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Uncle Walter Was Too Old for Prime Time
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Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
The media may be celebrating Cronkite now, but Adam Hanft says it was they who pushed the veteran anchor out in a futile quest for the new and trendy.
Why Did Visa and MasterCard Get Off Scot-Free?
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Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
As Obama and Congress, fed by populist rage, crack down on bank credit-card issuers, they've let off the two giants most responsible for plastic run amok: Visa and MasterCard.
Making the Stimulus Sexy
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Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
Team Obama gave us a stimulus. What they didn't give us was a reason to love it, to hug it, to make it our very own.
I love the instant wonkage that the web makes possible. Case in point: ReadTheStimulus.org: transparency manna for every stimulus fetishist. As their site coyly puts it "$850 Billion, 1588 pages, and counting... somebody needs to read it."...
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Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
How Bankers Screwed Up Their PR
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Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
Had the kings of Wall Street not been so oblivious, they could have taken some immediate steps to prevent the drastic cuts to their salaries.
I wonder what Lauren Bacall would make of this innovation in whistling. Ocarina is a hot new iPhone application that turns the erotic little plaything into a new kind of digital musical instrument. You blow into the microphone slot, use ...
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Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
With all the palpable fear and panic in these parts, what's a masochist to do other than pick up Joanna Bourke's masterful Fear: A Cultural History. It's a sobering romp (that's no oxymoron) through decades of fear's grim manifestations....
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Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
The Week in Rage
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Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
Bursts of anger from around the world. This week: Cindy Adams is tweaked, Korean online rage, and what really pisses off infants.
Soothsayers of Silicon Valley
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Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
A leading venture capital firm predicts gloom and doom.
The Week in Polls
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Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
What does the world really think? Today: Germans on socialism, Russians on gentility, and gay men on the British royals.
What Are We About to Pass?
10 Power Food Combos
Divya Gugnani is the CEO and founder of BehindtheBurner.com, an emerging culinary media brand that creates expert-based content about food, wine, mixology, and nutrition.
How Barack Beat Bibi
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Obama Makes History
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A Lasting Legacy?
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