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Friday Links: How Well Are You Marketing?

Nathaniel Ward — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:33:27 +0000

Loren McDonald asks if e-mail marketers are sending too many messages and offers some ways you can tell if you’re over-sending.
Target Analytics has released its 2011 index of non-profit fundrasing performance, based on 83 organizations. Roger Craver wants to know what these organizations’ direct marketers are doing wrong.
You thought America had a real estate bubble? China’s central planners have built whole cities that now lie empty. Via Tim Cavanaugh.
Dan Mitchell passes on a slightly bawdy joke about unions.
Last but not least, Pierre LeBrun argues that Alex Ovechkin’s diminished numbers this year reflect a player newly committed to team victory over personal success. The Capitals, perhaps not coincidentally, have clinched the Southeast division for the fourth straight year.

Nathaniel Ward — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:19:10 +0000

Saturday Night Live takes on public-sector unions in this hilarious sketch:

Nathaniel Ward — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:04:51 +0000

What Made American Universities Great. “Ivy League institutions rose to greatness only after being cut off from state aid and meddling.”
What’s the Matter With California? William Vogeli explains how the “big-spending, high-taxing, lousy-services paradigm” is ruining California’s appeal.
Dave Barry Looks Back on 2009. Choice quote: “Washington, rejecting ‘business as usual,’ finally stopped trying to solve every problem by throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at it and instead started trying to solve every problem by throwing trillions of taxpayer dollars at it.”

Nathaniel Ward — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:11:51 +0000

The New Yorker Explores What ‘Management Science’ Really Is.
How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect. “When those patterns break down — as when a hiker stumbles across an easy chair sitting deep in the woods, as if dropped from the sky — the brain gropes for something, anything that makes sense. It may retreat to a familiar ritual, like checking equipment. But it may also turn its attention outward, the researchers argue, and notice, say, a pattern in animal tracks that was previously hidden. The urge to find a coherent pattern makes it more likely that the brain will find one.”
The Administrative State Strikes Again. “We’ve long thought the Railway Labor Act should be rewritten for numerous reasons, but that is Congress’s job.”

Nathaniel Ward — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:43:51 +0000

Did Big-Government Labor Policies Cause the Depression?
Charles Kesler on How Conservatives Can Get Back on Track. “It is necessary to reground our conservatism in [America’s] revolutionary [Founding] principles, but it will not be sufficient. Although conservatives cannot remedy America’s problems without them, our principles need to be explained in a contemporary idiom and applied prudently to our present circumstances. That requires, for want of a more comprehensive word, statesmanship. ”
Why High-Speed Rail Won’t Catch on in America. Geography, scheduling and personal preference means air travel will likely dominate in most of the country, Megan McArdle argues.
New York’s Tenured Teachers. Exploring the consequences of the city’s inane union contract.