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Let’s be clear, right from the beginning: The world doesn’t need another blog about advertising. There are plenty of well established voices in play which have truly earned the right to be heard. If you are not already following these folks, I think it would be well worth your time to get to know them:

• AdFreak
• AdPulp
• Adrants
• AdScam/The Horror!
• Ads of the World
• Advergirl
• Adverlicious
• BannerBlog
• The Consumerist
• The Denver Egotist
• The Fruits of Imagination
• I Believe in Advertising
• Jaffe Juice
• Make the Logo Bigger
• Movie Marketing Madness
• No Man’s Blog
• PSFK
• Russell Davies
• Seth Godin’s Blog
• Talent Imitates, Genius Steals
• The Toad Stool
• YesButNoButYes

That is just a list of some of the perspectives that I personally value. Advertising Age maintains a list of over 800 advertising blogs. It’s called the AdAge 150. Irony or excess, you choose.

So, then…thanks for reading. You can move along now, and get back to your well-lived life.

Removing tongue from cheek, here is flairification. The Truth Well Flaired found here is a newcomer/outsider’s perspective on the practice of commercial persuasion. Two years ago, after a decade in creative communications, I crossed the client/agency line and joined the creative team of one of the South’s oldest ad firms – CJRW. That’s why I claim the mantle of newcomer. I say outsider, because I live in Little Rock, not the London/Manhattan/Chicago/El Segundo center of the Advertising world. Add to that the fact that I’ve never read Ogilvy on Advertising, nor have I ever watched an episode of Mad Men and you could say that I’m not an outsider, I’m an outcast.

flairification is here to appreciate when advertising is done well, and of course, something will have to be said when it’s not.

I hope that you dig this little project. If you do, and you’d like to play along, please consider yourself invited to email in a post, and I’ll add it to the flow of flair, and you to the contributor list. (however, editorial prerogative may be applied) Here’s the email address for submissions: flair [at] extraawesome dotcom.

Flairify away!