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TiVo "Program Placement Ads"

Link: Engadget.

TiVo Program Placement adds post-roll ad option to recordings Posted Nov 28th 2006 2:23PM by Evan Blass Filed under: Home Entertainment In a move that satisfies its never ending quests to both develop new revenue streams as well as assist advertisers in counteracting the commercial-skipping culture that it helped create, TiVo has unveiled a new initiative that will tack targeted ads onto the end of subscribers' recorded programs. [MORE]

O.J. Confession Book Cancelled | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Link: O.J. Confession Book Cancelled | The Onion - America's Finest News Source.

O.J. Confession Book Cancelled After stirring up a cloud of controversy, Fox and ReganBooks parent company News Corp cancelled both publication of the O.J. Simpson book If I Did It and a televised interview with Simpson. What do you think?

Frank Rabin, Wedding Officiant "There go my stocking stuffers. What am I going to give to all my aunts and uncles, especially the ones who blatantly murdered their ex-wives?"

Karen Stein, Receptionist "What does this mean for the future of Judith Regan's hypothetical memoir If I Tried To Crassly Exploit Tragedy, Here's How It Happened?"

Oscar Mendoza, Hat Blocker "Now that all this is cancelled, we might never see the conclusive proof we need that O.J. Simpson is the world's greatest crime-detail guesser."

Schmidt Says 'Your Mobile Phone Should Be Free'

SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 14) - Web search leader Google Inc.'s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, sees a future where mobile phones are free to consumers who accept watching targeted forms of advertising.

Schmidt said on Saturday that as mobile phones become more like handheld computers and consumers spend as much as eight to 10 hours a day talking, texting and using the Web on these devices, advertising becomes a viable form of subsidy.

"Your mobile phone should be free," Schmidt told Reuters. "It just makes sense that subsidies should increase" as advertising rises on mobile phones.  [ MORE ]

A good laugh...

Hi tech T-shirt really rocks

It's called the WIS - the Wearable Instrument Shirt - and it is tipped to make the air guitar as obsolete as the horse and cart.

Scientists at the CSIRO's Textile and Fibre Technology division in Geelong have woven electronic sensors into a T-shirt so that it can be played liked a real guitar.

Movements by the wearer's arms are mapped and beamed by radio to a computer which interprets them and turns them into musical notes.

The wearer only has to act out playing the instrument to make sounds.  [ FULL STORY ]

Irish Computer Configuration:

Took a little while, but I finally got this thing configured the way I want it...

A Wish for All of the Difficult People in Your Life:

Bubble 2.0 Meme Map

From Bubble 2.0

Media Matters - ABC memo reveals Air America advertiser blacklist

Link: Media Matters - ABC memo reveals Air America advertiser blacklist.

ABC memo reveals Air America advertiser blacklist An internal ABC Radio Networks memo obtained by Media Matters for America, originally from a listener to The Peter B. Collins Show, indicates that nearly 100 ABC advertisers insist that their commercials be blacked out on Air America Radio affiliates. According to the memo, the advertisers insist that "NONE of their commercials air during AIR AMERICA programming." Among the advertisers listed are Bank of America, Exxon Mobil, Federal Express, General Electric, McDonald's, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and the U.S. Navy.

Spy agencies now share the Wikipedia way - Los Angeles Times

See this previous Don't Clog post for the potential problems with this strategy...

Link: Spy agencies now share the Wikipedia way - Los Angeles Times.

Spy agencies now share the Wikipedia way It is hoped that the new software will make collaboration easier. By Greg Miller, Times Staff Writer November 1, 2006 Washington — The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have created a computer system that uses software from a popular Internet encyclopedia site to gather content on sensitive topics from analysts across the spy community, part of an effort to fix problems that plagued prewar estimates on Iraq.