That whole Barbie fooferaw
Instead of repeating what many others have said, and better than I could (holy crap, that book was sexist!) I have a few thoughts on BarbieBookGate that touch on Mattel’s response. I’ve posted them over at Medium; the gist of it is that “when Barbie...New feature: replace your family with gorgeous models!
In case you can’t read the story behind that beautiful, moving photo, here it is: “My husband and I just had our second baby. He’s such a good dad, so I wanted to give him a gift I knew he would love — a shot of him and our new addition. We had a great...Why I unsubscribed to your e-newsletter (the real story)
I’ve been plowing through my inbox, unsubscribing to a host of newsletters, mailing lists and discussion groups in an effort to tame this beast we call email. Lately, I’ve started to get automated replies saying the newsletter publishers are sorry to see...Foursquare needs a little judiciousness to be useful
Tod Maffin noted recently that the ubiquity of Starbucks, with the chain’s next-to-worthless Foursquare offer, poses a serious challenge to the app’s usefulness. He calls it “location spam”:
I live in Vancouver. There are more Starbucks in this city th…