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...backyard and try to get bugs to fight in a jar. Like most siblings, we soon became very competitive with each other and constantly fought over life-altering issues, such as who would suffer the unfortunate experience of sitting in the middle seat of the car or get the privilege of eating the last pack of Dunkaroos. Going to the same high school as my sisters just made things more complicated. It was the little things that really annoyed me, like how my younger sister, Kirsten, loved to borrow my car at inconvenient times to drive it into Boston, snow...
Joost is lean-back from a content point of view, but its attractiveness to advertisers is in getting you involved. Ad execs love Internet TV because its audience is measurable, targetable and interactive. "If you spend 10 minutes learning about a new car you're interested in," Ozguc says, "that's worth gold to advertisers." By 2010, Parks Associates estimates, the online-video market will grow fivefold, to more than $7 billion. So far Wrigley, T-Mobile and Maybelline have signed on, and others may customize ads not just by location but also by viewing style. Watching Lassie, Benji...
Learning to write is a like buying a car. Going from dealership to dealership, you compare prices, consider features, and measure your desires against your means. Reading everything you can, you build your style from what observations you make of every model. That metaphor may be a bit awkward, but it’s still a bit helpful, no? Any number of ungraceful metaphors like this one can be extended to try and describe the difficult process of learning to write, and a book like “Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer’s Guide?...
...recent sign of the turnaround is the changing fate of the DaimlerChrysler/Mercedes Smart car, which is a megahit in Europe, Australia, Asia and Canada because it gets up to 69 m.p.g. (diesel) and is so small that two can fit into a parking space but which Mercedes delayed bringing to the U.S. for fear of tarnishing its identity as a status brand. Now the company is scrambling to get it to the States as quickly as possible...
...ALBAN When Chris Corbin and Jeremy King opened their latest London restaurant, St Alban, at the end of last year without even a whisper of publicity, devotees flocked. After all, this is the pair behind the Wolseley, the former car showroom on Piccadilly, which opened in 2003 yet manages to appear as if it has been around for at least a century...