
19 2024 July
The Assassination Attempt and Why the “Obvious” Conclusions Are Usually Wrong
The biggest news story of the past week was certainly the assassination attempt on former President Trump’s life and almost immediately in the aftermath of...
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28 2024 May
Truecaller Offers Perfectly Useless Feature to Let AI Respond to Calls in Your Voice
This week’s example of unnecessary AI innovation comes from the caller ID platform Truecaller which is using Microsoft’s Personal Voice technology to power a new...
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15 2024 May
The True Story of How America Killed the Jalapeño Pepper
Have you noticed that the jalapeño pepper seems to be getting less and less spicy? For the longest time, I figured this was just a personal...
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09 2023 September
12 Wild Stories from a Nightlife Concierge in Ibiza
An alternate title for this article could easily have been: “Ibiza: Where Rich Assholes Go to Party.” That’s the impression you’ll pretty immediately have as...
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26 2023 July
When Influencer Marketing Goes Predictably Wrong
When a fast fashion retailer often criticized for negative environmental and labor track record wants to recast its brand image, it is not a good...
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19 2023 July
The Crocs Engagement Ring Is Here for Couples Who Want to Stand Out (and Think Style Is Overrated)
How do you reinvent something as staid and traditional as the engagement ring? One jeweler in the UK had the bright idea to create this “Croc...
Read Now04 2023 July
Extreme Pride in Being American Remains Near Record Low
A new Gallup poll released just in time for the 4th of July leads with the eye-catching headline that extreme pride in being American is at...
Read Now10 2022 October
California DMV Approves Usage of Pointless Digital License Plates
The problem is, this license plate doesn’t do any of the things that drivers would actually want from a digital plate. Like changing my plate number to ...
Read Now16 2017 June
Apple Imagines Destroying The World At WWDC
During its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) this past week described by one media outlet as a “parody of itself,” Apple launched a video intended to...
Read Now01 2014 April
The Selfie Silencer And Other Silly Startup Ideas That You’ll Wish Were Real
The greatest word The Simpsons ever offered to the English language was “craptacular.” When Bart Simpson used it to describe Homer’s Christmas decorations, he introduced...
Read Now05 2013 July
Domino’s Proves You Can Simultaneously Have Great Advertising And Bad Marketing
Great advertising appeals to emotions. In the world of marketing pizza, this usually leads to some new “innovation” in pizza making that might induce cravings...
Read Now12 2012 January
5 Reasons All The Hype About .anything Domain Names Is Like Y2K
The land grab is officially starting. For the first time since the popularization of the Internet, the big news today is that ICANN is opening...
Read Now28 2011 November
The Best & Worst Marketing From BlackFriday + CyberMonday
The fact that most retailers use the term "doorbuster" to describe their best deals from this weekend should tell you everything you need to know...
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