That Danny!

A review of the Sex And The City by one of the only men in the audience.
The ladies were all excited, egging each other on, feeling liberated when they came into the cinema. They were still excited when they left, but perhaps a little less. They seemed to be thinking about it, and contemplating what [...]

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Full Transcript - Jeff Peckman’s alien video - proof of extra-terrestrial life!

Opening scene - blurred lawn, panicked voices, “look! Look! Take a shot! Take a shot! Oh Man, you gotta catch this!”
Camera stabilises for a brief second, then shakes again.
Female voice, Screams: “we are not alone! Are you taping this? Are you taping this? You [...]

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It might just be linguistic sensitivity, or the difference between American and UK English (?), but the following struck me as an odd way to word a real estate ad, and specifically in a post 9/11 New York:

[The Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, May 28, 2008, page 29]
Exploding area? In New York?
Or is it just me?

Technorati [...]

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If you’re asking yourself: “who is Jane Smith?” then you must have received an email from her, coming from the email address jane85smith@gmail.com. She also writes from live.com and various other addresses.
Don’t respond, don’t worry, hit delete. Forget about it. She’s not worth it: she’s spam.
It’s the oldest trick in the book, but still [...]

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Petar Pavic, Head of R&D at Europapress Holding, Croatia
New Media Conference & Expo 2008 - Bucharest (live blogging from the event)
Some highlights:
* apologies to Petar, there was so much in his excellent presentation, that I can only summarise some key points here. If it is posted online, I will link to it.
- Croatia is small [...]

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Speaker: Darren Patterson, Business Development Director, YAHOO! Europe
New Media Conference & Expo 2008 - Bucharest (live blogging from the event)
Some highlights:
- Yahoo is planning the launch of Yahoo Romania. It has an organically grown audience in Romania and it wants to build on it. Similar things are happening in Turkey, Poland and Russia.
In Eastern Europe [...]

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Speaker: Prof Dr Jo Groebel - Director, The German Media Institute
New Media Conference & Expo 2008 - Bucharest (live blogging from the event)
Some highlights:
- Research shows that the younger generation doesn’t visit news online sites, they collect their news from their online community, and they trust it more.
- We not only show a change in [...]

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Leon Levitt - Vice President Digital Media, Cox Newspapers
New Media Conference & Expo 2008 - Bucharest (live blogging from the event)
Some highlights:
- Newspaper circulation is dropping.
- Cox Newspapers have been profitable in the digital space since 2004/2005.
- Cox wants to aggregate audiences in print and online. This is the key piece of their strategy.
- Thus, [...]

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