17,000 Sq Foot LED Billboard Flipped On at 1 Times Square (6)
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When we first wrote about this comically huge Walgreens LED sign — the largest of its kind in the world — construction was just getting under way. That was May, and now they're done. D3 LED, the firm behind the sign, finally turned on this 17,000 square foot, 340ft tall, three-sided tribute to technical and commercial excess — and what timing! But before we start challenging the rationale behind displaying 300ft moving Tampax ads, it's ...
New York Times Goes Green With its Lighting Needs (1)
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The fabulous New York Times building continues to be known for its brilliant green features and great energy saving campaign. Once an energy-guzzling media fort, the building has now turned into a green hub from where we not only get news, views and reviews, but also reduction in carbon emissions and power consumption. The Times Company has installed Lutron’s Quantum management solution that includes daylight, occupant, target set point, time clock, and emergency lighting controls, ...
Restructuring The Times (9)
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So The New York Times Company is now worth less than it paid for the disastrous Boston Globe. It has cut its dividend to save cash, which - PR protestations aside - could lead to a family revolt, a la Wall Street Journal, LA Times, and Orange County Register. The Times Company - just like GM - has to undergo a radical restructuring and fast. That’s heresy in both cases. Both are Institutions. They were ...
Special Guest Post: by Lisa Solomon (1)
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TAIL OF THE YAKby Lisa SolomonToday I want to introduce you all to one of my all time favorite stores. It's called Tail of the Yak and is run by Alice Erb and Lauren McIntosh [a fabulous artist: laurenmcintosh.com]. It' s located in the Elmwood district [elmwoodshop.com] of Berkeley [but is super close to Oakland, so I consider it part of my stomping ground].I'll never forget the first time I stumbled into this treasure trove. ...
Smoking In a Can (1)
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Dutch beverage supplier United Drinks and Beauty Corporation recently unveiled 'Liquid Smoking,' a fruit-flavored herbal drink that claims to deliver the same fix as cigarettes. Rather than nicotine, the drink contains a potent mix of roots from South African plants, and is purported to provide an effect similar to smoking--a slight boost in alertness, then a euphoric, calming feeling. The beverage company hopes to sell the product in pubs and bars as a mixer with ...
Broadband Content Bits: BBC.co.uk's Big Target, PSP History Channel, VOD Survey (1)
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-- BBC.co.uk: BBC online chief Erik Huggers wants BBC.co.uk to become Auntie's second-biggest channel after BBC One by 2012. Currently, site traffic is "a drop in the ocean" compared to the TV and radio audience at 18.1 million users a month (comScore, Sep 08), Huggers told the European Media Leaders Summit (via PG). So there's "a lot of growth left". -- History Channel on PSP: Strange, since it usually comes with Sky's channel bundles right ...
Food: Against Self-Sufficiency (1)
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Jim Surowiecki wants to turn the agricultural clock back to the days when countries forced their agricultural producers to feed only a national, not an international, consumer base: When prices spike as they did this spring (for reasons that now seem not entirely obvious), the result is food shortages and malnutrition in poorer countries, since they are far more dependent on imports and have few food reserves to draw on... That doesn't mean that we ...
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Celeste said:
Felix, you seem to hate James Surowieki. And having not read his piece, I won't defend the whole article. But I will defend the idea of local food economies. Don't be an asshat; no one is advocating isolationist food economies in which droughts and crop disasters cause famine. It's about shifting the balance.
Attending Industry Conventions: How to Hustle & Flow Like the Pimp You Are (1)
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When you attend industry conventions are you sitting in the front row asking questions or hiding behind your laptop in the back? This isn’t high school; it’s your career…your passion…and your paycheck at the end of the day! So make the most of industry conventions and thrust yourself into the action. You never know what piece of advice or people will ROCK YOUR WORLD! First, let’s rewind and revisit why we attend these conventions in ...
Getting it right on Election night (2)
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November 1 was an uneventful day for most people. But at Yahoo! News, editors had gathered in the newsroom on a sleepy Saturday morning to rehearse Election Night for a third and final time. Everyone was geared up for a prescribed role – following election calls by the Associated Press, mapping results as states rolled in, coordinating headlines with the homepage team, cranking out posts for our elections blog. A mock network commentator addressed the ...
Così è deciso, la Vita è tolta. (1)
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riposa in pace La Cassazione ha appena respinto il ricorso della procura di Milano contro la sentenza d’Appello sul caso Englaro. Da stasera, il padre di Eluana potrà staccarle il sondino nasogastrico che la nutre e la idrata mantenendola così in Vita. Da stasera, anche l’Italia avrà la sua Terry Schiavo. Perchè dico questo? Beh, perchè la sentenza dice che si può staccarla dai macchinari, ma in Italia l’eutanasia è pur sempre vietata, quindi, dovremo ...
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JP Simões regressa aos discos em Janeiro de 2009 com um duplo álbum, gravado ao vivo no Teatro São Luiz em Lisboa. O alinhamento percorre dez anos de criação de JP Simões e traz onze inéditos. www.myspace.com/f...Shared by Hugo (59)Contribute comment
