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Trumps, Robert and Suzanne Wright map Autism Speaks week
March 24-28: NBC TV affiliates in West Palm Beach and Miami, and Spanish-language station Telemundo 51, will show South Floridians the escalating scope of the autism epidemic, using local and national stories. AT&T will sponsor an online auction on the TV stations' Web sites, and all proceeds will go to Autism Speaks. The public can bid on family entertainment packages, tickets to Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa and other sporting events, golf at Trump International, VIP events with celebrities, and jewelry by Chopard and Ivanka Trump, among others. March 29: ING Direct Ride Now South Florida, a motorcycle vendor fair and music festival in Pompano Beach. Ticket sales and donations go to Autism Speaks. At 8 p.m., WPTV Channel 5 will broadcast 'Autism Every Day,' a documentary, followed by a live AT&T telethon from 9 to 11 p.m.
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Poor start for Rockets hard to figure
It is puzzling that the Rockets would score fewer points after the tempo-throttling, play-calling ways of coach Jeff Van Gundy were replaced by Adelman, who had a hold on the NBA's top offenses before Steve Nash's career took off. It's not as if Adelman is teaching the "Calvin Murphy family tree," as Houston Chronicle columnist Steve Campbell put it. The Rockets are in the bottom third of the NBA in nearly every offensive category. There was a time when Yao and McGrady were the team's only double-digit scorers. Houston typically would start games in Adelman's ball-moving, back-cutting, quick-attacking offense. By the second quarter, they were back to watching McGrady create or Yao post up. Neither star is cut from the cloth of the leader, but you don't give up on the size or sincerity of Yao or the skills and untapped desire in McGrady yet.
Yahoo Shows Signs of Display Ad Growth in Q3, Builds Publisher Network
The mood among Yahoo execs during this afternoon's Q3 earnings call was one of cautious encouragement as the company reiterated long-term missions and announced new publisher relationships. It reported year-over-year display ad growth and higher CPM rates, along with overall revenues for the quarter ending September 30, 2007 of approximately $1.77 billion, up 12 percent over the same period last year. The firm hopes new ad deals with Cars.com, Forbes.com, Ziff-Davis Media, and WebMD will propel it towards its goal of achieving broad ad network scale and complement efforts to grow traffic on its own properties through improvements in its search algorithm, focus on mobile, and an opening of its platform to developer applications. Noting anticipated continued growth in the online ad market, Yahoo founder and CEO Jerry Yang said, "We are one of the only few companies that have the scale, technology, insights, and expertise to take advantage of this opportunity." Still, he admitted, in order for the company to reach its "multi-year objectives" to become the common Web "starting point," a "must buy" for advertisers, and enable open platforms, "What we must do better is integrate." Yang and his colleagues alluded to extensive discussions over the past few months regarding the company's overall strategy, though he failed to specifically reference the "100 days" planning period he introduced during Yahoo's earnings call last quarter.
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