A round up of unexpected things I’ve read recently. None of these are from The Onion!
- NPR Station Urges Listeners to Have Sex and Make More Listeners
“Chicago’s NPR station, WBEZ, is making a more intimate appeal than usual during its current membership drive. Rather than simply asking you for a few bucks, the station is asking you to “Go make babies” with other “interesting people”—who may be likely to become “interesting people” and future WBEZ listeners themselves.” (AdWeek, HT @ojezap) - Why Red State’s Erick Erickson is an interesting addition to Fox News
“We no longer have to transport ourselves to a magical alternate reality to ponder what a love child between Richard Nixon and Dick Cheney would look like. Given a Justice Department memo obtained by NBC News, we can conclude that child would look like none other than President Barack Obama.” Erick Erickson of RedState.com and Fox News. - When social media PR goes bad – Applebee’s edition
“One would think that in 2013 anyone who does social media professionally has the social Web figured out, particularly when one works for a big brand that has hundreds of thousands of customers who know how to use Facebook and Twitter.”But I guess we know what happens when one assumes.Let’s take Applebee’s as case in point.” (Ragan.com)
- We’re really living in a mobile media world
“By 2017, there will be an estimated 5.2 billion people using mobile phones, up from 4.3 billion in 2012. There will also be about 1.7 billion connected machines — anything from a home appliance to a car — in five years.” (Cecilia Kang, Washington Post)
and find out. (He’s not keen on them.) 
