more on historical U.S. advertising expenditure
I’ve made some additions and revisions to the CS Ad Expenditure Dataset that I posted two weeks ago. One important addition is alternative figures for U.S. internet advertising, 1997-2007. See the “internet” spreadsheet in the CS Ad Dataset. This spreadsheet gives the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) U.S. internet advertising revenue for 1997-2007, as well as [...]
Tagged: advertising
COB-27: respecting job assignments
One of the bureaucrats on the staff here at the Carnival of the Bureaucrats observed with pride some time ago the head of an important government agency entering his agency’s headquarters. At the headquarters’ entrance are guards who check ID badges after persons swipe through an electronic badge machine. After clearing the electronic badge machine, [...]
psychopharmacology
Scientific mind, discovering your own program, run this: a gorilla flings feces at captivated zoo visitors.
mixed statutory and case law
Consider this law: If a man says to his comrade, either in private or in a public quarrel, “Everyone has sex with your wife,” and further, “I can prove the charges,” but he is unable to prove the charges and does not prove the charges, they shall strike that man 40 blows with rods: he [...]
Tagged: ancient Mesopotamia
foresight
Horses mount wheels and their bodies turn stiff, gleaming with chrome. Roads spread like vetch that stays dry but still grows. The bottom of the icebox heats up. Lids pop. A shouted call crosses the continent. A light switches on, then off, then on again, again. I live, not fearing death, but wondering: is my [...]
U.S. advertising expenditure data
U.S. advertising expenditure, for various media and type categories across the years 1919 to 2007, is now available in a dataset convenient for extensive analysis. These data quantify the rise of advertising on radio, on television, in telephone directories (yellowbook), and on the Internet. They also quantify less widely discussed media for advertising, such as [...]
Tagged: advertising
making scholarly work matter
In two sentences, cite Aristotle, Nietzsche, Foucault, Bourdieu, Habermas, and Marxist concern for praxis.
Tagged: knowledge
comfort
Comfort is a dark, quiet night so dark that nothing you don’t light can be seen so quiet as to quell even the memory of a scream.