It’s Friday night, I just got finished with a busy week at work and instead of going out I’m relaxing in front of my laptop blogging. Here’s what’s on my mind…

Super Bowl Ads: That’s right, I’m completely skipping the game because it was a complete embarrassment and moving straight to the ads. While the advertising industry feels they didn’t have such a great showing, I think they did a pretty good job. The problem is there weren’t any major stand outs everyone is talking about. Check out the USA Today Ad Meter to see national results, watch all the commercials and rank them.

My Top Picks:

• FedEx- Pigeon carriers can’t compete with FedEx
• Bridgestone- Critters scream before a near-miss
• Bud Light- Hidden Bud Light bottles at a wine-tasting party
• E-Trade- Baby commercials
• Cars.com- Plan B commercials
• Audi- Godfather spoof
• Victoria’s Secret- Let the real games begin

Thinking back there are a lot of other great ones that deserve honorable mention: Doritos mouse, Tide talking stain, Vitamin Water Shaq horse race, Sobe thriller dance, Budweiser clydesdales, Coca-Cola balloons, Toyota badgers, AMP jump start, etc.

GM & Ford: The two biggest American auto makers have been struggling to make a come back for several years. They are both making some smart moves along with some terrible ones. On the good side I think GM did a great job with the redesigned Malibu. I actually like the styling of the higher end model. I would say they have a winner on their hands but it’s gonna take a lot to win back buyers that have moved on to imports. On the Ford front I’m wondering what they were thinking promoting the an electronics system called “Sync, Powered by Microsoft.” Are they not aware that Microsoft software is not exactly known to be user friendly?

Hot Fuzz: I watched it last night and thought it was great. The middle was a bit slow and it didn’t have as much blunt humor as I expected, but the ludicrous sarcasm of the plot, especially the ending was impressively hilarious.

Bank Deposits From Home/Work: I read this article and thought, it’s about time! This is such a simple solution it’s brilliant. CheckFree has created the missing link that will help complete the vision of absolute remote banking. While this won’t save me all that much time this is big for small businesses.

That’s all for now. Enjoy the weekend.

Here is a shining example of how the power of the internet and advertising can be leveraged for good.  The folks behind Poverty.com have launched an amazing site called FreeRice where everyone both young and old can help donate food to the hungry for free while also improving vocabulary skills.

Here’s how it works: 

• Go to FreeRice.com  and play the vocabulary game
• For every correct answer 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program thanks to advertisers supporting the site

Check it out and feel good about yourself going into Thanksgiving week.

What a great week!  This will go down as one of my best weeks in 2007.  Here’s a quick recap.

The Red Sox swept the Rockies to win the World Series; went on to celebrate with a parade through Boston and to top it off Jonathan Papelbon made a hilarious appearance on Letterman. 

*Update:  The “bedazzler” himself David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez soon fell suit with comical late night appearances of their own. 

The Celtics won their season opener.

The Patriots defeated the Colt’s in their toughest game of the season which also happened to be the christening of HD on my new 42″ plasma.

Last, but certainly not least, on Friday NameMedia filed an S-1 with the SEC for a $172.5 million IPO.  Read more here:  http://www.redherring.com/Home/23100 

For a long time now I’ve been thinking about starting a blog but procrastination got the best of me.  Well, the time has come.  No more procrastinating.  No more thinking to myself, wow that is a great idea for a blog post.  It’s time to share my thoughts, views, ideas, rants, opinions, etc. simply for the sake of personal expression. 

Over the coming days, weeks, months, years I plan to use this blog as a platform to tell my story, pose thought provoking questions, provide occasional reviews, and mostly just ramble about whatever thoughts are going through my head.

As I put my stamp on the world wide web I hope to spur some interesting conversation and maybe even leave you with some useful information.  I also hope to hear from as many people that read this as possible.  Leave me a comment anytime.

With that said, let the blogging begin.

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