Paul Gillin

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I’m Just a Sucker for Believe It or Not!

Paul Gillin

223: Children at a school in Tokyo, Japan, had a new teacher in 2009 – a robot called Saya. The Emotional Humanoid Robot, named Kobian, uses motors to move its lips, eyelids and eyebrows into various positions and can also strike a range of poses to back up its expressions. Robot Teacher – pg.

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Attack of the Customers: The Pampers Dry Max Crisis

Paul Gillin

So staffers were understandably concerned when a Facebook group appeared in late 2009 entitled “ Pampers bring back the OLD CRUISERS/SWADDLERS.” “A brand whose whole equity is based on babies’ welfare isn’t going to do anything that poses any form of risk to a baby.”.

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Five Tips to Make Your Writing Sparkle

Paul Gillin

Or how about this gem from Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess , Gary Wolf’s wonderful exploration of the enigmatic classified ad site in the August, 2009 Wired : “Jim Buckmaster is tall and thin, [Craig] Newmark is short and round, and when they stand together they look like a binary number.&#. I laughed out loud at that.

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How Twitter Amplifies a Customer Attack

Paul Gillin

A 2009 study by Sysomos reported that 85% of Twitter users post less than one update per day, 21% have never posted anything and only 5% of Twitter users produce 75% of the content [3]. 3] Alex Cheng and Mark Evans, “An In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World,” Sysomos Resource Library, June, 2009, [link] (accessed July 21, 2012). [4]

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