Thought For The Day: "…advertising has never "worked very well" in the sense that any given ad impression doesn’t exactly get the viewer to run out and purchase the product being advertised.." – TechDirt

• Canary In The Coalmine: NYT Sees First Decline In Online Ad Revenues
  Pity the newspapers. After sliding down the slippery slope, they can’t get up again. Take a look at the graphs in the article. The Times, in particular, is facing a seasonal readership dropoff. What’s interesting is that the revenue decline happens against a backdrop of increasing traffic. There’s real downward pressure on consumer advertising prices. For that, look no further than Google.
• Unemployment Filings Reach 26-Year High
  If you revisit the story (Here’s last week’s), you notice that the "if it bleeds, it leads" mantra is being chanted in the halls of the mainstream media. Did you know that theGrinch left Whoville and took a job as an editorial content producer at the Post, the NYT or CNN?
• The Death Of Online Advertising Is Greatly Exaggerated
  "peoples’ hatred for advertising isn’t inevitable. It’s a consequence of the limitations of 20th century media technologies that required advertisers to adopt "scattershot" approaches to advertising. There was no way to target car ads at the 5 percent of the population that’s in the market for a car at any given time, so the other 95 percent of us had to sit through endless car commercials."
• 9 Year Old Girl Becomes the Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional
  Okay, now I feel incompetent. Here’s the Indian TV clip
• RIM accuses Motorola of blocking job offers
  Introducing a new idea in Recruiting. Laid off employees are covered by employee non-solicitation agreements