Category Archives: Business

What Twitter is like to me

(Update, Jun 24, 2009: if you are in Victoria, BC, you may be interested in the list of Victoria, BC Twitterers.)
OK. So we have heard the words “Twitter” and “tweeting” and “tweets” etc bantered about. What is this Twitter thing anyway? Some call it micro-blogging. A really smart friend of mine has called it “one [...]

What I want for Christmas:

A sentient, talking naked mole rat that does everything Ron’s does.
Oh, and actually looks like Rufus, not like a real naked mole rat.

If advertising makes you feel bad, then it’s working!

Just read this article about “why skinny sells“. Um… well duh. Pretty much the purpose of advertising is to make you feel like you’re missing or lacking something, so you need to buy (whatever product/service here) to make yourself and your life peachy-keen.
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So yes, when we see the skinny girl hawking the beauty product, all [...]

CEO Income?

So I’m seeing these signs hammered onto telephone poles in various places around town. They look like plywood. Painted bright yellow. On them, painted in black spraypaint using stencils is:
CEO INCOME
Part-time from home.
CALL
1-800-XXX-XXXX
I don’t mean to be cynical, but… Mr./Ms. sign maker; if YOU were making a CEO Income part time from home, don’t you [...]

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