Monthly Archives: October 2009
Your Race Affects Your Contact Rate When Online Dating
More great data and pretty charts from the kids at OKCupid (yes the dating website!) proving that what we say and what we do are often very different animals. The website’s blog often dissects the crates and crates of data
Your Race Affects Your Contact Rate When Online Dating
More great data and pretty charts from the kids at OKCupid (yes the dating website!) proving that what we say and what we do are often very different animals. The website’s blog often dissects the crates and crates of data
Scientists’ Changing Findings on Kids and Race
An excerpt from the book NurtureShock was published in Newsweek last month. (Link to the book here.) One of the many topics the authors studied in the book is how and when we humans become aware of race and how
Scientists’ Changing Findings on Kids and Race
An excerpt from the book NurtureShock was published in Newsweek last month. (Link to the book here.) One of the many topics the authors studied in the book is how and when we humans become aware of race and how
Check Out WireTap Magazine
The website WireTap is new-found favorite of mine. Heavy on advisers from Current TV, The Nation, and AlterNet, the site is a great platform for young (appears to be mostly college age) writers / content creators from the most diverse
Check Out WireTap Magazine
The website WireTap is new-found favorite of mine. Heavy on advisers from Current TV, The Nation, and AlterNet, the site is a great platform for young (appears to be mostly college age) writers / content creators from the most diverse
McQueen Hearts Social Media
Another high fashion embrace of the pedestrian internet and social media. I own nothing by McQueen, I have a hard time imagining that I would ever fit into anything (and that it would look as it should) by McQueen, not
McQueen Hearts Social Media
Another high fashion embrace of the pedestrian internet and social media. I own nothing by McQueen, I have a hard time imagining that I would ever fit into anything (and that it would look as it should) by McQueen, not
The Latest Generational Shopping Data
Excellent, data-packed article on current American shopping patterns. It parses out differences between different ages of shoppers, even in cases where the net results are similar. While boomers and Gen Y-ers have become more value-driven, they demonstrate this new mindset
The Latest Generational Shopping Data
Excellent, data-packed article on current American shopping patterns. It parses out differences between different ages of shoppers, even in cases where the net results are similar. While boomers and Gen Y-ers have become more value-driven, they demonstrate this new mindset
Do New Yorkers Make Healthier Food Choices?
Follow-up on calorie lists in restaurant chains. Apparently I am not the only one who believes they are making better choices – I wonder if my receipts would show that I am just kidding myself? A study of New York
Do New Yorkers Make Healthier Food Choices?
Follow-up on calorie lists in restaurant chains. Apparently I am not the only one who believes they are making better choices – I wonder if my receipts would show that I am just kidding myself? A study of New York
LiLo + Ungaro = (surprise!) Disaster
Lindsay Lohan and Spanish designer Estrella Archs showed off their new hot mess of a Spring 2010 Ungaro collection today in Paris. And the Fashion World’s Mean Girls could simply not stop ragging on how bad it was. (To be
LiLo + Ungaro = (surprise!) Disaster
Lindsay Lohan and Spanish designer Estrella Archs showed off their new hot mess of a Spring 2010 Ungaro collection today in Paris. And the Fashion World’s Mean Girls could simply not stop ragging on how bad it was. (To be
How We Spend Now
Go take a gander at Shoppers’ Shifting Priorities, another fantastic graphic at the New York Times Online Last year, consumers pulled back on spending and the retail sector suffered. But not all retailers are faring worse than they did a
How We Spend Now
Go take a gander at Shoppers’ Shifting Priorities, another fantastic graphic at the New York Times Online Last year, consumers pulled back on spending and the retail sector suffered. But not all retailers are faring worse than they did a
Embracing Student Blogs
Dozens of colleges — including Amherst, Bates, Carleton, Colby, Vassar, Wellesley and Yale — are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful marketing tool for high school students, who these days are less interested in
Embracing Student Blogs
Dozens of colleges — including Amherst, Bates, Carleton, Colby, Vassar, Wellesley and Yale — are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful marketing tool for high school students, who these days are less interested in
Puff, I Feel the Same Way Man
SEAN ‘DIDDY’ COMBS tells Black Book magazine, “I guess the things that used to thrill me don’t thrill me so much anymore. “Intimacy is more important to me than sleeping with hot chicks. I don’t even know if I really
Puff, I Feel the Same Way Man
SEAN ‘DIDDY’ COMBS tells Black Book magazine, “I guess the things that used to thrill me don’t thrill me so much anymore. “Intimacy is more important to me than sleeping with hot chicks. I don’t even know if I really
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