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Well, maybe not. Edward E. Whitacre Jr., former CEO of SBC Communications and now head of a newly super-sized AT&T, seems to have flip-flopped on the net neutrality issue. In 2005, he said Google and Yahoo were "nuts" for expecting free use of his company's network to deliver their content. But now, according to the LA Times, he's saying that AT&T will not sell premium delivery of Web content for the next two …
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A blogger named Spocko is making the headlines today. Spocko posted audio clips of inflammatory racist comments made by DJ's on a Disney-owned radio station (KSFO in San Fran). Recently, Disney's lawyers forced Spocko's ISP to shut the blog down. Spocko retailiated by alerting KSFO advertisers that they've been sponsoring what many people would call hate speech against Muslims. Of course, the audio has been posted …
Okay, I'm Paul Revere and the message I'm delivering on my daring midnight ride is a resounding call-to-arms: America, the porn industry needs your help! According to the New York Times, for every dollar Americans spent buying tickets to Hollywood movies last year, they spent about 90 cents viewing sex movies in various formats. Sound good? Well, it's not. The sex-related entertainment business grew in 2006 by just …
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Big, boring corporate websites, such as Unilever and P&G, attract a bigger audience than prime time TV shows, according to Ad Age: Such package-goods marketers as Procter & Gamble Co. and Unilever don't sell many products directly online. Their low-cost, low-involvement brands tend not to generate much search. Yet the websites of P&G and Unilever now reach nearly 6 million and 3 million unique visitors, respectively, …
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This is a picture from space of a country that does not allow its citizens to go online. A glimpse into a black hole, courtesy of The New York Times: [T]he stark realities of life in North Korea were perhaps most evident in a simple satellite image over the shoulder of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during an Oct. 11 briefing. The image showed the two Koreas — North and South — photographed at night. The South …
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The new Rocky movie is called "Rocky Balboa," not Rocky VI, for a reason. Of course, the Rocky character has been resurrected so many times now that the story is absurd, but the marketing behind it is interesting, if only as another example (as if one were needed) of how everything we consume is elaborately constructed to maximize profit. The New York Times explains how best to name sequels: Movie audiences prefer …
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