wall street journal
How Stars Like Jay Z and Martha Steward End Up With Samsung Devices – Fast Company “Brunetti was a victim–or perhaps benefactor–of a Samsung program known as “White Glove.” It’s a marketing effort designed to convert Apple-slinging celebrities and business influencers into Samsung evangelists. When Beyoncé whips out her phone … Read More
Enter The Quiet Zone: Where Cell Service, Wi-Fi Are Banned – NPR “There are no physical signs you’ve entered the National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13,000-square-mile area that covers the eastern half of West Virginia. But the silence gives you a signal. Somewhere around the Virginia-West Virginia state line, the periodic … Read More
The Charitable-Industrial Complex – The New York Times “Early on in our philanthropic journey, my wife and I became aware of something I started to call Philanthropic Colonialism. I noticed that a donor had the urge to “save the day” in some fashion. People (including me) who had very little … Read More
There are two organizations devoted to using men’s facial hair for charity, and their once jocular cooperation has turned to cold rivalry. We’re talking, of course, of the American Moustache Institute and Movember Foundation. AMI is a small fraternity of volunteers, who fight for facial hair rights (which is nearly … Read More
[youtube width=”640″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGSKQnMH4g[/youtube] Remember that Volkswagen commercial that people were saying was racist? Charles Blow of the New York Times called it “like blackface but with different voices” while the Wall Street Journal’s Jimmy Cliff noted that the ad’s entire shtick was centred around “the fact that the accent was coming … Read More
