- FT.com / In depth – Interactive graphic: The decline of US autos – The mediocre quality of the Detroit carmakers’ products, combined with an emphasis on SUVs and pick-up trucks, has cost them dearly over the past 25 years. Besides their Japanese rivals, European companies and South Korea’s Hyundai have also gained ground. The foreigners have captured more than half the market, and their share is set to grow further in coming months.
- FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: On Moon Landings, Michelle Malkin, P-Values, the Clintons, and the Magical Mystery Dealergate Conspiracy Theory – At the end of the day, people are going to believe what they want to believe: some people believe that the moon landing was faked, that 9/11 was a grand conspiracy, and that Barack Obama was born in Indonesia. There is no evidence for any of these claims, but that doesn't stop tens of millions of people from believing them! Dealergate, particularly in its original formulation (that Obama was punishing Republican donors with the Chrysler closings), is in largely the same category.
- Put Ad on Web. Count Clicks. Revise. – NYTimes.com – “It’s putting numbers to an industry that never had numbers before,” says Mr. Herman, 27, who started and sold three media and technology companies before founding Varick last summer. “It’s nice to be able to tell your brand manager or the chief marketing officer which audience is interacting with the unit, what time of day, what day of the week, and what the response is on certain types of offers. Before, nobody could really tell you that.”
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