Random Media Notes
Blender folds.
The Christian Science Monitor publishes it’s final daily print edition.
The average American is subjected to 61 minutes of on air advertisements a day and spend 8.5 hours a day looking at a screen (this cannot be good for us). There are so many interesting things in this study, like older people spend as much time staring at screens as younger people. Also, TV is the most popular media interface, followed by computers, then radio, then print. People 20 to 50 multi-task equally but after 55 people spend markedly less time multi-tasking. People 35 to 44 spend the most time online but the next group, 45 to 54, spend the most time checking email. Television and video games attract the most undivided attention. People remember watching less TV than they actually did.
Dennis Kucinich sues deadbeat book publisher.
Two new Internet companies sell information about website visitor’s behavior.

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