RE: [Leica] The new, new thing

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Forgive my shouting. :-)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of B. D. Colen
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 11:18 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] The new, new thing
> 
> 
> GREAT IDEA!!
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Chuck
> > Albertson
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 11:11 AM
> > To: LUG
> > Subject: [Leica] The new, new thing
> >
> >
> > Got a good laugh from the following excerpt of Thomas Friedman's Op-Ed
> > column in this morning's New York Times, on the subject of  the coming
> > digital backlash. Contains an idea for marketing that some of the
> > professionals on the list might want to adopt.
> >
> > **************************************************
> > Day 5: Minneapolis. I am visiting hometown friends, Ken and Jill
> > Greer, who
> > own an ad agency that advertises its services on a Web site,
> > Thinkgreer.com.
> > Under photographic services, the Greers offered potential clients two
> > choices of photography: "Digital" or "Silver Halide."
> >
> > "People would call us," Ken recalled, "and say, 'I'm familiar 
> with digital
> > photography, but what is this new silver halide? What sort of
> > technology is
> > that?' You know, on the Internet everyone wants to be the first
> > to discover
> > something new, and they assumed that silver halide was this hot new
> > technology."
> >
> > Silver halide is just a fancy term for plain old film. But the 
> name is so
> > high-techy sounding that some people assumed it was the new, new
> > thing, and
> > they had to have it.
> >
> > **************************************************
> >
> > Chuck Albertson
> > Seattle, Wash.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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