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I recently quit smoking. I’ve been chewing Nicorette and, for a short time, the Duane Reade version of Nicotine gum. The Duane Reade version, while cheaper than the brand name, has the taste and consistency of a rubber band.

Broadcast television has the upfronts. Online media outlets and content producers have the onfronts.

The next time you fill up at the gas station on $3 per gallon gas and watch a video advertisement at the pump, the ad you see may be based on your face. Black? White? Old? Young? Male? Female? Fat? Skinny? Tall? Short? Ugly? Pretty?? Stressed? Relaxed?

ooyala is a video platform company that was founded by 3 former Google engineers. I spoke to Sean Knapp, CTO, about the opportunity they saw in the market that inspired them to leave a cushy job on the Google campus two years ago for the risky unknown of Internet start-up.

I’ve noticed, when at home both on wireless and, in seeking to improve the connection, tethered via Ethernet directly to my newly installed cable modem, that my connection is crap. And it seems to be getting crappier.

I subscribe to the Adam Carolla podcast. I was walking down Market Street in San Francisco today, in the sweltering heat, feeling like I was on a death march.

Youtube is the second biggest search engine in the world, behind parent google, which shows the importance of video search.

I have done battle and killed many cockroaches in my New York lifetime. I have never in my life seen a flying cockroach…until today.

Watching the Celtics-Bulls game 4, heading to overtime…

Hoochie mamma’s in spandex shorts that don’t even make it to the bottom of their butts shake their asses to a rendition of Sir Mixalot’s club anthem “I like big butts and i cannot lie, all you other brothers can’t deny, That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist, And a round thing in your face….”