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Medellín, Colombia Voted Innovative City Of The Year By Arguably Less-Deserving Sponsors

William Jarrell — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:00:37 +0000

Last week, Medellín, Colombia was voted Best City of 2012 in terms of innovation, besting the two other finalists, Tel Aviv and New York City. The beautiful city of Medellín deserves to be recognized for the drastic advancements it’s made since the brutal Escobar reign centered around cocaine. However, and I hate to say this, the […]

Facebook Thinks You Probably Don’t Need To See This

Matt Algren — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:03:31 +0000

Time was, if you clicked the “like” button on a Facebook page, the page’s posts were automatically served to your Facebook news feed. That was the point of “liking” a page — for the more internet-capable, it was touted as a replacement for RSS. But just as Facebook now tries to automate the publication of […]

Federal Facebook Filing Finds Financial Flexibility

Matt Algren — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:39:43 +0000

The big social media news this week goes to Facebook. Officials from the world’s biggest social network released required financial documents Wednesday in preparation for the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in a few months, which will transition the company from a privately held firm to a publicly traded company. This is the first time […]

New Ratings System Makes Faces Red Over Altered Body Images

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:38:04 +0000

There is a long and ugly history of society dictating to women what our bodies should look like. In ancient Greece, women were supposed to be lithe and muscular with small breasts. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, fuller bodies were considered ideal, as captured by Rubens. Ads from the past century in America showed an aversion to […]

Kenneth Cole’s New Website — Social Conscience Or Cynical Marketing?

Matt Algren — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:15:13 +0000

Fashion designer and marketing provocateur Kenneth Cole has opened a new website that he says is aimed at raising social and political issues to foster discussion. Long known for socially conscious advertisements, Cole’s Where Do You Stand continues that tradition online. Or does it? Cole’s team has worked hard to give the website a slick, […]

Segues: You’re Soaking In It

Justin Davis — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:47:38 +0000

Hidden amongst you is a world rife with technology you don’t notice. No, I’m not talking about nanobots or Harry Potter-inspired invisibility cloaks. Technology is employed in places and ways you might not suspect until it’s pointed out to you. It shows up in trickily placed advertising to mess with your subconscious and can erroneously […]

Segues: Social Networks’ Eyes Are Watching You

Justin Davis — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:41:36 +0000

Each Segues column starts with something tech-related before quickly branching out from there into a tangentially related thread. These articles are born from my thought and speech patterns that regularly contain quickfire transitions. For one of my birthdays, a friend made me a crown that said “King of the Segues”. Actually, it said “King of […]