There’s something of a holy grail regarding developing a good format for delivering news to the mobile user – for example, the commuter who may wish to read the morning headlines on his/her Treo.
One format is the ‘river of news‘ that provides a feed of headlines that flows along the screen like a, uh, river.
Dave Winer, who’s been instrumental in the development of blogging, RSS and podcasting, has been demonstrating a ‘river of news’ feed at NYTIMESRIVER.COM and BBCRIVER.COM. The demonstration is getting a lot of attention and was featured on Rocketboom yesterday.
Without commenting on Mr. Winer’s use of those names for his demonstration, I wonder if people might get it into their heads that registering a domain name in the form [media brand name]RIVER.COM might be a good idea.
It might therefore be worth the $7 were you to register your RSS name plus RIVER and -RIVER today.
Further discussion by ZD Net’s new hire, Denise Howell, here.

NY Times: “Agencies Are Watching as Ads Go Online.”
You will not be able to get the “Woo Hoo” song out of your head if you watch these consecutively.
This seems to be an authorized Vonage ‘People Do Stupid Things” commercial

Here is a self-described ‘mockery’ of the Vonage ad:

Another, labeled ‘Vonage Parody”

Did Toyota authorize this one?

Political speech (Zarqawi doing stupid things):

Painful footage in this one:

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E.S.S. Entertainment 2000 v. Rock Star Videos, CV 05-02966 MMM (C.D. CA July 28, 2006). HT DC.
Modified version of LA strip club used in background of video game. Infringement action dismissed on summary judgement. Name of club was changed from PLAY PEN to PIG PEN, but logo, trade dress (including a sign saying ‘Totally Nude’) allegedly unchanged.
In the movie, ‘Defending Your Life,‘ Albert Brooks dies and in the waiting room for heaven he meets the guy who claims to have coined the term TOTALLY NUDE.

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SASSICAIA was voted the wine of the century by people who vote on such things. So a printer in Tuscany reproduced the label on watermarked paper. Someone in Spain reproduced the special wrappings around the bottle’s neck. A bottling company in Tuscany matched up Sassiciaia’s green bottles. Someone found a similar Cabernet grape and blended in a wine that had a bouquet similar to that of SASSICAIA. Then enough fakes were produced to equal 12% of Sassicaia’s annual production.
From: “Swell or Swill,” in today’s Wall Street Journal, on wine counterfeiting (no free online version available). Some discussion of preventative measures being taken, such as holograms, etc.