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POPS2.8 Million People Left Behind Despite a year-long effort by the government, broadcasters and cable operators to warn people of the digital-TV switch, about 2.8 million households remained completely unprepared as of Wednesday, according to Nielsen Co. Older Americans were more prepared than the national average, Nielsen found, but younger people and African-American and Hispanic households continued to lag behind. Originally scheduled for February the conversion was postponed until Friday June 11th because Obama and Congress felt that TOO MANY were not prepared. Well guess what those same people were still not prepared. I find the statistics interesting in the groups of people who were least prepared. Apparently these slackers where hoping for yet ANOTHER DELAY. They can not say they were not warned, And yet they still failed to prepare for the inevitable. That seems to be the nations Achilles heal sloth and lack of preparation.
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POPSAssorted Quotes from a blog sidebar... MORE: “Never believe in a meritocracy in which no one is funny-looking.” (Teresa Nielsen Hayden) “True religion invites us to become better people. False religion tells us that this has already occurred.” (Abdal-Hakim Murad) “To live is to war against the trolls.” (Henrik Ibsen) “No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” (Samuel Beckett)
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POPSJohn Nielsen A nice interview with John, who I've been following on Twitter for a while now.
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POPSTwitter has a low retention rate... so? The internet is a fickle thing, what's true today isn't true tomorrow, and one can't draw parallels between viewership of traditional media and websites. Ratings (sorry, "retention rates") like this mean squat. There are many legitimate concerns one could raise about Twitter, but marketing speak like this ain't one of them.
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POPSCalifornia To Ban TV: But Not For Good Reason (like there’s nothing decent to watch) Of course, television sets, just as with dishwashers and refrigerators, are getting more efficient all the time, a process that the free marker excels at on its own - at least it used to, before the age of AIG, bailouts, and executive compensation caps. But, rather than let nature and consumer choice take its course, the CEC must be seen as acting. For bureaucracies that don’t act are soon acted upon by politicians. Unsaid is the fact that, if anything decent were being produced for television, emissions would skyrocket. On this basis NBC should make out like a bandit with a carbon cap-and-trade program since their sole show in the prime-time top-20 Nielsen ratings is rated an energy-saving #20, translating weak viewership into an Earth-friendly virtue, and a few million tons of valuable carbon credits.
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POPSThe News America Watches WOW! Beck is resonating big time. His 4:00e/5:00c show has more viewers than Olbermann who is in prime time, and Beck may have the most DVR'd show on all cable news. I believe America has a collective stomach ache. And at master POS Olbermann barely beating Nancy Grace on the lowly HN. These numbers are amazing! I think it shows how a vast majority of mainstream Americans do not gravitate toward the hate that most of us see on the internet.
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POPSF pattern or just simple triangle Couple weeks ago I read in Google Blog about their eye tracking research. Jacob Nielsen called this pattern F – Shaped Pattern because it look like the letter F. I was often wondering what is so special about the letter F. Probably Nothing. Because the shape is more like to be the triangle not the letter F.
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POPSWrite for Reuse This is great advice for anyone who writes blogs, or other content for the web.
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POPSMan Wakes Up After Family OK's Disconnecting Life Support The human body never ceases to amaze me. She found her husband slumped forward in his easy chair, a half-eaten bowl of Raisin Bran in his lap, in the living room of the couple's Vista apartment. At 6 feet 8 inches and more than 250 pounds, Connelly is not easy to move. His wife was unable to get him out of his chair and onto the floor by herself. "I found him totally unconscious," she recalled Monday. "I couldn't find a pulse. I couldn't find any air. He wasn't breathing." Fearing her husband was dead, Loris Connelly called 911. According to NorthComm fire dispatch records, the call came in at 6:10 a.m. and paramedics arrived at the apartment on Shadowridge Drive at 6:16 a.m. Nielsen said that when paramedics arrived, Connelly's heart had stopped beating.
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POPSAxl Rose Speaks I'm still a huge Gn'R fan... Yes, I liked Chinese Democracy... I think it's a great record. Obviously, it's not traditional Gn'R for me. I won't argue with that... but it's a great album nonetheless.. Go to the site to read the full article! Great read!
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POPSAnti-Semitism In Helsingborg, the congregation at a Swedish synagogue takes shelter as a window is broken and burning cloths thrown in; in Odense, principal Olav Nielsen announces that he will no longer admit Jewish children to the local school after a Dane of Lebanese extraction goes to the shopping mall and shoots two men working at the Dead Sea Products store; in Brussels, a Molotov cocktail is hurled at a Belgian synagogue; in Antwerp, lit rags are pushed through the mail flap of a Jewish home; and, across the Channel, “youths” attempt to burn the Brondesbury Park Synagogue.
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POPSTop 10 sellers of 2008 - on vinyl Great article! Who would have thought so much Vinyl is still sold, though I did buy Gn'R's Chinese Democracy CD online from HMV UK - only because a single from the album came for free with it... on vinyl!
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POPSDownload Sandford and Son episodes free The story basically is about a father and his son. Redd foxx who is playing the fathers role in the series is a junk dealer who always try to invent the new schemes for money making and his son is the partner in his business. All the ups and downs of their life shown. So if you are in search of a free link.Your search is over.here is the free link.
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