Please read: A personal appeal from Chris Riebschlager

As most folks know, I’m pretty active with our local Kansas City chapter of the American Advertising Federation. Not only is it a great organization when it comes to professional development, both in terms of ongoing education and networking, it also doubles as group therapy any time we get together. Client issues? Internal agency turmoil? [...]

First off, props to my good friend Chris Riebschlager (of the816.com) for this link. Secondly, this whole rant by Chris Weingarten hits me with the force of a gut punch. As a former hack freelance music critic, I like to think that I wrote from a place that harbored a genuine love for music that [...]

Would it shock you if I noted that the language gets a little blue on tail end of this clip? No? Good. It wouldn’t be George Carlin, right?

Today’s as good a day as any to start a new series here at Patchchord that I’m going to call “Ask An Interactivist.” I get questions all the time via email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. about the random and not-so-random happenings in the digital advertising/marketing space. Today’s question (below) comes from a KC colleague of mine. [...]