Tuesday, March 22, 2005
kqed and poker, reallyI was joking earlier about kqed & poker, but here's an audio feed of kqed's morning forum re: the rise of poker in media, "crazes," and addiction. Jim McManus featured among other roundtablists. KQED link... (and a support link as well) Thanks to pplayer's blog for the headsup. aK gamesgrid
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no poker in NoDak, no sleep til tv, and a hoot about marxBeen really tripping over the "referrers" button on the right on radio, staring at me. Okay, so I shouldn't get too many hits since I really haven't told anyone about this yet :) so when I get a hit (which have all been off of search engine results), I want to see what ppl are searching for to find me. * "Latina playboy"-- from my list of magazines here this month * "Apple peeler"-- I was #7 on google.ca when you'd search for "apple peeler." 12 hours later, I was no where to be found. Conicidence? * "email address of life less dealers in asia"-- um, yeah. I don't know why I fool myself thinking anyone is going to come visit when I add my link to my signatures :) But, so far it has been a fun exercise... NoDak... no poker. Oh well, fartingbet will just have to stay in the uk for now, thank you very much. I wonder if they have voter driven initiatives in ND like they do in Cali (the kinds that got Gray out and thebarbarian in)... even if the bill had passed the senate, it would have had to been presented to the voters first. I wonder if they care-- I've been reading a lot of Bismarck news since the ND thing started, and what I *really* wanted to know was how the people in the state felt about it. Like, those lame "man on the street" interviews-- but when they're far away and I have no idea what the citizens would think of such a thing... anyhow that was the news I wish I'd read (how voters in NoDak felt about it), esp. if it had passed the Senate today. Why I wonder is, well because I'm just curious about how ppl feel about online poker. B/c, godshonest but I had no idea it really existed til about 2 months ago. I just never paid attention to it, I didn't see the "craze" on tv since I don't watch cable (hm, kqed presents poker roadshow...), and I just put it on the periphery. So jumping in like this with two feet, as a person totally new to the concept, I don't think there's anything wrong with it at all... which kinda surprised me since I felt sketchy about companies that pay people to run around naked with www on their bodies as advertising... and hell if you play against the casino why wouldn't they be inclined to cheat you? Which I guess is why people like me actually would be willing to play poker, as opposed to casino games... If I know there's no edge to be gained by the house my confidence meter goes way up. Speaking of, heard that lost/found put blackjack tables up on their lobby... like I really needed to be reminded that I'm a terror in *all* card games... See, I always thought tv wasn't a big driver of culture (I know, fooling myself). I think it's b/c I've been plugged out of cable for almost a year now, watching mainly kqed since it comes in the best on the antenna and other local affiliates as they come wafting in... so I couldn't tell you what kind of programs are out there now (though, dammit I wish I could watch Iron Chef America, the SERIES! what IS it with asian men in satin with me?!) I guess since I can't see what could drive or shape popcult on tv, it's hard for me to identify it when it happens. Which kinda cracks me up since I tend to rail @ informative "articles" about media and culture trends (which, guess what gets talked about all the time from sea to shining sea: local papers and pub tourneys, college campus presses and requisite holdem articles...it *would* have been fun to play poker with the cats I went to college with though!) My favorite tvpopculture indicator: TWoP. That's right, guiltypleasureland... and they're so unabashed talking about how much they all "hate Lynette from Desperate Housewives"... which is great. If you're into something, be into it, you know? I don't think highly of sundrenched cali dramas with highlights galore, but I will admit to watching each episode of america's next top model :) If you're going to have shows on tv about beautiful people, have them be about beautiful people and not false teenage angst as we drive loopy pch with the top down, and did I mention you're sixteen and have no flipping burgers at supersizeme job like the rest of middle america who uses you like a cheap drug to drown out the fact they're living eagerly, vicariously thru you?  Not that I think its a sin to watch tv, really. For reals. I saw an ad on tonite for quixote, which only caught my attention b/c of the flack advertisers catch for advertising poker rooms. The wsj had a writeup about it here, but you need a subscription to read it. Basically, some media outlets don't want to run the ads for poker rooms on tv since they don't want to tarnish the reputation of the major league sports teams that are featured on their networks (wha?), or maybe it's just cos gepetto is iger.eisner and the mouse titters "will someone please think about the children?!" while refusing to air ads for online gambling sites. Other networks have instructed poker rooms that they will not advertise any websites that have pay for cash games, but they will advertise sites that have solely play money games and/or sites that "teach" players how to play. So rooms have the extensions down pat; quixote.net is play money, but I'm sure being a shiny cookie you could meander your way over to .com in two shakes of a lambs tail if you wanted to drop some money into the well. And we all know about the giant whore of babylon's marketing stunts to get around bans on gambling ads-- buying all of the cheese sammiches and boobie implants from ebay these days to get on the local news and supplant the jerry springer mindset for a few hundred dollars a bid. I kinda am glad tgw can't get tv space time... imagine how irriatating those commercials would be. But it is interesting to check out what tgw is also doing on ebay... stocking up on warhammer pieces, selling d20 rgp books... and of course all that other rag. (I'm an ebay yarnaholic. And addis-- email me if you want the name of the HK seller for deutche-branded addis on ebay. I admit a sick fascination looking @ each purchase people have made or bid on when trolling ebay, and I am one of those irritating "snipers" too.) All of this b/c the doj sez the wire act precludes braodcasters from advertisers based in the us -- carrying ads is to "aid and abet the commission of a federal offense," according to Casino City's case (pdf!) that was pitched out of court a few weeks ago. CC said that the memo the doj was circulating thru the Nat'l Assn of Broadcasters "reminding" broadcasters of their liability when airing gambling ads worked as a violation of their 1st amd rights (among others); but as CC had no standing or controversy the case was duly kicked out on the cold. So the broadcasters who may be affected (123, baby, you and me) don't want to challenge the doj since they have nice tidy ways to avoid liability in airing these "it's not really breaking the law officer" ::winkwink:: ads, or they are so wealthy they don't care if a small segment of the advertising population is refused airtime on their station since, well, mousefood isn't really *that* expensive and you can't line the cage with free speech... ...or, something. For now it stays and we have silly ways to dance around the laws, making them less powerful in their inception than if they did not exist at all. aK gamesgrid
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