Cyber Monday disappearing
The discussion on Slashdot, article on TechDirt, a posting on Business 2.0 Blog and another at Stalwart all point to this story in Business Week regarding the mythological nature of Cyber-Monday.
The basic premise of Cyber Monday, as TV anchors like to repeat, is a whole bunch of people coming back from Thanksgiving vacation to shop online from their work PCs. While the premise might have been true a few years ago, the fact that 36 million of US households have broadband now probably moved Cyber Monday to Cyber Sunday, when there was nothing to do, and all those online shops ran all those deals to boost their traffic.