Frank Barnako in his Internet Daily discusses “Why Wikipedia Can Be An Advertiser’s Problem,” noting that Wiki entries on branded products are placing highly on search engine results, exposing users to potentially critical information about the products. Barnako quotes PR guru Steve Rubel (different one) to the effect that brand owners should resist…

Designer Chris illustrates the step by step process of creating a logo.

Various logos, reimagined. HT kottke.

Austrian website Monochrom (an art-technology-philosophy group) attempts to investigate branding power by asking consumers to draw famous logos from memory.

Discussion of backlash agaisnt Coke in Somalia, now that Islamic Militias have taken over, via NY Times.

NY Times: “Mr. Peanut, You’re Perfect. Now Change.”

We have previously noted how the ‘clash of civilizatiions’ manifests itself in small part as reactions against Western brands (MECCA Cola and QUIBLA Cola, and the RAZANNE Doll).
However, as illustration of unintended consequences, I suggest that but for Al Queda and the Taliban, there would not be a Starbucks in Kandahar…

NY Times: ‘What’s Red, Familiar, Ubiquitous and May Be On its Way Out?”