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December 15, 2011
December 15, 2011
Saddam Hussien's looted Wedgwood plates end up in the East Village, then are repatriated with help of State Department to Iraqi people.
Watch video:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/looted-dishes-used-in-art-project-returned-to-iraq/?ref=arts
December 14, 2011, 2:41 PM
Looted Dishes Used in Art Project Returned to Iraq
By RANDY KENNEDY
Over the last several years, as cultural patrimony cases have roiled the artworld, federal marshals have made surprise visits to numerous...
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June 7, 2011
June 7, 2011
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October 24, 2009
October 24, 2009
This New Yorker article by James Surowiecki suggests that in just a few years Americans (and the world) will be consuming like its 1999. And I think there is some truth to this. If one adds to this information from another recent New Yorker article about cycles (one theorist says a bust comes every 8.6 years), then we do seem destined to recover. Aka: more people will be buying home goods soon.
INCONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION
by James Surowiecki
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August 17, 2009
August 17, 2009
Please see the attached screen shot. This is the sign up form for Nike's Ballers Network, a Facebook application that lets you arrange basketball games with others. To use the app, I was surprised I had to allow the app to pull all my profile information, photos, friends info, and other content. Does that seem a bit intrusive? I can go to a web page anonymously, but this app downloads my life before I can even view it. View Post
May 18, 2009
May 18, 2009
The following article shows how Chrysler is using its website to drive real world sales. Excerpts:
Nearly six months before the launch, a team at Organic started calculating how much Chrysler would need to spend on marketing to sell its target number of vehicles by figuring out how much Web traffic the company needed to generate.
When the ad campaign went live, the system started calculating whether the commercials were generating ...
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October 23, 2008
October 23, 2008
An article in today's Wall St. Journal sheds light on home goods manufacturers' ability to fight discounting.
Excerpt:
Blocking discounting used to be clearly an anticompetitive practice, but a Supreme Court ruling last year changed things. The court said it wasn't illegal for manufacturers and retailers to agree to minimum prices, but that such agreements must be examined case by case for possible antitrust violations. ...
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February 11, 2008
February 11, 2008
The Times reports that the price to advertise online will soon rise due to increased demand:
"The cost of ads per 1,000 viewers “bottomed out” in 2007, averaging $3.31, according to the report. This year, it predicted, ad rates will start to rise, reaching $3.86 by 2011."
Full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/technology/02online.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=dan+mitchell&st=nyt&oref=slogin
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November 26, 2007
November 26, 2007
Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving that is the online equivalent of Black Friday, is discussed in today's NY Post and New York Times (links to both are below). Just as online sales will rise in other industries, this day/week should be give our industry a bump.
New York Post:
BIG HOPES BUILDING FOR 'CYBER MONDAY'
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11262007/business/big_hopes_building_for_cyber_monday_308154.htm
New York Times:
Online Holiday Shopping ...
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September 26, 2007
September 26, 2007
Nancy Meyer, HFN's senior editor for furniture and lighting, writes in this week's issue that brick and mortar lighting retailers should better compete with retailers that sell exclusively online. She proposes that brick and mortar retailers compete by offering better service–and hoping manufactures support MSRP policies. I would add to this that the physical retailer can join the online retailer by creating a website. Although ...
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