Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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You can check out all of the IBM Linux Ads on their web site. It’s a pretty good set of commercials. My favorite is “Linux is Everywhere.” Brilliant advertising and the music is perfect for the spot.
February 25th, 2004 at 2:05 pm
Not sure everyone agrees with you … came across this site this morning … http://www.boycottads.com
too funny … i even saw a Bill Maher piece on the same issue where he also asks “what exactly are these ads selling???”
February 25th, 2004 at 3:20 pm
The ads weren’t for people that didn’t get it.
they were for IT professionals who would be familiar with their advertising and what Linux is. Second of all, teh boycott site is dumb… the ad was about substance. it was about the open nature of Linux… that’s why the ad was powerful. The development model for Linux is open source, which has made for some dramatic shifts in the computer industry.
Ads always require some context to “get” and the ads for Linux from IBM were targeted at people who have that context.
For example, let’s say you never heard of Jimi Hendrix or his music… do you get that Pepsi commercial?