“A friend of mine has the cutest little three-year old beagle. After playing with him all day, yesterday I think I'll look into getting one after I make the move to SF.”
My mom's dog is half beagle. Good dog choice! - Rochelle
I was just going to ask what people's experiences were with them. Can't judge a breed by this one particular dog. Do they do well in apartments? - Derrick
they're hounds. hounds are generally smart busybodies with some energy...though not jack russell style energy. we had a stray beagle become the neighborhood dog back in the day. she would come visit us at the bus stop, and she would say hi to my mom... but then somebody took her :-(. she was sooooo sweet and good with us kids. - tiffany
We got a 5 year old beagle. Anastacia Beaverhausen. She rules the house. LOVE her. - EJ Flavors
Thanks, T...all the insight helps. LMAO @ EJ. I'll hit you up when it gets time to name the pooch. - Derrick
Anastacia Beaverhousen! someone is a fan of Will & Grace! sigh. I miss Karen. - pea gives ♥ a bad name
@ Chas. LePage. You lost. Get over it. The snark is still not necessary. - Phil Boiarski
@Phil. I did not lose. I did not vote for Obama, but from what I understand, his victory means we all won. Not snarky in the least. My criticism of him is sincere and respectful. I have not and will not resort to calling him an idiot, or stupid, as many did and do to GWB. PE Obama honestly does often sound wonderful, but when I read what he actually said, it either makes no sense or has no relation to history or reality. - Charles LePage
Wisdom is the Timeless Spirit of Love which is manifested in Time through the Giving of Self. - Gus
wisdom is that which is acquired near the end of ones life when experience reaches critical mass - and which the unwise and impatient try to sub-classify in a vain attempt to speed up the process. - tony
Gus, that would by psychological & social wisdom. ;) - Tanath
Tony, I think perhaps you're missing my point. And calling me unwise based on my comment would be unwise... - Tanath
Perhaps so. I have not wisdom myself so I cannot say. Rest assured however that I meant no personal affront, only to share my thoughts on the subject at hand. It is perhaps unfortunate but not unexpected that my thoughts conflict with another's. - tony
wisdom is the essential nature of the mind ... get rid of ego, there it is - Gregory Lent
@Tony, then in that case, recognizing you have no wisdom would be the beginning of acquiring it. :) @Greg: How zen. - Tanath
Baby wearing is one of humanity’s most ancient “tricks of the trade” when it comes to child rearing. Now modern companies are helping bring back this lost — and convenient — art - Chris Baskind
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I have that sling and OMG it was worth every friggin' dime. Didn't hurt my back at all and I have a bad back. Wore the kid on the front most of the time and tried it with my daughter when she was 3 on my back. Still no pain. - Anika Malone
I always get backaches when I wear our sling - beats carrying the baby, but I still get backaches and sore muscles. Four kids on the sling here. - Jesse Stay
If there's backaches then the sling was worn wrong (more than likely since no one gets educated on how to do it properly) or it was a sling made before the mid-90s. I had 3 slings for my kids and my kids were ginormous. It hurt me to hold them in my arms, but never in any of the slings. - Anika Malone
Anika I'm pretty sure I was wearing it right and it was a Baby Bjorn, purchased @2000. I think if you carry anything long enough you'll get a backache. I don't see why they would produce a commercial unless some people like me and my wife (and Duncan and his wife) also experienced pain from slings. - Jesse Stay
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Raised 3 boys. All three were in front carriers and backpacks. Never harmed me or them and made our lives easier. what's the problem? - ursi
Maybe some of us are just built differently? I know I'm not the only one. - Jesse Stay
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We used a sling with our two youngest. Worth every penny. Alex was tough to get to sleep, but she'd doze off if you carried her. BTW, I moved this article, but it should redirect. - Chris Baskind
By the way, I would have used product placement in the shot, but we
didn't have any Motrin in our medicine cabinet. Only Midol. :-) - Louis Gray
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@Mona you have quite a treat in store for you!! Check twitter search on motrinmoms - anna awesomesauce
@Lisa, I have lots of issues. This doesn't solve all of them, but I am "wearing" Sarah now and typing to you guys (and doing my weekly report in PPT) so it works. And @Mona, #motrinmoms is the hashtag a lot of mommy bloggers are using to highlight Motrin's questionable promo. - Louis Gray
Amusingly, according to Ergobabycarrier, Nov. 12-18 is babywearing week. Bad timing, Motrin. :-) - Louis Gray
Louis, that's true! I thought the timing was amazing. A little too amazing... - Rochelle
Now, I've gotta bust out my two slings to see if my "baby" will fit. Both of them are supposedly good until the kids are 5, but I stopped wearing my youngest once he started walking. - Anika Malone
Personally, I don't get it all - nor do I want to. In the end, does it really matter? - Jesse Stay
My boy never did take to being worn very well. And once he started walking there was no way in hell he'd stay in one of these. Kicked up a storm like no tomorrow. Which was funny but not helpful to anyone involved. - saeba
Jesse, I think Glen Campbell said it best. Whether or not you "get it" or agree/disagree, Motrin pissed off their target demographic and that is always a bad thing. http://www.techbreakfast.net/2... - Rochelle
Really, Motrin made a few pissy people with nothing better to do angry over feeling like they were being called a name... and then imo (ab)used Twitter for evil, rallying others who aren't even IN the target demo or being spoken to in the ad, or merely enjoy tagging along with whatever cause crowd rolls by, to make a mountain out of something entirely less than a molehill. - abacab
There's nothing quite so grating as someone assuming an intimacy and winking familiarity where none exists. Some marketer(s) and account execs gonna have a very bad day at work tomorrow. Might want to buy some Exedrin on the way to the office. #motrinmoms - Michael Markman
