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Skip to comments.Pawlenty impresses Iowans on substance; Group backtracks on Huckabee commitment
Posted on 02/08/2011 9:14:25 AM PST by bigred08
Tim Pawlenty said all the right things during the inaugural Presidential Lecture Series event sponsored by The FAMiLY Leader. A crowd of 150 attendees, plus a dozen media members, gathered at Pella Christian High School early Monday afternoon to listen to the former Minnesota governor. The crowd liked what they heard, but was not blown away by Pawlentys delivery.
If elections were won only on substance, Pawlenty would stand a strong chance in the 2012 Iowa Caucus. However, style matters too. Oratorical skills propelled Barack Obama to the White House in 2008. Pawlenty will need to become a more passionate speaker as the campaign moves forward. He possesses an everyman quality that could endear him to caucus goers, but lacks the soaring rhetoric of Obama, folksy humor of Mike Huckabee, and fiery charisma of Chris Christie.
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I'll start with my granddad who lost a leg in the Philippines, fall of 1944.
Doug MacArthur wanted to wade ashore and tell the newsreels "I have returned"....so we suffered sixty-odd thousand American casualties when it would have been easy to keep the Japs bottled up there.
Anything that comes from The IowaRINO I take with a truckload of salt.
>> "Far from Breaking News and all this emphasis on the 2012 Presidential race distracts us from the cause at hand, defeating Obamas plans for 2011." <<
The GOP House leadership has already abandoned any such plans. Ryan and Boehner only plan to cut 58 billion from last year's budget, and plan to allow the debt ceiling to be raised.
Can you say surrender?
Your grandad has filled your head with garbage.
Macarthur was the only voice of common sense. He opposed the formation of the UN, and intended to clear the communists out of east asia.
Truman would have none of it. Truman was responsible foe many of the failures, including in the Plilippines, where he kept a logisstic leash on all operations for no good reason.
TV was used skillfully by the globalists to defeat Mac in '52. I watched it, and it made me sick, and I was just a kid.
The anti-Macarthur forces are responsible for the mess in Korea and the rest of asia that we have today.
I personally think a boring governor may be the best candidate. Contrast substance vs Obama's bs full. I'd run the campaign against the charisma. Obama's numbers were lowest during the campaign when McCain's celebrity ad was out.
Boring governors are boring because they are not leaders; they're surrender monkeys and cultural leftists, (Daniels, Pawlenty, etc.)
I feel here in the very liberal state of Minnesota, Pawlenty has been about as conservative as he could be and manage to get re-elected.
Corn farmers are a large voting block. Pushing ethanol was a one issue dealbreaker for most of them. The (female)running mate of the DFL opponent for governor made a large gaffe about not knowing what E-85 was. It tipped them into defeat. As it has become obvious in recent years that ethanol production is a losing waste he has shut-up about it. I doubt he would push it any longer.
He also payed lip service to the global warming crowd. He was all for initiatives that sounded good but he always stated he would fight any regulations that would hurt the economy. With the recent revelations about faked data and the -12 degrees below zero temperature this morning he may have adjusted his stance on this also.
These are the only 2 issues I have disagreed with him on in the past. And I don't think he really believed them himself. He has done an awesome job of keeping spending down and preventing new taxes with one of the most liberal legislatures in the US. He's pro-life, pro voter ID, toughened up the child predator laws, and calmed everybody down after Jesse Ventura left.
I know he doesn't speak with fire and brimstone, but he is very non-threatening, easy going, and personable. I think it could be a very stealthy way to get a decent conservative into office.
Hannity showed a group of IA republicans last night, asked them who they wanted to see run. As I predicted before that part of the segment ran, they were all over the map.
Some of their observations were good and some of them made absolutely ridiculous remarks, but then that's people for you..
If all he does, is keep Huckabee out...he's done a huge credit for the GOP & the country!
Hey, I'm with you. I'm involved with all this and I don't have a clue where I'll end up at the Straw Poll or the caucus next Feb. It's wide open as far as I'm concerned.
The one thing I do know with 100% certainty is that whichever Republican ends up with the nomination, will have my vote when it comes to choosing between our nominee and Obama!!
That, sadly, is a great example of why we will never get spending under control. Every voting block has a spending or regulatory "deal breaker" and most politicians do not have the skill or will to override them.
This is where McDonnell is at a bit of a disadvantage. He's constrained by VA's established term limits for Governor, which prohibits a person from serving consecutive terms. Kind of stupid, I know. I think he can sit out a term, and then run again. But at that point, what's the benefit?
He's either going to have to challenge Webb in 2012 (with a year left on his original gubernatorial term, which won't go over well), or he'll have to wait until Warner is up for reelection in 2014 (I think).
But I don't think it's to early to find a candidate, there's a lot of money to be raised and planning to be done. My dad started promoting Reagan on the East Coast in the 1960's!
Likability can go a long way.
Trump certainly has that problem as well. Some of that is probably due to the fact that most of his extensive business interests are in solidly "blue" states, so it is in his interest to be on friendly terms with Democrat politicians. The rest is due to the fact that, while he takes conservative positions on a lot of issues, he is certainly not what one would call an orthodox conservative or a Republican partisan.
It should be noted that, according to the data at your link, he has given a substantial amount to Republican candidates (there is an asterisk next to the amount of his total Republican donations, though I don't know what that means). Also, he has given more money to "Special Interests" - i.e. "non-partisan" groups - than he has to Democrats, and almost all of those donations appear to be to conservative groups that in turn contribute to Republican campaigns.
Those Newsmeat breakdowns can be misleading. For example, if someone gave all of his donations to Sarah PAC, that pie chart would read 0% for "Republicans", and 100% for "Special Interests".
All that said, what I said was meant as an evaluation of his potential candidacy, not as an endorsement of it. Trump certainly isn't my ideal candidate by any means (his apparent support of increased gun control is a serious problem for me); I just think he would be an interesting addition to the race, and that he might bring some refreshing perspective to the debate on economic issues.
Rudy is testing the waters.
I could vote for Pawlenty, but Huckabee is a RINO!
Pawlenty, Huckabee, Romney and Gingrich will split the RINO vote four ways.
Thanks Toast. I'm not familiar with Pawlenty. You make good points-people do learn from the past—nobody is good on all issues. An in-your face conservative who pisses off independents will have trouble getting elected. However being old and or boring (a la Bob Dole) won't work either. A lot of voters just choose who ever they'd want to sleep with or drink a beer with. Maybe we need a good-looking non-boring "stealth" conservative (whoever that is?)
Sarah Palin is my choice
Sarah Palin is my choice
I'll just throw this one out there : Pawlenty/Bolten '12?
Iowa Republicans don't "swoon". Over Obama...or anybody else.
When we invaded the Philippines, Truman was a senator from Missouri, campaigning to be elected VP.
Either Mac and Nimitz called a Missouri senator to receive their strategy directives, or, you fail history.
Huckabee is not running. He needs to once again do well in Iowa if he wants to get the nomination. He is not forming an organization or staff in Iowa. Also interesting, Palin is not organizinfg either.
Haven't seen this mentioned, but I find it troubling that the electorate replaced Pawlenty with - of all people - Mark Dayton.
It seems he made absolutely no lasting impression on them as far as the important difference between parties and ideologies.
I would suggest to him, clean up your Minnesota "house" before entering national politics.
Put The Donald on a ticket with Herman Cain and the Dems will have NO CHANCE of winning any verbal battle!
This guy has been running for President since he won the governorship in 2002. Totally NUT CASE ambition, ill concealed. And too PC, i.e., too political. He was McCain's right-hand politicker in the 2008 run.
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ROBOT 6's Corey Blake wrote a great piece last month on the evolution of digital comics and the innovations that make them more than just electronic copies of print comics. Without repeating what he said, those innovations raise a couple of questions that are also worth talking about: What are we going to call this new format and does it even need a separate name?
Gabriel Hardman (Star Wars: Legacy, Kinski) recently asked on Twitter, "Is there an accepted name for the Thrillbent/Infinite style of digital comics?" Even filtering out all the joke responses (my favorite is Dennis Culver's "Labor Intensive"), the answer seems to be no.
A couple of folks note that Scott McCloud's Infinite Canvas (or, alternatively, Expanded Canvas) is a common term, but Hardman observes that it could be seen as pretentious, which might keep it from catching on. I like the idea of letting McCloud name it — he more or less came up with the idea — but it does remind me of how it sounded when comics fans all started referring to the medium as "sequential art." It's a great term for talking about comics academically, but not so good for popular use.
I have a confession to make: I didn't understand at first what Creator-Owned Heroes is. It's my fault, because it looks like a magazine, and Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Steve Niles say very clearly right there in the first issue that that's what it is, but I stubbornly insisted on looking at it as an anthology comic with some text pieces in the back. I figured that I would wait on the eventual collections and read the comics in larger chunks.
This week, though, I realized that reading four issues back to back actually is reading in bigger chunks, so I bought the issues I'd missed and caught up. Doing that convinced me that Creator-Owned Heroes isn't something that's going to be replicated very well in a collected volume. Most obviously, you'd lose the timeliness of the text pieces. Each of the three writers has a monthly column, but there are also recommendations of movies, products, and other people's comics. None of that would hold up very well in a permanent, collected form. It's not designed to.
But more importantly, not even the comics are designed to be collected. Each issue has two, 11-page comics, one written by Palmiotti and Gray, the other by Niles. In the first four issues, Palmiotti and Gray teamed up with Phil Noto for "Triggergirl 6," about the most recent in a line of assassins that have become famous for their relentless, exclusive targeting of the President of the United States. Niles partnered with Kevin Mellon for "American Muscle," a post-apocalyptic drama about a group of young people driving muscle cars (while also fighting mutants) toward what they hope is the Promised Land.
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a splurge item.
Check out Diamond's release list or ComicList, and tell us what you're getting in our comments field.
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If I (only) had $15, I'd first pick up Creator Owned Heroes #2 (Image, $3.99). This format is something I revel in, and it doesn't hurt to have good comics like those from Palmiotti, Gray, Noto, Niles and Mellon. After that I'd get the long-awaited Infernal Man-Thing #1 (Marvel, $3.99). I only found out about this delayed-'80s series in the early 2000s, but I had the chance to speak to Kevin Nowlan about a year back and we talked at length about the book. He showed me some art and I was sold. Third on my list would be Invincible #93 (Image, $2.99). The Walking Dead might be getting all the attention, but if I had to chose between all of the books Kirkman's written it'd easily be Invincible. He and artists Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley continue to bring their A-game here, and this new format with Ottley and Walker trading pages is great. With the last bit of my $15 I'd pick up Avengers Vs. X-Men #7 (Marvel, $3.99). This has easily become one of the greatest event series since Civil War, and the last issue in particular sold it with the twin stylings of Jonathan Hickman and Olivier Coipel. You might say I have diminished thresholds when it comes to event series, but I see it as a different kind of comic than, I don't know, Dan Clowes or something. It's its own thing, and in this case it's very good at it.
If I had $30, I'd get Mike Norton's Battlepug HC (Dark Horse, $14.99). Call me a fool for buying a free webcomic in trade, but I missed the boat when this was coming out online. Norton has won me over with his work through the years and I have no problem shelling out $15 bucks to see it in this hardcover format – even if I'm not a dog person.
And for splurging, I'd get Ed Piskor's Wizzywig HC (Top Shelf, $19.95). This is exactly the kind of book that fits in my wheelhouse, but like Battlepug I missed out on this when it was first published. Like some sort of Hackers movie done right (sorry Angelina!), I want to learn more about this and eschew my status as a neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie.
Comics | With the success of The Avengers film, Kendall Whitehouse discusses the narrative techniques comics have "explored and exploited," including "multi-issue story arcs, crossovers, team-ups, reboots and multiple title tie-ins," noting they not only help sell more comics but also have blazed the trail for complex stories: "The story has now become a world unto its own that allows the reader to explore whichever dimensions are of the greatest interest. Follow the events from the perspective of Iron Man or Thor. Or just peruse the core series and ignore the supplementary story elements. The series presents a nearly unbounded narrative universe for the reader to experience. It is easy to interpret this with a cynical eye as nothing more than a series of cheap marketing tactics designed to pump sales. And yet, when well executed, something larger emerges." [Knowledge@Wharton Today]
Retailing | Saturday's Free Comic Book Day also served as the grand opening for Aw Yeah Comics, a store in Skokie, Illinois, owned (as the name suggests) by Tiny Titans creators Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani and retail veteran Marc Hammond. [Skokie Review, Time Out Chicago]
Digital | Archie Comics announced that its comics will be available on the recently announced Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet. [Archie Comics]
Awards | Stan Lee will receive the Producers Guild of America's 2012 Vanguard Award recognizing achievement in new media and technology. "Stan Lee's creative vision and imagination has produced some of the most beloved and visually stunning characters and adventures in history," Producers Guild Awards co-chairs Paula Wagner and Michael Manheim said in a joint statement. "He not only has created content that will forever be in our culture but continues to make strides in the digital and new media realms, keeping the comic book industry fresh and exciting. Stan's accomplishments truly encompass the spirit of the Vanguard Award and we are proud to honor him." George Lucas and John Lasseter are among the award's previous recipients. [press release]

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Canelo Not Intimidated: Paul Williams Talks Going Well
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WBC junior middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (40-0-1, 29KOs) may receive a very tall order for his September title defense – in the form of 6'3 Paul "The Punisher" Williams (41-2, 27KOs). There are very positive discussions taking place, says Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer, to finalize Alvarez-Williams as a pay-per-view headliner for September 15th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
"[Negotiations] are going very well. We had some very good meetings with his team, and with Canelo as well. As a matter of fact, [Golden Boy President] Oscar [De La Hoya] met with him today again. There are very good conversations. I met with the adviser for Paul Williams, Al Haymon, and we are working on that. We are working on trying to finalize the fight between Canelo and Paul Williams," Schaefer told BoxingScene.com.
Nobody can dispute the danger involved. Williams, standing at 6'3 and having a reach of 82 inches, has a clear physical advantage over the 5'9 champion with a reach of 71 inches. Williams also has a very high workrate and he doesn't get tired. But, Canelo is not intimidated and indicated to Golden Boy that he wants the fight. Everything appears to be moving in a positive direction in terms of a deal being reached.
Schaefer is confident that a win over Williams will open up the door for potential mega-events with Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Miguel Cotto.
"That's what Canelo wants…he wants to fight the best. [Williams] has been one of the most avoided fighters. He's an awkward fighter. He's a different style from anyone that Canelo has ever fought. It's a dangerous fight," Schaefer said.
"People want to see big fight and this is a big fight and a dangerous fight. Protecting [unbeaten records] and as a result fighting guys where people already know the result when you go into the venue….who the hell wants to see that? There are other possibilities but this is a big fight and a dangerous fight and that's what people want to see."
"If he goes and beats Paul Williams, then I think all of those people who say 'we're still not so convinced by Canelo' – they should just shut up."
really a ballsy move by the kid...Comment by CasualBoxingFan on 05-21-2012
Williams better make the best out of this if he gets the opportunity, could be his last show with the big boys. Seems like a good match up to me, not the best, but will definatley be entertaining considering both…Comment by b0ndsj0ns20 on 05-20-2012
[QUOTE=Cigarillo;12152391]Williams is past his prime. He also just won his last fight by sheer domination. His style, length, and stamina will cause Canelo problems. Styles make fights so what happened against two crafty lefties has no bearing fighting Alvarez.[/QUOTE] Yep…Comment by ИATAS on 05-20-2012
gotta give Canelo credit, williams is a tough match up. he could have easily fought someone like vanes and no one would really complain. just don't overlook Williams. he sucks ass against southpaws but everyone else he's still a force.…Comment by Bermuda on 05-20-2012
[QUOTE=ThePhantom5;12141375]Very good fight. Make it happen. I ever so slightly favor Canelo. PW a nice step up from Shane.[/QUOTE] Lol anyone is a step up from Shane...Paul Williams is a decent opponent...I would rather have seen Kirkland vs canelo though.Post a Comment - View More User Comments (148)


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Jabberwocky Jabberwocky Aug 11, 2005 01:32 Flag
Is Boro vs Darlo the real south of the North East Derby.
F*cking hell, geordie blokes wound you up to the point where you've lost the plot and gone stir crazy. boro vs darlo would be an excellent game - especially to listen to on the radio if you had insomnia. Boring b#stard.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
A Yahoo! User Aug 11, 2005 05:23 Flag
Oh I was thinking more of watching it on Teletext. Radio would just over stimulate me. Hey 7,000 in that stadium there in Darlo would create such a noise, I really couldn't take it. No Darlo v Boro - ITV teletext. Sound like a blissful way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Followed by an evening of "Escape from Colditz" with me, me mates and a few cans of sugar free vimto. Wow, what a night!
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Look at the dirty bum crying at the messages all over the boro forum slating the smoggy #$%$. the more you twine the more we invade lol


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My claim was denied, for miscoding as a "dental" care by Northwest, so what would have been a $108 bill if paid by my insurer for a 5 minute visit was billed at $597. For 5 minutes in an Urgent Care. That is $119.40 per MINUTE or $7,164 per HOUR!
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Starting with the excellent Sandra from SiSoftware, we can see that in our Arithmetic test the Gene easily keeps up with its big brother. In overclock mode the Gene really rocks, as of course we'd expect.
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Wow - Overclock3D have done it again with the WORLDS FIRST REVIEW of the Rampage III Gene!!!!
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This board kicks all kinds of ass. LOADS of people I know are using it.
My bad. It was the Rampage 2 (or II) Gene.
God Asus are confusing with their names
Well if it's anything like the one before (and I'm sure it is) and it improves on the one before (which I am sure it does) then it will be another hit out of the park for Asus.
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Ooo. I wonder what the heck the board was that they're all using them. I'm sure it was this one.
My bad. It was the Rampage 2 (or II) Gene.
God Asus are confusing with their names
Well if it's anything like the one before (and I'm sure it is) and it improves on the one before (which I am sure it does) then it will be another hit out of the park for Asus.
They definitely don't have any competition IMO. the eVGA one is the same size, more money and a terribly bad overclocker.
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Lets just say this is the warm up act eh
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oooh of course! I almost forgot that is coming up very soon. I won't be able to get one, but i can still drool over the hardware. It'll be like the centre spread of playboy except it won't bounce quite as well as theirs
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The age-old question of "who sees my ad" continues to plague advertisers.
Digital advertising now allows advertisers to get a better read on who looks at their ads and how long they spend looking, as well as lots of other information about us that we'd probably rather they not have. Ever wonder why, after you go to a site to look for information on travel to, say, Mexico, you all of a sudden start getting pop-ups and emails advertising destinations in Mexico? It's called behavioral tracking.
But as ads appear everywhere, we consumers look for ways to avoid them. It's almost like a game of cat & mouse.
With radio, simply hit the button to go to another station. Now, we have ad-free satellite radio or subscription services online like Pandora.
Back before DVRs or home video recorders, the only recourse we had to avoid ads on TV was either switch the channel (which pre-remote meant getting up to turn the dial) or leave the room to raid the refrigerator or take a quick bathroom break. Now, we simply click and the ads that marketers spent tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to put in front of us quickly zip by.
As our TV viewing habits are changing, advertisers are trying other ways to force us to watch their messages. Video on demand (VOD) from the networks usually disable the fast-forward feature on your clicker, so you have to watch TV the old-fashioned way -- ads included.
But the hot area these days for ads is online. We're close to the point where advertisers will be spending more money for online ads than for ads in traditional media. But even as this is happening, we consumers are finding ways to avoid the ads aimed at us on our computers, tablets and smart phones.
Banner ads have been shown to have limited impact on consumers. They're on our screens, but we tend to ignore them. Advertisers now use pop-ups that dominate the screen and override the content you're trying to view. Those pop-ups often have a box or circle with an "x" which you can click to have the ad go away. But advertisers are making those boxes smaller and harder to click on, especially if you're seeing them on a tablet or phone.
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But tell that to the publishers of 60 new magazines that launched during the first half of 2015, as reported by MediaFinder. That number is down about a third from the 93 new titles during the same period last year, but people are still trying to make a go of new titles.
Of the new launches, five were business-to-business magazines, down from 15 new B2B books a year ago.
The number of magazines that shut down during the first half of the year was 23, which is ten less than a year ago. So there's been a net gain of 37 new magazines so far this year.
Why do people keep trying with new magazines in print? They're costly to print and distribute -- much more so than digital publications with no printing cost and very little distribution expenses.
It probably comes down to advertising. Ads in print generally command much higher rates than their digital counterparts, even when digital can reach many more readers. Many advertisers still prefer the glossy printed page for their ads, especially for products that rely on strong visuals -- food, fashion & beauty, travel, cars. Print still gets a higher ad readership, while research shows most of us totally ignore ads that run in digital media.
Digital does offer some benefits that print doesn't -- mainly, the ability for readers to click through for more info, sales pitches and even place an order and make a purchase. Print can offer that via QR codes, but the process isn't seamless since it requires extra steps and a smartphone.
Launches this year have been mainly specialty titles rather than general-interest books. Most, I'd bet, also have online components. Maybe once they've established themselves in print -- and as the gap between print and online ad readership and rates narrows -- they'll try to convert to digital only. But until that gap is much smaller, there will still be a place for print magazines.
That's good news for newsstands, printing companies and the Post Office.
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A new report from Nielsen, the TV ratings people, shows not only what we're watching, but how we're watching it.
It used to be very simple. A program was on at a certain time and either you watched it when it aired or you didn't see it at all. No DVRs or video on demand. Not even home recording on VHS or Beta.
But today, viewers have so many choices -- not only what to watch from among hundreds of channels and tens of thousands of shows and movies on demand and Netflix and Hulu. The choice now is also about how to watch -- live or delayed on your giant flat screen or on a variety of other smaller screens from computers to laptops to tablets and phones.
The report says Americans watched "traditional" TV 141 hours a month in the 3rd quarter of 2014. But live viewing dropped a little more than 4 percent, or 12 minutes a day, to 4 hours and 32 minutes on average. Instead, we spent an hour more per month watching time-shifted programs via the internet, which includes streaming services like Netflix.
For advertisers, the obvious challenge is getting their ads seen despite fast-forwarding. Many on-demand outlets now disable the fast-forward function so we can't zip through the ads. So instead, it may end up working the way it did in the "old days," when commercials breaks meant a run to the bathroom, refrigerator or a fast click around the dial to see what else is on. Or with today's technology, we might be checking texts and emails.
Posted at 07:26 PM in Advertising, Digital media, marketing, Media, Technology, Television | Permalink
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Bill Bergman, a marketing instructor at the University of Richmond's B-school, notes an interesting trend in a recent commentary in MediaPost's Agency Daily. He says college students he's teaching seem to be afraid to speak out in class for fear of being embarrassed by classmates who might call them out via social media. So they keep their hands down in class and their mouths shut.
These are kids, he says, who have grown up seeing the impact of a mistake or bad judgment on social media. They've seen firsthand that once something is online it can haunt you forever, possibly impacting one's ability to land a job or get into grad school.
So rather than get called out via a tweet, they seem to keep their opinions to themselves, Bergman believes. He thinks, from what he sees in his students, that by the time they reach their senior year in college, they hit a social media saturation point. It's not that social media has lost its importance to them, but rather they're getting caught up with other priorities and pressures that demand their attention -- studies and the upcoming hunt for the next step in their lives, finding a job or continuing thier education.
Bergman notes recent grads seem to be less involved with social media than current students. The explanation, he writes, may be "a boss, a cubicle and a 10 p.m. bedtime help diminish the social media habit." And they realize, as they mature, that it's more important to protect your real personality than to build "a contrived popularity" through silly or controversial tweets and potentially awkward photos posted on Instagram.
After college, he writes, young adults "begin to recognize that college is really created for the young - and so too is the extensive use of social media platforms."
It's called growing up and becoming responsible.
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Less than half of us now watch TV programs as they air live, Media Daily News reports.
Only 41 percent of us watch the live broadcast, as time-shifting grows in popularity. Watching via DVR is what 43 percent of us now do, as 19 percent use video on demand.
The move to viewing TV on so-called second screens -- mobile devices, PC, laptops and tablets -- isn't happeniong quite as quickly as pundits had been predicting. The vast majority -- 91 percent -- still watch TV on a TV. Laptops account for 12 percent of viewing, tablets 5 percent and somehow 3 percent manage to watch programs on their smartphones. It adds to more than 100 percent due to duplication -- watching on a regular screen and also on a second screen.
Programs like sports and major news events understandably score a higher amount of live viewing.
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More about Twitter than I can say in 140 characters...
The latest internet consumer study, reported in Mediapost's Social Media & Marketing Daily, shows Twitter, which was touted as the next best thing when it burst onto the scene, has slipped a bit.
The percentage of respondents using Twitter dropped two points to 34%. Twitter remains a major social media factor, though, behind Facebook and LinkedIn. FB remains the gorilla in the room, dominating with 77% of consumers saying they use it. LinkedIn is a distant second at 37%, followed by Twitter. Newer platform Pinterest jumped to the number four spot with 26%.
Highlighting the fickleness of social media (or maybe more the fickle nature of teens), FB continues to lose younger users who are migrating in droves to Pinterest. It's the platform of the day. (Remember MySpace?)
Twitter has proven popular as a way for fans of TV shows to share their thoughts in real-time as a show airs. And reality contest shows like NBC's "The Voice" have used Twitter not only to engage viewers, but also as an instant voting tool to let viewers decide if a contestant stays or goes.
The survey found that 52% of those who don't use Twitter make that choice because they feel it's "a waste of time." I have to admit that was my initial impression when I joined soon after the platform launched. It seemed that all I saw was people tweeting really inane things like "The sun just came up" or "Can't decide whether to have a blueberry or corn muffin." Like I care (about the muffin, not the sun).
I have found Twitter useful as a way to point people to my blog posts. And early on, I participated in a few PR chats in real-time. Didn't learn anything about PR, but it got me many of my almost 1,000 followers.
So despite the dip in the latest user survey, I'm pretty sure Twitter will be around for some time, even as new platforms continue to pop up. By the way, I couldn't have expressed these thoughts in 140 characters. Blogging is still alive and well, despite predictions that it, like Twitter, would disappear.
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At a national conference on traffic safety a few weeks ago, I briefly met Matt Richtel, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning series on distracted driving in The New York Times helped bring this important issue to public attention. I'm just finishing reading an advance copy of his new book - A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention. (The book from William Morrow/Harper Collins Publishers, goes on sale later this week.)
I think the book should be required reading for anyone applying for a driver's license, as well as for those of us who already drive. It's easy reading. The book, although non-fiction, reads like a fast-paced novel and the reader gets to really know and understand the various characters in the story. It tells of Reggie Shaw, in every way a model teenager who, like so many of his peers, used his cellphone to text while he was driving. Distracted, he crossed the yellow line and sideswiped an oncoming car, which caused a crash that killed two rocket scientists. The book chronicles the story of the driver, the victims, their families and the lawyers and prosecutors involved in the legal case that ensued.
What's important about this book is that it explains the science behind our addiction to texting and other mobile device functions. Yes, there is scientific proof, which the book explains, that texting or even just talking on a phone while driving is extremely dangerous. It takes us through, in easy to understand terms, the reasons we cannot multitask, despite assertions from so many -- especially young people who've grown up with texting -- that we can drive while doing other tasks.
Working on the PR side of traffic safety for some 20 years now, I've met with and heard from so many people who've had their lives dramatically changed by bad decisions behind the wheel. For many years, the culprit was alcohol, which still remains a real problem. Drowsiness is a significant factor as well, although driving drowsy is usually not a conscious decision we make.
Texting while driving is a conscious decision. And now that it's become clear that it does impact our ability to drive safely, there is absolutely no reason to do it. Legislators in 44 states have recognized that by making it illegal to text while driving. So if for no other reasion than risking a ticket and points on your license, all of us should refrain from this dangerous behavior.
But as Matt Richtel points out in his book, so many of us, knowing the physical dangers and the risk of a ticket and points, continue to text and talk on cellphones while we drive. There are now devices that can prevent people from texting or talking while driving, like an app made by one of my clients, LifeSaver. It's very inexpensive and simple to use, but it still requires a voluntary step by a parent or spouse.
Richtel reported last week about plans by the cellular industry to have a device that comes with new cars that will prevent any cellphone usage while the car is in motion. But, if it ever actually happens, it's still at least a few years away.
What I think is needed to stop what former Sec. of Transportation Ray LaHood called "a national epidemic" that kills several thousand people every year is tougher laws with much higher fines and license suspension for a month after the first offense and license revocation after a second infraction. No excuses, no exclusions.
It's that serious. Read A Deadly Wandering and you'll understand and I'm sure you'll agree.
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We keep hearing how print is dying, but it looks like that doesn't apply to magazines.
Data from a media research firm that tracks some 200 magazines, reported recently in Media Daily News, shows print magazines had a combined increase in audience of 1.1 percent -- up some 20 million readers from a year ago. The combined print audience is now 1.19 billion.
Total audience of digital-only magazine readership went up 37 percent to 23.2 million. Digital-only is still a small piece of the total audience pie for magazines, but it's growing.
Some of the biggest gainers are familiar names: The Atlantic, up 42 percent; Esquire, up 29.5 percent; Harpers Bazaar, 25.2 percent; Fitness, 21.6 percent; Forbes, 20.5 percent; Travel & Leisure, 19.3 percent; and yes, The New Yorker, up 18 percent.
Magazines in print are still alive. That's good news.
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I've read a lot over the past several weeks about Google Glass, which keeps you constantly connected and puts the internet right in front of your eyes (or more accurately, eye). The idea is that you can do whatever you're normally doing, while remaining in touch visually.
In theory, it's a great idea for those who feel such a need. But in reality, I think it's a recipe for disaster…literally.
As someone who spends a lot of time working in the traffic safety field, through clients like The National Road Safety Foundation, a non-profit group, and the government's NHTSA, I've come to understand that driving a car requires full attention. Driving is not something you can do safely while you're multitasking.
There are three types of distraction, and Google Glass falls into at least two of them. There's visual, aural and cognitive distraction. All can and do take your attention off the road in front of you, and when you're moving at highway speeds of 60 miles an hour, you travel the length of a football field in 3 or 4 seconds. That's how long it takes to read or send a text. So while you look at or send a text, you're basically driving blind the length of a football field. Doesn't sound too smart or safe, does it?
Google says that since its Glass displays information in front of you, you don't have to look down and you can still see what's in front of you. I don't know about that. I had the chance to try an earlier version of Google Glass a few months ago. It's cool, but it IS distracting. And when your eye is looking at the displayed information an inch or two in front of it, it can't also focus clearly on thje road and cars or people 20 or 50 feet in front of you. The eye just doesn't work that way.
I also read this week about new displays that automaker Jaguar hopes to introduce soon, that show key information like speed, gas level, perhaps travel or map info – all on the windshield in the driver's line of sight. To me, that sets up the same risk for visual distraction as Google Glass.
So I have to wonder … where is the Government here? Very simply, laws should be passed, based on NHTSA recommendations, that make driving while wearing Google Glass illegal, just as in 38 states it's now illegal to text while you drive. And they should also be discouraging or preventing automakers from introducing line-of-sight displays that take the driver's eyes – or the eyes' focus – off the road ahead. The same should be done to prevent visual controls and displays for non-driving functions like the sound system, hands-free phones and even GPS maps and driving info. Audio cues are ok, but the maps and mapped driving directions are a serious distraction.
I hate to sound like a "bah humbug" about this exciting and helpful new technology, but some limits need to placed on it. Why? I'll tell you why… it could be your kid or mine who gets killed by a driver distracted by Google Glass, line-of-sight displays or a GPS.
And then it will be too late.
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THE 2000 CAMPAIGN: THE TEXAS GOVERNOR; Citing a Crisis, Bush Proposes Literacy Effort
By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
Published: March 29, 2000
MANVILLE, N.J., March 28— Once again mooring a traditionally Democratic issue to the agenda of his Republican presidential campaign, Gov. George W. Bush of Texas today proposed a five-year, $5 billion program to address what he termed a national literacy crisis among children.
Mr. Bush said the program would provide grants to states to test reading in kindergarten and first grade, to make tutoring available to poor readers and to train teachers. He soberly contrasted the nation's economic success with its educational failings, and declared that he would bring the same improvements in reading on the national level that he said he had achieved in Texas.
He said every child should know how to read by third grade, and vowed that states that failed to improve student performance would lose federal aid.
''There is nothing more fundamental than teaching our children how to read,'' Mr. Bush said in a speech this afternoon in Reston, Va., the first in a series of events this week intended to spotlight his commitment to improving education.
''America must confront a national emergency,'' he said. ''Too many of our children cannot read. In the highest-poverty schools -- I want you to hear this statistic -- in the highest-poverty schools in America, 68 percent of fourth graders could not read at a basic level in 1998.''
Aides to Mr. Bush said his plan would help roughly 900,000 children with poor reading skills, at a cost of $1,000 per child per year for tutoring and other assistance. Besides that $900 million, an additional $100 million a year would go to testing and teacher training.
The Bush plan was quickly dismissed by aides to the apparent Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Al Gore. They sought to shift attention to Mr. Bush's tax-cut proposal, saying it would leave no money for new education initiatives.
Since the fall, Mr. Bush has introduced a variety of education proposals, but none of the others would entail spending anywhere close to the $5 billion he spoke of today. That sum in turn is dwarfed by the $115 billion that Mr. Gore would spend for new education initiatives over 10 years, and the disparity in the size of the two candidates' approaches highlights the challenge facing Mr. Bush: convincing voters that he can lead the nation to new educational excellence without spending huge new sums, which would clash with his broader fiscal policies.
Mr. Bush introduced his plan as his party continued to close ranks around him. Tonight Steve Forbes, who had attacked the governor as insufficiently conservative before withdrawing from his own race for the Republican nomination, endorsed the governor here at a meeting of the Somerset County Republican Party.
''As the American people are learning, and will learn,'' Mr. Forbes said at the meeting, in his home state, ''he is a good man. He has been tested -- I tried to test him -- and he emerged the stronger for it.''
Mr. Bush's chief rival during the primary season, Senator John McCain of Arizona, has resisted endorsing him, but Mr. Bush called Mr. McCain today in an apparent effort to salve some of the lingering wounds. Mr. Bush said he hoped that the two would meet soon, and described the conversation as amiable.
''John and I both understand that the past is the past and it's time to move forward,'' Mr. Bush told reporters aboard his campaign plane.
Mr. Bush's speech in Virginia offered striking evidence of a return to his original campaign strategy -- positioning himself as a soft-edged, centrist Republican -- after he veered to the right in the primaries to fend off Mr. McCain.
In that talk today, to a coalition of Asian-American groups at the headquarters of the Student Loan Marketing Association, the federally sponsored provider of student loans, he proclaimed that the federal government had to redouble its efforts to confront the educational plight of poor people.
''We will not tolerate illiteracy amongst the disadvantaged students in the great country called America,'' he said. ''I know this is something a little new. Others have proposed throwing money at the problem. But they have proposed resources without reform. That approach has no history of results, and really no prospect of success. Under my plan, new resources will be an instrument of reform, not another investment in failure.''
In echo of language once used by the Kerner Commission to describe the country's racial chasm, Mr. Bush said: ''More and more we are divided into two nations: one that reads and one that can't, and therefore one that dreams and one that doesn't. Reading is the basis for all learning, and it must be the foundation for all other education reforms.''
Still, Mr. Bush is not abandoning his belief that the federal government should not meddle in what, he says, is rightly a state and local issue. This evening, at a fund-raiser in Parsippany, N.J., with Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, he declared, as he often did during the primaries, that he did not want to be the ''federal superintendent of schools.''
''You are looking at the wrong man if you want me to be the national principal,'' he said. ''I believe in local control of schools. The best education policy is that which bubbles up from the bottom.''
Indeed, Mr. Bush has shaped his education proposals as a whole around the notion that the states should have more leeway in spending federal dollars, as well as the idea that schools must be held more accountable for their performance. He would encourage the creation of charter schools and has also proposed a voucher program for students of poorly performing public schools. He has urged too that Head Start, the early-childhood development program, be primarily a literacy program.
In his speech in Virginia, Mr. Bush's tone was largely conciliatory; he barely mentioned Mr. Gore.
But the Gore campaign showed no such reticence. Douglas Hattaway, a campaign spokesman, said that the governor's plan would be ineffective and that given his tax cut, ''he won't have the money to pay for a new initiative like this without dipping into the Social Security surplus or going back to deficit spending.''
Photo: George W. Bush addressed the Somerset County Republican Party in Manville, N.J., last night after winning the endorsement of Steve Forbes, right, and cheers from Mr. Forbes's wife, Sabina. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)(pg. A20) SIDE BY SIDE Comparing Two Plans for Education Since the fall, Gov. George W. Bush of Texas and Vice President Al Gore have made several proposals on education. Mr. Bush would: nProvide students in low-performing schools that fail to improve after three years $1,500 a year for use at a parochial or other private school or for tutoring. Money would be drawn from the Title I program, for schools in poor districts. nRequire students in Grades 3 through 8 to be tested in reading and math, with states and districts drawing up tests. States would have to publish report cards with annual test results. nSpend nearly $1 billion a year for five years to diagnose reading problems in kindergartners and first graders and enable districts to create programs to elevate literacy. nMake the Head Start early-childhood development program primarily a literacy program. nMake available $3 billion of loan guarantees to help establish or improve 2,000 charter schools. nRaise the annual contributions parents can make to education savings accounts to $5,000 from $500 per student. Mr. Gore would: nOppose school vouchers. nSpend $115 billion over 10 years, $50 billion of it to make pre-school available to all 4-year-olds and many 3-year-olds by 2004. nHelp families pay for college by making up to $10,000 of tuition and fees tax deductible, providing up to $2,800 a year in tax relief for each family. nUse $25 billion in bonds to pay for new school construction and modernization. nSupport a national teacher corps that would provide college aid or ''signing bonuses'' to 75,000 people who agree to teach in schools in inner cities or rural areas. nProvide aid to schools that come up with their own plans to reduce class size or to reduce the size of schools. nIncrease salaries for teachers in districts that adopt aggressive plans to increase the quality of teachers and that also get rid of low-performing teachers.(pg. A20)