Consumed is Rob Walker's New York Times Magazine column about consumer behavior, consumer culture, products, marketing, design, and all things consumed.
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‘Buying In’ paperback out today
5 January 2010, 5:45 am |
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Guest-editing on Coudal.com
4 January 2010, 2:56 pm |
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Re: Hiatus
3 January 2010, 10:48 am |
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Annual semi-data-driven favorite songs list
1 January 2010, 5:40 pm |
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Time out!
27 December 2009, 5:08 pm |
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Consumed While I'm weary of one-year-of-x projects, I still think this from Lisa Congdon looks promising and cool. http://collectionaday2010.blogspot.com/
collectionaday2010.blogspot.com
This is a blog documenting a project that will span exactly one year, from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010. On each of those 365 days, I will photograph or draw (and occasionally paint) one collection. ...
Consumed "Buying In" paperback, just published.
www.murketing.com
If you’re an educator who might want to assign the book, I might be able to get you a freebie to evaluate. Students seem to respond to it well, and I had great experiences doing Skype visits to classes in connection with the book last year. Contact is murketing@robwalker.net if you’re interested.
Consumed Surprisingly interesting piece on varied mobile-phone usage habits in different cultures. (And why the differences will supposedly go away eventually.)
www.economist.com
How you use your mobile phone has long reflected where you live. But the spirit of the machines may be wiping away cultural differences
Consumed "Technological and sociological change as significed by the Easy Bake Oven."
contexts.org
Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry.
Consumed Headed to the movies today? Here's a highly enjoyabe skewering of the ideology of "Avatar."
www.popmatters.com
I had no particular interest in seeing Avatar, but ended up seeing it the day after Christmas with my family. It seemed futile to resist. I even saw it in gimmicky 3-D, which added nothing to my enjoyment ...
Consumed Did you get fewer xmas/holiday cards this year than in the past? Explanations offered by Marginal Revolution (I have to side with MR that Web MUST affect this).
www.marginalrevolution.com
Using Lexis-Nexis, I found an estimate of 26 Christmas cards for 1990, so that the number of all holiday greeting cards would have been a bit above -- probably around the 1987 level of 29 cards across all holidays. ...
Consumed The Awl's 00s series continues with Julie Klausner on ... Hoarders! "It's the show of the decade..."
www.theawl.com
I began the decade with a Kim's Video membership and an unslakable thirst for documentaries about crazy people. I'd rent their only VHS of Chicken Hawk, a doc
Consumed Study about how peer pressure influences adoloscent boys' consumption isn't that surprising, BUT, I was surprised that their use of "spa services" has doubled, and many spas now offer packages aimed specifically at teen boys.
www.sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2009) Teen-aged boys are more likely to use tanning booths, take diet pills and have their bodies waxed -- even if they think those activities are unhealthy -- if they are ...
Consumed No column in today's Times Mag, as Consumed is on hiatus until late March. I'll continue to post links of note here.
www.murketing.com
More fun distractions while you wait for Consumed's return are suggested here.
Consumed The Awl is publishing an '00s wrapup and asked for thoughts. Here's my bit.
www.theawl.com
Just the other night I was watching Anderson Cooper's variety show on CNN, and right before a commercial break, Mr. Cooper showed about seven seconds of
Consumed Dan Ariely posts about a study finding that spending on a gift for others brings more happy than spending on yourself.
www.predictablyirrational.com
When we make decisions we think we're in control, making rational choices. But are we? Dan Ariely unmasks the subtle but powerful tricks our minds play on us.
Rebecca Wolkenstein read your 'hoarder's' piece. my sister has a weird job - she works for the public trustee and part of her job is to go to dead peoples houses to search for their last will and testament. she has come across more than her fair share of hoarders and from all her stories, the most simple and reasonable explanation I can f...ind for this phenomenon is loneliness which seems to turn into mental illness over time. But loneliness is definitely in these rooms.
Consumed Tomorrow's column is about the TV show "Hoarders." "There's something kind of Joycean about watching a hoader," a producer suggests. Interesting the show has caught on now, at a time when the whole culture seems to be struggling with its relationship to objects and things.
www.nytimes.com
A TV reality series suggests the thin line between our national consumer frenzy and psychopathology.
Consumed A Bill McKibben essay argues that what has made us independent and self-sufficient individuals has also made us alienated from community. "Research has shown that when we live on car-filled streets, our number of close friends drops by half." I'd like to know more about that research. Interesting read.
www.orionmagazine.org
We're going to need a lot more than the occasional cup of sugar from our neighbors if the predicted future comes to pass.
Consumed Jesse Thorn of The Sound of Young America, and Adam Lisagor, have a new project called Put This On, "a web series about dressing like a grownup." A recent facet has been asking "men we like what one item they'd like as a gift." Kurt Andersen, Marc Maron, etc. Oddly, they asked me as well.
putthison.com
Kurt Andersen is the host of Public Radio International’s Studio 360, a wonderful weekly look at culture and the arts. He’s also an accomplished journalist (having written for publications ...
