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• « Thursday « November 30, 2006

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     1. {11302006}
     2. {06:32:57 PM}

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     1. 7M in U.S. jails, on probation or parole

         

        (Yahoo! News)

         
     2. A record 7 million people -- or one in every 32 American adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 2.2 million were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year, according to a report released Wednesday.
        Prisons seem like such a growth business here. Any day now, you can imagine some emerging country making offers to outsource our penal system. I'm certain a country like Mexico or China can construct and run prisons cheaper and more efficiently than we can. Come on now, let's export our crime, make it global.

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     3. A record 7 million people — or one in every 32 American adults — were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 2.2 million were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent o..."
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     2. crime
     3. culture

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  2. datetime

     1. {11302006}
     2. {06:29:18 PM}

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     1. Baike This is China's version of WikiPedia, powered by the sino-search engine Baidu, but unlike its predecessor the site is not monitored by peers, rather the government. And information wants to be free... sho' nuff.
        06:29:18 PM

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     1. {11302006}
     2. {09:27:20 AM}

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     1. Can Computer Models Help Select Better Movie Scripts? (Knowledge@Wharton) Wharton marketing professor Josh Eliashberg has a message for Hollywood: Get geeky. [He's developed a] computer model [that] reads storylines electronically and analyzes script elements that appeal to movie audiences.
        09:27:20 AM

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• « Monday « November 27, 2006

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     1. {11272006}
     2. {05:48:09 PM}

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     1. In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning

         

        (New York Times)

         
     2. There's class warfare, all right, Mr. [Warren] Buffett said, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
        Duly noted. If you want to know why our economy works the way it does, Buffett's essential attitude here explains a lot.

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     3. There's class warfare, all right, Mr. [Warren] Buffett said, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning...."
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     2. taxes
     3. economy

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• « Wednesday « November 22, 2006

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     1. {11222006}
     2. {10:53:05 AM}

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     1. Rosa Parks Won a Fight, but Left a Licensing Rift

         

        (New York Times)

         
     2. Rosa Parks -- civil rights symbol in life, marketing phenomenon in death -- has become the centerpiece of the kind of posthumous peddling usually associated with athletes and Hollywood stars. (password required, or use bugmenot)

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     3. Rosa Parks — civil rights symbol in life, marketing phenomenon in death — has become the centerpiece of the kind of posthumous peddling usually associated with athletes and Hollywood stars. (password required, or use
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     1. keywords:
     2. black people
     3. society

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  2. datetime

     1. {11222006}
     2. {09:18:03 AM}

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     1. Ten Worst Internet Acquisitions Ever (SeekingAlpha blog) It is astounding how much money some folks made for cheap ideas and mediocre execution. Astounding!
        09:18:03 AM

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     1. {11222006}
     2. {07:45:21 AM}

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     1. Behavioral Targeting Goes Mobile

         

        (Advertising Age)

         
     2. The nation's wireless-service providers are getting ready to roll out a new targeting tool for marketers that will identify consumers not only by demographics but by their behavior.
        Everyone has a mobile deployment strategy these days, even Big Brother.

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     3. The nation's wireless-service providers are getting ready to roll out a new targeting tool for marketers that will identify consumers not only by demographics but by their behavior...."
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     1. keywords:
     2. marketing and advertising
     3. business
     4. tags:
     5. web2.0
     6. mobile

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• « Monday « November 20, 2006

  1. datetime

     1. {11202006}
     2. {06:01:27 PM}

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     1. Kramer's Racist Tirade

         

        (TMZ.com)

         
     2. The crowd is visibly and audibly confused and upset. Richards responds by saying, "They're going to arrest me for calling a black man a n*****."
        The ironic thing here is that Richards, who's career seems stalled, is trying to distance himself from the Kramer character he invented on the megahit sitcom Seinfeld in the 90s. And yet, the only reason why his outburst is getting any play in the media is because he played Kramer on TV. Well, I think he succeeded with this epithet-laden tirade: he's light-years from Kramer now, giddy-up! But he's created new career problems in the process. (watch the clip). I know these guys are actors, and you have no idea who these people really are, but I'll never be able to look at Kramer the same way again. Of course, this being America, all of this is actually quite shocking. I mean, a white guy who hates Black people? Here? Inconceivable.

