DOUGLAS QUENQUA

writer and editor

Help for eBay Shoppers Who Can’t Spell

24typo.650A handful of new Web sites are out to help shoppers save money by searching eBay for misspelled brand names.

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Good Deeds: The Backlash

27service-190Schools have trimmed community service hours for high school students, hoping they will aim for quality, not quantity.

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2008

All items published by Douglas Quenqua in 2008.

Eating Healthy, Even At Your Desk

The Extended Life Of Monty Python

Good Deeds: The Backlash

Help for eBay Shoppers Who Can’t Spell

HSBC Sponsors Entire Issue Of New York Magazine

A Way To Save and Still Have Crisp Clothes

Folgers Markets A New Coffee to Cost-cutting Home Brewers

Picking Winners by the Popularity of Paraphernalia

Citi’s Sports Marketing Strategy Turns Its Focus to Stars-to-be

Tofu Noodles Get a Lift From Hungry-Girl.com

Forthright or Clueless? Kathie Lee Draws Fire

A Rare CD by Today’s Hot Boy Band: Bids Start at $160. Do I Hear $200?

The Vampires Are Coming, but Only After Months Of Warnings

The Force Lives On, As Do The Toys

Merchants Cheer Sunday Booze Sales As Blue Laws Fall

A Venerable Sports Paper Plays Catch-Up

To Create Its Hits, A Company Takes Its Toys On Tour

A New Twist On Balloon Sculpture

In A Weak Economy, Quirky Restaurant Ads Yield To Tried and True

Sending in the Marines (to Recruit Women)

Revising a Name, but Not a Familiar Slogan

Saying ‘Will You’ for Prizes, on the Web

Filed under: 2008, CNN Money, Douglas Quenqua, New York Times,

ABOUT DOUGLAS QUENQUA

Douglas Quenqua is a freelance writer and editor living in Brooklyn, New York. He writes about the intersection of technology and lifestyle as well as media, advertising and culture. His work appears in The New York Times, Wired, The New York Observer, ClickZ, Fortune and others. Contact: doug.quenqua@gmail.com

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