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Not In Love With New Anymore

Schuyler Brown | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Marketing Trends, Consumerism, Neophilia, Newness, Schuyler Brown, Trendspotting, Trends, Marketing, New Thinking, Green Living, Consumption, Consumer Spending, Living News
Schuyler Brown

Neophilia is in itself a new word. It was popularized around 1999 in techie and sci-fi subcultures to describe the trait of being enthralled by all things novel.

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Story of Reusing The City: Welcome to High Line

Richard Laermer | Posted 07.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Values, Parks, Trendspotting, Reuse, Trends, Green Living, High Line, Friends of the High Line, Bryant Park, New York City, New York, New York News
Richard Laermer

Here, a town with many (other) problems turned an eyesore into what New Yorkers value most -- a public space that cost us nothing out of pocket.

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Publishing Is Dead [Part 2]: Can We Make It About Writers For A Change?

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Publishing, Writers, Tolstoy, Vanity Press, Death of Publishing, Laermer.com, Trendspotting, Book Business, Reading, Literature, Books, Media News
Richard Laermer

Write your masterpiece, put it on Amazon or in the back of your van, take it to the willing with spare cash at a state fair. If it's good it'll sell. You just got to make them open it up.

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Introducing a New Holiday: "Totally Honest with Yourself Week"

Richard Laermer | Posted 04.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Holiday, Celebrate, Honesty, Laermer.com, Trendspotting, New You, Good News, Betterment, Relationships, Economy, Fat, Jobs, Sex, Celebrations, Bad Diets, Holidays, Feeling Better, Ho, Thwyw, Living News
Richard Laermer

Ah, spring. A time to clean your house, but in my own way of thinking: Let's start to celebrate a new holiday this year in honor of what I'm dubbing Spring Cleaning for Our Souls: So it's Totally Honest with Yourself Week!

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Good News is Out: Bad's the Rage

Richard Laermer | Posted 01.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Obama Wins, Bandwagoning, Trendspotting, Organic Food, Richard Laermer, Bad News, Advertising, Recession, Business News
Richard Laermer

Some enterprising projects have figured out how to... prosper in some cases despite experiencing the bleakest of times by making our (now official) Recession seem almost cool.

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Bandwagoning: The Lazy Man's Guide to Success

Richard Laermer | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Laermer.com, Trendspotting, New World Order, Laziness, Bandwagoning, Jobs, Innovation, Lazy Business, Business News
Richard Laermer

Maybe we can live better, saner, even more successful lives by jumping on the bandwagon, not sitting at the reins trying to blaze the trail ourselves. I call it bandwagoning.

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Uniqlo Heat Tech Human Vending Machine

Dave Pinter | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Clothing, Consumerism, New York, Style, Shopping, Uniqlo, Trendspotting, Trends, Cool Hunting, Publicity, Heat Tech, Heattech, Business News
Dave Pinter

PSFK stopped by Times Square earlier today to check out Uniqlo's Human Vending Machine for their HEATTECH apparel line.

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It's The Bad News Bores: Celebratory Nature of News

Richard Laermer | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media

Read More: First-Movers, News Junkies, Bad News, Laermer.com, Trendspotting, 9/11, Laermer, Media News
Richard Laermer

Welcome to news observation as a sport. It's based on how often and how fast we can celebrate (typically bad) news with each other, and we all want to win as often as possible.

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Getting or Finding? Sad Truth About Shopping (Replete With Gerunds Galore)

Richard Laermer | Posted 10.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Laermer.com, Trendspotting, Online Shopping, European Currency, Web Searching, Living News
Richard Laermer

I was in London visiting a pal, walking through Piccadilly and thinking this place is so old-fashioned! There are bookstores, record stores (yes, rec...

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Information Gone Wild: Good News about Alerts

Richard Laermer | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Democratic Convention, Trendspotting, 1968 Democratic National Convention, Newsgathering, Google, Google News, Media News
Richard Laermer

Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings. Check your inbox. It's a Google Alert!

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Will The Real John Edwards Sit Down?

Richard Laermer | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards, Tabloids, Extramarital Affair, Trendspotting, Elizabeth Edwards, Personal Life Edwards, John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, John Edwards Affair, Cheaters, Adultery, Rielle Hunter, Adulterer, Politics News
Richard Laermer

In the end Edwards, like Spitzer before him, will fade into the Gary Hart night. What will we be left with but more tawdry feelings about a couple we admired. There's nothing good in it. Let's stop gossiping.

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"We Are Not Alone"

Richard Laermer | Posted 08.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Laermer.com, Trendspotting, Change, Mediocrity, Belief System, End of Newspapers, Sam Smith, Business News
Richard Laermer

Choose to read up on the crap that seems like opinion (blogs) but in many cases is knowledge passed subtly from a source to someone with an eagle eye.

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Gumby Is The Meaning of Life (Amen!)

Richard Laermer | Posted 08.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Trendspotting, Flexibility, Participation, Gumby, Generation Kill, Snarkiness, Good Attitude, Innovation, Can Do Attitude, The Inner Life, Living News
Richard Laermer

Gumby is more than ever becoming key to success in whatever world you tool around in. Gumby is attitude. Gumby is action. Gumby is results.

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The End of the Heath Ledger Story

Richard Laermer | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: The Joker, Trendspotting, Actor Deaths, The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger, Batman, Jack Nicholson, Hollywood Hype, Entertainment News
Richard Laermer

If in fact Dark Knight didn't want to make a show out of Heath Ledger's passing then it was probably not the canniest move to alert Oscar-watchers of his performance.

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When You Speak, Sometimes Audiences Teach You More Than You Know

Richard Laermer | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Skeptic, Seinfeld, Public Speaking, Trendspotting, Communication Tips, Future Trends, Making Money, Yahoo!, Futurist, Forward-Thinking, Happiness, Business News
Richard Laermer

Majestic confidence is false -- it's fake. Looking into the future is uncertain except for those who read magic eight balls with an uncanny ability.

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