Mark Cuban Theorizes TV Sports Ratings, Net, Immediacy As Currency, And Leprechauns (Well, Not Really Leprechauns)

Say what you will about Mark Cuban, but Mark Cuban owns more sports franchises than you.  Admit it!

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/10/29/sports-ratings-records-and-what-it-tells-us-about-the-internet/

Quick Guide To Helping Older Folks Get Teched Out

One AboutFace-er's grandmother claims the family computer is haunted.  Maybe she's right, but this article shows how that same computer can be useful (when not attempting to open The Gates Of Hell onto suburban Raleigh, North Carolina).

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/technology/personaltech/29basics.html?_r=1&em#

Trees' Long Term Plan To Create Internet And Destroy Post Offices Finally Coming To Fruition

By embracing online bill pay, e-cards, e-mail, electronic signatures, and more, we've unwittingly played right into the Trees' hands.

http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14756838&source=hptextfeature

3D TVs Are Coming At You So Fast It's Almost As If They're In...3D!

Maybe 3D will be in everyone's home in the next few years, or maybe not.  Seems to be up to the consumer.  Would you want one?

http://weblogs.variety.com/technotainment/2009/10/a-big-prediction-for-3d-tvs-.html?ref=ssp

Privacy Vs Social Media Sharing (aka - Privacy, The Bell Tolls For Thee)

Is privacy equal to obscurity?  Are we all publishers of our own social media?  Must we all now publish or perish?

According to Pete Cashmore, the social media savvy will inherit the earth.  Or at least its riches.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/10/28/cashmore.online.privacy/index.html

Celebrities Get Robbed, Cops Blame Paparazzi, Paparazzi Blame Google and Twitter... It's So On!

If you keep getting followed by paparazzi, your house will be robbed.  Who is to blame?  Everyone!  And no one!  But especially Google Maps, Twitter, and probably a formerly noble ninja who was betrayed and went down the wrong path, only to turn to a life of crime stealing from celebrities, then gets busted, and comes out of prison with a new perspective (and a reality show on A&E that follows Dog Bounty Hunter).

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-celebrity-burglaries28-2009oct28,0,5669617.story#

The Current State of Video in Email - Articles & Tips - Campaign Monitor

The Current State of Video in Email - Articles & Tips - Campaign Monitor.

Do you need to embed? This test was performed purely to test the technical side of embedding video in email. What it didn’t cover was if you should be embedding video in email at all. Instead of embedding it, the obvious alternative is simply linking to the video from your email (read more from Mark Brownlow on this approach). By opening your video in an external browser, you can use just about any of the techniques above and it will work reliably.

Electric Car needs a recharge.

Tesla Motors, a tipster tells us, is laying off 100 people, about half of its staff.

Link to More.

Not sure any 8yr old could beat me at Video Games..... Yet !

http://borndigitalbook.com

Google FLASH Indexing Update

Link: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Improved Flash indexing.

"We've received numerous requests to improve our indexing of Adobe Flash files. Today, Ron Adler and Janis Stipins—software engineers on our indexing team—will provide us with more in-depth information about our recent announcement that we've greatly improved our ability to index Flash."