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...markets. That's not to say new billboard technology is free of challenges. Advertisers and privacy advocates are worried that interactive campaigns could be intrusive. Not everyone wants to be talked to by a billboard. "If somebody starts pinging phones, there's going to be consumer backlash," says Tom Burgess, ceo of Third Screen Media, a mobile-marketing and software consultant. For that reason, the newest high-tech outdoor campaigns invite consumers to opt in, say, by sending a text message. For example, insurance-company Nationwide is encouraging visitors to send in snapshots via a company website. Each afternoon...
That's not to say new billboard technology is free of challenges. Advertisers and privacy advocates are worried that interactive campaigns could be intrusive. Not everyone wants to be talked to by a billboard. "If somebody starts pinging phones, there's going to be consumer backlash," says Tom Burgess, CEO of Third Screen Media, a mobile-marketing and software consultant. For that reason, the newest high-tech outdoor campaigns invite consumers to opt in, say, by sending a text message. For example, Nationwide, the insurance and financial-services company, encourages visitors on Times Square's Reuters billboard to send...
...three friends boasted about their partying adventures on the popular social-networking site facebook.com "He said he was interested in Satanism," says Jeremy Burgess, 19, DeBusk's dormitory roommate. But one "demon hunting" trip amounted to little more than an excuse to drink in the woods. According to court documents, Cloyd, DeBusk and Moseley set the first five fires as a joke after a night of drinking and shooting at deer, then torched four more churches 100 miles away to throw police off their trail. A lawyer for Cloyd described him as "remorseful" but would not comment on his guilt...
...think it’s very helpful, it definitely adds to the quality of learning,” she said.Extension School students represent a variety of ages and occupations and Podcasting has become a convenient asset that allows them to learn with minimal obstruction to their other obligations.Pieter Burgess, a retired nursery school teacher, found Podcasting extremely helpful when she had to miss lectures because of cross-country travel that was planned before she enrolled in “Understanding Computers and the Internet.”Burgess said she prefers Podcasts, which allow her to return to the material...
...rest were bayoneted and buried in mass graves. The case was dropped because the victims were not Australian; relatives were told the men had died when a prison ship carrying them was sunk. "We only found out in 1997 what really happened," says June Woods, 69, whose father Alfred Burgess was one of the victims. "The government should have held the Japanese responsible." Sixty years on, the sorrow of her loss is deepened by the sense of betrayal she feels. "It was definitely covered up. There's got to be hundreds more that don't even know their dads were...