To Draw Reluctant Young Buyers, G.M. Turns to MTV - NYTimes.com
9 weeks ago by ignatz
GM leaps into the vibrant youthful 35-45 demographic
marketing
failure
commerce
gm
mtv
ha
9 weeks ago by ignatz
Spam-erican Apparel « DIS Magazine
10 weeks ago by ignatz
the post-everything cyberheck of zazzle
zazzle
commerce
clothing
ha
10 weeks ago by ignatz
Rock Lee Is Ready to Give the Reverse Lotus to Your Marketing Needs (Topless Robot)
february 2012 by ignatz
I had no idea marketing was a LARP
gaaaah
commerce
failure
nerds
via:kellyramsey
february 2012 by ignatz
Dollars for Doctors - ProPublica
january 2012 by ignatz
investigative series on payoffs to physicians by medical companies
medicine
commerce
doom
villainy
propublica
journalism
january 2012 by ignatz
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin | Magazine
november 2011 by ignatz
A farmer in Massachusetts named David Forster began accepting bitcoins as payment for alpaca socks.
bitcoin
failure
commerce
finance
welp
november 2011 by ignatz
A vicious cycle in the used-car business - latimes.com
october 2011 by ignatz
Buy Here Pay Here car dealers, latest loan sharks
finance
commerce
capitalism
villainy
underbanked
october 2011 by ignatz
Shakti Innovations
october 2011 by ignatz
SHAKTI Noise Reduction Technology otherwise known as hilarious fraud
ha
commerce
villainy
fraud
audiophiles
october 2011 by ignatz
Viva Zapata? Mmmm...No BEATING FISH MEAL INTO WEB SYNERGY - August 17, 1998
october 2011 by ignatz
Fishmeal company attempted web portal empire. "We're going to be in the Internet," he adds, "as long as it makes sense."
bubble
1998
ha
90s
failure
commerce
portal
october 2011 by ignatz
Mail-Order Mysteries Is More Fun Than a Barrel of Sea-Monkeys
october 2011 by ignatz
those nutso mail order ads from comic books
books
comics
commerce
usa
weird
mailorder
october 2011 by ignatz
Encouragement | Loss of Job | Hallmark.com
september 2011 by ignatz
happy cartoon dog cheers you up post pink slip
doom
finance
depression
commerce
greetingcards
september 2011 by ignatz
Murder Auction
august 2011 by ignatz
your one stop shop for John Wayne Gacy's paintings and the Manson rookie card
crime
commerce
murder
art
august 2011 by ignatz
Box Turtle Bulletin » No Links: Why We Don’t Link To Certain Web Sites
may 2011 by ignatz
list of news sites known to be part of the "sue for blockquotes" bs
copyright
news
reporting
law
commerce
villainy
publishing
may 2011 by ignatz
Druckversion - The Bittersweet Wars: Battle Pits Cocoa Speculators against Chocolate Makers - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
april 2011 by ignatz
Anthony Ward, the man behind the attack on Nauck, is sitting in an office in London. The fund manager and trader has been given the nickname "Choc Finger," a play on the James Bond villain Goldfinger. In the industry, though, it is meant as a term of admiration.
food
chocolate
cocoa
commerce
villainy
april 2011 by ignatz
Snide Remarks - Leaving in a Huff - www.ericdsnider.com - The Official Website of Eric D. Snider
april 2011 by ignatz
Technology changes, but the behavior of asshole publishers does not.
journalism
aol
huffingtonpost
failure
commerce
villainy
publishing
ha
doomed
april 2011 by ignatz
systemwise
march 2011 by ignatz
Blog of an organizational sociologist studying the U.S. health care industry
sociology
healthcare
usa
research
blog
commerce
doom
march 2011 by ignatz
Pleasant Family Shopping
march 2011 by ignatz
A nostalgic look back at supermarkets, discount stores and more from the past
design
obsess
retail
architecture
history
commerce
supermarkets
march 2011 by ignatz
Ark Music Factory
march 2011 by ignatz
vanity press for aspiring stars with cash
music
outsidermusic
vanity
commerce
ha
march 2011 by ignatz
N.Tel – What’s It All Mean?
