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Playbook for Success
Since 2008, it’s been harder to generate increases in same store sales and it doesn’t look like it’s going to get easier any time soon. This is one of the reasons why the NACS / Coca-Cola Retailing R… more →
Coca-Cola Retailing Research Council Blog
Tarpon Expertise from Fly Fishing in Salt Waters
wrote 1 week ago: Fly Fishing in Salt Waters has posted a great piece on tarpon questions and answers featuring the wi … more →
WJCT Are Crass Jerks with Negligible Sense of Humor
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wrote 1 month ago: It’s not very funny to spoof on the City finally resolving a decades-long failure. But, WJCT t … more →
Can China deliver the China Dream(s)?
wrote 1 month ago: Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan. I live next door to Jin Baozhu, a widow and m … more →
Photo: Beijing's smog makes a thousand-foot skyscraper disappear
wrote 2 months ago: On the left, a photo that Sinocism’s Bill Bishop snapped today in Beijing. On the right, the e … more →
The Big Sort
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wrote 3 months ago: Bill Bishop’s book The Big Sort describes how communities have concentrations of like minded p … more →
Tory plan for council tax freeze to last until 2017
wrote 3 months ago: Suffolk Tories plan for the council tax freeze to continue throughout the next four years, if they a … more →
Playbook for Success
wrote 3 months ago: Since 2008, it’s been harder to generate increases in same store sales and it doesn’t look like it’s … more →
Year C Epiphany 4: God loves you, no exceptions
wrote 3 months ago: The title is from a billboard and bumper stickers put out by the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio. It … more →
Trabant Politics
wrote 6 months ago: After the Berlin Wall fell my wife and I traveled to Eastern Europe to see it before it became overw … more →
Bill Bishop: The Invisible China Hand
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wrote 9 months ago: When a popular Beijing-based media blog recently referred to Bill Bishop – a lone American armed wit … more →
What’s wrong with activism?
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wrote 9 months ago: Over the years I have often been asked how I became an activist. The question of how individuals as … more →
sacrifice in movements (and ritualistic tactical hierarchies)
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wrote 10 months ago: lunch counter sit-in Sacrifice is a collective value typically esteemed in social movements (as well … more →
Anatomy of populist hegemonic alignment (part 1)
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wrote 10 months ago: Building upon the basic idea of hegemonic contestation discussed in my last post, I want to now move … more →
New Rules for China's Internet Make Facebook Entry Even More Unlikely
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wrote 11 months ago: If Facebook is still considering entering China, it needs to look closely at the country’s proposed … more →
Mississippi counties that are gaining (and losing) population.
wrote 1 year ago: Most of the nation’s rural counties lost population from 2010 to 2011, according to an article … more →
The Future of Convenience Stores
wrote 1 year ago: We were pleased to be chosen by the NACS/CCRRC to do their research into what convenience retailers … more →
Political Rumors Spur Online Crackdown in China
wrote 1 year ago: In the days after Chongqing Communist Party boss Bo Xilai was removed from office, the Chinese Inter … more →
Income Gap Dooms Supercommittee
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wrote 1 year ago: BOOK REVIEW The Big Sort, Authors: Bill Bishop and Robert Cushing. Polarized America: The Dance of I … more →
What Big Sort?
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wrote 1 year ago: Political scientists Mo Fiorina (Stanford) and Sam Abrams (Sarah Lawrence College) have done work an … more →
