February 2012
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How Carrots Became The New Junk Food by Douglas... →
This is a fascinating piece about how to market something relatively common
in uncommon ways:
Dunn’s team talked to more than 20 agencies. One firm pitched a commercial
with a vegetable army, baby carrots in the lead, storming a beach defended
by junk food. Another proposed pairing two unlikely celebrities together,
or maybe rival politicians, with the punch line “Look who’s...
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How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy - The Atlantic →
This is a great read. Though it’s definitely unsettling to imagine cats are leading us to early deaths and possibly madness. I always knew there was somethings suspicious about them.
A Guide to the Digital Advertising Industry That's... →
Get to know the digital advertising technology that’s going to eventually
take over your life:
“The significance of tailored commercial messages and offers goes far
beyond whether or not the targeted persons buy the products. Advertisements
and discounts are status signals: they alert people as to their social
position. If you consistently get ads for low-priced cars, regional...
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In a virtual world, reality is king: Why Lana Del...
First, if you’re interested in pop culture or ridiculous internet semi-controversies, take a minute to read Alex Pappademas’ examination and review of pop singer Lana Del Rey and her new album. Almost all discussion of Lana Del Rey is not about her music (which is both bizarre and predictable), but instead her persona and whether she should be considered an authentic artist or merely a...
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January 2012
16 posts
Jonathan Franzen is worried about e-books. Should...
At the Hay festival in Cartagena, Colombia, acclaimed author Jonathan
Franzen discussed at length the woes of increasingly popular e-books (1):
“Someone worked really hard to make the language just right,
just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it
in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change
that, move it around. So for a...
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No posts today - stop SOPA/PIPA →
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What Occupy can learn from the Hunger Games by... →
This is a fascinating examination not only of the popularity of dystopian novels among modern young adults and how that reading, from Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games to Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta, affect their perceptions of the real social issues we face today:
Unlike in escapist fantasies such as “Star Wars,” where the rebels unambiguously deserve our support as...
SOPA-Supporting News Outlets Aren't Covering SOPA... →
MSNBC, Fox News, ABC, CBS and NBC have dedicated no time to covering the Stop Online Piracy Act in their evening newscasts since Oct. 1, according to a report by Ben Dimiero of Media Matters For America.
CNN, meanwhile, has dedicated a single evening news segment to the issue. All of the companies covered in the report have either publicly supported SOPA or have parent companies that have done...
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Would Alabama and LSU have played if UA had won...
After last night’s 21-0 win over LSU, Alabama is enjoying it’s 2,342th national championship win. The two teams facing each other again has been a contentious topic after the teams’ November 5th 9-6 ‘game of the century.’ My theory is that we would not have seen a match up if the Crimson Tide had edged out the Tigers. This is because the BCS is basically an arbitrary...
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December 2011
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I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping ... by... →
Roger Ebert is on point with his list describing why movie revenues continue to decline:
2. Ticket prices are too high. People have always made that complaint, but historically the movies have been cheap compared to concerts, major league sports and restaurants. Not so much any longer. No matter what your opinion is about 3D, the charm of paying a hefty surcharge has worn off for the...
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“In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we...”
– (via lukehackney)
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WatchIt’s important to understand how media and art changes because of the mechanisms that make them possible, in this case, the way that tintype photography appears is because of the science behind how it works. That’s something that changes as technology advances, but shouldn’t be lost:
Photographer Robert Shimmin has revived a 150-year old photographic tradition known as...
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A Year in Reading 2011 (The Millions) →
The Millions creates a collection of best books read in the previous year by notable people including writers, musicians and other creative people. This year’s list includes suggestions from Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jennifer Egan to Guns ‘n Roses bassist Duff McKagan. It’s worth checking out.
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From Fashion to Housewares, Are We in a... →
This essay is fascinating and incredible - basically Anderson suggests that throughout the past design has wildly changed every 20 years, but not much has changed since 1992. He says some of that may have to do with radical technological, political and economic changes have allowed us to focus on the past instead of innovating new designs:
Why is this happening? In some large measure, I think,...
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