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Stocks Slip, Products Ship

Advertising is a strange beast. It seems odd to think that thirty second blips of entertainment would ever actually persuade us to buy products. Surely we’re not that gullible. Besides which, most advertising isn’t an attempt to persuade,…

December 31 2011, 1:27am

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Fame Done Right

As a blog concerned with the effect of the media on the mind, it’s hard not to be concerned with the effects of fame on the populace and the individuals that enjoy fame. My niece is currently loving…

February 2 2010, 11:28pm

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New Levels of Stinginess Probed By Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch is going to take his ball and go home. In a recent interview, he informed all that he intends to eventually block Google and some other search engines from indexing his News Corp. sites and then…

November 10 2009, 10:48am

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Chrome OS Breeds Metaphors and Debate

I’m going to do something I don’t often do on this blog and that is jump on the blogging band-wagon that is the discussion of the Google Chrome OS announced today. From MacWorld to the Washington Post, Google…

July 8 2009, 3:15pm

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