technology
The Gilt Groupe, an online designer discount site with daily sales at noon, has a million members and caused an epic shopping craze - even in a recession. Why are women so obsessed? A three-day front page feature.
The media business has always been a deeply competitive bastion of ambition. Yet today’s journalists—including both those sidelined by layoffs and those still clinging desperately their workplace desks—have been left to wonder whether ambition makes sense anymore. How do you get ahead in an industry that can’t see its own future? A front page feature.
What happens when magazines are no longer profitable, and publications companies haven’t built a bridge to a new medium? You get to where the music industry is: billion-dollar companies trying to figure out a model in a free fall. A front page feature. (Reprised and updated on January 26, 2009, under the title “Is CondeNet Dead?”)
How to conquer the following:
* Fat Days
* Bad-Hair Days
* Airport-Counter traumas
... and many other daily catastrophies.
As people from completely different chapters of my life crowd onto my Facebook friends list, it’s starting to feel like, well ... a huge wedding guest list. And everyone knows that a wedding can be one of the most socially awkward experiences on the planet.
Surrogacy cases and advancing biotechnology are wreaking havoc on America’s legal system. This is an article detailing landmark fertility cases grappling with the legality and morality of enforcing contracts for the sale of human babies.
