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Shhhh! Baywatch Is On! (11/17/97)
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...Not that popularity is everything. You know, it's funny, but just the other day we were sitting around talking about the difference between "best" and "most popular," and how often you see a stark disparity between the two, and then Dob Crabb goes and writes an article about that very concept, citing reader Barry L. Ritholtz's examples to demonstrate.
Ritholtz has compiled a fabulous list of "most popular" items that most discriminating people would agree are, shall we say, not the creme de la creme in their respective categories. Of course he hit upon the obvious example we had thought of--Budweiser beer--but you may be surprised (and mildly perturbed) to learn that the U.S. President who garnered the largest popular majority was Richard Nixon. Or that the longest running Broadway play is still Cats. Or that the single that spent the longest stint on the U.S. charts was The Macarena. So the next time you boot your Mac and you're starting to feel edgy about a 3.3% marketshare value, just remember that all of the top three best-selling music videos of all time were made by the New Kids on the Block. (Okay, you can stop twitching now.)
As for the highest revenue-generating infomercials being those for the Psychic Friends Network, well, what did you expect? It sure as hell wasn't that Performa infomercial about how to get Grampa a date.
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Other scenes from that episode: 187: All-in-One & One for All (11/17/97) From the appliance look of the 9-inch-screened Classic chassis, to the lumpy-but-loveable LC 550, to the monitor-with-a-floppy look of the 5x00, and possibly even encompassing the slightly more complex (and certainly flatter) Spartacus, less interestingly known as the 20th Anniversary Macintosh, AtAT is a sucker for a standalone design... 188: Netscape Keeps Sliding (11/17/97) Ouch... Ralph, DoJ, say what you will about Microsoft's tactics being illegal and immoral, just don't forget to add that they're also effective. Netscape's share of the browser market is down for the third quarter in a row, according to this InfoWorld article. According to Dataquest, Netscape now holds 57.6% of the pie, compared to Microsoft's 39.4%...
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