Dude, It's Beef!

Woo hoo - 4 plants closed as demand disappears.  You've got to love Rick Perry.... consistently leading the charge for ignorance.  I will say, having watched Charles execute crisis management campaigns for other clients, someone is doing a decent job on BPI's behalf.  However, I don't think there's any chance of turning this ship around!


http://news.yahoo.com/dude-beef-governors-tour-plant-reject-pink-slime-152946398--abc-news-topstories.html

Rock On Brother

Self explanatory : )

Fascinating Deck on Mobile Growth

Every time I find a statistic that illustrates the explosion of technology,  another one comes along and dwarfs it.  This presentation is astounding, particularly b/c it's before the fact rather than after:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-mobile-deck-2012-3?op=1

A case study highlight:

"Draw Something" (an app) launched in February - 6 weeks ago
 - It's the number #1 app in 79 countries
 - It has been downloaded 20+ million times
 - It generates $100k+ of revenue per day
 - It has 12+ million users a day

On Feb 12th - "Draw Something" users drew 3  drawings per second
On Feb 26th, 333 drawings per second
On March 7th, 1,660 drawings per second
On March 8th, 3,000 drawings per second

It took AOL 9 years to get to 1 million users
It took Facebook 9 months
It took "Draw Something" 9 days

I'm sorry, it doesn't get any cooler than that!

Don't Get Snowed

This is old but so important as the GOP tries to snow America.  If only it wasn't so easy to do...

I'll admit this is a lot to pay attention to but it DIRECTLY affects all of us.  The most important part is to spread the word.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4713382n

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/opinion/krugman-paranoia-strikes-deeper.html?_r=1&smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto

Victory! The Power of the People

Not that I trust any grocery chain who ok'd it's use in the first place, BUT it sure is nice to see good reporting and the power of social media dial these money hungry monsters down a notch.  Kroger stumbled a bit but made the right call in the end.  Interesting that Stop & Shop (I grew up with that chain) is a Dutch corporation - I never knew that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46824961/ns/business-retail/#.T2xqsM2uHu0

Don't Get Slimed

Follow up to earlier reporting by ABC News.  It's so totally and completely disgusting, I can't seem to look away.  The first day I heard about it (about a month or two ago from Alyssa) I was literally gagging every time I thought about it throughout the day.  How much of it I've probably eaten over the years...how much of it I've fed to my kids - oh God - make it stop!  I've been told the next stop in my education should be the movie, Food, Inc.  I'm a little scared to watch it but I think I'm more scared not to!  At this rate, in a year I'll be living on an organic farm, homeschooling the kids and consulting ancient shaman for medical advice : )
  

And a Side of Pink Slime Please

Been hearing a lot about this lately.  Just another one of the lovely things I've learned about meat AND another reason why we only buy "clean" meat these days and ask about what we're being served at restaurants.  I love how this stuff gets ok'd by officials - much like the way that many drugs get ok'd at the FDA - with complete and utter disregard for others and their health.  So insanely disgusting...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/70-percent-of-ground-beef-at-supermarkets-contains-pink-slime/#.T1pcwJp83xA.twitter