Michael Karnjanaprakorn

After having 5,000+ unread posts and never logging into my Google Reader, I decided to clean up my feeds after reading this excellent post by Eric.  As you can see, I’ve tiered off my folders with “tier 1″ being the blogs I enjoy reading.  After deleted some blogs off my list and organizing the ones [...]

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BLUEPRINT 3 from kwest on Vimeo. Thanks to D-LO The Big Asian for spotting this…

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I just got a newsletter from SeamlessWeb (Thanks Matt) and even though I work in branding, communications, advertising, marketing; sometimes, the smallest things make the biggest difference.  And yes, I am going to post about seamless web to get the $100 in free food coupons.  And yes, I’m going to make all of you read [...]

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Starting today, I’m going 30 days without alcohol. Which makes the target end date August 1. If you don’t think I can make it, I’m taking bets. Felix was the first to sign up. $100 dinner is on the line. And to entice you to take this bet. I have a lot of social functions [...]

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I’m going to deviate what I usually talk about – branding, entrepreneurship, social change, music, etc – to talk about stereotypes. Yes, I know, it’s a pretty touchy subject but I had an interesting chat last night at dinner about Asian-American males in culture. The main theme… Asian American males are demasculinized and portrayed as [...]

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I’ve been out of service for the past week because of Mardi Gras. I’m still recovering. Too many parades, beads, floats and drinks! I’ll be out of service for the next two weeks as I’ll be moving from New Orleans to NYC. Today is my last day in New Orleans. Also the day that Barack [...]

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Adrian has challenged Seth and I to a Nike Plus showdown.  Even though I’ve been running for 10+ years now, I have never been quite the distance runner.  I used to run cross-country and track through high school.  I think our 4×800 relay team had the fastest time in the nation at one point.  But, I’ve never been [...]

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These kids are hot fire.  

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The Wire is my absolute favorite show in the world. I wrote a post about it a couple months ago. “The Wire has received critical acclaim for its realistic portrayal of urban life and uncommonly deep exploration of sociological themes, and has been called the best show on television by TIME, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, [...]

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2007 was a great year. Started it off in London working at Naked. Took a month off and traveled to Barcelona and Prague. Moved to New Orleans to work at Trumpet. Took weekend trips to Virginia, NYC, San Diego, San Francisco and Chicago. Great year. In starting 2008, I’m closing down 2007 with the top [...]

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