january 2011 by ignatz
"New Balance looks at the military as a group of athletes"
war
marketing
commerce
advertising
january 2011 by ignatz
Kaffeekrise in der DDR – Wikipedia
january 2011 by ignatz
the east german coffee crisis of 1977-79
coffee
failure
commerce
ddr
germany
history
totranslate
january 2011 by ignatz
Collapse of a Closed Society: The ... - Google Books
january 2011 by ignatz
The "Coffee Crisis" of 1976-79 in which currency failures screwed up the coffee supply and near revolt occurred
coffee
government
failure
commerce
january 2011 by ignatz
Condo Hammer - Lee Valley Tools
january 2011 by ignatz
Empires in Decline: the Hammer for People who Shouldn't Have a Hammer
stupid
tools
failure
commerce
january 2011 by ignatz
Companies hire investigators to hunt down sick workers
january 2011 by ignatz
"equal opportunity privacy consultant" is the new Pinkerton
labor
privacy
healthcare
business
oppression
villainy
commerce
employment
january 2011 by ignatz
The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss - Official Site
december 2010 by ignatz
Fad diet + geek hubris repackaged for the "hacks" crowd.
fail
diets
christwhatanasshole
wired
hacks
villainy
commerce
december 2010 by ignatz
deadmalls DOT com
december 2009 by ignatz
dead shopping malls.
urbandecay
commerce
usa
malls
shoppingmalls
failure
december 2009 by ignatz
At University of Phoenix, Allegations of Enrollment Abuses Persist - ProPublica
november 2009 by ignatz
surprise! degree mill fibs to students. they're the single largest recipient of federal educational grants, too.
education
commerce
villainy
fraud
november 2009 by ignatz
Where The Buffalo Roamed « Weather Sealed
september 2009 by ignatz
Where is the point in the continental U.S. furthest from any McDonalds?
usa
mcdonalds
commerce
architecturef
failure
geography
mapping
september 2009 by ignatz
Billboard Frees Charts for Web Audiences
august 2009 by ignatz
Dead magazine offers irrelevant top 40 charts, joins online music sales too late. "So lame it hurts" is about right.
via:whatevernevermind
music
failure
commerce
entertainment
august 2009 by ignatz
Marketers Get Valedictorian to Plug Movie in Speech
july 2009 by ignatz
FOX marketers pay a high school valedictorian $1800 to promote "I Love You, Beth Cooper" in the graduation speech.
via:kcetlocal
commerce
education
edutainment
marketing
doom
advertising
yeesh
july 2009 by ignatz
LRB · John Lanchester: It’s Finished
may 2009 by ignatz
John Lanchester on the British side of the Great Financial Collapse
economics
finance
banking
crash
financialcrash
failure
commerce
villainy
via:acblicious
may 2009 by ignatz
Common Surgeries and Charges Comparison
may 2009 by ignatz
Compare costs for common surgeries in the State of California, a web tool.
medicine
commerce
healthcare
california
tools
money
surgery
may 2009 by ignatz
Sexy cafes are Little Saigon's twist on Hooters
may 2009 by ignatz
coffee served by strippers in little saigon.
orangecounty
sex
coffee
littlesaigon
commerce
may 2009 by ignatz
Vioxx maker Merck and Co drew up doctor hit list | The Australian
april 2009 by ignatz
AN international drug company made a hit list of doctors who had to be "neutralised" or discredited because they criticised the anti-arthritis drug the pharmaceutical giant produced.
villainy
commerce
pharmaceuticals
drugs
medicine
business
crime
april 2009 by ignatz
Tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a Wall Street trading room
february 2009 by ignatz
sociology paper: an "ethnology of arbitrage" from Industrial and Corporate Change
commerce
finance
sociology
money
arbitrage
february 2009 by ignatz
Client data from mortgage broker found in trash
february 2009 by ignatz
Folders with personal information for numerous clients of a local mortgage broker sat for days at a public recycling site, overflowing from the tops of several bins in an apparently glaring identity theft risk.
