Posted June 7th, 2010 by Kimberly Dowd
I was going through my 4th-string blogs tonight. These are the blogs I check in with once in a while to roll my eyes at or to make sure the author hasn’t gone crazy yet. (Because there are a great many bloggers out there who are THISCLOSE to completely losing it.) Anyway, in my travels, [...]
Tags: advertising, blogging, online, rant
Posted November 19th, 2009 by Kimberly Dowd
You’ll notice the new ads, I’m sure. They’re from the BlogHer network, and after 18 months of waiting, I was finally approved to run them. I also applied to be on the BlogHer Reviewer Program – I’m excited about the opportunity of trying a different form of writing. We’ll see how that goes. I used [...]
Tags: advertising, blogher
Posted November 11th, 2009 by Kimberly Dowd
Part of my job at the Courier-Post involves designing online advertising. I’m not sure how exactly that came about other than when I started there, I was one of two people with Photoshop. Back then, the most common (and I believe only) ad size on our site was this: Now as monitors get larger, web [...]
Tags: advertising, design
Posted November 19th, 2008 by Kimberly Dowd
The new holiday Gap ads are out, featuring stars in ensembles that would look completely garish on mere mortals, but hip and cute in the ads. And this year I have reason to rejoice, because they feature the recipient of my very first fan letter, Jason Bateman. Jason played “David,” the oldest brother on the [...]
Tags: advertising