• 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.

  
  
  

• Bruce Clay Launches Two New SEO Tools - WebProNews

  Bruce Clay, Inc. has released two new search engine optimization tools that are available for free on bruceclay.com The new tools are the Search Engine Optimization/KSP tool and SEMToolBar. Both tools aggregate select data from Google, Microsoft and ...

• 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.

  
  
  

“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind...And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.” - William Shakespeare

“Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great [person] is unique.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson