November 13, 2007
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(uhhh, Oprah? I don’t understand your book club picks. I’ve got 40 pages left in it, and it’s pretty miserable. And, for the record, I’m reading it as part of the Nattymatty Book Club, not O’s)
I was talking to the other Dearest Darlingest last night and he’d mentioned how spoiled he’d become thanks to DVR . . . “I’ll watch a show half an hour after it airs if it means being able to skip commercials,” he explained. “I LOVE it!”
This brought up the issue of product placement in TV programming. As DVR becomes more standardized and less expensive (as technology tends to do), how will ads work? Will people be drinking more Pepsi or mentioning how they need more Doritos? Is it even going to be subtle?
And, furthermore, would you be okay with more ads if you knew you could fast-forward through the two-minute breaks?
oh, advertising.
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Cute picture ^_^
I wouldn’t get DVR because if I can’t fit watching a show or movie into my schedule then I just don’t need to watch it. It spoils people and encourages them to be more couch-potatoes because most people use DVR so they can watch one movie that is on and record another one that was on at the same time. So those people end up sitting there and watching two movies in a row instead of going out and doing something. That is the perfect example of what my family would do if they had DVR. I think it makes it way to easy for people to just sit there.
Oprah’s book selections stopped making sense to me a while ago. I think someone just randomly picks the books or something.
Thanks for subscribing, hope you enjoy the nonsense I bring to xangaland.
(oh, noticed your on the xanga team…like the work done here.)
Blessings.
In regards to advertising, I work in a direct marketing department…
there will always be advertising.
But, thinking about it now, the advent of DVR will mean that advertisers will push more toward web use and magazines….along with radio. Good for xanga, satelite radio, and other business’.
Currently, though, not everyone can afford a DVR, like Tivo. So, it will be some time before having the ability to skip all commercials come to pass.
This is a mixed blessing, in that not everyone will know what to do..and it’s a new road to go down.
Blessigs.
I’d sell out my xanga for advertising if I didn’t think it’d distract the hell out of people.
Besides, they’re already distracted by how (tossing hair back) damn sexy I am.
(actually, given how short and slicked back it is, there’s really no tossing it back. curses!)
Product placement is already so stinkin’ obvious for the most part. Like when characters refer to their cars so precisely. A normal person would say, “Let’s take my car!” A tv character now says, “Let’s take my fully equipped Nissan Rogue!” What the heck?!? Out of control.
There’s ways to adverstise, and not be annoying, on xanga. In fact, I found one site that would work really well…but for some odd reason it’s not working on my posts or elsewhere. It also provides licensed content that xangans can use to create conversation.
Feel free to touch base with me about this one….I’d like to actually use it on xanga…and NOT blogger.
Yeah, that ancient protected post WAS a lot of narcissism. Oh man, my first webcam. What a mess my place was back then.
Because, you know, now it’s just amazing.
As for class; I suppose my blog is a mixture of my classy attitude and crude personality. Or…some variant therein.
I never got this book either. I remember working in a hospital and struggling with it on my dinner breaks eating southern fare. I don’t know it if was the heartburn, the languishing and self-indulgent prose, or the fact that nothing good was going to happen to any character … really didn’t love it.
more and more intrusive (read: RUDE) advertising is inevitable, i guess.
i can stand tv ads; some of the really creative and nicely-made ones especially.
but product placement is EVIL. heck, some of it is just blatant advertising.. not exactly “vague and subtle”
>:(
summat huh. had to look that up in urban dictionary. u r 2 cool 4 school.
RYC: I liked it though…because I’m in the process in learning the new themes. I’m working out how I’m redesigning my site with another site currently….and it helps.
Thanks. Question: I’d like to put a custom module in my header, but have it placed to the right side, and not on the left…I’m figuring that thing out. Any thoughts?
RYC: I’m a baby in the world of html codes…so I’ll try it.
Thanks.
i dont watch much tv except when it comes to sports, simpsons, and family guy.
and i usually download the latter two, commercial free.
abc’s trying to show their shows for free online…interspersed with a buttload of advertisements…if that tactic pays off, dvr may be in trouble.
hm.. after some research, apparently so. (oops!)
love your new profile pic!
the girls are coming for Thanksgiving with all my children!!! I am so excited!! They mostly like to eat (lol) I do a lot of cooking, and we have lots of finger foods to snack on like black olives, cheese and crackers, Rotelle Dip (mmmmmm) etc… and of course the BIG TURKEY! 25 lbs. The afternoons traditionally spent with all my kids and their spouses going to the movies, Grandpa and Grandma watch all the kids (hooray!) We have a very tight family and when we are all together it is very loud! I am from Long Island and my husband says I keep getting louder as I talk….. oh, well. Have a happy Thanksgiving! Get some rest and have a blast! God bless you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7HOOzCylNk
macauley culkin, sprite the rest is history.