I like how the advertising is different here, and I pay attention to advertising because it says something about the people who live here, and what can I say, I like to live in a place where people make things happen. In Seattle, advertising is more lifestyle oriented. Here it is more policy oriented, and I snapped a few shots of my favorite car company who are apparently doing a metro station “domination” (that’s the word the execs use) at Union Station, much as Kaiser Permanente did a very nice domination of Powell Street BART over the holidays (with a very cool nod to Kaiser Permanente’s excellence in supporting diversity).

The fun part is figuring out what’s behind this and what policy issue might be up for grabs that would make Toyota want to impress their commitment to the U.S. economy at this time. If anyone in the know knows, feel free to post a comment.

I’m adding one photo of the brand new Harris Teeter that’s about to open in my neighborhood. Apparently artsy photos are popular among the DC Flickr crowd. It’s a Web2.0 thing I guess.

February 15th through February 16th:

The first few links are from the history of diversity in various industries’ and their impact on quality, affordability, and safety.

• “Fly Me” - TIME - National Airlines pleads innocence in 1971 to the “Fly Me” campaign despite flight attendant protests.
• Classic TV Commercial Jingles: Braniff presents “The Air Strip” - A commercial dubbed “outrageously sexist” for its portrayal of flight attendants.
• Coffee, Tea or Tails? - TIME - Article from 1974 about Continental’s “We Move our Tails For You” ad campaign
• Health Care Renewal: GE: We Bring More Conflicts (of Interest) to Light - An example of a purchaser that struggles with supporting an affordable care system, and supporting an un-affordable care system at the same time.
• No Pharma Funding | When Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City stopped accepting commercial support for its continuing medical education activities last January, many at the institution had their doubts that the program would survive - CME without industry support is possible. I would tend to favor events that are less fancy and have less bias.
• apophenia: open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals - A more assertive argument around locked down journals.
• Running a hospital: You can take your $15 fee and … ! - I wonder how relevant peer review is in general. I am going to start a tag cloud on this and keep track.