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How not to sell a car. | Spexious
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How not to sell a car. September 6, 2006 at 11:39 pm · Filed under Business. Went shopping on Sunday for a new car, specifically looking at the Honda Civic Hybrid and the Toyota Prius. Both cars claim long wait times of 60 days, so shopping early is recommended (we believe we can keep our VW running through the end of the year). When we told our sales rep we were interested in learning about the Prius, he said “Prius? That’s a bad word! The dealership that didn’t care whether they got my business o...
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Giving up consistency as an organizational objective | Spexious
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Giving up consistency as an organizational objective. October 13, 2006 at 2:15 am · Filed under Business. Marketing ethnographer and anthropologist Grant McCracken let fly a question. This week that’s been gnawing at me for a while now:. What if we gave up consistency as an organizational objective? What if we stopped trying to integrate ventures and strategies? What if we just let the corporation rip as something essentially inconsistent and unintegrated? Consistency should be a tactic, not an objective...
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ITunes 7 shows no love for (Video) Podcasts. October 11, 2006 at 3:09 pm · Filed under Apple. A post this morning over on The Unofficial Apple Weblog gripes. About a change to the iTunes UI that moves access to enhanced podcast chapters out of the application window and up into the menubar. It posits two possibilities for the change: 1) that different UI designers were assigned to the project, and simply made a bad decision; or 2) that Apple no longer cares about UI design. Or of himself running around.
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No more waiting for a Prius? | Spexious
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No more waiting for a Prius? October 30, 2006 at 2:16 pm · Filed under Business. When we finally put down our $500 deposit for a 2007 Toyota Prius, we were told we’d have to wait two to four months–especially as the color (silver pine mica, aka green) and options package (with bluetooth phone connectivity) were the most popular choices. I received a call two days later telling me that we’d have the car within a two weeks. Five days later I was driving it off the lot. In my earlier post. Regarding a bad e...
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Complete exposure of one’s mania | Spexious
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Complete exposure of one’s mania. December 12, 2007 at 3:29 am · Filed under Creativity. 8220;When I hear incredible records, I feel like the people involved in those records were on some kind of a mania that was, like, possessing them, and that only they could really grasp. And if they tried to dumb it down for other people, it wouldn’t be as awesome, because it wouldn’t be as complete an exposure of their mania.”. 8211; Rock producer Steve Albini, in an interview with Jesse Thorn for. Ben Folds Serenad...
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Matt Mullenweg’s Third Law of Social Media | Spexious
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Matt Mullenweg’s Third Law of Social Media. February 24, 2008 at 4:46 pm · Filed under Internet. Founder of WordPress, speaking last week at the Northern Voice conference in Vancouver (audio available here. 8220;Unfiltered interaction is worse than useless at scale.”. Which Seesmic is learning the hard way. No comments yet ». Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email. Get eve...
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What will it take to kill the Aflac Duck? | Spexious
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What will it take to kill the Aflac Duck? February 21, 2007 at 1:48 am · Filed under Advertising. News today in AdvertisingAge that insurance giant Aflac was changing its marketing strategy. To reduce its reliance on the “Aflac Duck”, because while most US consumers recognize the feathered character (85% in testing), almost no one knows it has anything to do with insurance. Credit Aflac for paying attention to the internets, but for the love of God, please just kill the duck. Of the last century. In ...
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On Lessig’s Run for Congress | Spexious
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On Lessig’s Run for Congress. February 24, 2008 at 8:07 pm · Filed under Internet. Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig. Co-founder of Creative Commons and thought leader on issues of technology and intellectual property, recently switched the focus of his advocacy and research to the reform of the U.S. legislature. 8211;that he might work to change the system from the inside. Lessig is taking the suggestion seriously, and is asking for additional input. Adherence to the pledge opens a member of Congre...
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A portrait of the toddler as a creative problem solver | Spexious
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A portrait of the toddler as a creative problem solver. November 16, 2006 at 7:35 am · Filed under Language. Of course the key problem I need to solve creatively for myself is getting a new career. But tonight, within the context of swirling questions about the boy’s emotional, language, and sensory development, we witnessed an act of clear ingenuity. I will note here that we intend to steer him away from encountering any actual, working jugglers, until he has become bored of this activity.). Tonight, ho...
