassures the world, malware writers wait in the shadows http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1004 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=1004 (Mumbo-Jumbo) For once the public may be ahead of the government in terms of technology http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=956 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=956 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Why the Washington Post doesn't call Iraq a "civil war" http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=907 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=907 (Mumbo-Jumbo) U.S. bureaucrats erase hunger -- the word "hunger", that is http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=772 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=772 (Mumbo-Jumbo) No more "10-4"; more cops instructed to use plain language on police radio http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=767 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=767 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Are young men who have sex with girls under 16 really "pedophiles"? http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=744 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=744 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Web 3.0 arrives. Marketers don't even know that web 2.0 is here. http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=632 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=632 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Sex, spanking and girls pouring milk all over themselves sell. They just do. http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=590 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=590 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Adidas tries to keep Reebok cheap and comes up short http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=589 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=589 (Mumbo-Jumbo) "Text speak" to be allowed on high school exams in New Zealand -- r u kidding? lol http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=565 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=565 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Insurance companies selling policies "technical and riddled with jargon" to legally con consumers http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=546 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=546 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Christmas War 2006 begins: Wal-Mart will say "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays"; consumers still expected to say "You bought this crap from Wal-Mart?" http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=499 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=499 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Fox News feels bad for GOP, creates new position of "Minority Speaker" http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=472 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=472 (Mumbo-Jumbo) CEO to newspaper: "We didn't fire 50 employees; their jobs were eliminated" http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=231 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=231 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Intrepid reporter gets to the bottom of Jay-Z's "Champagne-Gate" http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=110 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=110 (Mumbo-Jumbo) Volume analysis of gobbledygook marketing jargon in press releases (graphic) http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=85 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=85 (Mumbo-Jumbo) How to speak gibberish http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=65 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=65 (Mumbo-Jumbo) "The corporate bullshit that passes for communication in large companies starts at the top" http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=42 http://www.spinthicket.com/comments.php?sid=42