I recently told my marketing director that I'd take a meeting with Kim Jong Il. Well, I can't. He's not seeing people right now, and he seems like a pretty cruel bastard anyway, so maybe not. But what I meant was that I am intellectually curious about people. All people.

This week: Barack Obama, who ran one of the best political campaigns ever and was voted Ad Age's Marketer of the Year in 2008, just can't seem to strike the right note on the economy. What gives? Ken Wheaton, Natalie Zmuda and Chris Pollac...

Just weeks after Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook's location-based service at a press conference in Silicon Valley, a Places-based campaign has popped up the University of Kentucky.

A group of motorcyclists called Ride With the 40 is riding across the country to raise money and awareness for the Families of Flight 93. The group's goal, with help from four McCann New York volunteers, is to raise $1 million to help FOF93 and the National Parks Foundation build a nationally recognized memorial at the flight's Sept. 11 crash site in Shanksville, Pa., in honor of the 40 Americans who died there.

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