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November 2023
Streaming Music and Dietitian Influencers
Some notes & quotes from recent reads: Streaming Is Changing the Sound of Music (paywall-free link) Quotes: In 2022, on-demand music streams in the U.S…
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Colin Wright
Doritos Software, the Cost of Fun, and Single's Day
What happens when ads generate themselves? (You end up with images that show a product in context, but in a less-useful way because of sizing issues…
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Colin Wright
Big Oil in Fortnite and Peanuts in Japan
Some notes & quotes from recent reads: Big Oil's Using Fortnite, TikTok, And Twitch In Effort To Convince Kids Fossil Fuels Are Cool Quotes: As reported…
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Colin Wright
Useless Medications, Credit Card Debt, and Zero Consumers
Useless congestion medications are being pulled from shelves following an FDA finding that they don’t work (at least not when taken orally), and some…
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Colin Wright
YouTube, Amazon Healthcare, and Snack Food Stores
YouTube is getting serious about ad-blockers (and triggering a record number of ad-blocker uninstalls). American homes are getting bigger:You Probably…
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Colin Wright
Food Deserts, Olive Oil, and Refund Fraud
Local governments thinking of taking control of grocery stores to address food deserts. Also: America’s downtowns are empty, and fixing them up for how…
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Colin Wright
The Rise of Temu and Online Knitting
Some notes & quotes from recent reads: Addictive, Absurdly Cheap, and Controversial: The Rise of China’s Temu App Quotes: A chicken-shaped lamp. A…
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Colin Wright
Bad Furniture and Snooping Repair Technicians
Some notes & quotes from recent reads: Why Furniture Got So Bad (paywall-free link) Quotes: No one expects an Ikea bookcase or West Elm sofa to last for…
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Colin Wright
SEO
SEO and AI In the midst of what looks to be a grand transition away from traditional search engines and toward something more generative AI-oriented…
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Colin Wright
October 2023
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