Comments on: Generation X author pushes the Pearl http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/10/30/generation-x-author-pushes-the-pearl/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: BlackBerryCool » Nina Garcia’s BlackBerry ad http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/10/30/generation-x-author-pushes-the-pearl/comment-page-1/#comment-72847 BlackBerryCool » Nina Garcia’s BlackBerry ad Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:37:50 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/10/30/002617/#comment-72847 [...] BlackBerry continues with their nearly name-droppable spokesfolk with the inclusion of Nina Garcia in their recent campaign for the device. We let you know about the ad a couple weeks ago, but now we’ve got the full deal for you. To see why Nina Garcia loves her BlackBerry, what appears to be an 8700, hit the jump. Oh, shush – you know you’re excited. No? Rats. [...]

]]> By: Andrew C. Thompson http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/10/30/generation-x-author-pushes-the-pearl/comment-page-1/#comment-69570 Andrew C. Thompson Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:22:17 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/10/30/002617/#comment-69570 Coupland is responsible for defining Generation X as such, but he did not coin the term. He borrowed it from sources which, in turn, had borrowed it from others. The term goes back to a book written in the early 1960s by a couple of Brits to describe the disaffected youth of their era, who, ironcially, were actually Baby Boomers.

The full story is at:
http://www.genxrising.com/2007/01/is-generation-x-real-or-imagined.html

]]> By: Andrew C. Thompson http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/10/30/generation-x-author-pushes-the-pearl/comment-page-1/#comment-483923 Andrew C. Thompson Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:22:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/10/30/002617/#comment-483923 Coupland is responsible for defining Generation X as such, but he did not coin the term. He borrowed it from sources which, in turn, had borrowed it from others. The term goes back to a book written in the early 1960s by a couple of Brits to describe the disaffected youth of their era, who, ironcially, were actually Baby Boomers.

The full story is at:
http://www.genxrising.com/2007/01/is-generation-x-real-or-imagined.html

]]> By: BlackBerryCool » More Douglas Coupland/BlackBerry interaction http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/10/30/generation-x-author-pushes-the-pearl/comment-page-1/#comment-68268 BlackBerryCool » More Douglas Coupland/BlackBerry interaction Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:21:58 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/10/30/002617/#comment-68268 [...] I really wish no introduction were necessary for Douglas Coupland. This artist/author/etc. is behind the term “Generation X”, a plethora of great reads, and, last we checked, was helping to plug the Pearl in an advertising campaign. In his latest effort, “JPod” – a novel generally based on the innerworkings of a Vancouver-based games development company, Coupland namechecks the BlackBerry a few times throughout (like the above shot taken from p. 17). This is just one of those “hey, look what we found” kind of posts. Oh, and check out the JPod website – pretty rad. [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/10/30/generation-x-author-pushes-the-pearl/comment-page-1/#comment-52302 Anonymous Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:59:05 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/10/30/002617/#comment-52302 Generation X author pushes the Pearl

Few authors become the voice of a generation. Douglas Coupland’s not just the voice of a generation, he created the generation. The author of “Generation X”, the book that coined the term, as well as other pop-culture mainstays “Microserfs” a…

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