My earlier posting is an example of how the internet provides consumers the unprecedented power to react to bad service without much effort, with a good release. If properly harnessed, this information should modulate abusive corporate behavior and strengthen consumers.
Here is a really interesting article on how people view their wealth in relative terms, and the exponential financial success of peers may make rich people most discontent! Like the story of the 49 coins, those who allow external measures – money accumulation, fame/celebrity, power/influence – to determine their self-worth and joy will suffer from [...]
Another great article on on mind, magic, and con men’s marketing. September 2, 2008 Op-Ed Contributor Fish or Foul? By EDWARD DOLNICK Chevy Chase, Md. WHEN news of the great fish fraud broke recently, New York’s elite restaurateurs rushed to defend their sushi. Phony labels on the red snapper? Knock-off tuna? Not to worry. Top [...]
This is neat. Could be useful for a viral marketing campaign. THE BALL You must click on the ball to make it change colors. Click here: http://mazzanet.id.au/ball.php
This is an article that showed unusual insight and courage, in writing and in life. August 31, 2008 Modern Love ‘You Need to Take My Son to Jail’ By ANN BAUER MY husband and I were sitting down to dinner when the police called. It was a female dispatcher whose voice I recognized from previous [...]
I hope every American family tonight got a chance to listen to Michelle Obama’s speech and to see the girls playfully send regards to their Dad. Her speech should shatter any sown doubts about her patriotism, & her commitment to what is great about America & the American dream. More important, seeing the family interact [...]
Totally unrelated to silly Republican attacks against Obama for being too popular and too hip, the Obama campaign (to which, though an independent, I’ve contributed the maximum allowed) some times seems to not quite get the need for a bit more gravitas. I just got an email (the umpteenth one in the last week) asking [...]
The only thing better than lyrics from Coldplay’s songs are their actual songs. Chris Martin’s vocals melt and reassemble the soul at once. Here are the lyrics from FIX YOU – but if you haven’t heard the song, you should. When You Try your best but you don’t succeed When you get what you want [...]
Convicted Of Charisma By Michael Kinsley Washington Post, 8/23/2008 Kinsley explains the Republican strategy for presidential elections. He says they don’t waste much time and energy probing the Democratic opponent’s weaknesses. Instead, they go after his biggest strength. So, in 2004 they attacked Kerry’s war service and in 1988 went after Dukakis’ populist appeal. [...]
A few weeks back I attended a play hosted by Stanford Law School, a one-man-show by Lawrence Fishburne about Thurgood Marshall. At the end, retiring Justice Marshall quotes a poem from his classmate Langston Hughes: Oh, let America be America again The land that never has been yet — And yet must be — the [...]