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...Online user reviews have been around over a decade. In 1995, Amazon.com began offering its visitors the ability to post reviews on available books, setting in motion a new phenomenon where everyone can easily become a critic. Other sites quickly followed, expanding reviews into music, products and services. Some of those sites, like TripAdvisor, which is dedicated to user hotel reviews, are demonstrating that this new wave of consumer empowerment is now mainstream...
...Given this weakness, professional restaurant critics and other review sources will continue to thrive as trusted sources to help guide us through the explosion of consumer commentary. But harnessed in the right way, this new phenomenon can swing the balance of power in favor of the consumer...
...Where's Everybody Going? While the mass departure of French citizens from their Gallic motherland may be noteworthy and alarming, the possibility that this phenomenon is by no means unique to France was not given justice in your article [April 16]. For proof, you only need to look across the English Channel at my homeland. Despite the overwhelming attention given to the recent arrival of many immigrants, a disconcerting number of talented but disillusioned youngsters are leaving Britain. There is very little overt racial discrimination and harassment, and there are still job opportunities, but the perfect, rose-tinted perception...
...Marley Marl became the archetype of the champion beatmaker for the “Juice Crew” of rappers centered on the Queensbridge projects. Ever since, from Dr. Dre to Organized Noize, Timbaland to the Neptunes, hip-hop producers have often been just as famous as rappers, a phenomenon that Saldaña and Cabrera have brought to the reggaeton world. Today, the duo have used their own emerging hit-making power to gather a circle of reggaeton talents around themselves with their own label, Mas Flow Inc, even branching into remixes of more established pop artists like...
...Middle East, Mallat argued, challenges the West in “pinpointing the need for a government which really does mirror the people.” He warned of the phenomenon of “Lebanonization,” or the collapse of the state along ethnic and nationalist lines...