@abacab, as i said, this'll hurt - not help - social media, blogging, etc. :( - Patricia
Agreed, Patricia. I look at all the buildup and think about how many real, legitimate causes could benefit from the attention and energy. Sad. - abacab
I seriously doubt a few bloggers getting pissy is gonna affect anything. All I know is, nobody was talking about Motrin before. Now? They are the hot trend on the net. I'm thinking they will make more sales than enemies. - ♫ Rahsheen™
Not being part of the target audience doesn't mean one should ignore a slight. Some can choose to be in it only for themselves, but we don't all have to thank goodness. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
Rahsheen, oh, it totally will - corporations cutting off $$ on the web. saw it the last time around. the internet is so small compared to the mass population, really. in order to have mass influence, it'd need to be relentless, go offline, etc. this viral behavior will hurt social media more than anything, unfortunately. - Patricia
I think Motrin planned it as a kind of "light a fire under mommy bloggers" to get some attention bad = good in that vein. - anna awesomesauce
Considering HOW J&J usually markets it's products, light a fire under mommies is not their MO. I think it's a fail, and I think there is going to be hella backpedalling on this one. Yes, you want people talking about your product, but not with words like boycott in front of the brand name. Also, Exedrin Migraine is the one OTC I've used most since having kids. :) - Cyndy
oh God. here come the 1000 posts analyzing it all from the social media experts. :( - Patricia
@Patricia, it's not about social media so much as it is about branding and PR and responding quickly. - Louis Gray
@Patricia It has already begun...my reader had at least 6 posts on the issue. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons
@Louis, actually, I looked at your bio on your blog. @Neal, I guess I look at the bigger world. Tomorrow, I'll ask 25 of my offline friends who heard about this and if they care, and share it here. - Patricia
@Patricia, I've been working in the Valley in Marketing for 10 years. I've owned our company's PR since 2003. - Louis Gray
Patricia, I already did that and no one cared. I just finished chatting with 6 other moms, 3 who also blog and they didn't hear about it. I sent them links and they laughed. - Anika Malone
I think people just leap on this kind of thing to have a good scandal to blog about in their niche. I prefer to try to write positive posts about who is doing it right rather than crowing over people doing it wrong, but that is just my trip. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons
@Neal, if you see my post, it recommended how other brand managers can do a better job of monitoring, more than piling on Motrin. And just about anyone here knows I'm 90-95% positive. - Louis Gray
The ad was trying to be funny but not everyone appreciated the attempt. OK. Most probably a mistake. However, the conversation on twitter is mostly patting each other on the back on how big of a backlash they are creating and how much business J&J is going to lose because of them. I think the outrage is artificial and misplaced. - scott anderson
@Louis, Thanks for pointing out what many prominent blogs (and bloggers)missed. This debacle doesn't have much to do with social media and everything to do with marketing 101 ie. understand thy customer. The social media part kicked in when moms started using Twitter to bash Motrin's misguided efforts. Btw, cute picture, the sling looks very fashionable :-) - Mia
“Just caught the beginning of the latest Gillmor Gang with Bret Taylor. One comment, that Steve probably isn't going to like. FriendFeed is not Twitter. I wanted it to be Twitter when I started using it, and tried to get Bret and Paul et al to change it, but they wouldn't have any of it.”
Now I like it for what it is, I wish it would do more -- but -- whatever. It's their product, they're going to do what they're going to do. - Dave Winer
yes Dave, and what they want to do is go realtime. SMart guys. - Steve Gillmor
i listened to the rest of the show yesterday - Dave Winer
why should it appear on Twitter at all? I posted it on TechCrunchIT. - Steve Gillmor
Because it usually does. don't disrupt my routine, dude. - Karoli
too little data to decide whether everything should be synchronized. realtime is what you do with it - Steve Gillmor
IM is very close to @reply on twitter now - Steve Gillmor
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From where will my "comment gesture" be more efficient, FF, your blog? Is it redundent to follow someone on Twitter and FF? Does this micromedia have a molecular level data-objet? - Brad
damn....I remember the fires when I lived in LA....I lived right up against the San Gabriel foothills and those things would go up every other year...crazy...Santa Ana winds come and So Cal goes up like a roman candle... - Live4Soccer
I could smell it on the way back from the movies. It was unsettling. - pea gives ♥ a bad name
The crazy thing is that they're in Santa Barbara, Sylmar, and Brea...that's separated by over 100 miles. I got a frantic call from Monique who left her building and went to her parents. I hope she's ok, and her home's not in any danger. - Derrick
Hubby's parents used to live in Brea. Scary. I hope Monique is ok. - Michelle Martinez
Same here. I walked outside about the same time you did and it smells roasty. As the day wore on, I could see the smoke from Sylmar and Yorba Linda. Right now, it's super hazy in our backyard at ground level. Crazy. - Anika Malone
Anika, I'm on the Pasadena end of Eagle Rock near Colorado and Figueroa and its gnarly. Just dreadful. My head's starting to hurt a bit from the few minutes I was out with the pup. :( - Derrick
When growing up in OC, I always got sick whenever there were fires in the area. - Chris W
pretty bad way over here on the west side too. i feel like i can't escape it. - Liz
So I'm like directly south of you. My allergies are kicking up but I think my headache is more from the 3 competing mariachi bands blasting. Do you have ashfall yet? - Anika Malone
Not much ashfall yet. Bet that will be way different in the morning. - Derrick
