Comments on: And now, from the Department of Ironic Advertising http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/01/and_now_from_th.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:22:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Janice http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/01/and_now_from_th.html/comment-page-1#comment-55581 Janice Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:23:16 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/01/and-now-from-the-department-of-ironic-advertising.html#comment-55581 I have a great picture of my mother, age 95, holding my son's iPod with ear phones and fingers held up like a rap stars. If you are interested it would make a great advertising campaign for iPod - Even 95-year old grandmas groove to iPod. If you are interested let me know. It really is a "winner." Janice Keller jkeller4@nycap.rr.com I have a great picture of my mother, age 95, holding my son’s iPod with ear phones and fingers held up like a rap stars. If you are interested it would make a great advertising campaign for iPod – Even 95-year old grandmas groove to iPod. If you are interested let me know. It really is a “winner.”

Janice Keller

jkeller4@nycap.rr.com

]]> By: Vasu http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/01/and_now_from_th.html/comment-page-1#comment-55580 Vasu Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:20:08 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/01/and-now-from-the-department-of-ironic-advertising.html#comment-55580 If you are going to buy that pair Nike + iPod, please keep this in mind Devices That Tell On You: The Nike+iPod Sport Kit http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/systems/privacy.html If you are going to buy that pair Nike + iPod, please keep this in mind

Devices That Tell On You: The Nike+iPod Sport Kit

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/systems/privacy.html

]]> By: Adam http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/01/and_now_from_th.html/comment-page-1#comment-55579 Adam Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:17:24 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/01/and-now-from-the-department-of-ironic-advertising.html#comment-55579 "customers check in, but they can't check out" Except they can check out. When you want to switch, you burn the songs you want to move to CDs, and then re-rip. Is it tremendously convenient? Of course not. But it's hardly the death sentence that "Boing Boing" makes it out to be. Particularly when the upshot is cheap, convenient music purchases from a thick catalog of songs. “customers check in, but they can’t check out”

Except they can check out. When you want to switch, you burn the songs you want to move to CDs, and then re-rip.

Is it tremendously convenient? Of course not. But it’s hardly the death sentence that “Boing Boing” makes it out to be. Particularly when the upshot is cheap, convenient music purchases from a thick catalog of songs.

]]> By: Paul Gowder http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/01/and_now_from_th.html/comment-page-1#comment-55578 Paul Gowder Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:16:49 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/01/and-now-from-the-department-of-ironic-advertising.html#comment-55578 What was it Willie Brown once said after he took big campaign cash from the tobacco companies then rammed through anti-smoking legislation? Something like "If you can't take somebody's money and then screw 'em, you have no business being in politics." The same surely goes for journalism. What was it Willie Brown once said after he took big campaign cash from the tobacco companies then rammed through anti-smoking legislation? Something like “If you can’t take somebody’s money and then screw ‘em, you have no business being in politics.” The same surely goes for journalism.

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