If you sell anything or buy anything, you have to check out Fast Company’s article about the ubiquity of branding. Their meta-analysis of how modern branding works is as funny as it is deeply probing. Super Size Me’s Morgan Spurlock, driven insane by advertising within other content (just like yours truly), decided to make a movie solely based on product …
How to have a rational discussion
It’s an increasingly lost art. From Simoleon Sense:
Thank you for posting all that great personal data
CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs Actually, the implications of this are even more interesting. Sure, for some there will be transparency. For others, there will be a very concerted effort to make events fly below the radar. There are social questions:How much would you pay not to be tracked? To use only hard currency? To have a simple …
Will anybody declare war again?
The United States is now involved in Operation Odyssey Dawn, a No-Fly-Zone in which things are being blown up in a nation that is not the United States. Back when I was a callow youth in the 1930s, this was referred to as “war.” Yet this is not a war. It’s a “No-Fly-Zone,” a term that reminds me of basketball …
Wall Street may collapse due to rain storm in El Salvador
Why is it that every time an event of any global importance hits the news cycle, a horde of journalists begin speculating that “this could be the event that causes Wall Street to collapse?” The better question remains – If the financial system in America is so fragile, why do people keep trusting their retirement to it? Sheer habit? What …