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A Year of The Analytic Eye (2010-2011)

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Yesterday, The Analytic Eye celebrated its first birthday. The blog officially launched September 26 with my inaugural post, Social Media Lessons from Bon Jovi. The Bon Jovi post is still […]

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Part II: Celebrity and public good, featuring Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and the Sanity/Fear Rally

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This post seemed timely when I came up with it over a month ago. Life intervened in my blogging schedule, but I still feel the need to close the loop. […]

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Cheerios are for White People (or so their packaging would have me believe)

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Living in Canada, and specifically Toronto, makes me expect diversity in my advertising. In a country that prides itself on multiculturalism (on the surface, anyway—whether and how it goes deeper than that is a more complicated topic and beyond the scope of this post), most businesses, public institutions and community groups want to project an image of openness and inclusively. But my Cheerios box didn’t exactly give me that vibe the last time I picked it up . . .

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