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I like this MediaPost article a lot. You have to register to read it, but man is it ever worth it.
Actually, I am just posting it so I can find it later when I am looking for it and remember I posted it on the blog.

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Question, Answer and a LOL

Question: why are we so upset by Michael Vick and his dog fighting “issue” yet seemingly indifferent to the bullfights happening Pamplona (et al.) each year? What’s the difference? Kind of a real question, but also kind of a rhetorical one. Deb suggests the issue is simply that dogs are pets and bulls are, well, [...]

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Note to Self

Google is no longer a naughty word in the Hobokenite Ellsworth household.
Just sayin’…

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Yahoooooo!

As you may or may not already know Matt started his brand new job at Yahoo! this past week.
Of course this means that we expect you all to install the Yahoo! toolbar and use Yahoo! as your default search. Moving forward the “G” word is a naughty one in this family.
Thank you all for your [...]

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Extra! Extra! Read All About It

Well, actually, that’s the question. How do you read your news? In the last week or so there have been some interesting pieces of news/opinion that have come out in the media world that prompt my curiosity.
One is an opinion piece from AdAge magazine envisioning a world in which Dow Jones folds the print version [...]

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Cat Stuck in a Tree?

Cat Stuck in a Tree?

Fireman Colin to the rescue!
Some colleagues at The Wall Street Journal financial ad sales group got Colin one of his very first toys after he was born. He loves it! We had taken some pictures of him with the fire truck around Christmas, but they are mostly a photographic exploration of mom and dad’s arms [...]

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Are YOU in Techno-Flux?

Although this article—which ran in the April 3rd issue of BrandWeek—is written about teenagers, I find that some of the trends it is talking about are apropos even to myself. Perhaps I’m just a media junkie by trade, but I’m curious who else is “down with the techno-flux”?!?! I’m certainly all about “brain-blur” and “dataddiction,” [...]

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Puerto Rico (!!!)

Puerto Rico (!!!)

We just got back from a trip to Puerto Rico—where we stayed at El San Juan Hotel & Casino—for a Dow Jones Integrated Solutions/Dow Jones Online sales meeting. Since dad works at DJIS and mom works at DJO (when she’s back from maternity leave) and both were in attendance at the meeting, Colin tagged along. [...]

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