Kevin Federline will Return to SuperBowl

Kevin Federline is gaining recognition on his own merit. Federline, known as the father of Brittany Spears' children and for his appearance in the 2004 Super Bowl half-time show that exposed Janet Jackson's breast to the world, will return to the 2008 Super Bowl.

Click to read: Kevin Federline Finally Finds Some Success - Advertising Age - MediaWorks

New market research from Cymfony on the 2007 Super Bowl advertising spots found that the ad for Nationwide Insurance, during which Mr. Federline rapped about fame and fortune then slipped into working in a fast food restaurant, generated about eight times the buzz as the other Super Bowl ads. The other celebrity ads featured Jessica Simpson singing for Pizza Hut and a Sheryl Crow advertisement for Revlon.

The research makes for interesting reading. Reasons given for the success of the advertisement are the controversy surrounding how Federline represented fast food workers (he issued an apology later) and the fact that he was able to make fun of himself, which was unexpected.

The buzz is that the half-time show for this year's Super Bowl will feature Justin Timberlake and Carmen Electra, representing Pepsi and Hershey's, respectively. I wish him success.


Blog Your Blessings : Maps

Maps give us a sense of place

You will probably think me strange, blessing maps. Maps help us find our way when we are traveling through new lands, but they also provide pathways to our past.

Maps are useful tools--whether you are tracing your future journey across the city or the state, or discovering that the road you travel every day traces the same path followed by an ancient people.
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible. -Leo Tolstoy
However, the maps remain for centuries. -CyberCelt


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Year of the Search Engine

Seems like 2008 will be the year of the search engine. Today, all of the blog posts I have read are about optimizing everything from PDFs to videos to text links to site maps. The following article on SearchNewz on how to Sculpt Your SERP Description is worthwhile.
In other words, to a certain degree you can sculpt how the search engines describe your page. All it takes is good a meta description, a good opening sentence with quality on-page content and some simple instructions to the spiders.
I found this article to be helpful in describing the different methods used by the search engines to list your site in search engine result pages (SERPs). The article is not too long and provides tips you will find useful.