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For consumers, one of the great things about shopping online is bypassing the queue to check out. For producers of the candy, magazines and drinks often sold there, it's a problem.
In Britain, the country where e-commerce is most popular, about 13 percent of people do all or most of their grocery shopping online. Yet this only accounts for 5 percent of overall spending, suggesting consumers spend more when they visit a store.
That is because online shoppers search for what they need, usually sticking close to their shopping lists. They don't spontaneously buy magazines they opened while waiting to pay, or chocolate to eat on the go.
Elizabeth Clark, a 40-year-old teacher in Liverpool, England now does most of her shops on the internet, and says she ends up buying fewer sweets, newspapers, toys and wine.
"In the supermarket, obviously you walk past it and you see a special offer and you think 'Oh, I'll have that'," she said.
Even though retailers try to do the same thing by flagging special offers at online check-out, it doesn't usually work.
"I always just press 'next, next, next, next' without even reading them, deliberately, because I don't want to be tempted."
Companies most at risk are Mondelez International, Mars Inc and Nestle, the top three candy makers, soda makers like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, and magazine publishers like Time Warner and Hearst Corp.
The latest survey of European shoppers by IRI found that 73 percent spent more time planning shopping in order to avoid non-essential purchases amid the economic slowdown.
"Shoppers are reducing their impulse purchasing," said Cristina Lazzaroni, who monitors the confectionary market for IRI in Italy, where online shopping is less of a habit.
And when they do buy chocolate at stores, more Italian shoppers are buying larger take-home tablets instead of single-serve snacks, Lazzaroni said, noting that the shift can hurt the bottom line as smaller packages often carry higher margins. IRI said sales of confectionary fell 2.4 percent in Italy in the last year.
Worldwide, the retail confectionery market is worth $196.5 billion, according to Euromonitor International, up 5.6 percent from a year ago. Nearly all sales are from stores, though online made up 0.9 percent this year, up from 0.6 percent in 2008. That is the same amount as purchased through vending machines.
Grocery is one of the last areas of retail to go online, due to challenges around delivery and perishability, but a shift is underway.


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Hope Solo was among seven players allocated Friday to Reign FC, Seattle's team in the new National Women's Soccer League.
Reign FC, Seattle's team in the new National Women's Soccer League, has a foundation to its roster after the league allocated 55 national-team players from the United States, Canada and Mexico to its eight teams Friday.
Goalkeeper Hope Solo, a Richland native and former University of Washington star, was the biggest name allocated to Reign FC and an expected choice as a hometown product.
Solo was joined by national-squad teammates Megan Rapinoe, a midfielder who will be on loan to France's Lyon until June, and forward Amy Rodriguez. Also allocated were midfielder Kaylyn Kyle and defender Emily Zurrer from Canada, and midfielder Teresa Noyola and defender Jenny Ruiz from Mexico.
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"Obviously it was a very exciting day for us," said general manager Amy Carnell in a phone interview. "It's the first step in creating an identity. For a new club, it's new logo, new name, new head coach, and then it's like, 'Who are you?' … We'll build our team from this seven."
Solo and Rapinoe each played for the star-studded Sounders Women's team last summer following the collapse of Women's Professional Soccer. Other players from that group were allocated elsewhere, notably star forward Alex Morgan to Portland Thorns FC.
Former Sounders Women's forward Sydney Leroux will play for the Boston Breakers, midfielder Veronica Perez (another UW product) heads to the Western New York Flash, and midfielder Keelin Winters joined the Chicago Red Stars.
That Morgan was paired with Canada's superstar forward, Christine Sinclair, was the biggest surprise, according to Carnell.
"Two of the best strikers in the world in the same city, I think that's a shocker for everyone," she said.
Reign FC will fill out the rest of its 20-player roster through the Jan. 18 college draft and free agency. The team is expected to announce ticket information and its home venue next week.
Yedlin becomes first homegrown signee
Sounders FC signed Seattle native DeAndre Yedlin as the team's first homegrown player.
Yedlin, a 19-year-old defender from the University of Akron, played at O'Dea High School and came up through the Sounders' youth development program, including the U-23 team last year. Homegrown players do not count against the salary cap.
"It's amazing to start my professional career in a place where I started playing soccer in the first place," said Yedlin in a news release.
Terms of the signing were not disclosed per MLS and team policy.
Yedlin, who has often trained with the first team, was named to the All-Mid-American Conference team in his two seasons at Akron, where he earned 12 assists in 45 games (41 starts). He was named to College Soccer News' Freshman All-American team in 2011.
"Hopefully DeAndre is the first of many local players who will come through our system and wear the rave green at the professional level," said general manager Adrian Hanauer in the release.
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"dude, that photo is a pixel party!"
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A Photography or Photo-shoot themed party or celebration. Typically for children but also adults.
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NBA Talks Break Down, With Sides Far Apart
Labor negotiations between the National Basketball Association and its players union broke down again on Thursday night after a three-day federal mediation session left the two sides far apart on an agreement, said NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver.
With no further meetings scheduled, it's likely more games will be canceled, though Mr. Silver said Thursday the league won't take any more steps until meeting with owners as early as Friday.
"Our discussions did break off," Mr. Silver said. "We are saddened on behalf of the game. We understand we're disappointing millions of fans."
When asked if the owners were willing to lose an entire season to get a more favorable economic system, as the National Hockey League did in 2005, San Antonio Spurs owner Peter Holt said, "Certainly, we don't want to lose a season. I don't think the NHL did either; it ended up happening. There are certain things that we feel we must have."
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Mr. Holt also said that scheduling more meetings could be tougher than earlier in the negotiations. "We are getting in a situation where games are being canceled, the costs are getting more and more for all sides, which makes it tougher to make a deal. Both sides hopefully won't harden," he said.
NBA Players Association President and Los Angeles Lakers guard Derek Fisher accused the NBA of lying during its press conference and said the players were seeking a resolution, even if it wasn't necessarily a win for the players, if it would get the season started. "That's not what the NBA is interested in at this point," he said.
In the most heated press conference of the lockout, union Executive Director Billy Hunter said that he has known "since three or four years ago that it was the NBA's plan to lock out, break the union, break their resolve and then get the system the owners wanted." But Mr. Hunter said that he is open to negotiating at any time as long as there are no preconditions for the meeting—such as predetermined concessions on revenue sharing.
Mr. Silver said Thursday night that talks ended when the two parties couldn't get close on how to split the league's $4 billion in annual revenue. He said the league increased its proposal from giving the players 47% of the revenue to 50%, while the players lowered their demand from a 53% share to 52.5%. The collective bargaining agreement that expired in July gave the players 57% of the revenue.
Mr. Hunter said that he proposed a system in which the split floated from 50% to 53% depending on economic conditions. Jeffrey Kessler, a lawyer for the union, said that talks ended when owners gave the players an ultimatum over accepting the 50-50 split. Other issues, such as salary-cap structure and player-contract length, remain unresolved as well.
The two parties met with federal mediator George Cohen in a Manhattan hotel for a total of 30 hours over a three-day period. "We'd kind of worn each other out," Mr. Holt said.
NBA Commissioner David Stern last week canceled the first two weeks of regular-season games and said that if a deal wasn't done by this week, games could be canceled through Christmas. Mr. Stern missed Thursday's meetings with the flu, according to league officials.
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Episode 3 - Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters
As they return with their new album 'Echoes, Silence. Patience & Grace', Clash met with Dave Grohl for the main feature of their current issue. Presented in Episode 3 here are selected highlights from the interview as Dave reflects on his time in Nirvana, his headlong dive into fatherhood and the perils of taking his mom on tour.
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Birthdate: 7 September 1988
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Favorite Bands: Sabaton and Children of Boddom
Favorite TV show: Sons of Anarchy
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Favorite Sport: Basketball
Favorite Video Game: Guild Wars
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Officers in unmarked car make an exit when their visibility is questioned
TWO POLICE officers in Glasgow drove off after being confronted for using a speed gun in an unmarked car.
The pair were quizzed as to why they weren't making themselves more visible by two passers-by.
