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October 22, 2009 by ggackle

Internet ad measurement firm ZenithOptimedia is predicting online ad spending will grow 9 percent next year at the same time another research firm is reporting the number of web users clicking on display ads has declined by half since 2007.

ZenithOptimedia estimates global ad spending will total $445 billion in 2009, with Internet ads totaling $54 billion, or about 12 percent of the advertising pie. Meanwhile, magazine advertising is forecast to decline nearly 20 percent to $45 billion and newspapers advertising is expected to drop 17 percent to $102 billion.

October 9, 2009 by bgierke

Ever see the movie Heat? It’s a really great cop versus robber flic with Pacino (cop) and DeNiro (robber). Val Kilmer is a steely with chinks bad guy too. Ashley Judd’s his wife. DeNiro and crew are skilled, astute, and only go after the largest of hauls. Last one eight figures. Movie is wonderful, mesmerizing, in your face violence. In fact, DeNiro demands that his last victim “look at me, LOOK AT ME!” before delivering the revenge fueled coup de grace.

My savor of the gunplay and bloodletting came to mind while reading a bit about the President of Liberia – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – the first female president of an African country. Question: “If women ran the world, would wars still exist?” Answer: “No. It would be a better, safer, and more productive world. A woman would bring an extra dimension to that task – and that’s a sensitivity to humankind. It comes from being a mother.”