Slate Magazine
The Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, but few of the news stories marking the anniversary have explained the event's full significance. The Cold War had been raging for a quarter-century before the wall went up on Aug. 13, 1961. How could its collapse, on Nov. 9, 1989, have heralded the Cold War's demise?[more ...] (Read More)
Logic+Emotion
So what is customer advocacy anyway? Well for starters, they don't have to be your customers—they can be any part of your entire constituency. Employees, business partners, friends—you name it. But here's the point. You need them more than ever. Right now, if you are planning social initiatives, your biggest challenge is g (Read More)
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
by Guest Contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami SaidI was going to begin this post be talking about Mohandas Gandhi. I was going to chastise Bernice King, daughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and new leader of the civil rights organization Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC (Read More)
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The president’s standing has fallen in the state that jump-started his campaign, especially among independents and Republicans. (Read More)
Social Media Explorer
Companies, brands and their respective marketing and public relations managers are clamoring to know what people are saying about them on the web. I would offer that social media monitoring has been the single-largest technology-based industry boom in the last 10 years, though search engine optimization firms might win that (Read More)
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People-Press.org:
Fox News Viewed as Most Ideological Network — Swine Flu Tops Weekly News Interest — The Fox News Channel is viewed by Americans in more ideological terms than other television news networks. And while the public is evenly divided in its view of hosts of cable news programs having … . (Read More)
WalletPop Blog
Filed under: Food, Shopping, EconomizerCostco has started to accept food stamps at its warehouse clubs nationwide, which could be great for poor people looking for deals on food, or the worst decision in the history of buying groceries.Anyone who has been to a Costco store knows the enticements of impulse buys that you'd no (Read More)
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Comment about the White House’s war on Fox News Channel and relations between previous Presidents and the media…. (Read More)
The New Yorker
Hi, Ellis—
Let me introduce myself. My name is Gineen Klein, and I’ve been brought on as an intern to replace the promotion department here at Propensity Books. First, let me say that I absolutely love “Clancy the Doofus Beagle: A Love Story” and have . . . (Read More)
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
by Guest Contributor Lisa, originally published at Sociological ImagesProtesters in Little Rock, Arkansas, (1959) declared that “race mixing” (or school integration) was “communism”:A reader at Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish argues that accusations of communism then, and socialism now, are not only about the redistributio (Read More)
Submitted by Gonzalo
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http://www.macdailynews.com Once again, like a used care salesman, Microsoft says "Trust me." When it comes to WIndows, Microsoft's promises never end and they never get realized, either. (Read More)
: I am so tired of these commercials. Is Windows perfect? No, it's not. Are PC's perfect? No (and Mac's are PC's you know, in that PC means personal computer).
This advertising campaign was brilliant, two years ago. At this point it's become incredibly patronizing. I applaud Apple for being aggressive, but at some point you need to change it up, and I've tired of the smug sense of superiority that these ads inject into the Mac/Windows debate.
Submitted by Robdiana
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Totally understandable. It’s been a busy past few days so I figured that a recap would be in order.After my 9th chemo treatment, I got some awesome news. The masses in my neck, chest, and abdomen had been labeled by my Dr. as “resolved” after a PET scan. That meant I’m going in the right direction. I currently have 2 (Read More)
Power Line
In a post from earlier this evening, John shows how various leftists have exaggerated the extent to which conservatives took pleasure from the fact that Chicago was not selected to host the 2016 Olympics. As John notes, the left is relying on a small number of examples.Nonetheless, it's unfortunate that there are any exam (Read More)
New York Times
It’s time for President Obama to recall that in winning the White House he spoke vigorously in favor of a shield law that trusts the judiciary to settle disclosure conflicts.
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: quotations from Limbaugh, Beck, NewsMax, Druge, Malkin, Weekly Standard, etc., all cheering about the defeat of the US bid for the 2016 Olumpics. Limbaugh: "The worst day of Obama's presidency!" Are they all twelve years old or something?
: 12 years old may be giving them too much credit. At this point, they're taking advantage of every conceivable negative to paint the President in a negative light.