Show Me the Victim!

Ex-Florida school teacher Debra LaFave has Hollywood good looks and blessed a guy whose ten years her junior with what had to be great sex! Most guys never have a chick so hot even once, but he got her three times! So how does he thank her? He completely and utterly ruins her life, that's how. She'll be under house arrest for three yers and on probation for seven more, but that's not the bad news. She'll also have to enter the sex abuse registry in Florida and forever be treated as a criminal. And that punishment, I think, is criminal in and of itself.

Fla. Teacher Pleads Guilty in Sex Case - Yahoo! News

Dinner & photo op: $4,200; spit in the eye: priceless

I think there aren't nearly enough of these kinds of these fundraisers.

Dick Cheney is throwing his wild popularity around indicted Congressman Tom DeLay by giving photo ops for cash. I know this is bad for someone, but I'm not sure which of the evil princes will lose on this deal.

Cheney to Headline DeLay GOP Fundraiser - Yahoo! News

Obama Calls for Troop Reduction in Iraq - Yahoo! News

Sen. Barack Obama says he still believes that a military approach is still the answer, but called for a limited troop reduction. I'm pretty sure no one has suggested that the last soldier ought to be out of Iraq by the end of the week. Two things do need to happen right away that would get more respect for the President: 1) explicitly define a realitic success to our efforts in Iraq; and 2) begin the process of a military exit.

It may not happen on Bush's watch, but a US President needs to bolster our intelligence machine and develop tachtics and technologies that provide plenty of alternatives to aggression on the ground.
Obama Calls for Troop Reduction in Iraq - Yahoo! News: "Sen. Barack Obama "

Not so fast! Judge Delays Delay's Ruling

Hey Judge, can you drop the charges so I can be House Majority Leader again? Please? "Oh, sorry, you forgot to phrase your response in a form that loosely resembled an intelligent question". C'mon, the guy wheels & deal to get 190 large out of corporate America to fund his Texas GOP cronies' campaigns. He's not only accused, as his attorney would have you believe, he's indicted. For the uninclined, that means a judge found enough actual evidence against you to stand trial. So, what do you say we have an up or down vote on it in an actual trial?

Promote locally owned

Whenever business owners manage businesses or units or subsidiaries outside their hometown, those businesses should be aggressively regulated and taxed.

I Vant to Drink Your Vatts - New York Times

Back in the old days, when you turned off an appliance, it was really off and it drew no power. The emergence of our hi-tech society and the development of microchip technology, Congress had a meeting this week to address new consumption (and labeling) standards for these energy suckers, not the least of which is that small black box that hangs on an electrical outlet, often called "wall warts".
I Vant to Drink Your Vatts - New York Times

Bill Writes a Memo

AJAX is asynchronous Javascript and XML, which enables web based applications such as web based email and word processing via the web, a technology often referred to as "Web 2.0". It was developed in 1998 by Microsoft and largely not exploited -- until now. Hence Bill's Memo. Almost a decade after it's development, Microsoft is a late adopter of its own technology, they call "Microsoft Live", as NetSuite and Salesforce.com emerge with their "software as a service" models.

RAB CEO Battle Cry: ROI over CPM; Use New Media More

My day job is coodinating new media products for listeners of seven midwest radio stations, then developing marketing partnerships to support those products.

As a matter of necessity, I pay close attention to industry analysts, listeners, web visitors and my customers.

When Gary Fries, the president/CEO of our industry's trade organization, says we need to move faster toward digital advancements, he does so after a quarter century of pressure by all segments to get with the ages.

Electronic invoicing and audience measuring tools are desperately needed, and all of the individual elements need to speak the same language. Gone, or soon to be, are some of the most antiquated systems for quantifying the value of broadcast and new media to advertisers and their agencies. Instead of simply showing how many people are being reached, we need to demonstrate with a good level of accuracy a genuine return on marketing investments.

I have always believed my industry has been 15 to 20 years behind the digital curve. While it's getting better in the midst of consolidation, much of the local leadership needs to be open for more rapid change.

We are leaving behind a century of blind arrogance and our sites are set on digital agility & accountability. Who's staying & who's coming with us?

Radio Sales Today

TiVo loyalty evaporates

Now requiring a 1-year service contract, TiVo is gradually pricing themselves out of business, and it's more than a money issue for users. When it becomes too costly in terms of convenience and freedom, subscription growth will slow, and hardened TiVo nuts like me will stop using their settop boxes in lieu of MythTV and other Open Source platforms.

The first big news out of the TiVo camp in a long time was their decision to allow networks to "red flag" shows, which can limit when a program can be watched, how long it can be saved to the hard drive and whether it can be copied using the TiVo-To-Go feature.

TiVo has been extremely easy to use, and that has been its major selling point all along; no one who tried it didn't love TiVo. But the limitations just got to be too great for this to be a viable product in my home. One example is its proprietary file format. I want standard MPEG files that you can import/export/edit and save as long as I damn-well feel like it.

My loyalty for TiVo is gone. I predict that I will be using MythTV in 2006.

BetaNews | TiVo Institutes 1 Year Service Contracts

More than just "early adopters" Podcasting

This is clearly not a small thing. Podcasting has unquestionably hit the maintream -- repeatedly.

And they're not just 2-5 minute 'casts; I frequently see mainstream media producing 20 to 60-minute shows, some longer.

Podcasts are largely free, although some big names, like Rush Limbaugh, have managed to collect a fee from their fanbase in exchange for their exclusive content.

For those that stumbled across this post accidentally, Podcasting is an audio (and video, in some cases) form of "blogging", using a communications protocol known as RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, which enables anyone to automatically receive feeds to which they subscribe, similar to email.

Wired News: Tracking Rita: Interactive

Management defined...

Read carefully this story. It says, in essence, that the President cannot manage, for its definition is "getting things done through other people". This imbecile couldn't lead a dog catcher.

Health Emergency Declared for Texas, La. - Yahoo! News