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George W. Bush is worth more than Brad Pitt. Well, at least on Trendio com a site where you can speculate on the news. Investors start with $10,000 in play money, which they can plow into some 200 terms, like Michael Jackson, gunman and Dick Cheney. Trading prices of the terms fluctuate according to how often they appear in stories from 3,000 media sources--so the value of Brad Pitt spiked on news of his daughter's birth. But if you can't make real money, what's the point? "Media consumers don't give much thought...
Actually, "bragged" might be more apt. The confessions are all about showing off, says Trench, the scribe at MyCrimeSpace com which tracks the growing number of crime stories with MySpace twists. (He goes by a pseudonym because he has received death threats for his efforts.) "These teens just want to see how many MySpace friends they can get--the wrong friends...
...says his strategy is to target people in their early 20s, who are tech savvy and the biggest users of the high-drain devices Oxyride is most suited to run: digital cameras, MP3 players and handheld games. So the company advertises heavily on youth-magnet media such as MySpace com Yahoo! Instant Messenger and MTV com Panasonic has also become the battery sponsor of Anheuser-Busch theme parks and the Dew Action Sports Tour, a competition featuring skateboarding, BMX biking and freestyle motocross...
That's good news too for oil workers, petroleum engineers and geologists, as even fields once thought tapped out are getting attention. Sites like oilfieldworkers. com are touting jobs for $100 a day, with no experience needed. Is gushing oil too icky for you? Hate living in camps outdoors? Oil companies are looking for cooks and medics too, say the ads. At oilfield jobs ok.com the come-on is for 700 jobs in Oklahoma, paying $20,000 to $60,000, with benefits, flex hours and job training. "Great opportunities for hardworking guys like you!" says...
...latest album from Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, on an internet fansite before the album was released.They are the first to be indicted under a provision of the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (FECA) of 2005. The act specifically targets those who distribute media before it is com-mercially distributed, a huge problem for the music industry.“[Pre-release] piracy is a really big deal,” Samuel D. G. Jacoby ’08, who is also a Crimson editor and one of the heads of WHRB’s Hip-Hop department, writes...