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Verklin Shares Canoe Ventures' Objectives, Business Models and Challenges

Jack Myers | Posted 12.11.2008 | Business

Read More: David Verklin, Canoe Ventures, Television, Consumerism, Advertising, Cable Television, Technology, TV Advertising, Business News

Within the next 120 days, Verklin says Canoe will release its first product, a creative versioning tool that will enable cable TV networks to divide national inventory into demographic footprints.

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Consumer Confidence at Record Low

Wendy Wanderman | Posted 11.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Consumer Confidence, Consumerism, Consumer Confidence Low, Consumer Spending, Business News

It would seem very difficult for McCain to get elected if the country has absolutely no confidence in spending money because they fear that business conditions are worsening.

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Notes From a Yes Girl

Linda Kulman | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Tag Cloud, Republican National Committee, Easy Credit, U.S. News & World Report, Macbook, Consumerism, Apple MacBook Air, New York Times, Weak Economy, Republican Party, Pta, Happiness, Living News

Until my husband pointed it out, it hadn't occurred to me that it's not just worn-down parents who give in to "yes" too often, it's all of us. We live in a Yes! culture.

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What My Old House Can Teach Us about the Economy

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living

Read More: This Old House, Depression, Consumerism, Money, Economy, Real Estate, Consumer Spending, Recession, Living News

I read somewhere lately that we wear 20% of our clothes 80% of the time. Maybe we only need that 20%.

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The Irony of Irony

Ben Fractenberg | Posted 11.13.2008 | Style

Read More: Conspicuous Consumption, Sarcasm, Consumerism, Irony, Corporate Capitalism, Voter Registration, Urban Outfitters, Counter Culture, Voter Activism, Sardonic Detachment, Hipsters, Social Activism, Style News

Can I subvert corporate capitalism with my clothing choices and sardonic detachment? Probably not. Can I register people to vote by sincerely telling them why I think it is important? Most definitely.

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The Business Of Being A Hipster

Refinery29 Pipeline | Gabriel Bell | Posted 11.03.2008 | Style

Read More: Trends, Consumerism, Fashion, New York, Hipsters, Economy, Style News

You'll like this one: In an article in Forbes and syndicated on Racked, one writer took in the scene outside the Fashion Week presentation for Edun. "...

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Palin's The Latest Product We've Gobbled Up

Christopher Fink | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Marketing, Consumerism, Democracy, Corporate Power, Capitalism, Sarah Palin; Palin Bush; Palin Vice Presidential Candidate; Celebrity Politics;, Home News

As a new consumer product, Palin's candidacy is like those miraculous new prescription drugs that will cure us of all our troublesome afflictions. The problem is these products are frequently later discovered to prove hazardous to our health.

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Wrapping Up Our Plastic Habit...In More Plastic

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Design, Recycling, Plastic, Consumerism, Green Living, Green News

Not surprisingly, our world is awash in disposable plastic cutlery. Google Answers' best estimates put annual production at about 40 billion pieces in...

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Bottled Water: The Height of Stupidity

Diane Francis | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Food, Consumerism, Hoodwinked, Bottled Water Ban, Bottled Water Industry, Bottled Water, Green News

Bottled water is a joke, one of the biggest consumer and taxpayer ripoffs ever. I applaud California A.G. Jerry Brown who said recently that he will sue to block a proposed water-bottling operation in Northern California by Nestle.

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Britney's Downfall as Metaphor

Morgan Warners | Posted 08.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Consumerism, Youth, Britney Spears, Marketing Trends, Consumer Spending, Living News

How disgustingly coincidental is it that the good girl icon got blown sky high by sex, drugs, and anorexia at the same time that the economy has gone bust?

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A New Ethics of Consumption

Andy Posner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Waste, Consumerism, Consumer Waste, Consumption, Green News

Imagine a world in which landfills no longer exist, corporations make money while replenishing, cleansing and protecting natural resources, and consumers express their ethics with every purchase.

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A Dirty Picture For Patriots Of All Ages

Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Consumerism, Disney, Pollution, Wall-E, Pixar, Green News

WALL-E's anti-consumer, anti-corporate message is undermined by the regrettable array of cheap, mass-produced WALL-E tchotchkes destined for the garbage heap.

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A Rebuttal To The IT Department Blocking Bing

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Consumerism, Bulls**T Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Ask Bing, Bernanke, Facebook, Stan O'Neal, Merrill Lynch, Bank Write Downs, Yahoo, Apple, Airline Travel, Hedge Fund Managers, American Airlines, Youtube, Business News

A social network? Us? Could that be? Every day we have as serious a discussion of current business-related events as the facts warrant!

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Sales, Dollar Plunge; Oil Soars

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Retail Sales, Consumerism, Weak Sales, Retail, Retail Sales, Shopping, Weak Dollar, Recession Fears, U.S. Consumers, Commerce Department, Recession, Credit Crunch, Consumers, Mall Sales, Malls, Business News