One of them said: 'You're in an unmarked car with a speed gun. You're meant to be highly visible,'
After the female officer pointed at her high visibility vest and protested 'we are', the passer-by retorted: 'You're not. You're in an unmarked car. That's not highly visible. That's at shoulder height.
'Are you telling me that if a car drove down from up there they would be able to easily tell that this is a police car?'
The men then tell the officers that if they pull a vehicle over, they will remain present to argue with the decision, at which point the police offers drive off in their unmarked Vauxhall.
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Fulham star eyes bouncebackability for Stoke clash
11:40 19 November 2012
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Fulham striker Mladen Petric is determined to bounce back from defeat to Sunderland when they travel to Stoke on Saturday.
The Whites are generally poor on their travels and will be missing Brede Hangeland through suspension.
"Of course it will be a difficult game when we go to Stoke at the weekend," Petric said. "It will be especially difficult because Brede is suspended and it is the kind of game you need your big centre-back because he's a tall player and he's very strong with his head.
"But Philippe [Senderos] played his first game of the season on Sunday and I think he did well. He's good in the air as well, so I think we have no reason to be scared going into the match. We have a lot of quality in the Team to play a good game there."


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Situated in Fife, this motel is 0.7 mi (1.2 km) from BJ's Bingo and within 6 mi (10 km) of Museum of Glass and Tacoma Dome. Wild Waves Water Park and Enchanted Village and Port of Tacoma are also within 6 mi (10 km).
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Along with a 24-hour business center, this motel has dry cleaning and laundry facilities. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a 24-hour front desk, free newspapers, and a TV in the lobby.
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High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. A 24-hour business center is on site. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. This Fife motel also offers complimentary newspapers in the lobby, laundry facilities, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
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Danny Bob Masoner
January 19, 1950 - February 19, 2012
Danny Bob Masoner, age 62, of Whitesburg, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, February 19, 2012 at James H. Quillen Medical Center. He was a loving husband, brother, brother-in-law, and uncle. He always greeted everyone with a smile and hug. And would tell them he loved them. He served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He was preceded in death by his parents, Ivan and Christine Masoner; brothers, Carl, Rex, and Guy Masoner; and sisters, Jewell Wanda Masoner and Frances Schmeling. Survivors include his wife, Sharon Masoner; brothers and sisters-in-law, W. I. and Tena Masoner, and Steward and Judy Masoner of Alabama; sister, Katherine Sather of Illinois; sisters and brothers-in-law, Arjorie and Frank Atkins, Marjorie and Lucky Stubblefield; special aunt, Betty Frye; and several special nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at Brown Springs Baptist Church in Mosheim at 2:00 p.m. with Reverends Eddie Blazer and Richard Long officiating. Military honors will be provided by VFW Post #9683. Pallbearers will be Tim Frye, Dennis Frye, Josh Frye, Timmy Frye Jr., Ricky Swatzell, Scottie McGhee, Joe Tarlton, and Andy Tarlton. The family will receive friends from 2 – 4 p.m. and 6 – 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday at Bulls Gap Funeral Home. Arrangements are by Bulls Gap Funeral Home.
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The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center announce the 2011 New Directors/New Films Festival lineup, running March 23 - April 3. J. C. Chandor's Margin Call (here's our Sundance video interview) will open the festival and Maryam Keshavarz's Circumstance will conclude the festival's 40th edition. Programming director Richard Pena says both films are "dynamic and riveting dramas from first time feature film directors that give a unique view into the human lives at the core of two vastly different, but very immediate worlds."
Also screening at the festival are Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language film Incendies from Denis Villeneuve, Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Happy, Happy from Anne Sewitzky, Daniel and Diego Vega's Cannes Jury Prize winner Octubre, and Attenberg, from director Athina Rachel Tsangari, which won Venice's Best Actress award. MoMA Dept. of Film curator, Rajendra Roy, says this year's films show boasts "great variety both within the makeup of our filmmakers as well as the subject matter and styles of the films themselves...From very intense drama to clever comedy to some truly fascinating documentaries, New Directors/New Films continues to be a major New York venue for new voices in film."
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Lobster Rolls (and Lobster Lessons)
I love Maine lobster – in butter, in bisque, but most especially in rolls. I've never thought twice about cooking one myself… but then again, I've never chased one around my living room before.
I didn't set out to cook a lobster. It was a recent revelation that you could buy ones pre-steamed, and that's what I had in mind. But my fish store was jammed and they gave me a choice: take the live ones or come back in an hour. Too hungry to wait, I set off with two live crustaceans and some sage advice: pop them in the freezer quickly before steaming. Simple enough.
Now let me preface by saying I'm a complete lobster novice. Raised in California, I don't own a shred of seersucker and have never even cracked a cooked lobster without adult supervision. And thus begins my post: things I have learned about lobster.
First, photographing a live lobster is the quickest way to re-create the classic lobster scene from Annie Hall. I naively tried to sneak in a few shots while the water boiled, and at first the lobster obliged. Then he did a sudden flick-flick-flick jujitsu move with his tail, lunged for the camera and flung himself off the table onto my living room floor. Ninja lobster! Scared the living daylights out of me. Lobster 1: Liz 0.
Second: they don't really freeze, they just kind of chill out a little. When I slipped off the claw bands, he grabbed the bag and held on for dear life. In a tug-of-war, lobsters win every time. Lobster 2: Liz 0.
The good news is, he emerged from his bath all bright red and steamy. I triumphantly twisted off his tail… and found myself covered in lobster goop. Didn't see that one coming. Lobster 3: Liz 0.
Determined, I pried some respectable chunks of lobster free, and piled them high in a buttered roll with celery, lemon, chives and (purists look away) crème fraiche, since I was out of mayo. I am happy to report that it was absolutely delicious, transporting me back to the Maine coast last summer where I first fell in love with lobster.
In the end, the roll was totally worth the trouble… though next time around, I'll stick with pre-steamed, both for food and for photos.
I am not providing a recipe because clearly I am not fit to dole out lobster advice. For wiser words, I refer you to Smitten Kitchen. For an awesome video of Kid meets Lobster, I refer you to YouTube (thank you Kitchn readers!). And for more seafood faceoff fun, I refer you to Liz v. Oysters… they were similarly scrappy.
July 22, 2010 5:22 am
Ha! Hilarious story…love it! I'm glad the rolls turned out well, at least. Thanks for the laugh, Liz
July 22, 2010 10:09 am
OMG – brilliant post! You had me laughing all the way through. Never cooked lobster myself either. Great photos too. Just last week I thought I have to make some lobster rolls, and thought it would be great to include some lobster photos in my portfolio. Thanks for the push and inspiration. Look out for a blog post soon =) x
July 22, 2010 11:32 am
this is too funny – i love this post ! and i really LOVE that opening photo up top, just brilliant. gorgeous photos as always. only, it's lunchtime here – and i have no shot at finding a lobster roll anywhere in these parts of town, zürich – land of wursts and rösti, not exactly lobster rolls. hence my having about 5 during my week in nyc recently😉
Susan permalinkJuly 22, 2010 11:50 am
Love the first picture, too!
July 22, 2010 1:24 pm
What a great story…and how brave of you to take on the lobster. Even if he did win
July 23, 2010 3:24 pm
Looks delicious lovely pictures
We had a lovely lobster roll at a restaurant in Prince Edward Island Canada
check it out
July 23, 2010 5:41 pm
Ha, AMAZING post!!
I'm pretty sure my boyfriend secretly wants to try making lobster where they start off alive. We tend to buy lobster tails, and that doesn't leave enough shell to fulfill his visions of making lobster stock. Glad that I know what to expect – maybe your tips will let me acquire at least one point in the struggle against a lobster!
July 23, 2010 7:46 pm
I added you to my linky love this week!
Thanks for the great post!😀
July 23, 2010 8:01 pm
haha !! totally see it missing now that i look back. that is hysterical – but ouch. i have had some bad experiences with crazy glue (sans lobster though), not fun.
July 24, 2010 1:09 pm
hilarious I am scared to cook them live by myself as well. For those reasons. The pics look great though!


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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is an online comedy series produced by and starring Jerry Seinfeld. The series format: a talk show inside a vintage car with Jerry and a guest comic; the car then drops Jerry and the guest(s) at a restaurant to get coffee. It is very much a Web series about nothing.
Comic guests have included Sarah Silverman, Don Rickles, Howard Stern, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, plus Seinfeld veterans Michael Richards and Larry David. In 2013, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee won a Special Class Emmy for Short Format Nonfiction Program.
The Book Publicity Blog
The Book Publicity Blog is the brainchild of Yen Cheong, an Assistant Director at Viking and Penguin Books. Her blog is packed with information, specifically book publicity tips and marketing trends aimed at book publicists and others in the publishing world. Emerging trends includes social media as a tool for book publicity. The section called The Papyrus Files spotlights outdated traditional practices in the publishing world.
Asylum – John Self's Shelves is one of the six founding blogs of the Brit Lit Blogs Collective. Self is a Belfast-based book critic for The Guardian. Although his intelligent and humorous blog concentrates on reviews of books by British authors, he will occasionally tackle the likes of Philip Roth. An example series of posts is his "Mooreathon," where he vows to read and comment on "all of Belfast-born author Brian Moore's novels in order of publication."
Reluctant Habits
Reluctant Habits is part literary blog and part radio podcast started by writer and critic Edward Champion. The blog part is devoted to "books, films, arts, technology and culture." It includes long-form interviews with writers, artists and cultural figures such as Nicholson Baker and Richard Powers. The podcast part is known as The Bat Segundo Show. Interviewees have included John Waters, John Updike, David Lynch, Weird Al Yankovic and Robert A. Caro.
This Developers Life
Microsoft executive Scott Hanselman's This Developer's Life podcast pays homage to the National Public Radio series This American Life. Like Ira Glass's show, This Developer's Life tells compelling true stories about individuals. Hanselman's stories, however, are more specific, telling the stories of individual software and other information technology developers. This Developer's Life isn't about the geek factor. It concentrates on the human factor rather than bits, bytes, and code. Each podcast includes a soundtrack of music from the likes of Fischerspooner, Calexico, and others.
The Ratchet and the Geek
"The Ratchet and the Geek" is another entertaining Scott Hanselman podcast, this time in partnership with Luvvie Ajayi, a self-described "award-winning humor writer, digital strategist and shoe lover." Luvvie describes her on-air chemistry with Hanselman as "techies with ratchet sides" talking to folks about "all things social media, TV, gadgets, stories of fail, dumbest tweets and more." When asked who the ratchet is and who the geek is, the answer is "both."
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LitReactor is a social network site for writers and readers founded by Web developers Dennis Widmeyer, Kirk Clawes, and Phil Jourdan. Besides a robust discussion forum, it features an online magazine with news about the publishing industry as well as literature-related articles. There's also advice from notable authors such as Chuck Palahniuk, Neil Gaiman, and Irvine Welsh. LitReactor also offers writing classes for publishing industry professionals and publisher writers.
THE KILLS is described as "a digital-first novel of crime and conspiracy told in four books" by "writer, artist, filmmaker and teacher" Richard House. Published first in digital form, THE KILLS is a multimedia mix of narrative text and short videos. House describes the videos more as "footnotes" to the narrative as opposed to illustrations.
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Content Marketing and the challenge of radical filters
Feb 17th
I have seen the future and it is ZIte-like.
Zite is the best utility I have seen so far to actually "learn" what content I enjoy. It customizes an evolving delivery system based on what it is learning about me. The more I use it, the better it gets.
In fact, it is doing such a good job delivering intensely amazing content it has become addictive. I've already abandoned many other sources of online news and insight.
But this is not an ad for Zite, which is just one of many innovations we will see to help us navigate through our information-dense world. Today, I wanted to have us think through together the marketing implications of a new wave of radical content filters.
Five years ago when you or I did a search on Google for the best deal on an automobile or a review of a new car model, we would get similar results … probably the same results. But over time, Google has made its search results highly-tailored to your environment. Where are you? Who are you? Who are your friends? This has resulted in an ever-tightening bubble of personalized results. The results you would get today are almost certainly different than what I would get.
Zite is an even more extreme example of this as it actually pushes content to you and only you, constricting the scope of possible content that you see.
Let's say you are trying to create content about automobiles that will be organically discovered by a high-potential customer like me. To get through this filter, you won't just have to somehow push it to the top of Google, you may also have to get it through the Zite algorithm … and all the Zite competitors crowding into this increasingly important space.
Will that require different strategies? Perhaps we won't just be concerned with SEO. We might also need to consider Zite Engine Optimization? : )
Let's twist this one more time. Zite is owned by the American news network CNN. What are the commercial implications of that? Maybe we won't be working on backlinks to please Google. Perhaps content marketing of the future will include advertising with parent companies so our content gets preferential treatment in its filters?
Settling into same-dom
This new era of mega-filters will also present a challenge to any organization or brand trying to introduce a new idea or product. Today when I read an online newspaper or news feed, I am also presented with many alternative content choices. This content might be way out of my normal comfort zone but interesting to me nonetheless. I like reading about new things. I mean, how else would I learn about twerking?
But as information density increases in my busy world, I could definitely see a day when I spend almost all my time with my own personalized filter. I would rarely see things outside my comfort zone because keeping me IN my comfort zone is exactly what these filters are trying to do! If Zite figures out I'm politically liberal, it is probably not going to offer an editorial with a conservative viewpoint. That would be a Filter Fail.
Every online organization is collecting data about us and determining what we are going to view and hear based on the stereotype they are creating for us.
While there are obvious benefits to this, the diversity of my content stream is also being strangled by every search and social media platform into same-dom. Interesting implications for how we learn and discover (or not discover) new ideas, no?
Providing fuel, not content
Let's push this idea of radical filtering to an even higher level.
Siri presents a particularly interesting type of content filter and a plucky problem for marketers. If you ask Siri a question, you might get a verbal answer, not necessarily a list of attributed, optimized content (and ads) to choose from.
I recently had a chance to see where this kind of precise search is heading when I met some people who work with Watson, IBM's amazing cognitive computing technology. This might be the ultimate filter because it is not just tailoring CONTENT for you, it's tailoring one precise ANSWER for you, even if is highly complex. It can process billions of bits of content and solve even the most difficult query in a heartbeat.
When I asked a Watson team member about the importance of content to this breakthrough technology, she paused and said, "It's not just content to us, it's fuel."
Isn't that interesting? What are the implications for content marketing when we're tasked to provide computer fuel instead of merely blog posts and YouTube videos? Will visual and video content even "count" in that kind of environment?
In less than 18 months, IBM developers reduced the size of the first Watson computer from "a bedroom to the size of three pizza boxes." And at the same time, they increased the speed by 24X! Is there any doubt that in the foreseeable future we will be carrying this power in our pocket or wearing it on our wrist?
Adjusting content strategies to a cognitive computing environment will be here soon. This will certainly hasten the demise of marginal content producers and up the game for good ones as precision content becomes a highly-prized resource.
Are you thinking about this now?
In my recent Content Shock article defining the problem of becoming the signal in a world that is insanely dense with information noise, I ended with an open-ended question. What next?
Certainly, this new wave of radical filters is a development worth considering. If you are still of the mindset that Google is the only barrier between your content and a buying customer, think again. It's getting a lot more interesting.
Radical personal filtering. A strangulation of the content stream. Content as fuel. Discuss, won't you?
Original illustration copyright www.businessesGROW.com
Disclosure: IBM is a client.
Why you've already missed the hottest marketing opportunity
Feb 5th
By Eric Wittlake, {grow} Contributing Columnist
Want to take advantage of today's hot new marketing opportunity? Sorry, you've already missed the boat.
The best opportunity goes to the marketers who identify it well before it's hot, not the ones who join at the frothy peak. You won't see those initial eye-popping results today.
This trend has played out time and time again.
The first online banner ad, for AT&T, 44% click rate. Today's average click rate for an ad the same size (468×60) rounds off to a nice even 0.0%! The only 44% you are likely to find in today's banner discussion is the percentage of people with an ad blocker installed.
In 1978, Gary Thuerk sent the first unsolicited email to a whopping 400 people. The result? He successfully drove attendance to two in-person events and ultimately closed more than $10 million in sales. Today's unsolicited marketing email to 400 people wouldn't be expected to get a single webinar attendee!
Over the last 16 months, organic reach of brand posts on Facebook dropped from 26% to just 7.8%. That's 70% shaved from the results of your Facebook efforts just for getting started 16 months later!
The story is the always the same. Twitter. Online video. Google AdWords. Blogging. Infographics. Native Ads. The marketers who get in early are the ones with the headline-making results.
Find Your Opportunities
What can we learn from these and other early adopters who captured outsized returns?
- Innovate. AT&T took advantage of a brand new type of opportunity on HotWired. More recently, SAP was the first marketer to join the Forbes BrandVoice program and they are continuing to see some of the best results today.
- Know the trend setters and early adopters in your market. Just like Gary's first email blast, Pinterest delivered astounding results for early adopters. Often the best opportunities are right in front of you—you just need to see them through a marketing lens.
- Be different. Did you already miss the best opportunity? Whatever you do, don't just follow the masses! The unexpected nature of something completely new breaks through the filters we have all established for marketing. For a bit of inspiration in a stodgy B2B space, look up Maersk on Facebook. Or if you prefer, consider Red Bull's marketing.
The Lasting Advantages
The early mover advantage doesn't end there. The benefits of starting early often continue long past the point a marketing activity becomes mainstream.
- In social media, marketers that started early had a head start building an engaged audience.
- In content marketing, early adopters learned how to connect with their audience effectively (and got a head start on SEO as well).
- In online advertising, early movers found the hidden gems. Working with a B2B advertising client about 10 years ago, we helped a niche site create their online ad offering. They became one of our best performing advertising partners for years.
Do you want your share of the results that you always see in case studies but so rarely achieve? Then stop chasing the results other people are getting and start finding your own opportunities.
By the time something is broadly recognized as the next great opportunity, it's really just table stakes.
Here are some of the areas I'm watching with a marketing, not just product and marketplace, lens:
- The sharing economy.
- The Internet of things.
- The proliferation of inexpensive sensors.
- The brand new insights, segmentation, personalization and (most importantly) services this information and connectivity enables.
Today, these are becoming things we market. Soon, some will likely become ways that we market as well.
Where do you see potentially uncharted and untapped opportunity for today's innovative marketers?
Eric Wittlake spends his days working with B2B marketers and shares his marketing views on his personal blog, B2B Digital Marketing. You can find him on Twitter (@wittlake) when he isn't spending time with his three young boys.
Top photo credit: Leon Fishman via Flickr cc
Six Arguments Against Content Shock
Jan 27th
Today, I am going to address some of the primary responses to my recent post on Content Shock. In case you missed it, the main premise of my post was this:
The amount of available content is exploding, our human capacity to absorb content is limited, which at some point creates an "economic" pressure on the system that will require adaptation and shifts from current marketing strategies. As this crunch intensifies and the cost to enter and compete in this field increases, content marketing as we know it may not be an economically viable option for some businesses.
This seems pretty straight-forward to me … it's not rocket science and I'm certainly not the first writer to point out the economics of content saturation and consumer resistance to it.
For example, five years ago, one of the largest ad agencies in the world, Dentsu, published a book called The Dentsu Way which pointed to research showing how overwhelmed consumers were creating a "shell" around themselves to keep from being bombarded by content.
Adding more content makes it more difficult for all content to get through the consumer's tightening system of filters. Content in some form will always be part of a marketing strategy. Content marketing is not dead or dying as some have suggested.
But as rational business professionals, we need to deal with "what is" not "what we wish for." So my style is to put the issues on the table and look at what we need to do about it in a rational manner. The post elicited more than 350 comments, dozens of phone calls and emails, and at least 500 related blog posts, videos, and podcasts so far. The vast majority of the sentiment has been, "yes, I get it" and even most dissenters haven't denied the basic economic scenario I presented.
To all who have contributed to the dialogue, I thank you so very much for the gift of time and intellectual rigor you brought to the discussion!
Addressing dissent
Although every single commenter and blogger deserves an individual response from me, I have a business to run and a family to love so I thought I would do my best to address the major themes of dissent I have gleaned from the blogosphere at one time, in one place. Please accept this as my best effort to respond to your wonderful input and comments. There are six main themes among the dissenting posts:
- Great content will always rise to the top
- It does not cost any more to create great content so the economic assumptions are wrong
- The impact of Content Shock does not matter if you have properly identified a niche market
- As long as people have a need or question, they will find and consume your helpful content no matter how much of it is in the marketplace
- "Deep pockets" do not matter in the content marketing space, which provides equal access to all
- Technology will help us overcome the consumption side of content shock
Now, let's examine the primary dissenting views:
1) Great content will always rise to the top
The dissenters argue that the economic pressures I described don't matter because "Great content always rises to the top." If you are working hard in the marketing trenches you have surely discovered by now that great content does not assure success. Content that rises to the top and is discovered through search is a result of a complex cocktail that includes:
- Optimization for search
- Author authority
- Site authority
- Social signals
- Distribution channels (paid and otherwise)
- Promotion (paid and otherwise)
- Brand recognition
- Keyword competition
- Audience size
- Personal search history
- Geographic relevance
… and yes, content quality. Today, "amazing content" is simply the price of admission to get into the game. You have to execute on many fronts to cut through the world's information density and be discovered.
One blog reader summed this up nicely: "The people who claim great content always rises to the top are already in a dominant market position. For those of us starting out, trying to scratch out a presence, it seems that no amount of work gets us noticed."
Lots of wonderful content will never see the light of day because the site owners don't have the budget, resources, or ability to work on these other success factors consistently. The increased economic pressures caused by overwhelming information density will exacerbate this challenge for some businesses.
2. It does not cost any more to create great content so the economic assumptions are wrong.
Some argued that if you are already creating content, it doesn't require any additional investment to create great content that would withstand the economics of Content Shock. For argument's sake, let's say you are offering your customers a free lunch to get them into your store. You have even hired a person who is dedicated to cooking up delicious soup for your customers every day. Your customers love this. In fact they can't get enough. Life is good.
But then your competitor wakes up and realizes the advantage of offering free food to attract customers and hires an entire team of chefs who begins preparing gourmet steaks, salads and desserts — all for free.
Suddenly, you find that your customer visits dramatically drop. Most customers have abandoned your modest buffet for the competitor's gourmet offering. You turn to your talented soup maker and say, "Look what is happening! We no longer need you to produce soup. We need steaks and epic gourmet food! Starting tomorrow, please start making epic food."
Can your soup maker compete with a team of chefs, or are you going to have to bring in more talent? And if you meet the competitor's standard, what will happen if the competitor ups the game once again and begins offering free dinner too?
In this little example, we see that "being epic" in a competitive environment comes with a cost. As the content arms race heats up in that market, it will neither be free nor sustainable for all businesses.
By the way, this does not mean the soup maker is finished. He can find new markets for his soup, He can look for new ways to deliver his soup. He can re-package his soup so people can consume it in new places. But this we know — whatever the strategy, the status quo is not possible or he will just lose customers. If you are facing a possibility of content saturation in your market, you need to be thinking of ways to change the game.
3. The impact of Content Shock does not matter if you have properly identified a niche market
The idea of Content Shock is a macro trend that is not equally applied to every business and every industry. There are lots of other factors that will determine when, or if, a market begins to reach content saturation. This is why I carefully chose my words that Content Shock would impact "some businesses."
If you are in a true niche where you have a monopoly due to high entry costs, protected intellectual property, or some other unbeatable advantage, congratulations. You don't have to worry about Content Shock. In fact, you probably don't have to worry about content marketing at all. If you are in a market where your competitor is asleep at the wheel and is not working on a content strategy, congratulations once again. Make hay while the sun shines. And oh yes … there are still a lot of businesses still asleep at the wheel!
So I agree, dominating a true niche is the ideal business situation and a legitimate antidote to Content Shock.
4. As long as people have a need or question, they will find and consume your helpful content no matter how much of it is in the marketplace
This is only true if you are the victor in the content marketing war. Here's what I mean. In a response to Marcus Sheridan's well-written post about Content Shock, I used his famous swimming pool success story as an example of the limitations to content marketing in a competitive environment.
In the market for pool installation in Northern Virginia, Sheridan's competitors are already firmly in Content Shock. They may want to be as helpful as Marcus and answer every customer question through blog posts and videos but it's too late — the market is already saturated with thousands of pieces of Sheridan's wonderful content. The competitor's content marketing strategy would not be sustainable — they will need to hunt for something else to do.
I'm not saying content could not play some role for these businesses, especially if they innovate into new forms, new platforms, etc. By definition, answering questions and being helpful with content is not technically a strategy because there are no significant entry barriers for competitors.
Theoretically, anybody with equal resources can copy you. UNLESS — You flood the market with so much quality content (like Marcus did) that it is not economically feasible for your competitors to be discovered. Ironically, the only true competitive advantage you can create through a content marketing strategy is the result of ramping up your output to the point of content saturation and CREATING Content Shock for your competitors. For successful content marketers like Marcus,
Content Shock is not the problem, it is the solution.
5. "Deep pockets" don't matter in the content marketing space, which provides equal access to all.
I argued that in a highly competitive market, companies with the biggest war chest and the most resources can eventually overwhelm smaller competitors. Dissenters argue that great content is not limited to big companies and in fact content marketing can even favor the nimble little guy.
Of course there are always exceptions in business and everyone can point to their favorite "David" beating a Goliath. But the economics of content marketing are straightforward: Create lots of great content that can be discovered by customers and potential customers. If you can saturate your market, all the better.
Those with more money generally are in the best position to create more and better content, as well as pay to have it promoted and distributed. Will they always win? No. All things be equal, will they usually kill off the smaller guys? Yes. History bears this out.
Any company, of any size, can carve a successful niche in the digital space — that's one of the things I love about the social web! But I think as a general statement, and all things being equal, the company with the most resources will eventually dominate.
It's this simple. If you wanted to be in the best position to win, would you choose to have more resources than your competitors or less?
I actually have a lot of ideas about how smaller competitors can outmaneuver the big guys but it is unrelated to budget. For example, I think a primary strategy would be for a small company to focus on emotional engagement that leads to loyalty instead of content volume and lead generation. In this case, a small company would usually have an advantage over a large company … but more on that in another blog post!
6. Technology will help us overcome the consumption side of content shock
Dissenters argue that people have been crying out that "the sky is falling" on information overload for years. They say that not only is there no problem, new technology will help us filter content better and enable even more consumption of content. I would like you to consider this chart.
Can you see two important trends here?
1) Indeed, every technological innovation creates a commensurate increase in content consumption — radio, TV, Internet.
2) The available hours of our day are filling with content. In fact, accounting for eight hours of sleep, in America, 18 of our possible 24 hours a day are already filled!
I do agree that technology will continue to push consumption upward, most notably wearable technology and augmented reality. But we are already consuming content an average of 10 hours a day (in America). What is the upper practical limit? 12 hours? 15?
I don't know that answer. One of the points I made in the original post is that we have been lulled into a false sense of security because throughout our entire lives, the amount of content we consume has always gone up. So more, more, more content has not been too much of a problem because demand was increasing too.
I'm not sure I can get my head around an argument that contends that content consumption will continue to rise unabated. There is a limit. It's true that improved content "filters" would help us focus on better and more relevant content.
But better filters will not create more hours in the day and, in fact, will hasten the decline for marginal content producers. So the "filter argument" actually reinforces the idea that the status quo is not sustainable for some businesses and the costs will go up for those who need to keep making it through ever-tightening filters.
A conclusion
If you have made it this far and actually read the entire post, thank you and congratulations … I'm sure you are in an elite minority!
I wanted to conclude with a quote from Facebook executive Richard Sim who stated in December why the reach on his platform (how much content gets viewed) for many brands is declining year by year: "On a given day, when the average person visits their News Feed, there are an average of 1,500 possible stories we can show. As a result, competition for each News Feed story is increasing. Pages will likely see changes in distribution resulting in a decline in organic reach."
That is Content Shock.
How do we win in that environment? That is THE question for marketing professionals moving forward. This is not necessarily a time to be depressed or gloomy. This cycle of supply and demand has ruled every natural, human, and economic system from the beginning of time. It is what it is. Every business only thrives in the long-term by facing change head-on and adapting, adopting and innovating. I can't wait to see what happens next. How about you?
Disclosures The Japanese company I mentioned, Dentsu, was a client of mine in 2013. The link to the book is an affiliate link. The blogger I mentioned by name, Marcus Sheridan, is a personal friend. The information in the graph was culled from a variety of places but some main sources include Global Web Index,, Carat, and Ross Dawson. Top illustration courtesy of Fan SIgn Generator.
Strategies to help your business overcome information overload
Jan 14th
Over the past few weeks the interweb airwaves have been humming and buzzing with data pointing to the increasing costs of getting your content seen and distributed through an over-crowded web.
- In a recent Advertising Age article, Facebook reports: "Content that is eligible to be shown in our news feed is increasing at a faster rate than people's ability to consume it."
- A study by InboundWriter shows only 10 to 20 percent of a company's website content drives 90 percent of its online traffic.
- Social platforms are creating programs to highlight organic content from the brands that spend the most money on their ads. So paid ads and sponsored content will soon be driving the "organic" reach of content.
- Reports claim the price of social media monitoring is going up because there is so much more content to process
- According to a recent IZEA survey, 61 percent of marketers have paid "influencers" to mention their product and share their content.
- According to a LexisNexis (client) study on International Workplace Productivity, 62% of white collar workers admit that the quality of their work suffers because they can't sort through the information they need fast enough.
All of these trends support the idea of a "Content Shock" that is coming — if it isn't here already — for many businesses.
Businesses who just pump out more content — even "better" content — are engaging in a strategy that is becoming increasingly difficult because the cost to succeed is going up, up, up. What are you going to do about it? That is really the dialogue that has to be happening next, right?
And that is the conversation that begins here, in this new edition of the Marketing Companion podcast I created with Tom Webster. We start with a little fun, introducing a new idea called "Prickstarter" and then get into some pretty deep ideas about content and audience that includes:
- The advantage of "ether" in the marketplace
- The decline of RSS and the coming Age of the Great Algorithm
- Media is media. Integrating channels to present one message to your customers is a key idea.
- Audience is not the same as "buyer" — Creating personas may be an out-dated strategy?
- A focus on emotional ties and "human" as a competitive strategy
- Bronies and the Celine Dion play — you just have to hear it to believe it
- Passionate content versus content and why "helpful" is not a point of differentiation
Pretty amazing, right? If you want to get your ears around this podcast right this minute, here you go!
LINK: Marketing Companion Episode 15
Resources mentioned in this podcast
Comment from Ken Rosen that served as an example of Content Shock
Three phases of the web reference from Microsoft's Dean Hauchomovitch
Shel Holtz post on consumer view of Content Shock
Christopher Penn discussion on owned, earned and paid media
Website of Dr. Robert Cialdini
Website of Voices Heard Media
Illustration courtesy BigStock.com
This content was created as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, expertise and solutions they need to become engines of a smarter planet. I've been compensated to contribute to this program, but the opinions expressed in this post are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
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The FWA Review is an ongoing series of articles providing a snapshot of each year at FWA and occasional specials focusing on certain styles and categories. These articles will be highlighting the main focus of the FWA project… websites who use cutting edge technology, together with inspirational ideas, that lead the way for future generations.
The FWA Review will act as a history of cutting edge web design and a reminder of those future-thinking sites, companies and individuals who have paved the way so far.
This third article in the series takes a look back at the third year of FWA, the year 2002…
Innovation and reputations
Fido [http://www.fantasy-interactive.com/fido/]
2002, a new year a new style takes grip with Fido from Fantasy Interactive setting the trend. With a site that, quite literally, bounced its way into place with total class and one that used a masking transition that would influence many for the future.
The Fido site saw attention to detail, subtle sound FX and polish set a new precedent and owed a lot to the new wave of pixel fonts largely pioneered by Craig Kroeger from Miniml. This site was also one of the first to use draggable 3D elements, as seen through the phones presentation where users could drag new communication innovations seamlessly through 360*.
Relevare [http://www.relevare.com]
With the launch of the Relevare website we saw three individual geniuses come together for the most original navigation we had seen to date. Guy Watson, Andy Foulds and Jamie Macdonald formed a formidable team and produced an incredibly innovative zooming navigation, which instantly won critical acclaim throughout the industry.
Not only was this site very innovative, it was also visually perfect, extremely smooth and very responsive and not bogged down with sluggish behaviour as could be expected for such future-thinking ideas. To say this site was way ahead of its time would be an understatement.
mjau-mjau [http://www.mjau-mjau.com/classic.html]
The "classic" mjau-mjau site from Karl Ward, saw another brilliant talent hit our monitors. Packed with awesome motion graphics and superb sound, this site saw mjau-mjau establish instant respect from his peers.
Again, we saw a blend of experimental work and client/personal work, including free downloads and almost essential utilities like the imageVue. This site would go on to become an FWA Site Of The Month and a true favourite with its visitors.
Altoids [http://www.altoids.com/]
The World Domination through Design Group or WDDG had forged an impressive reputation since their inception in 1998 and the new site for Altoids mints would go on to become one of the main contenders for Site Of The Year 2002 and soon after launch was picked up by the New York Times.
WDDG managed to capture the brand and design style associated with Altoids, that of a retro 1950s, 60s look. The end result being a site full of eye candy with a vibrant colour palette and one that would be exciting to explore and interact with, with the "Ad Gallery" being particularly noteworthy as users could send ads to friends or even download them.
Looplabs [http://www.looplabs.com/]
Looplabs, the work of Craig Swann and CRASH!MEDIA, was the first online music mixer we had seen and came with all the bells and whistles you could want, with users able to save their own mixes and load others.
Being very simple to use, it didn't take long to get sucked into a unique web experience and feel you could soon be gracing the wheels of steel in Gaunt Street, South East London, in the VIP lounge of the Ministry Of Sound.
With hundreds of readily available loops to play with and an extremely easy interface to mix with, it was almost simple to put together something that sounded hip and cool.
The Looplabs audio engine would go on to be incorporated in sites including Coca Cola, Maverick Records, Bacardi and many more and would win accolades the World over.
Perfect Fools [http://www.perfectfools.com/book/]
Here was another innovation that would set a trend for years to come, much like nooflat's resizing script did. The thing with this innovation was that it was so obvious and logical and I'm sure many designers wondered why they hadn't though of it before.
So, you're wondering what it was? Okay, it was the page turn. Yes, present a site like a book and allow visitors to use the site like a book and simply drag the pages as you would turn them in real life. It was perfectly executed, making it an instant success and before long everyone wanted a script for the "page turn effect".
Who's We v1.0 [http://www.whoswestudios.com/flashsite.html]
As 2002's winners were announced in the May 1st Reboot, Who's We Studios' Flash site, version 1 stood out as a true definition of eye candy and was a perfect testament to their slogan "information through stimulation".
"Do you feel lucky punk? Well do ya?" as their logo orb turned into a massive arsenal of weapons pointing at the user and kindly asked them if they wanted to enter the broadband version of the site. Following up with an original hand rolling-finger loader that seemed so obvious but had never been used before.
Combining attitude, personality, sound and 3D, surfers round the world looked on in awe and fired up their messaging services to spread the word on what they saw. This site saw Who's We come from nowhere and establish themselves overnight as one of the latest progressive players in the field.
Lexus Minority Report [http://lexus.teamone-usa.com/minorityreport/]
Hi-ReS!, well known for their immersive and original websites, worked with Team One on this extraordinary site promoting the Lexus MAGLEV sports car from the year 2054 together with the release of the film Minority Report starring Tom Cruise.
This website, or experience, is about you, the individual, trying to escape from being framed for a murder to be committed some time in the future. To say this website was futuristic would be an understatement, both in appearance and in content. This would be one of the first sites to use zooming motion blurs between scenes and seamless video integration (rather than pop-up video as most sites were doing at this time).
Conspiracy Games [http://www.fantasy-interactive.com/conspiracygames/movie.html]
July of 2002 and Fantasy Interactive dealt another blow to the competition with the launch of the massive Conspiracy Games, a site that fried just about every server that went near it as it served up over one terabyte of traffic in its first month alone.
Here we saw one of the first sites optimised for the screen resolution of 1600x1200, but ran perfectly well for most lower resolutions. The target audience were blown off their feet when they spent time on this site, with interactive features that included an "Emergency System" activation that gave the user only two minutes to comply by finding a certain element in the site or the site self destructed and booted the user out.
Conspiracy also saw the introduction of voice-over sound for areas of the site, particularly navigation that used buttons that appeared to organically move as the user moused over them.
This was a huge site with lots to explore and large amounts of intelligently managed content and 3D, including a robot arm that, once activated, smashed a realistic looking hole in the screen.
Wrecked [http://www.wrecked.nu/index_old.html]
Gabe Rubin's Wrecked – Wreckage portfolio site would see the start of the organic and grunge style. Distressed bitmap graphics and the motion achievable with Flash, launched a new wave of old style meeting new technology, with the end result being an instant hit with designers.
The Osbournes [http://specialmoves.com/clients/mtv/microsite.htm]
England's Specialmoves, managed to produce a rare treat for fans of the hugely successful TV show, The Osbournes. Complete with a swear-o-meter, users got the chance to be any of the Osbourne family, including their pets, and to move around the Osbourne house, garden, the beach and even the Tour Bus, whilst interacting with everything and everyone around them.
This site had the look and feel of a Sim style point-and-click game, with the attention to detail of each room/area being unbelievable. The whole production could've doubled up as an interactive tour of the Osbourne's house.
I would think that this site would experience some of the longest session times for any website… addictive, interactive and immersive but you had to watch out for Lola the Bulldog's calling card.
Fred Perry [http://www.fredperry.com/]
Fred Perry's ecommerce site would prove to be a major breakthrough for Flash as, for the first time, we witnessed a complete online shopping experience run seamlessly through a Flash interface, no jumping into an HTML pop-up window to complete the transaction.
Surprisingly, I don't think this site achieved the acclaim it deserved, as this could've been the start of a flurry and new wave of Flash ecommerce sites. This site would stand the test of time however and was, maybe, a little too early to alter the course of ecommerce sites at that time.
Yulia Nau [http://www.wireframe.co.za/yulia/]
2002, possibly representing the most revolutionary year for websites so far, saw another great example for a stunning female German hard progressive techno DJ know as Yulia Nau, designed and developed by South Africa's finest, Wireframe.
Another instant impact and future-thinking site with hard atmospheric music and a Chinese dragon mouse trailer on the loading screen alone. This site pioneered video enhanced mouse movement as users experienced, for the first time, quality video frame sequences of a tattoo clad Yulia Nau, which reacted to every movement of their mouse.
This site demonstrated progressive with a capital "P" as Wireframe combined a style of music and web design straight out of the future, even allowing users to mix their way into techno DJ heaven with a superb custom built mixing desk.
Dotu [http://www.fantasy-interactive.com/dotu/]
Another impressive website from FI in 2002, making people wonder if there was something in the water in Stockholm. Dotu, a site for Warner Bros and Swing Entertainment for the smash PlayStation 2 game, Defenders Of The Universe was a highly interactive user experience and made use of FI's branded navigation system (FI elastic) with bouncy drag menus.
CrashShop v2002 [http://www.teamdual.com/portfolio/crashshop]
Seeing the new site for Seattle based CrashShop planted an early seed for the future development and brand of FWA. Here we had a site that was using the very latest coding techniques from the recently released Flash 5.
The designers and developers of this site displayed a deep expertise and understanding of where websites were going and an astonishing 5000+ lines of actionscript code held CrashShop's site together.
This site worked like the perfect operating system should, was fast and efficient, oozed personality, had a fully integrated Flash shop and simple additions like the use of the scroll wheel (as having a scroll wheel on your mouse was now becoming standard) with Internet Explorer giving an added edge to the functionality and usability that many sites were lacking.
Four of the five CrashShop team would later go on to work for DUAL, a world-renowned think-tank located in Seattle, Washington. DUAL would become the first choice for the redesign, development and rebranding of FWA and a long-term relationship beginning early 2003, based on their forward thinking attitude and soon to be developed software and capabilities.
Meet Alexis [http://www.pixelpharmacy.com/]
With the arrival of Flash 5 and the ability to easily integrate video into websites, Alexis Trepanier would demonstrate just how easy it was and what a huge difference it could make to one's presence on the web.
Alexis' video intro had amazing charm and started with a hairy and full-bearded Alexis, telling visitors his skills and strengths as the site built around him. As the video progressed, viewers could notice Alexis' hair slowly shrinking and his facial hair disappearing. Eventually, a clean-cut Alexis finished his pitch only to sneeze and regain his hairy appearance.
This was something people had never experienced before on a website and resulted in another server heavily bombarded with thousands of requests as word of mouth and links at every major portal sent web surfers from around the world to Alexis' home page.
Eccentris [http://www.eccentris.com/]
As autumn of 2002 got under way, broadband internet surfing was beginning to take off and luckily the team at FWA were well fixed up with the fattest pipe available at that time. As soon as we saw this new production from the progressive New York team at firstborn, we were excited to be one of the first sites to showcase it.
Sacha Dean Biyan, a fashion photographer and photojournalist, had wisely chosen firstborn to build him a unique and progressive website to showcase his amazing photography. This would be one of those website where one could clearly see deep amounts of planning and interaction between the client and the design/development team.
An original future-proof navigation would combine with excellent music compositions and the truly awe-inspiring photography, with the end result being a website that exuded nothing but innovation and class.
Les Chinois [http://www.leschinois.com/]
This French agency known as "The Chinese" gave us another example of how to breathe life into a website by incorporating video. Another site predominantly produced for a broadband audience, with a cool game to play with as the site loaded.
Les Chinois' site had an almost mystical appeal to it, as users would interact with a man in a leather chair by clicking on navigation items or dragging and dropping items on him, for example dropping a packet of cigarettes on him would result in him lighting and smoking one.
A very intriguing site that was initially only released in French but later went on to release an English version. Surfing this site made you feel like you were sat opposite someone in a room and they would react to your actions.
The DesignChapel [http://www.designchapel.com/]
Robert Lindstrom's Swedish showcase of over 10 years of his top-drawer work would go on to be a huge hit. His crest style logo would be one of the first in a new trend and his vector drawings left many in awe and asking questions as to how they were achieved.
If anyone wanted to define the perfect portfolio site, DesignChapel had just done that.
Neostream Interactive [http://www.neostream.com/]
One of the true innovators of cutting edge web design and one of the most eagerly anticipated launches on the web as we know it, Neostream Interactive delivered 50,000 volts of animation heaven that shocked the world on launch. A total WOW site that deservedly picked up FWA People's Choice Award 2002 by a huge majority.
The site oozed personality and character right from the splash screen as the Neostream mascot shook his finger at the user. On entering the site users were able to quite literally "slap" the mascot around by moving their mouse back and forward across him.
Each area of the site boasted amazing motion, animation and sound and made for a site that is still the favourite of many web surfers today.
Marines [http://www.marines.com/]
The Site Of The Year 2002 was a very tight contest with the outstanding winner being the official site for the United States Marines Corps, Marines designed and developed by Marine Corps Recruiting Command, J Walter Thompson, and KNI.
This site was flawless and fast loading with a number of Flash treats. As users made their way through the site a progress bar would display how much of the site they had surfed, encouraging further exploration. Motion, typography, design and navigation all gelled perfectly to form a site that was as near perfect as one could get.
Innovation and reputations
2002 proved to be am amazing year with the competition for Site Of The Year being very tightly fought with 9924 nominated sites. This would also see the arrival of the People's Choice Award at FWA, proving to be very popular and making us think why hadn't we added it before.
A number of companies and individuals had earned well-deserved reputations this year and we could only wonder if the level of excitement achieved through so many inspirational websites could continue in the coming years.
About the author, Rob Ford
Robert J. Ford is FWA's Principal. Born and bred in England with a background in finance, sales and project management, working for companies like Halifax PLC and American Express. He has been focused on cutting edge web design and development since 1997 and oversees the day to day running of the FWA project.


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Two taken to Elkhart General Hospital after head-on Cass County crash
Police say a driver fell asleep and drifted into oncoming traffic early Wednesday morning.
Two people were injured in a Cass County crash early Wednesday morning after a driver fell asleep at the wheel.
Emergency crews were called to US-12 near Suszek Road in Porter Township at 5:27 a.m. Wednesday, June 18, and found two cars on the north side of the road, according to a news release from the Cass County Sheriff's Department.
Police say 21-year-old Dwight J. Ottman of Cassopolis was driving eastbound on U.S. 12 when he fell asleep and crossed the center line into oncoming traffic, where he collided head-on with a westbound vehicle driven by 48-year-old Becky A. Worth of White Pigeon. The vehicles spun out and came to rest on the north side of the road.
Both drivers were taken to Elkhart General Hospital for treatment. Both were wearing seatbelts and alcohol does not appear to have been a factor in the crash.
The Cass County Sheriff's Department's investigation is ongoing.


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Fire investigators are heading to west Columbus to investigate a fire at a vacant home.
The fire started shortly before 4:00 a.m. Tuesday on South Richardson Avenue, near Sullivant Avenue.
Firefighters say they were able to quickly douse the flames.
Several neighbors who live nearby say they've seen far too many dumpster and homes fires in their neighborhood over the past few months.
They're angry because they say this isn't the first vacant home to spark, Neighbors say the family that lived there was forced out about a month ago after a different fire there.
They fear careless actions could be putting the lives in and around this home in danger.
Stay with 10TV and refresh 10TV.com for updates on this story.


text: News Weather Channel reporter kicks kid in groin on live TV 2 years ago in Viral Videos CANTORE STORIES: Jim Cantore puts a stop to a would-be live shot crasher. Photo: YouTube Field reporters are used to people trying to "crash" their live shots by making goofy faces or doing something silly in the background. But the Weather Channel's Jim Cantore is not having it.


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The system hardware I write software for is physically connect via hardware in a tree structure. The data model in our application is a Tree. For our new rewrite, we're using JAXB to create the data model.
We have three types of Devices, and they all share some properties, so I made an Abtract DeviceType in the XSD schema. My three devices (Pushers, Switchers, Receivers) are all extended from the DeviceType in the XSD like this:
<xs:complexType name="DeviceType" abstract="true">
<xs:element name="atrr1" type="xs:int"></xs:element>
<xs:element name="attr2" type="xs:int"></xs:element>
<xs:complexType name="PusherType">
<xs:extension base="pts:DeviceType">
<xs:element name="Switcher" type="pts:SwitcherType" minOccurs="1"></xs:element>
<xs:complexType name="SwitcherType">
<xs:extension base="pts:DeviceType">
<xs:element name="switcher" type="pts:SwitcherType" minOccurs="1"></xs:element>
<xs:element name="receiver" type="pts:ReceiverType" minOccurs="1"></xs:element>
Pushers have only switcher child elements, and switchers can have both switcher or receiver children. Receivers are the end of the line (leaf nodes). xjc builds the classes. I got the Unmarshaller to construct the object tree, but I can't figure out how to get a getter method for getDevice(). For tree traversal, I was hoping JAXB would provide something like "getChildren", but I'm not seeing in in the API. If I get a switcher object, I have the methods for getSwitcher() and getReceiver(), but no getDevice() method. But I'm trying to avoid using instanceof when I do a full tree traversal. The Java code that xjc builds, does extend from the Device class, but I just haven't learned how to get a generic getter method for all devices. I just started with Jaxb two days ago and I have a ton to learn about the Jaxb API.
Yesterday was my first day playing with JAXB, I think this tool suits our system incredible well. Our hardware is literally a tree,we have multiple deployments, and using XML as our site config file to build a state model would be ideal.
Any suggestions for a JAXB novice here?


text: Home Culture College Student Mistaken for Wanted Man and Held for 4 Days Jawon Johnson was arrested and remained in custody in Maryland for almost four days before he was finally released. By: Breanna Edwards Posted: Nov. 27 2013 12:40 PM 0 Jawon Johnson YouTube Jawon Johnson was enjoying Thanksgiving break from West Virginia State University when he got pulled over Saturday night for a traffic violation in Harford County, Md. At that point, Johnson's vacation started to go downhill. In a case of mistaken identity, Johnson was taken into custody by the Baltimore police as a wanted man. He would remain in custody for the next few days, according to WBALTV. How did this happen, and why did it take so long for the college freshman—who has never been in trouble—to be released? Well, that is still uncertain, the news station reports. "We share the same name, the same birth date. I mean, they showed me a picture of who the guy actually was. It wasn't me, but they said they still had to hold me until the marshals came and got me," Johnson told the news station. That didn't happen until Tuesday, when the record was finally straightened out in a federal court and Johnson was allowed to go home with his family. However, needless to say, his mother was not pleased with how long the process took. "There's a million and one people out here walking around with the same first and last name. 'Johnson' is a common name. I'm just not accepting you're going to have him locked up, spending his Thanksgiving break, when he should be home visiting family and enjoying himself for Thanksgiving," Johnson's mother told WBALTV. Thankfully, her son is now home and will be able to celebrate the rest of the holiday with family. A lawyer from the Federal Public Defender's office had finally gotten involved on Tuesday, which the news station said seemed to speed up the process. After the hearing, the lawyer reportedly said the situation was "incredibly disturbing." Watch video at WBALTV. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Get what we're watching delivered to your inbox everyday! Sign up for our daily video newsletter below. Powered by Livefyre 0


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Jennifer Lawrence scooped the best actress in a comedy or drama award last night at the 70
The designer choice came as no big surprise as Lawrence was recently snapped up by the French fashion house to front their Miss Dior handbag campaign, and will be taking over from range's current face, fellow young actress Mila Kunis in March 2013.
Best actress in a drama went to Jessica Chastain for her performance in Zero Dark Thirty, which hits British cinemas on January 25. The Lawless star chose a peppermint blue backless halterneck gown by Calvin Klein to collect the award, teamed with sparkling Harry Winston jewels.
Anne Hathaway collected the award for the Best Supporting Actress for her much-celebrated role as Fantine in the film adaptation of Les Miserables, which won three awards in total, in a white Chanel strapless top and column skirt from the spring/summer 2009 couture collection. The outfit was embellished top to bottom with crystals which matched her fine bracelets and diamond studs, both also Chanel.
See the below for all the evening's winners...
BEST FILM, DRAMA – Argo
BEST FILM, COMEDY OR MUSICAL – Les Miserables
BEST ACTOR, DRAMA – Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln
BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA – Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
BEST DIRECTOR – Ben Affleck, Argo
BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL – Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL – Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
SUPPORTING ACTOR – Cristoph Waltz, Django Unchained
SUPPORTING ACTRESS – Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
FORIEGN LANGUAGE FILM – Amour
ANIMATED FILM – Brave
SCEENPLAY – Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
ORIGINAL SCORE - Mychael Danna, Life of Pi
ORIGINAL SONG – by Adele,
BEST SERIES, DRAMA – Homeland
BEST SERIES, COMEDY OR MUSICAL – Girls
BEST ACTOR, DRAMA – Damien Lewis, Homeland
BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA – Claire Danes, Homeland
BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL – Lena Denham, Girls
BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL – Don Cheadle, House of Lies
MINISERIES OR MOVIE – Game Change
ACTOR, MINISERIES OR MOVIE – Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys
ACTRESS, MINISERIES OR MOVIE - Julianne Moore, Game Change
SUPPORTING ACTOR, MINISERIES OR MOVIE - Ed Harris, Game Change
SUPPORTING ACTRESS, MINISERIES OR MOVIE – Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
See the best of the red carpet at the Golden Globes 2013
Jennifer Lawrence collects her Best Actress award
Jessica Chastain collects her Best Actress award
Anne Hathaway collects her Best Supporting Actress award


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Guest Clergy
Dr. Bobby Conway
Pastor of Life Fellowship Church in Davidson
Creator of the YouTube videos, The One Minute Apologist
Resurrection: Fact or Fiction?
Following Easter Sunday, it didn't take long for people to come up with fictitious claims to debunk the resurrection of Jesus Christ. They knew that if they could cast doubt on the resurrection, Christianity would crumble. In fact, Paul writes, "If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins (1 Corinthians 15:17)." Here are a few theories.
• Jesus' body was stolen. This was the first proposed theory. But think about it, if Jesus' body was really stolen, don't you think the thieves would have brought the body to bear once the disciples were claiming, "He has risen?" They would have called their bluff. No doubt. And if the disciples stole the body, do you think they would have died martyrs' deaths for a hoax? Of course not! Many will die for what they think to be true, but no one will die for what they know to be false.
• The people were hallucinating. Scoffers said that the witnesses who saw Jesus after his death must have been hallucinating. However, Jesus appeared on several different occasions, and on one occasion, he appeared to 500 people at once. Now in my past, in my pre-Jesus days, I understood hallucination, and I can tell you something: 500 people don't hallucinate like that.
• Jesus Passed Out. This is known as the "swoon theory." Popularized in the 18th century, the theory suggests that Jesus never died on the cross but merely passed out. Then once inside the tomb, he was restored to consciousness and he himself rolled the tomb stone away. But ponder this. Jesus had been severely scourged, his wrists and ankles were nailed to a cross, his head punctured by a crown of thorns, his side stabbed, and his body wrapped in 75 pounds of linen following his death. Do you think Jesus could have regained consciousness, unwrapped himself, and moved a two-ton stone out of the way, when after his beating he couldn't even carry the cross on his own without the help of Simon of Cyrene?
Jesus is alive! Sometimes it's just easier to believe the facts than create fiction. So, go ahead; stick your head in the tomb. You see, it's empty and Jesus is ready to change your life. Today.
A New Weekly Faith Section
by Angie Moses
Welcome to the new Faith section of the Herald/Mooresville Weekly. While Lake Norman Publications has always covered religion, now we are adding a designated section in each weekly issue. In it we will cover events, programs and people that inspire our souls and benefit our community. We will also invite local faith leaders to write guest columns, and we will pool all the church news briefs into one spot.
Why a Faith section? According to The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in 2010, 69 percent of people in North Carolina say that religion is very important to them, as compared to, say, only 36 percent in Vermont. And if you flip through the 2012 Lake Norman Yellow Pages, you will find 147 churches listed and one synagogue. 147 churches and one synagogue make for a lot of faith-related news.
Let us know what's going on in your congregation, and let us encourage one another in faith, which can, though small as a mustard seed, move mountains.
Church News Briefs
Send us announcements about your upcoming church events or any other information the community would want to know about. Announcements sent by Thursday will appear in the following issue. Please do not send newsletters, flyers, scans, or links but instead e-mail a brief blurb with the who, what, where and when to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Kids' Summer Camp Listing
Are you hosting a Vacation Bible School or Children's Camp this summer? Invite the community to it via our Kids' Summer Camp Listing in our May 2 issue. Send us the dates, times, and themes by Thursday, April 25, to email@example.com.