DiSesa set up a (pitiful) blog to help promote her book, "Seducing the Boys Club." It's on Blogspot, and it has four total posts. [We might also mention that although one of those posts touts the upcoming review of her book in the NYT business section, there is no follow up post to note that the reviewer called the book "contradictory" and "depressing"] And look at the terrifying, child-harming cowardly activity that took place on her blog just yesterday:

An anonymous comment! Who is thinking of the children? We must now wonder whether DiSesa herself has "a great deal of integrity." The only thing we can say for sure about her personally philosophy now is this: "Don't assume that men never listen. They listen like a dog does."

[Thanks to commenter belltolls]

... a colleague and friend of Mr. Tilley’s, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “There’s no way you or I will know why he did this, but it’s certainly not because of blogs.”

“I know it bothered him,” the colleague said, referring to the public criticism. “However, he was very intelligent, with lots of talents and skills, and this was not his whole life. Pointing to blogging and the media just trivializes a man whose life was not trivial.”

The Times also tracked down the 29-year-old woman who writes AgencySpy. She sent an email to the Times saying she does not feel responsible for Tilley's death:

“Perhaps the definition has changed as information has become more easily accessible,” she said. ”This new medium has different rules and that may include the scope of who and who isn’t in the public eye. Some people subscribe to these new notions and some don’t.

“I’m saddened by Paul Tilley’s death, but I do not feel that my blog postings contributed to the events that occurred.”

Nina DiSesa of ad agency McCann Erickson Worldwide, who has a new book arguing that men listen "like a dog does," said blogs should be more respectful. Her original quote, "BAD blogger, BAD!" was apparently rejected, and anyway most male readers were too busy sniffing butts and howling at the moon to finish the article.

Her nemesis George Parker at the advertising blog AdScam, who recently called "the vast majority of the work" coming out of DiSesa's firm "shit," said traffic to his site has tripled in the wake of the suicide.

[Times]

• Learn to appreciate men. Men like women who like them.

• Remember that women are biologically wired to succeed.

• Don't assume that men never listen. They listen like a dog does.

• Screw the rules. Make up your own.

Nina DiSesa Says: February 25, 2008 at 2:06 pm

Paul Tilley worked for me for three years at JWT Chicago, from 1991 through 1994, then I left for New York. Even then we could see that this young man was destined for big things in this business. He was not only a wonderful writer and creative thinker, he was fun to be around and had a generosity of spirit that made us all happy to be in the same agency. And he was just a kid at that time.

These hateful advertising blogs seem to be written by people who are bitter about the business. Perhaps they tried to make it in this tough industry and failed and now all they can do is make derogatory comments about the people who are smart enough and brave enough to work at the top of this challenging business. It's so easy to criticize creative people because what we do is so arbitrary and subject to almost anyone's opinion, but only a few have the guts and the brains to be creative directors. It's a lonely job and the people who keep insulting creative directors on this blog should spend their time trying to be better at their own jobs. I notice that no one uses their real name. Mine is Nina DiSesa, I am still in the business and working every day as the chairman of McCann Erickson's New York office. And I don't care if everyone takes a potshot at me. People who write and contribute to these ugly blogs are losers. Their comments don't bother me in the least.