Friday, February 9, 2007

'Here's the Thing' Barack Obama Announcement Preview - http://www.barackobama.com/video/preview/ 8:13:00 PM

Variety Drops Subscription Wall Variety Drops Subscription Wall. Variety.com, one of the longstanding premium subscription sites, which had been opening step-by-step over the last year, has now completely dropped the paywall, the company mentioned in this story and this release. Variety also launched its digital edition of Daily Variety, available by subscription. This comes after the company redesigned and relaunched its site a few months ago, decided to experiment initially with keeping the wall down, then decided to go the full way officially. It says over the last year its monthly unique users have grown to 2.4 million. Rival Hollywood Reporter also redesigned recently and has most of its stories free now as well. [PaidContent] 8:01:17 PM

Batman Mash-Up The World of Bob Kane. Click for Larger Image Ultra-cool photomontage comic strip mashing up Batman and the '60s fashion photography of Ronald Traeger [via] [Eye of the Goof] 7:41:31 PM

Look Up Look Up. bilbao58's photostream. 6:50:06 PM

RealClearPolitics.com RealClearPolitics.com Founders Buy Back Investors' Stake. Chicago-based RealClearPolitics.com, a political news aggregator which has deals with the likes of FoxNews.com and Time.com, got some undisclosed funding last year, from its publisher Alan Warms and other unnamed investors. The company's founder have now bought back that stake from investors, deciding to go their own way...unclear how much investors owned, but was close to or less than one-third. Related: RealClearPolitics.com Relaunches; Gets Funding [PaidContent] 6:28:37 PM

The World's Hottest January world's hottest on record: Japan. Last month was the world's hottest January on record, in further evidence that greenhouse gas emissions are causing global warming, Japanese scientists said Friday. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news] 6:21:51 PM

Modern Communications Modern telephones emit rays. Don't use phones anymore. Use e-mail instead. [The Cartoonist] 6:18:44 PM

Virgin Media Launches Virgin Media Launches; Hopes Portal Will Compete With Biggest. Virgin Media --the new name of UK cable company NTL Telewest-- has relaunched with a big band rebranding campaign in UK today. The company is also launching Virgin Central, its interactive TV channel, on the back of deals with distributors such as Buena Vista and Alliance Atlantis. It has also launched the online portal, VirginMedia.com, which it hopes will be among the biggest general portals in UK, competing against biggies like Yahoo, MSN and others. More details in this Guardian story. NMA: It launches this week with a 1 million GBO online ad campaign as it goes head-to-head with MSN and Yahoo to become the UK's top entertainment portal. Virginmedia.com will become the central portal, competing against established portals along with other ambitious media companies, like Orange, looking to boost their portal presence Related: Virgin Media To Launch In UK This Week; Triple-Play Play [PaidContent] 6:09:21 PM

Eyes on the Prize Tycoon offers $25 million prize to fight climate change . LONDON - British tycoon Sir Richard Branson on Friday announced a $25 million prize for the scientist who comes up with a way of extracting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. By By Tariz Panja. [azcentral.com | thebuzz] 6:01:43 PM