Word: trended
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TiVo-enabled ability to skip over ads they don't want to see, and their Internet-empowered freedom to find out all the stuff left out of a cheery 30-sec. TV spot. That's driving marketers to all sorts of new places, including your circle of friends--a trend that has produced some surprising intelligence on how word-of-mouth communication really works...
...fails to realize that sexism and discrimination still affect women profoundly today. The current lack of women in top leadership positions at most major U.S. businesses shows that women are obviously at a disadvantage (due largely to social norms and attitudes) in rising to these positions. Because of this trend, it makes sense to have a group that provides support and learning opportunities for. Why don’t we need a club for men in business? It already exists. It’s called Wall Street. I further doubt that the mere existence of women’s groups...
...eponymous book. Jonathan C. Liu ’07 and former FM editor-at-large Leon Neyfakh ’07 now write the weekend edition of Gawker. Former FM Chair Elizabeth W. Green ’06 blogs and reports for U.S. News & World Report.Reflecting a national trend, Harvard students are flooding the blogosphere, individually and in groups, covering their own lives, Harvard life (like Cambridge Common and the again-defunct Team Zebra), and the world. These journalists have used the fame of their blogs and their technological savvy to win everything from book deals, to journalism jobs...
...Harvard Interactive Media Review (a division of HIMG), and who is also a Crimson editor. “They are very close to film in terms of their aesthetic aspect,” he says.In exploring the relationship between gaming and art, HIMG is part of a larger trend among Harvard students—the search for a way to healthily incorporate increasingly addictive and complex video and computer games into their lives. The pursuit may seem trivial to non-gamers, but for a growing section of the Harvard population, it’s an incredibly difficult balancing act.DIGITAL EVOLUTIONLi...
...should be less on eliminating carbon emissions than on the urgent challenges of adapting to climate change, such as preparing new sources of water or planning for the movement of millions of environmental refugees. Others argue that while such preparations are a matter of urgency because of the warming trend already in motion, at the same time, if carbon emissions continue to rise, so will temperatures, intensifying the crisis. But there's broad agreement on the economic logic of immediate global action, says Robert Watson, the chief scientist for the World Bank and a former chair of the IPCC...