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  • Our New Master

    Those who were there will never forget the day Bob Wientzen was named DMA president. Despite the best investigative efforts of the trade media, nobody

  • Online Gold Rush

    Sapped by illegal file sharing via the Web and a three-year slump in sales, the recorded music industry may turn it around in 2004. Pay-for-play music

  • The Buzz About Hiving

    Comfort and connection are what consumers crave the most these days. And is what they’re doing about it. Consumers are reaching out to connect with family,

  • Twelve Quatrains on Four Quarters

    Longtime readers of The New Yorker likely will remember Roger Angell’s end-of-the-year poem, which boiled down the events of the previous 12 months into

  • BluBlocker Blends Calendar and Cheesecake

    Folks receiving the newest catalog from BluBlocker Corp. should be forgiven if the first thing they notice isn’t the company’s sunglasses. The firm’s

  • Search Engine Shakeup

    The search engine landscape changed again last month when MSN dropped LookSmart as its technology source and switched to Inktomi. Andrew Wetzler, president

  • Holiday Leftovers

    I know it’s February. You’ve got visions of hearts and flowers (and maybe flower orders flowing in) dancing in your head. But at this writing, I’ve still

  • Kellogg School Takes DM Electronic

    Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management is set to further fine-tune and expand its direct marketing, which it began overhauling last year.

  • Forget Emerson?

    Have we reached a point in our cultural evolution in which we no longer are responsible for our own decisions and actions? Did Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose

  • Pet Cause

    There have been many great animal stars in the pantheon of television history Lassie, Rin Tin Tin and Flipper, to name a few. The American Society for