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     3. The crowd is visibly and audibly confused and upset. Richards responds by saying, "They're going to arrest me for calling a black man a n*****."..."
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     2. comedy
     3. white supremacism

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• « Friday « November 17, 2006

  1. datetime

     1. {11172006}
     2. {10:42:04 AM}

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     1. PlayStation 3 Has Landed (Wired News) Why? Why? Wii?
        10:42:04 AM

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  2. datetime

     1. {11172006}
     2. {08:13:18 AM}

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     1. Product Placement in the Pews? Microtargeting Meets Megachurches

         

        (Knowledge@Wharton)

         
     2. Advertising has begun to seep into churches, and the phenomenon shows no signs of slowing down, say academic, religious and marketing experts.
        Good Lord! And this line, "If we are going to target the African-American consumer, we have to go where they go, rather than ask them to come to us, and the church is a major institution for that community." Sell, sell, sell ...your soul!

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     3. Advertising has begun to seep into churches, and the phenomenon shows no signs of slowing down, say academic, religious and marketing experts...."
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     2. marketing and advertising
     3. business
     4. tags:
     5. megachurches
     6. market+segmentation

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• « Wednesday « November 15, 2006

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     1. {11152006}
     2. {04:43:40 AM}

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     1. How I could have killed my wife, by O. J. Simpson

         

        (Times Online UK)

         
     2. Extraordinary hypothetical memoir.
        Tastelessly bad idea. [Update - 20 November 2006 - Show cancelled]

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     2. crime
     3. culture
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     5. oj

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     1. {11152006}
     2. {04:54:09 PM}

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     1. Magic Johnson to Launch Media Company

         

        (Advertising Age)

         
     2. Urban entrepreneur Earvin "Magic" Johnson will turn media entrepreneur in early 2007 with the launch of Magic New Media.
        What caught my eye about this announcement is not the announcement itself. I'm sure Magic will do incredibly well with his new venture, just as he's done with the Burger Kings , Starbuckses, and the Sony cineplexes he's endorsed in various hoods all across the nation, where ticket prices are higher than at comparable suburban malls. No, Magic is going to do fine, attaching his solid gold name to another venture designed to vacuum dollar bills out of people's pockets. But what I note here is how AdAge describes him as an urban entrepreneur. In fact, references to Urban America are peppered all throughout the story. I think that's what they call code words. But, man, what's the code?

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     3. Urban entrepreneur Earvin "Magic" Johnson will turn media entrepreneur in early 2007 with the launch of Magic New Media...."
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     2. business
     3. culture
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     5. nba
     6. magic+johnson

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• « Saturday « November 11, 2006

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     1. {11112006}
     2. {06:36:18 PM}

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     1. Ed Bradley (Wikipedia) (June 22, 1941 -- November 9, 2006) was an American journalist, best known for his award-winning work on the long-running CBS News television magazine 60 Minutes.
        06:36:18 PM

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  2. datetime

     1. {11112006}
     2. {07:19:24 PM}

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     1. Stanford wins! (ESPN.com) Cardinal shocks Washington for first win of the season, and thus shattering my twisted alumni dream of a perfect 0-12 season. Now, instead of being historically bad, this year's team will just be remembered as bad.
        07:19:24 PM

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• « Monday « November 6, 2006

  1. datetime

     1. {11062006}
     2. {04:22:58 PM}

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     1. New word: robocall

         

        (Talking Points Memo blog)

         
     2. What we're seeing is an apparent coordinated effort from the NRCC -- the House GOP committee -- to place calls that appear to be from the local Democratic candidate and then automatically call the same number back as many as seven or eight times each time the caller hang-ups. If the caller listens to the whole message it goes on to bash the Democratic candidate. But if the caller hangs up prematurely, the computer calls right back. Hang-ups are the achilles heal of robo-calls. So this seems to be an attempt to cover for that weakness by making those who hang up think the Democratic candidate is basically harassing them with phone calls. The GOP wins either way.
        Well, it's a new word to me, though it's an apparently well-developed political technique.

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     3. What we're seeing is an apparent coordinated effort from the NRCC — the House GOP committee — to place calls that appear to be from the local Democratic candidate and then automatically call the same number back as many as seven or eight times e..."
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     2. cyberculture
     3. politics

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     1. {11062006}
     2. {07:56:06 AM}

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     1. The complete Web 2.0 directory (Go2Web20.net) Wow! That's a lot of startups... all trying to hit the same home run.
        07:56:06 AM

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     1. {11062006}
     2. {07:13:03 AM}

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     1. The Long Dive of a Woman's Sex Drive (AlterNet) [W]omen's sexual desire for their partners dwindles with time. What's a monogamous gal to do?
        07:13:03 AM

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