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From The Room: Media Drunk Tank: Seriously, Why Won't Joe the Plumber Just Bugger Off?
November 18, 2008 - Joe the Plumber to Sell Book to His Fans; Trojan to Market Defective Condom to Men Without Penises Okay, so Joe the Plumber is writing a book. And while it's as expected as it is repellent (we wonder if Joe and Sarah Palin couldn't simply descend on John...
From The Room: Project 10^100
September 24, 2008 - This morning, to celebrate it's 10th Anniversary, Google announced Project 10^100 (pronounced 10 to the 100th), offering $10 million to its winners. 10^100 is searching for ideas that will change the w...
From The Room: Welcome to Camp Mogul
July 23, 2008 - My irreverent friend, Khan Manka, Chairman & CEO of Manka Brothers Studios, had broken his ankle and was afraid he wouldn't be able to attend the 26th annual gathering of the nation's most powerful executives and their trophy wives in Sun Valley, Idaho. I really wanted to spy on...
From The Room: Blogging Update: High Risk and You Get Readers by Mentioning a G-string
April 6, 2008 - I wasn't aware that blogging is high risk until I read a story in today's paper reporting that bloggers complain of weight loss (good for a link to...Filed under: blogging, blogging fatalities, Time, Time Person of the Year, Google, Lipitor, Ambien, Dateline, Jenny Craig, Arianna Huffington
From The Room: How to Avoid Ad Profiling on the Web
March 10, 2008 - Everyone's getting a little up in arms about how much data is mined every day from internet search engines and social networking sites. A survey in California (hippies...Diablo Cody explains:
Microsoft and Yahoo
February 4, 2008 - The tech world is abuzz with news of Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover bid for Yahoo, in what would be Microsoft's largest acquisition ever. Such a deal could have far-reaching implications for Internet users worldwide, yet like most financial stories, the details are difficult to grasp. What...
News Odds for Monday, February 4, 2008
February 4, 2008 - Odds that... During the Super Bowl XLII-winning New York Giants' press conference today, coach Tom Coughlin and MVP quarterback Eli Manning say only ni...
From The Room: Newsflash: Microsoft Acquires Yahoo!
February 4, 2008 - Redmond, WA - In a move that shook the technology sector last week, Microsoft launched a $45Bn hostile takeover bid for Yahoo. The combined giant is expected to be a formidable competitor to Google. A Microsoft spokesperson highlighted the strategic opportunity. "Google gives away software for free...
From The Room: Breaking News: A New, Innovative, Do-Good Search Engine
January 3, 2008 - Everything comes under the heading, "breaking news," which is why we've become inured to it after repeatedly leaping out of the tub or slamming down the phone to turn up the volume and give full attention to a story, only to hear about another athlete accused of taking steroids...
From The Room: Joy to the World, Peace is Restored
January 2, 2008 - In the supermarket, the buttermilk has reclaimed its place near the Lactaid after six weeks of being marginalized by the eggnog. At home, the relatives have left, and we can make noise again during sex. On TV, football graphics aren't strangled with holly, and the newsca...
From The Room: Google: May Replace Psychics and Marriage Counselors
December 10, 2007 - For those of us who aren't intuitive about directions and become disoriented pretty much anywhere below Canal Street in Manhattan, as well as in most of the other boroughs, Google, bless their virtual souls, has come to the rescue. Using our BlackBerrys and Smartphones, we can ask where we...
From The Room: How Did We Function Before Google?
November 25, 2007 - Was the woman sitting next to me on the plane for real? What's the answer to 23 Across, six letters? Which airlines fly to Myanmar? Where is Myanmar? Do I need shots? Which is the quietest dishwasher? How do I know if what I have is an irregular shaped...
From The Room: Google Has Trouble Finding Its Own Millionaire
November 13, 2007 - On November 11, the New York Times published a story about Bonnie Brown, who was hired as an in-house masseuse at a tiny, 40-person start-up called Google. The story, which has become the most-emailed of the week, recounts the unpredictably predictable saga of Ms. Brown who...World's Googlers look for sex and Hitler, sometimes simultaneously
October 18, 2007 - Need another reason to clear your Internet cache? According to the Google Trends Web site, Internet users from 2004 to the present in Egypt, India and Turkey most frequently searched for the keyword "sex" on Google search engines. Germany, Mexico and Austr...
