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What they buy teaches you how to sell

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Wednesday Weekly Reader: Food for thought gathered from around the web and served fresh to you.

This week: 100 years of buying patterns on one handy graph. How much have we changed what we buy? How will be buy in 2010? And, what sense can Groucho Marx make out of it for us?

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Bullies, bites, and buggy whips

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New to adMISSIONs: a weekly sampler of news you can use caught in my net as I troll the web. This week: Why 95% of your customers are a waste. TV Everywhere: bullying you to buy what you don’t want. Top 10 new business ideas for 2010. The official dead words list for 2010. YouTube’s #1 most watched video of all time.

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Your smarts shows in how you use a day

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Even though no two people spend a day the same way, there are striking similarities. The New York Times recently published an interactive graph displaying data from the American Time Use Survey. Some patterns may seem obvious, but it’s intriguing to toggle the options.

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Starcrossed camera love gets a bad cross-brand rap

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Some lines shouldn’t be crossed: Nikon vs Canon. This grudge runs deep. He may be a Canon Gangsta, but I’m a Nikon Ninja. Only one thing could be worse. To find out, you’ll have to watch the video.

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Everybody’s gotta have a schtick

The kitchen door flew open with a smack. I bounded in, every watt of seventh grade enthusiasm burning bright. I couldn’t wait to tell mom my big news: I was signed up for the big annual talent show at school.
There was a catch: I had no demonstrable talent. Couldn’t dance. Didn’t have musical ability. Wasn’t[.....]

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Happy birthday Saint Francis of Hoboken

There could never be another Frank Sinatra . Since his early days with Dorsey through the Capitol years, his interpretive ownership and swaggering style have defined a sense of cool as timeless as these performances. There's an excellent salute to The Chairman on PowerLine well worth the read. And, while this has nothing[.....]

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God only made him male

It is our choice to a be man. Randy Pausch , a man in every sense of the word, whose inspirational "last lecture " about living life to the fullest even while battling pancreatic cancer, died today today. He was 47.
ABC News first reported the story this morning. ABC’s Diane Sawyer anchored[.....]

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