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WatchI sometimes wonder if the media is working to make American primary votes worthless. Part of me thinks taking down candidates before they even reach a vote must be because the candidates are truly terrible, but Jay Rosen makes the case that it is all a bit of a circus.
Shades, maybe, of Howard Dean. No one (that is, on TV or in a paper) believed he was up to much until normal people actually...
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Ernest Dichter: The Soul of Brands + Why We Buy →
A good profile of motivational researcher Ernest Dichter from the Economist. It looks at his ideas about American consumers’ emotional drive to shop and the backlash against his work in the late ’50s from, among others, Vance Packard in The Hidden Persuaders.
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In the case of soap, he found that bathing was a ritual that afforded rare moments of personal indulgence,...
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December 2011
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My New Year's resolution is 640 x 480 →
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Infographic: A history of advertising
History of advertising. My favorite parts: Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days included product placements for shipping companies; David Ogilvy says, “The consumer is not a moron; she’s your wife.”
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Doesn’t it make you feel kinda good that the ancient Egyptians pounded ads into steel? Your hilarious tagline is way less ephemeral that way. Also,...
“The craft is currently in what NASA calls, not undramatically, “the...”
– From an NPR report on the Voyager space probe
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A job for life
“I went to work in 1940 at the gas company. First I was secretary to the sales manager and then in 1955, after I’d been there for 15 years, I quit and had a daughter. And then about six years later they called, my job was open – would I come back? So I went back and worked another 23 years. When I went back, they had given me every raise they had had in the last six years so I started with...
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L.U.G.B Naval Umbrellas
Pax Britannia, brought to you through umbrellas.
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From the end of the 17th century until well into the 20th century, the British Royal Navy was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire. The L.U.G.B Naval umbrellas take inspiration from these services and the imagery and dress that surround them. Water & Weather – an...
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