The New York Times advertises itself with stem cell research

I’ve just noticed a New York Times paid “stem cell research” Google Adwords ad in my gmail inbox besides the automated “Rejuvenation Research Vol. 11, No. 1, Feb 2008 is now available online” mail. That said, The New York Times is ranking the “stem cell” buzzword high and fishes for layman readers interested in the whole regmed topic for its own stem cell site both in the search results and next to articles (in the content network - explains Anna, my online marketer wife, next to me). I wonder for how long they have been paying for these ads? Other mainstream journals have similar ads, like The Washington Post. C’mon folks, let’s spend a part of those ad dollars to real stem cell research too!!!

How to iPhonize a modestly high-impact science journal?

I’ve joust found this ad in a recent Science magazine with a SciPhone in it:

Then I took a look on the journal’s website with my iPhone and here’s how it looks like through the cloudy eyes of my old MacBook:

Nanodrop video ad from the Brown iGEM team

Imagine a world where grad students and postdocs are well paid by manufacturers and companies by doing ads like the following one. The Brown iGEM Team shows off the Nanodrop Spectrophotometer and compares it to regular spectrophotometers in a funny, easy to catch way. (They were not paid by this.) And how the disclaimers would look like in peer review articles in that ad world?

Link: New wave of science marketing: Brown University iGEM 2007