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Blog :: Consuming Passions: In Product Design, Form IS Function

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

We used to distinguish between form and function, but in today’s design economy form is function.

Blog :: Consuming Passions: What is Reality - and Will We Pay For It?

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

What is reality? Marketers and consumers coexist in a complicated, two-way relationship. It’s often hard to tell where marketing efforts leave off and “the real world” begins. One result of these blurred boundaries is that we are no longer sure where the line that separates this fabricated world from reality begins and ends. Will consumers pay to live in a brand-free environment?

Blog :: Consuming Passions: Consumer Behavior is Popular Culture is Consumer Behavior

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Computer mediated environments like Second Life are not only a new marketing opportunity for corporations, but also a new horizon for educators, policymakers, and non-profits. Do the promises of these virtual worlds outweigh the pitfalls?

Blog :: CHINA'S PLAYING ITS OWN VERSION OF 'GRAND THEFT AUTO'

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:45:21 GMT

Blog :: Labor Day is a wake, not a celebration

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:03:40 GMT

Labor Day is a wake, not a celebration

Blog :: THREE GORGES DAM CRUISE TO HADES?

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:43:15 GMT

There is an excellent front page article on the Three Gorges Dam in the Aug. 29 edition of the Wall Street Journal. In The Coming China Wars, I discuss the problems with the Three Gorges Dam in detail. Here’s an excerpt:

Blog :: THE CHINA EFFECT ON YOU TUBE

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:12:28 GMT

Click here to watch the complete webstream of Book TV’s presentation on The Coming China Wars. Note that to watch this, you must have a Windows Media Player. For a shorter version that will play right off you web browser on You Tube, click here. Now for this week’s China Effect:

Blog :: BOOK TV

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:46:16 GMT

Book TV will air The Coming China Wars

Blog :: THE CHINA EFFECT

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:45:36 GMT

#1: While the US is the world’s beef king, China far and away is the world’s leading pork producer. Unfortunately, China is also the world’s biggest source of mutant virus strains – think SARS.

Blog :: China: the defective-product king

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:31:19 GMT

Beijing's attitude about quality of its goods reflects its Maoist legacy.

Blog :: Providence Journal Oped

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:02:08 GMT

Peter Navarro: An unsporting Beijing Olympiad

Thursday, August 9, 2007, Providence Journal

PETER NAVARRO

IRVINE, Calif.

Blog :: My Notes for My Segment on Today's Power Lunch -- CNBC

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:59:33 GMT

This is the sample Q&A I prepared for an appearance on CNBC in response to a report in the Daily Telegraph (England) that "The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation."