“If you look at ad spend by medium in the United States, I pulled this data from the U.S. Statistical Abstract. Of course, the big gorilla in the room is TV. You look at broadcast and cable TV, you’ve got by far the largest expenditure on advertising on those two media. Surprising enough, the next biggest thing is direct mail. Then after direct mail comes the — comes the newspapers. You look at how things have changed over the years, broadcast TV has gone down a little bit. Cable TV has grown by quite a bit, almost a factor of three. The internet’s grown from nothing in 1995 to about 5% of ad expenditures in 2008. And newspapers, As you can see, have contracted from about 23% down to maybe 13% or so. So the big changes are apparent in this diagram. And I guess the next talk is going to be perhaps some more up-to-date figures on the advertising business and newspapers. Newspapers, of course, are still about three times as large in terms of ad revenue as the internet, so there’s still quite a major force in the advertising world.” - Hal Varian from Nieman Lab: “Google’s economist-in-chief, Hal Varian, was the keynote speaker this morning at the Federal Trade Commission’s second round of hearings on the future of journalism.” The above is a quote and a slide from that talk. (See more in Nieman Lab’s post). (DARUSHIMO.com Note: From this point forward, all quotes from anyone who is at the time working at Google will be attributed to “The Google”)

“If you look at ad spend by medium in the United States, I pulled this data from the U.S. Statistical Abstract. Of course, the big gorilla in the room is TV. You look at broadcast and cable TV, you’ve got by far the largest expenditure on advertising on those two media. Surprising enough, the next biggest thing is direct mail. Then after direct mail comes the — comes the newspapers. You look at how things have changed over the years, broadcast TV has gone down a little bit. Cable TV has grown by quite a bit, almost a factor of three. The internet’s grown from nothing in 1995 to about 5% of ad expenditures in 2008. And newspapers, As you can see, have contracted from about 23% down to maybe 13% or so. So the big changes are apparent in this diagram. And I guess the next talk is going to be perhaps some more up-to-date figures on the advertising business and newspapers. Newspapers, of course, are still about three times as large in terms of ad revenue as the internet, so there’s still quite a major force in the advertising world.”

- Hal Varian

from Nieman Lab: “Google’s economist-in-chief, Hal Varian, was the keynote speaker this morning at the Federal Trade Commission’s second round of hearings on the future of journalism.” The above is a quote and a slide from that talk. (See more in Nieman Lab’s post).

(DARUSHIMO.com Note: From this point forward, all quotes from anyone who is at the time working at Google will be attributed to “The Google”)

03.09.10
Finalist Entries for the New Name of the City in Which I Dwell

Portspace

Portzone

Portworld

Portplace

Porthole

Portlanta

Port-au-Oregon

Pooregon

So now we have our finalists, which shall it be?

UPDATE: Votes are in and we have our winner! It’s….

…..POOREGON!

03.08.10
"My Ideal Bot" (from the 'Meaning Full Spam' series)

The profile description from a fake profile on OkCupid (chrysaliis82). This profile’s avatar is a 28-year-old blonde girl. The photos are of 3 different, slender blonde girls, two of which are wearing bikinis.

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My self summary:

I have a strong, bitter, determined character. I’m cynical, and probably too sarcastic. Luckily enough, I may be considered quite handsome (from a certain angle and a certain light), and I never had problems finding someone to hang out with. All that is gold does not glitter, wrote Tolkien. I don’t know if I’m made of gold, but I’m quite sure not to glitter…

Trying to describe myself. I spent my childhood moving. Rolling from place to place. Not learning any idiom enough well to feel it “my” language. Feeling a stranger in a strange land… Then I grew up, and kept moving. This feeling of “not-being-part-of” is probably the most striking aspect of my persona.

[Still unfinished, come back later]

What I’m doing with my life:

Wasting my time, working as a secretary in a uselessly big company. Daydreaming about a change.

I’m really good at:

Hiking and camping alone. Solving differential equations.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food:

Books. These are some authors I love (in random order): Jack Kerouac; Hermann Hesse; Don Winslow; 川端 康成 (Kawabata Yasunari); Allen Ginsberg; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Ray Bradbury; Richard Dawkins; 村上春樹 (Haruki Murakami); Kurt Vonnegut; 三島 由紀夫 (Yukio Mishima); William Burroughs; Charles Bukowski;Stephen Jay Gould; Bertrand Russell; Philip Dick; Tariq Ali; Alfred Tarski; よしもと ばなな (Banana Yoshimoto); Kurt Gödel; Douglas Adams; Noam Chomsky; 井上 靖 (Yasushi Inoue); Neal Stephenson; Jonathan Stroud; Thomas Bernhard.

Music: European classical, I love baroque.

Food: if I can swallow it, I shall digest it.

Education

Dropped out of space camp.

03.08.10

from a presentation “delivered by RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart to top donors and fundraisers at a party retreat in Boca Grande, Florida on February 18.”

(Politico)

03.04.10

“Bring It All To Me” - Blaque and JC Chavez (And don’t forget “Blowin’ me up with her love”)

03.04.10

Bust A Bucket - Dan Reed and the Portland Trailblazers (1990)

03.01.10
“Do you have a Spouse or Fiance in the China?” (via)

“Do you have a Spouse or Fiance in the China?”

(via)

02.26.10