“It may have seemed wacky at first, but the idea of allowing Americans to pose questions to presidential candidates through brief YouTube videos turned out to be a success.”
Integrated media is not a new tactic but within the political realm it is…
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A ‘Fast Company’ video report on the marketing ploys of the bottled water industry-
Get Fast Company Senior Writer Charles Fishman’s take on why bottled water is such a booming business, what its local and global environmental implications are, and how a whole industry has grown up around supplying us with something that we do not [...]

TGDaily reports:
“After a couple bumps in the road, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Initiative has begun it’s path to helping children in impoverished nations. 
The OLPC foundation aims to put inexpensive laptop computers in the hands of children in third-world countries. It has received orders from multiple countries, some of which would need hundreds [...]

From Dpreview:
In the interests of better customer support, Canon has developed new Version 1.0.9 firmware for the EOS-1D Mark III Digital SLR camera. This firmware update incorporates the following improvements and fixes:

Improves the look of images when enlarged on the LCD monitor
Applies a slightly stronger sharpness setting to the LCD monitor [...]

From Cnet:
If you’re used to shooting with a film camera, you’ll notice some differences when you switch to a digital model. Here’s a quick summary.
Key differences: Powering the camera | Recording pictures | Framing shots |
Snapping shots | Storing pictures | [...]

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FolioMag reports:
In a terse announcement today, Conde Nast Publications president and CEO Charles Townsend said twenty-something women’s magazine Jane will shut down. The August issue will be its last.
The Web site will also cease operations. “This was a very difficult decision for us,” said Townsend in a statement. “We worked diligently to make Jane a success. [...]

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