orangecounty
failure
commerce
news
privacy
newportbeach
security
mortgage
financialcollapse
february 2009 by ignatz
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
february 2009 by ignatz
For five years, Li's formula, known as a Gaussian copula function, looked like an unambiguously positive breakthrough, a piece of financial technology that allowed hugely complex risks to be modeled with more ease and accuracy than ever before
failure
commerce
finance
economics
money
math
february 2009 by ignatz
IBM Offers To Move Laid Off Workers To India -- InformationWeek
february 2009 by ignatz
IBM offers employees the chance to outsource themselves to faraway places and make pennies on the dollar
failure
commerce
villainy
grimmeathookfuture
ibm
outsourcing
february 2009 by ignatz
Camel introduces "Crush" to flavor up cigarette industry - Swagwell [beta]
january 2009 by ignatz
Camel Crush is a unique tobacco technology, allowing adult tobacco consumers to smoke a non-menthol product and at any point, squeeze the filter to change the taste experience to menthol.
commerce
yeesh
marketing
tobacco
january 2009 by ignatz
Palin Fan Mistakenly Buys Notorious Effigy With Noose On eBay - cbs2.com
january 2009 by ignatz
A Sarah Palin supporter has suffered buyer's remorse after winning an eBay auction for an effigy that was hung by a noose from a West Hollywood home.
failure
commerce
usa
politics
sarahpalin
effigies
january 2009 by ignatz
ABC News: Government Regulators Aided IndyMac Cover-Up, Maybe Others
january 2009 by ignatz
Treasury regulators assisted and even suggested fraud by IndyMac bank and maybe others
commerce
villainy
banking
fraud
indymac
financialcollapse
january 2009 by ignatz
FT.com / Comment / Analysis - California scheming
january 2009 by ignatz
Everyone wants a piece of the green action that supposedly will get hot with the new administration
commerce
usa
politics
obama
technology
environment
green
stimulus
january 2009 by ignatz
Northrop Unveils Bitchin' Bomber-Cycle | Danger Room from Wired.com
january 2009 by ignatz
Novelty motorcycle built to commemorate the 20th anniversary of weapon of mass destruction.
failure
commerce
villainy
usa
toys
advertising
war
weapons
motorcycles
b-2
january 2009 by ignatz
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption - The New York Review of Books
january 2009 by ignatz
Collusion between pharm companies and influential doctors is way worse than I thought even.
commerce
villainy
medicine
science
psychiatry
pharmaceuticals
pharm
january 2009 by ignatz
Real Time Economics : A Chorus of Cassandras
january 2009 by ignatz
some of the people who, to varying degrees, saw the housing bust and credit crisis coming
commerce
finance
crash
economics
cassandra
predictions
toldyouso
january 2009 by ignatz
Green Bible creates controversy
december 2008 by ignatz
The Bible contains a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, essays from theologians and a "Green Subject Index" that organizes verses by topic, including air, dust and pollution... "But others fear the new Bible, which has been endorsed by secular groups such as the Sierra Club and the Humane Society, will mislead Christians."
failure
commerce
religion
trainwreck
environment
churchianity
bible
environmentalism
december 2008 by ignatz
douglain: AGAINST SLEEP AND NIGHTMARE ON PONZI SCHEMES
december 2008 by ignatz
Excerpt from "Against Sleep and Nightmares" on Ponzi schemes and capitalism. Pithy and smart.
commerce
villainy
finance
fraud
left
capitalism
ponzischemes
december 2008 by ignatz
Gorey Details - For all your Edward Gorey needs
december 2008 by ignatz
cards shirts etc from Gorey art
commerce
shopping
edwardgorey
gorey
december 2008 by ignatz
Green Grows Up at Santa Monica’s Eco Gift Festival | Los Angeles Metblogs
december 2008 by ignatz
This is exactly the problem with Green. It's lifestyle marketing, which is part of the problem.
failure
commerce
usa
environment
marketing
green
december 2008 by ignatz
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