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Danger-seeking was so popular that somehow pirates came back. Someone gave Don Imus a radio job. When investment banks crumbled, we decided to hand over $700 billion to Henry Paulson, who used to run an investment bank. It was the kind of year when a famous football player could think, Sure, I've drunk a lot and have a loaded gun in my pants, but the music in this club makes me want to put my hands in my pockets and dance...
...newspapers can develop a new online business model and adapt their content to the new requirements of the Web, they can and will thrive.Newspapers’ success online is dependant on their ability to make Internet content profitable. As it stands, this is very difficult. Even the hugely popular web newspaper Politico raises a full 60 percent of its revenue from advertising in its miniscule print edition. However, new, more sophisticated behavioral advertising techniques are making online content easier to marketize. While still in their infancy, studies suggest that behavioral advertising methods both attract significantly more clicks than conventional...
Thailand's Democrat Party hasn't won a popular national election in more than a decade. But on Dec. 15, Abhisit Vejjajiva, the 44-year-old leader of the oldest Thai political party, was chosen in a slender majority by the country's parliament as the nation's fifth Prime Minister in a year. Beleaguered Thais hope that his leadership will put an end to a turbulent few years during which one PM was deposed in an army coup and a sustained anti-government protest movement ended in the removal of three others, as well as the takeover and closure...
...during a recession, cheap entertainment remains popular. Take Hollywood: While stories of soaring attendance during the Great Depression are probably false, movie attendance did increase in five of the last seven recessions. The explanation is simple: Movies provide a dose of high-quality entertainment, which is more in demand during a recession not only because people have more free time but because they have a greater need for escape from their problems. More importantly, movies are a pretty cheap way to spend an evening, and they appeal to a consumer who faces economic uncertainty...
...only watched HBO's movie about the Florida recount, but he watched it in a particularly Minnesotan way. "I was especially interested in the bonus features of the disc," he says. Meantime, reviewing the wacky ballots - available to the public as PDF files - is by far the most popular activity on the Minneapolis - St. Paul Star Tribune website...