• Obama team urges delay in digital TV transition (AP)

  AP - President-elect Barack Obama is urging Congress to postpone the Feb. 17 switch from analog to digital television broadcasting, arguing that too many Americans who rely on analog TV sets to pick up over-the-air channels won't be ready.

• New TV trends: Internet movies, 3-D, power saving (AP)

  AP - TV makers are adding sexy new features like streaming Internet movies and 3-D capabilities this year, betting that they can keep consumers away from basic, no-frills sets, even in a weak economy.

  
  
  

• Review: The Polaroid camera is back, in digital (AP)

  AP - A strange little ritual used to go along with Polaroid cameras. The shooter would grab the print as it came out of the camera and wave it in the air, as if that would stimulate the chemicals and make the picture appear faster. It didn't. Yet it felt dumb to just stand there, waiting for the picture to develop.

  
  
  

• Search EngineStrategies (SES)LondonConference & - Consumer Electronics Net

  Search Engine Strategies (SES) London, the leading conference for education in search engine marketing (SEM/SEO) , interactive marketing, and digital advertising, announced today that Matt Mason will deliver a dynamic keynote presentation which will ...

• SEO and PPC Cannibalization - ClickZ

  My column, " Organic Versus Paid Search ," sparked some debate. Some argued that you should never have to choose between these two activities -- that both should always be employed. Yet others sided with my view -- the most appropriate and cost ...

• New TV trends: Internet movies, 3-D, power saving (AP)

  AP - TV makers are adding sexy new features like streaming Internet movies and 3-D capabilities this year, betting that they can keep consumers away from basic, no-frills sets, even in a weak economy.

  
  
  

“The selective disregard for international law by the United States in the context of the 'war on terror' has enormous influence over the rest of the world. When the US commits serious human rights violations it sends a signal to abusive governments that these practices are permissible. This is why Guantanamo Bay is so important: it tells other governments that they can commit human rights violations in the name of counter-terrorism too.” - Amnesty International: AMR 51/029/2006

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” - Albert Einstein