Current Maine Today here. Waybackmachine archived article here. Archive.is here.

Lets say you did something kinda not-so-smart and you rebooted your EBS (Elastic Block Store) instance, and for some reason it restarts, but won’t let you in via SSH, or worse… It simply will not restart. Ruh-roh!

Pretty funny report from Jim Edwards at Business Insider, apparently we casued "a huge outbreak of whining in Adland" , hahaha, (archive link)

Rupal Parekh muses about the twitter hashtag shitstorm Adland caused, and wonders if it reveals more about the current industry morale than intended.

A fun list over at Economic Times, India : "Advertising's most bookmarked websites..." There is an archive here.

Advertising's most bookmarked websites showcasing world's most creative ads

In the Finacial Times, Tim Bradshaw writes: "Super bowl blackout is Twitter's gain" (archive)

"The legendary ad blogger on Instagram creatives, brands riding the Reddit wave, and how agencies can save themselves" in Adweek (archive link) 

Back in 2012, Business Insider listed us as one of the 22 most influential advertising bloggers among big names such as Seth Godin, Joe La Pompe, Weiden + Kennedy, and The Ad Contrarian.

Campaign for Carlsberg craft beers ca 2003

The most common rejection of your ad idea is probably “too celebral”. The second most common rejection-reason is: “It’s been done”

I don’t have a theme this week, other than “sounds that clean the cobwebs from my head,” I guess.