Mimi Zeiger announces the return of Loud Paper, her incomparable architecture zine founded ten years ago. This time, Loud Paper re-emerges in blog form.

I've been watching and participating since Loud Paper was a student thesis at SCI_Arc.

It's great to have Loud Paper back. Go read it.

PBS's Frontline carried another fantastic episode today, "the Persuaders," on advertising today.

In 1957, Vance Packard wrote "The Hidden Persuaders" on how corporations employed subliminal techniques. Do the Persuaders really need to be hidden anymore? Frontline finds out. As usual, the show has an impressive web site with discussions between key analysts, supplemental material, opportunities to speak out, and the entire show online (just in cased you missed it).