Re: [school-discuss] Crash the Super Bowl

["David M. Bucknell" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Go for it, Joel.  Refine as you work on it.  It's crazy enough to  
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    Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:37:45 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Joel Kahn <jj2kk4@xxxxxxxxx>
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 Subject: [school-discuss] Crash the Super Bowl
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> Justin Riddiough mentioned the health issue. Now I'm
> thinking about a separate ad campaign, with its own
> contest, sponsored by a coalition of firms in the
> health food area and related industries. There should
> be connections emphasized between nutrition issues and
> FLOSS. How about a commercial portraying Microsoft's
> products as the digital equivalent of junk food? A
> vitamin vendor could bundle a Linux distro DVD with
> each large bottle of their pills. Check this out as a
> slogan: "Softgels and software--make your corpus and
> your computer both run better."
>
> Anyway, there are some companies out there to look at.
> The eight-hundred-pound gorilla in health foods is
> General Nutrition Centers . . .
>
> http://www.gnc.com
>
> . . . and here's the email address for their marketing
> people if you want to start the discussion:
>
> marketing@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> More candidates:
>
> http://www.kashi.com
>
> http://www.healthvalley.com
>
> http://www.akins.com
>
> Other crazy ideas coming as I dream them up.
>
> Joel


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