Re: [videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-28 Thread Joshua Seiden
For those working on coverage, you might be interested to know that Friday was also Buy Nothing Day: http://www.adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-28 Thread Kunga
Well I think experience helps. I've been a happy Black Friday participant for years - always among the first in the queue. Also planning and making sure your are SUPER EARLY in the queue. I look forward to it all year long - Black Friday and MacWorld Expo San Francisco the second week in

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-28 Thread Kunga
Yes. Buy nothing so that you pay more later for the same thing when you need it. Makes a lot of sense. 8 ^ # That is what I call Extreme Liberal Insanity. And I'm as far left as it gets. -- Taylor Barcroft http://www.blogger.com/profile/11159903 New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist,

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-27 Thread Brett Gaylor
Taylor - where are those hard drives made? Are we paying what we SHOULD be for them? I have a hard time believing that someone, somewhere, isn't paying the price for that cheap hard drive, in cheap labour, environmental destruction, or a dead end minimum wage job in a box store. In canada it's

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-26 Thread Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:27:17 +0100, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wednesday stay up all night drinking. Thursday sleep all morning, then eat all afternoon Thursday/Friday night stand in lines for hours So that Friday morning you can crowd into a store with a huge mass of

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-26 Thread Kunga
No Drinking Wednesday. Moderate eating Thursday after Two Football games. Hit the internet to make your PLAN to buy what you need including Christmas presents. Stay up all night - get in line about 2am so you are among FIRST. The line is a social scene. Everyone is very friendly and fun to be

[videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-25 Thread Jack Olmsted
I thought you were talking about a stock market crash. Google Black Friday (news, links) Black Friday is the day when retailers traditionally get back in the black The Detroit Free Press has included video clips with their story today on Black Friday of locals waiting in the cold early AM to

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-25 Thread Markus Sandy
interesting take on this from Max (audio podcast - he also vlogs) http://feeds.feedburner.com/KarmabanqueRadio?m=257 Jack Olmsted wrote: I thought you were talking about a stock market crash. Google "Black Friday" (news, links) Black Friday is the day when retailers

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-25 Thread Deirdre Straughan
On 11/25/05, Jack Olmsted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Detroit Free Press has included video clips with their storytoday on Black Friday of locals waiting in the cold early AM to buystuff cheap. Is stuff really that much cheaper, or is this some kind of herd mentality in action? A nationwide

[videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Watkins
Is the concept of a general-strike long gone in the united states? Its alive and well in many parts of Europe. I dont think the UK has had a pproper general strike since the winter of discontent 1978-79. I wouldnt claim to understand Italian politics but theres historically some kind of

[videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Watkins
Oops sorry I spelt your name wrong Deirdré. Also I should have said that this stuff has been ramping up since the 70's/80's, not since Wold War 2, as the initial post-war period required big government spending to rebuild many countries. I dunno if the terminology is different it the US. If so

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-25 Thread Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:34:43 +0100, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the concept of a general-strike long gone in the united states? Its alive and well in many parts of Europe. I dont think the UK has had a pproper general strike since the winter of discontent 1978-79. Our last one

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-25 Thread Kunga
Many things are the lowest they will be until next Black Friday although we get a few other days close to it like the day after Christmas and Easter and July 4th and Labor Day. It is by no means a herd mentality. But it is HEARD mentality for sure - as in I HEARD (read as in the

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-25 Thread Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:02:08 +0100, Kunga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's hear some more amazing Black Friday tails here you 1600 readers. First Meiser didn't want to split hares and now you want tails. What's up with you guys and animals? Anyway, I've been celebrating Buy Nothing Day

[videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Watkins
I dont like the way Apple groom the hairy gnarly long tail, or draw eyes on the invisible face of the future. Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:02:08 +0100, Kunga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's

[videoblogging] Re: Covering Black Friday

2005-11-25 Thread Bill Streeter
The concept isn't just gone, it's illegal. Americans don't go on strike, we go shopping!! Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the concept of a general-strike long gone in the united states? Its alive