Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Check this out.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGaOQKJik-s]
I'm working out the timing on an interview with the director, Brandon McCormick. I was struck by a comment he made next to the YouTube video.
"It's less about being preachy, more about projecting myself into a farcical world."
Isn't the best satire not preachy?
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
In what has become my new favorite example of corporate culture, the domain name http://www.anticonsumerism.com/ has been registered by one of those companies that registers likely domain names in bulk and then sells it off at inflated prices to anyone interested.
HA!
In the mean time, as my planned interview fell through, here ...
Posted in Consumer spending, Credit debt | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
If those folks at the New York Times can be trusted, personal consumption accounts for 70 percent of the economy. That freak you out? Think of it. All the business mergers, corporate purchases, billion-dollar companies buying billion-dollar companies, and so on make up less than one-third of the economy. The lion's ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Anticonsumerism is really as broad a topic as business is, but there are several topics I plan to focus on in particular in this blog.
1. Anticonsumer efforts themselves
Did you know that Slow Down Week starts Monday? It's an effort by the folks at anticonsumer magazine Adbusters to get people to ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
I know I'm not all that original and that's a good thing. There's a heck of a lot of people out there using the Internet to talk about consumerism.
Granted, there's a little irony there, as pointed out by this anonymous post on the Sustainable Enterprises Web site.
"If you are so anticonsumerism yourself, ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Welcome to the Paulblog. Granted, it's not called that, but that's a pretty catchy name. I permit you to use it elsewhere.
Anyway, here's the deal: There's a lot of stuff we buy. You know how Christmas just ended? Probably with retailers about $475,000,000,000 richer, if the National Retail Federation is ...
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