February 2012
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“I mean, I think my sound is post-Internet. People my age had the Internet when...”
– - Claire Boucher
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“You don’t learn to write through reading anymore than you learn carpentry by...”
– 25 Things I Want To Say To “So-Called” Aspiring Writers
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets →
Good 9-page read on how Target uses data to understand consumers and predict purchase behaviour. Consumers’ shopping habits are most vulnerable during major life changes and Target targets their shoppers with the knowledge gathered through data mining.
The Febreeze case study on positioning and piggybacking exisiting habits makes a good point on how qualitative analyses can help in...
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“Success might be the best revenge, but apparently, being an asshole is forever.”
– Ryan Schreiber, Watch: M.I.A gives Super Bowl the finger.
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Taiwanese man dies playing video games →
A Taiwanese man died while playing video games at an Internet cafe as dozens of other patrons carried on for hours afterwards apparently unaware that they were sitting near a corpse, according to police.
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The waitress last saw him talking on the phone around noon on Wednesday and his body had apparently been sitting there for up to nine hours without any of the 30 other people in the...
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January 2012
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