Craig Newmark is a big fan of Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty, which aims to fight the insanity of the beauty-industrial complex while selling lots of cleansing products. Such a big fan that he says he’s offered some advice to the people at Unilever/Dove and its ad agency, Ogilvy and Mather:
Take an ad in a fashion magazine, like Vogue,
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I have a column in the new Time with Hillary C. and Barry O. on the cover and online here. It begins:
For decades, scholars have been churning out studies on the impact the economy has on presidential elections. The not-very-surprising message of most of them: economic trouble is bad news for the party that occupies the White House.
The
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Like many viewers, I watched this ABC 20/20 report when it first aired in December with jaws-open, eyes-bugging horror. It told the story of two women workers for Halliburton/KBR who had been sent to Iraq. There, one, Jamie Lee Jones, a young computer tech, was gang-raped on her fourth day by coworkers after being drugged; the other, Tracy …
I’m coining a word. Colleague + enemy = collenemy (rhymes with frienemy). Now that I write it, it sounds vaguely gastrointestinal. I perhaps ought to have consulted this instructional on Wikihow that teaches you how to make up nonsense words.
I’ve had some collenemies in my day. At the financial trade magazine where I worked as an …
Let’s see. In the years preceding and all throughout my current pregnancy, my mom’s advanced cancer got progressively worse. I traveled to Japan many times to help out. On one visit in 2006, she nearly died on the operating table as I waited outside. On the last visit, I crashed their car. And last month, my dad, too, wound up in the …
The WSJ has a story today about how the global credit crunch is pounding the UK economy. One passage caught my eye:
According to the most recent data from Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, total consumer debt in the U.K. stood at 164% of annual disposable income at the end of 2006, by far the highest
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Last Tuesday, I voted in my state’s primary. I’ll even tell you who I voted for: Hillary Clinton. I’m a registered Democrat, and I’ve been voting for nearly 20 years, ever since I came to this country. In past presidential elections, I voted for Kerry, Gore, Clinton and Clinton.
But being a reporter, should I have voted at all?
And now, as promised, my e-mail from Gilles Saint-Paul of the Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse in response to my question about why economists outside the U.S. seem to think we need a recession while economists within argue that we need to do whatever we can to fight it.
The U.S. economy does not “need” a recession but it
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Fiscal clocks have been reset, budgets replenished. ‘Course, the economy’s looking like my kid just before she hurls—but even that might work to your advantage, as the barf hasn’t yet hit the fan. Come summer, it may be too late.
Brad Karsh of Ad Age offers these five tips to a raise-request strategy; they’re geared for the ad exec, …
From an e-mail I got a few minutes ago from the Moody’s Training Services Group:
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From “Archaeology of the Crisis,” the angst-ridden January 2008 report by Moody’s chief international …
I’ve been busy writing my column, and I figure this blog really isn’t the place anybody turns to for election analysis. But one thing struck me about last night’s Republican results that is of some economic interest: Immigration wasn’t anywhere close to being a decisive issue. If it were, Romney would have done a lot better in …
Like most journalists, I get a lot of entreaties from public relations people asking me to meet with their clients. Those clients range from CEOs of fast-food companies to chiefs of online matchmaking sites to real estate developers creating jobs in the Middle East. Often, they’ve just written a book. Sometimes, they’re hawking new …
