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Long Live Conan

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Conan O’Brien et Rebecca Romijn-Stamos

February 9, 2009

Red Glasses

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I agree with what most of Deepak Chopra has to say. He never says anything negative, so it’s hard not to agree with what he’s talking about. He’s just trying to help people. But when he says things wearing those red glasses with the bling bling on the sides, I have a hard time taking anything he says seriously.

It’s like he put them on for a Saturday Night Live skit. It’s like if the Dalai Lama all of a sudden started wearing a Nike T-shirt with a gold chain, or Mikhail Gorbachev promoting bags by Luis Vuitton, actually that’s happened, so I scratch that. You get the idea though, there’s the good old disconnect going on, one of these things doesn’t seem to fit.

Really though, for Chopra, who espouses a Buddhist philosophy, it’s hilariously and a bit odd for him to wear something that makes a statement of perhaps vanity or ego, it’s hard to take, or more, it’s hard not to laugh at.

The same goes for Tom Daschle, who has taken to wearing some fire hydrant red glasses these days, all the while he promotes a pragmatic, logical and understated set of health care programs or economic reform“ in his support for Obama. As Maureen Dowd wrote in one of her recent articles: “It should have been a harbinger of doom when Daschle began sporting those determined-to-be-hip round red glasses.”

Is this an age thing? Do both of these men fall into a mid life type of crisis? Where these red glasses act as their means of making a change. Who knows, but it’s hard not to laugh at their pics.

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January 20, 2009

Martin Luther King

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This was his last speech before he was assassinated.

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January 3, 2009

Simply the Best Soccer Video

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I know I’m watched. I know all eyes are on me.

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December 11, 2008

Hollywood Feels the Credit Crunch

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LA might have reduce tax rates to draw back some movie makers to LA:

Like the rest of Hollywood, Guber is discovering that Los Angeles’ Dream Factory is not immune when the rest of the country slips into recession. Cinemas around the U.S. are selling fewer tickets. DVD sales, a major profit engine, are tanking. And within weeks, the Screen Actors Guild may authorize a strike that could throw Hollywood into its second work stoppage in a year.
It’s hard to spot the worry lines when half the town is botoxed. But the angst is there.

December 3, 2008

Polygamist Women Stealing Conan O’Brien’s Look!

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Conan did a quick skit on how his hair style is being co-opted by the polygamist wives. Take a look.

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November 28, 2008

The End of Wall Street

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Genius article about the financial collapse and those who saw it coming.

The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liarâ€™s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.

Read the article in Portfolio…

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November 23, 2008

Proctor & Google Swap Workers

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Do you really need to pay that much for advertising anymore? Why not just create a viral campaign or a YouTube video. Of course you’ll need to spend some money to create the campaign and get the initial traffic going, but if you do it wisely you don’t need to spend nearly as much as you would on TV. Big advertisers like P&G are learning how to spend money online wisely, and their learning by working with and at Google.

Both companies had something to gain. Mountain View-based Google controls 74 percent of â€œsearch termâ€ advertising spending, the Journal reported, citing the research firm eMarketer Inc. Meanwhile, Cincinnati-based P&G ranked as the nationâ€™s largest advertiser in 2007, having spent $5.2 billion compared with $4.9 billion in 2006, according to Advertising Age magazine.

Among the revelations for P&G workers: Google data revealed that online searches for the word â€œcouponsâ€ rose about 50 percent in a 12-month period, according to the Journal.

P&G regularly offers pamphlets of coupons for its products through its Brand Saver newspaper insert.

November 8, 2008

Nike’s Running Network

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Nike has created a social network that actually helps them make money and sell shoes – at least running shoes so far. Nike is always ahead of the game and everyone else tries to catch up and copy what they’re doing:

In the two years since it launched Nike+, a technology that tracks data of every run and connects runners around the world at a Web site, nikeplus.com, Nike has built a legion of fans. In August, for instance, 800,000 runners logged on and signed up to run a 10K race sponsored by Nike simultaneously in 25 cities, from Chicago to SÃ£o Paulo. Now the company is testing a social network to promote its basketball shoes.

How Nike+ benefits the company’s bottom line is harder to gauge. Some analysts back up Nike’s claims that the site is renewing the popularity of its running shoes. SportsOneSource, a Princeton (N.J.) market research firm, says Nike accounted for 48% of all running-shoe sales in the U.S in 2006. Today, its share is 61%. “A significant amount of the growth comes from Nike+,” says Matt Powell, a SportsOneSource analyst.

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March 9, 2009

Jon Stewart Hammers CNBC

February 23, 2009

Long Live Conan

February 9, 2009

Red Glasses

January 20, 2009

Martin Luther King

January 3, 2009

Simply the Best Soccer Video

December 11, 2008

Hollywood Feels the Credit Crunch

December 3, 2008

Polygamist Women Stealing Conan O’Brien’s Look!

November 28, 2008

The End of Wall Street

November 23, 2008

Proctor & Google Swap Workers

November 8, 2008

Nike’s Running Network