Tag Archives: Best of 2009

Best of 2009: How to bribe friends with cold cash — the Web 2.0 way

January 8, 2010 – 9:41 am

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING PayPal has launched a clever online tool that lets friends and acquaintances bribe each other into doing little jobs for each other. The website, DoStuffForMoney.com, facilitates the bribery through Facebook or email. The briber offers a sum of money to his or her bribee, along with any additional commentary. Recent […]

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Best of 2009: Doomers do dinner parties with what’s already in the fridge

January 8, 2010 – 3:01 am

by Sarah Fazio WHAT’S HAPPENING For most dinner party hosts, the evening requires a trip (or three) to the grocery store. But for Doomer Dinner Parties there’s no shopping required — actually, it’s forbidden. The entire meal must be prepared from what’s on hand in the host’s fridge, pantry or garden. Doomers (a.k.a. peakniks) say […]

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RECAPPING TOMORROW

January 6, 2010 – 11:03 am

by Josh Kimball Here’s my recap of retrospectives: They stink. Most of them rear-view the year past with a sort of opt-in myopia, calling out the same large landmarks (Obama got inaugurated, the economy sucked, Michael Jackson died), offering up the same vague interpretations, and stumbling over the same punchlines. They’re all too often merely […]

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BACK TO THE FUTURE

December 30, 2009 – 8:18 am

by Charlotte Beal OK, so the Aughts haven’t ended on a particularly high note. It’s been a decade of extreme volatility, but through better and worse, since 2002 Iconoculture has been getting at the why’s behind consumer desires and actions. This week, we’re looking back at the most interesting, powerful and insightful pieces of content […]

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