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I Believe in Advertising | ONLY SELECTED ADVERTISING | Advertising Blog & Community » Bonds Underwear: What Dad really wants I'm a sucker for a flowchart. (tags: ibelieveinadvertising advertising flowchart )

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Brand Is Culture, Culture Is Brand – Bill Taylor – Harvard Business Review Forget a "partnership" between HR and marketing. At Corner Bank, the two functions report to the same executive. It's a title I'd never seen before, and I asked Jana how her fellow bankers tended to react to it. "They're usually kind of […]

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On Book Guilt | booktwo.org The practice, no doubt common, of stacking the un- and partly-read next to the bed doesn’t help. It’s taken a long hard look at myself to be able to say: “you’re not enjoying this book. Move on. Read something else. It’s OK. You’re allowed. You don’t have to finish it.” […]

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Doing Their Small Part to Reduce the National Debt – NYTimes.com Since the program began, Americans have given about $80 million. Recent donors include a class of Alabama sixth graders who raised $324.50 by selling cookies… “Three hundred dollars to them is a large amount,” Ms. Gisi said. Even when a math teacher explained how […]

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kung fu grippe — Introducing “ū—”: A Distraction-Free Writing Environment "Whether you review writing apps, blog about writing apps, or simply author angry forum posts about the limited functionality and lack of distraction-free-environment-ness plaguing most writing apps, we think any serious writer will benefit from our gorgeous and minimalistic design choices." (tags: writing productivity funny […]

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Museums for Rescued Letters – Berlin's Buchstabenmuseum is a Typographer's Dream (GALLERY) "The Museum of Letters in Berlin is better known to the locals as Buchstabenmuseum. The gallery houses a huge collection of salvaged letters that were once part of large store and factory name signs." — Berlin is a good city to do this […]

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Outside Line » Blog Archive » Disruption, Disruption, Disruption – Why location services should increase their interference "How nice would it be if, once foursquare gathered enough data on your travels to establish that you’re falling into a routine, it suggested a point of interest based on the path between your two most-travelled check-ins that […]

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The Power Paradox | Greater Good Here Machiavelli failed to appreciate an important fact in the evolution of human hierarchies: that with increasing social intelligence, subordinates can form powerful alliances and constrain the actions of those in power. Power increasingly has come to rest on the actions and judgments of other group members. (tags: machiavelli […]

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Advertising – Pitches for Toning Shoes Defy a Lack of Evidence – NYTimes.com “It fits where the consumers’ heads are today in their time-stressed lives and look, Americans love a silver bullet,” he said. “ ‘All I have to do is walk around and I’ll be more fit?’ Americans love solutions like that.” (tags: consumer […]

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Blue Lines Revisited – gautamramdurai: I look forward to many things in… The idea, judging by this paragraph at any rate, is that we have a moral imperative to develop, say, Autotune so that T-Pain can make records with it. (tags: tonewing technology kevinkelly creativity genius potential )

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