Thursday Guest Post: the best thing I’ve seen on the web
Dec 13th, 2007 by nancyzimmerman
wow. I wish I’d said this (click to see the video):
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Wow!!That was really thought provoking. Thanks for the suggestion to listen to this – I want to spend more time thinking about what I want to do about it.
Glad you liked it. It has a fresh quality to it, and is succinct about some extremely important stuff. (oops! that was unintended!)
Thanks for posting this. I kept resisting, but am glad I finally watched it (In response to its depiction of the advertising/consumer cycle, I posted the following:(http://monicahamburg.wordpress.com/2007/12/28/i%e2%80%99ll-tell-you-what-i-want-%e2%80%93-what-i-really-really-want/ ).
P.S. Nice meeting you at the last blogger event. Happy Holidays!
Mon
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