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Think of the children, Wheelock prof says!
Think of the imminent bankruptcy of the T, T spokesman says!
From the understated Herald article.
Aaah! Stick Figures!
Make them go away! Bring back the Svedka T&A Robots!
I wonder what they think
Of the sperm ad.
I hate the sperm ad so very
I hate the sperm ad so very much!
Sperm Ad
I hate it, too. And I'm all for porno, so it's not prudery. It's just tacky.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Tacky?
It's not like they used real sperm for those ads, ya know.
I feel really sad for those
I feel really sad for those poor sperm who are still swimming on that poster, but are obviously too late to fertilize the dollar sign.
I feel really sad for
Anyone going to see this or any other Judd Apatow male-chick flicks. They are all recycled romantic comedy crap movies. Something bad happens, laugh a little, guy gets girl, end. Why pay money for these?
Speaking of advertising on the T, I for one
am getting sick and tired of their practice of selling "saturation bombing" deals - whereby a single advertiser is granted rights to splatter their message all over a bus, train car, or station.
Take North Station, which just switched advertisers the other day. Between the commuter rail platforms, the commuter rail waiting area, the subway mezannine and fare area, and the subway platforms, there are now approximately eighty to one hundred ads, posters, banners, decals, etc. etc. which are all promoting A SINGLE PRODUCT (some new silly basketball video game). Can you say 'overkill'?
Now, I'm no advertising expert, but is seems to me that the T could actually make much more money if they sold their available spaces in smaller blocks (say two to four at a time) instead of giving single advertisers free reign within a given area.
"Station domination"
is the official name for this. Really!
green line ads
It's really sad on the green line. They might as well just have Nike or Apple buy the train for us... well not so much Apple right now.
But honestly, it looks like a giant iPod bullet moseying down a line like a good conformist peon doing its job, pushing products and services. Then we all must get in line and swipe our badges of permission, so we can wish we had a seat while being subjected to the elbows and backpacks of our 'neighbors' and enjoy the overly-loud intercom and more ads inside.
I love riding the T! :D
Dentyne
seems to be the favored advertiser for Red Line cars. They also had a 'street team' handing out free samples at Faneuil Hall today. Their ads make sense only to Facebook users.
The terms that they use are
The terms that they use are hardly facebook specific:
"Friend Request Accepted" -- Any social networking site that uses the term "friends" to refer to people.
"The Original Voicemail"
"The Original Instant Message"
"Chatroom Full"
And some others that I can't recall