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16 Sep 09

Pro-Marijuana Shows Are Spreading on America’s TV Screens - NYTimes.com

“While the drug is illegal in most states, the idea is to show that there’s a world somewhere where it’s legal, and where people are doing this,” Mr. Peterson said.

The producers are now trying to sell “Top Bud” to networks. Mr. Peterson acknowledged there was some hesitancy at first but said his company already had “solid interest.”

There are similar stirrings in the scripted TV world. On “Glee,” Fox’s new high school musical, one of the characters is a medical marijuana dealer. At the New York Television Festival next week one of the competing pilot projects seeking a TV network home will be “Rx,” a drama set in the medical marijuana world.

A rash of recent news reports have documented the mainstreaming of pot, citing among other examples frequent drug references in the media and endorsements by a growing list of celebrities. This month Fortune magazine’s cover asks: “Is Pot Already Legal?” CNBC repeats its eight-month-old documentary about the pot business, “Marijuana Inc.,” at least once a week; it continues to be rated one of the channel’s most popular documentaries.

Mr. Lane’s inspiration for “Cannabis Planet” came from a more practical place: he noticed an increasing number of ads in local newspapers for medical cannabis. “It was the only market segment that I saw growing,” he said during dinner at a faded Chinese restaurant on Pico Boulevard.

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The real nature of Cingular's iPhone gamble - Computerworld Blogs

  • But it's one thing to try to muscle customers; it's another to try to muscle big guys like Verizon and Cingular, which are big, cash-rich, hard-nosed operators. As I mentioned in a previous blog, Apple's demands were so significant that Cingular's board had to approve the deal, something that's highly unlikely to occur when any other phone is adopted by the carrier.


    Clearly Cingular is trying to buy market share with iPhone -- it's paying big-time to grab customers away from Verizon Wireless, Sprint and other carriers. In the cellular business, the cost of acquiring customers is a key metric used to determine a company's financial success. Expect Cingular's acquisition costs to spike after iPhone is released.

02 Mar 07

BBC-YouTube pact seen as 'win' for both - Yahoo! News

  • The British Broadcasting Corp. began showing excerpts from its news and entertainment programs on the YouTube video-sharing Web site Friday, becoming the first international broadcaster to ink a major deal with the Google Inc.-owned portal.

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    In an agreement that analysts described as a key step for both the BBC and YouTube, the British broadcaster is offering three branded channels on the site, including one showing up to 30 news clips a day. The deal gives the BBC access to millions more viewers and gives YouTube the credibility of the venerable British broadcaster.

27 Feb 07

Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center - Micro Persuasion

    • in recent weeks I have started using Gmail as much more than an email host. With its gobs of storage, speed and tremendous search/tagging capabilities, you can transform it into a personal nerve center that's available from any computer or mobile device. When you tap into this power and combine Gmail with some other tools, it is perhaps the most essential site ever developed. Most of the following life hacks have not been documented.



      This series has several parts...



      • How to turn Gmail into a massive personal database (Gmail + the Google Toolbar)
      • How to get real-time news updates in Gmail (Gmail+ Google Talk + Twitter)
      • How to automatically store your bookmarks in Gmail (Gmail + del.icio.us + Yahoo Alerts)
      • How to manage Calendar and To-Dos in Gmail (Gmail + Backpack + GCal +  GTalk + iMified)
      • How to blog from Gmail (Gmail + Wordpress/TypePad/Blogger + IMified)
05 Apr 05

The Annotated New York Times

Shows what blogs are saying about New York Times articles. Really interesting.

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