http://coffeewriter.net Literature, Creative Writing and Social Media Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:02:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to MSNBC, in 1967 a thirty-second commercial spot during Super Bowl I was $42,500 on CBS and $37,500 on NBC. By 1987, the spot was going for $600,000, and the asking price for a spot in this years game was a whopping $2.6 million. Do the math and you'll ... http://coffeewriter.net/power-to-the-consumer-how-will-you-embrace-permission-based-marketing/ It all started with an email from DreamHost. That domain name I got along with a years' subscription to their hosting plan was about to expire, and I had to decide if I wanted to keep it. Along the same lines I also had to decide if I wanted to ... http://coffeewriter.net/how-green-is-your-blog-green-marketing-and-the-internet/ After the last child reached for the golden ring and descended from painted wooden horses, after the music stopped playing and the world stopped spinning, the shops closed their doors and the crowds returned home, and Damien Fry waited alone. A hundred lights swayed in branches overhead where glistening rain slipped ... http://coffeewriter.net/light-still-arriving/ Once upon a time there lived three Billy goat brothers. They were considered forward-thinking marketers and each had developed extensive opt-in email lists. One sunny day the smallest of the three Billy goats set out to market his wares and started crossing a small wooden bridge. When the small goat was ... http://coffeewriter.net/three-billy-goats-and-a-media-mogul-troll-permission-based-marketing-meets-the-old-gatekeepers/ On one hand, James Baldwin's short story "Going to Meet the Man" seems fairly straight forward. A deputy sheriff in the changing south remembers his family taking him to the lynching of a black man with the same air of excitement someone might experience on a family picnic. The ... http://coffeewriter.net/going-to-meet-the-author-the-lynching-of-james-baldwin/ James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” is a poignant take on self contempt and personal deception. David is a young man who not only attempts to deceive himself, but deceives others along the way. In today’s world of trite pop psychology we tend to focus on the harm we cause ourselves through ... http://coffeewriter.net/self-contempt-in-james-baldwins-novel-giovannis-room/ Northrop Frye’s “theory of myths” refers to a system of patterns which mankind has used to realize the narratives of his stories and literature. Frye asserts human beings realize basic narrative in two fundamental ways; representations of the real world and representations of an ideal or fantasy world. Frye calls ... http://coffeewriter.net/fitzgeralds-the-great-gatsby-and-northrop-fryes-theory-of-myths/ Although the Jazz Age in America came on the scene with a bit of a strut in its stride, taking bold steps forward into a whole new era, the same bold steps brought an air of uncertainty; new territory, previously uncharted, could bring its own dangers. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The ... http://coffeewriter.net/indeterminacy-in-f-scott-fitzgeralds-the-great-gatsby/ When we feel we have nothing out of the ordinary, when everything we have is viewed in our society as a commodity, we raise the bar of our expectations and want something more. But even then, it isn’t enough to merely have it. We want to have it and rub ... http://coffeewriter.net/a-marxist-critique-of-fitzgeralds-the-great-gatsby/ Although psychoanalytic criticism believes we are each born with a clean slate, soon that slate is cluttered with images. Even before we have words to label them, we begin working to sort this clutter and make sense of the world around us. If a thing is suitable we keep it ... http://coffeewriter.net/a-psychoanalytic-criticism-of-f-scott-fitzgeralds-the-great-gatsby/