| Obama augments ads with network of volunteers
For generations, politicians with cash have campaigned one way in statewide races in California: Carpet bomb voters with TV ads and fill their mailboxes with direct mail. But the Barack Obama campaign is trying something different, something that that even its top organizers jokingly say is "insane" to try in a state that's 163,695 square miles broad: They're approaching voters as a community organizer might. Neighborhood by neighborhood, precinct by precinct, block by block. Although Obama is trailing Sen. Hillary Clinton by 12 points in the Field Poll released Tuesday, 20 percent of California's voters remain undecided. Steve Weir, president of a statewide organization of California county registrars, predicted half of the vote-by-mail ballots will arrive in the last nine days of the campaign, meaning we're approaching the hottest days of the campaign here.
China's iPhone Fans Find a Way
Finding people selling iPhones in Chinese cities, in districts such as Beijing's Zhongguancun or in the big IT shopping centers in Shanghai, is a snap. Da Lin, a Beijing resident, got his first iPhone from Liu Yong just days after its U.S. debut and has since purchased "a dozen or so" for Chinese friends. Frank, a 30-year-old European businessman who lives in Shanghai and requested anonymity, says that he bought his iPhone about two months ago from an IT mall in the city. A self-described Apple "fanatic," he owns two iPods and two Macs. He says he had a tough time synching his iPhone with iTunes on his computer: "It took me six hours online to find the right way to do it," he says; but there's no beating the envious oohs and ahhs he gets when he shows it to friends. "Every time I go out for dinner and put it on the table, it's in everyone's hands," he says.
Hardware NEC Announces Curved Computer Display
At CES 2008 last week Alienware announced a curved computer display geared for gamers and making people more productive through more screen space while working on a computer. NEC must feel that the market for long, curved displays is a up and coming category as it announced its own curved display called the NEC CRVD-42DWX+. The NEC display has a screen resolution of 2880 x 900 with a response time of under 0.02 milliseconds. The NTSC color gamut the display is capable of is 170% and the dynamic range is 12-bit. In all the display can reproduce 68.7 billion colors. NEC spokeswomen emphasized that the Alienware prototype and the NEC CRVD-42DWX+ "have nothing to do with each other." While NEC claims the two displays share no common manufacturer, both displays are built with the same bezel and housing.
January 2006 - December 2006
It wasn't long ago that Americans could say almost anything but since those days the First Amendment has been taking a terrific beating, writes Lady Liberty College illiteracy stuns educators: American educators may be stunned that nearly one-third of college students can't extrapolate facts from a complex book but Samuel L. Blumenfeld isn't Morphing Bush into mahogany: With Rebel in Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush Fred Barnes attempts to paint Dubya as a political outsider. Were that only so, responds Bernard Chapin The man who defined the world: Steve Martinovich found Henry Hitchings' Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary a marvelous account of the first modern English-language dictionary Freedom isn't free: Americans once shed their blood to earn their freedom.
PennWell launches BioOptics World for select audience
PennWell Corp. has launched BioOptics World, a magazine catering to the optical technologies and life sciences industry. The first copies of BioOptics World were mailed to qualified readers found through purchased and in-house lists, requests from readers of other PennWell titles, and e-mail and telemarketing campaigns. All of PennWell's marketing is performed in-house. Aimed at scientists, clinicians and biomedical researchers and engineers, the bi-monthly magazine has an initial circulation of 20,000. The goal, said Christine Shaw, SVP of PennWell's technology group, is to be 100% direct request qualified by the end of 2008. She pointed out that the industry served by BioOptics World is experiencing rapid growth, creating a need in the market for a trade title.
Daily Blabber Celebrity Gossip Blog from iVillage Entertainment
The network was paying the Late Night with Conan O'Brien non-writers through the end of the month, which is today, but nobody is going to starve, as Conan will be picking up the tab for the foreseeable future. This comes just a few weeks after David Letterman promised it would be a merry Christmas for his peeps, offering to pay their salaries at least through the end of the year. Those late night guys -- what sweeties. .
Jeepers, rappers, where'd you get those arms and torsos?
When news surfaced over the weekend that 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean, Timbaland and other rap stars had been implicated in a steroids investigation, some hip-hop fans were shocked, but to many in the industry the accusations seemed inevitable. Although public accusations of steroid and human-growth-hormone use by rappers and R&B stars — like Mary J. Blige, who was also named in the investigation, according to a report in The Times Union of Albany — are all but unheard of, the latest news struck a chord about the increasing pressure on these performers to maintain perfect, even superhuman physiques as a part of their overall image and brand. "The spectacle of hip-hop now is so much greater than it's ever been," said Jeff Chang, the author of the hip-hop history "Can't Stop Won't Stop." "There's always the battle aesthetic at work, this idea that you're going to go up there and show that you're badder than everybody else.
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