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  • A Tulip by Any Other Name

    Students of history will remember the Dutch Tulip Mania that swept the country from 1634 through the beginning of 1637. At one point in time, a single tulip bulb went for the equivalent of 1000 pounds of cheese or even four tons of wheat. The rise of…

  • Fisher-Price Celebrates Three Kings Day

    Fisher-Price celebrates the Hispanic holiday El Dia de los Reyes Magos (“Three Kings Day”) with a limited-edition toy set and promotions throughout the Southwest. Fisher-Price marks the Jan. 6 holiday— Latino tradition that celebrates the arrival of the …

  • P&G Sues McLane Over Copycat Brands

    Procter & Gamble has filed suit against packaged goods distributor McLane Co. for copying the packaging of P&G brands including Bounty, Charmin, and Vicks’ NyQuil and DayQuil.

  • Anheuser-Busch Debuts ‘Winter’ Draft as Part of Specialty Series

    Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Bud and Bud Light, is out with a new “winter seasonal” draft, just one of a number of seasonal brews it has been offering to spice up its line. Winter’s Bourbon Cask Ale is brewed with dark roasted caramel malts and imported …

  • The Knot, American Baby Set Up Shop

    First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage. Wedding pro The Knot, Inc., has teamed up with American Baby Magazine to launch an online baby gift shop, AmericanBabyShop.com. The collaboration leverages The Knot’s …

  • AOOOOOOL

    By now, almost everybody outside the Internet world has heard of Google. Similarly, thanks to its first mover status and ubiquitous blanketing of American mailboxes and retail outlets with CD-ROMs, you’ll be hard pressed to find someone that hasn’t heard of…

  • DM Pimping Cartoon V12

    Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.

  • What Do I Do For A Living?

    Reunions of any sort follow the same template. People who have lost touch ask the same questions. Of the top three asked, the one that I have recently had to answer the most was “what do you do?” And with that, I confidently reply “I work for…

  • Telecommute – NY Transit Strike

    On Tuesday, December 20th a key component of New York City’s infrastructure gave out in the way of a massive transit worker strike and left most of ICMediaDirect.com’s staff stranded along with millions of others in Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island and…

  • Extraordinary Is A Good Word

    Extraordinary is a good word. It’s a word that you call great people. I hardly ever call anyone something as special as “extraordinary”. The person must speak in person or through the phone with integrity, honesty, fun and professional enough…