Local Search Sites Rival Phone Books for Ads

Locally targeted search engines are starting to replace phone books as the starting point for millions of people seeking plumbers, lawyers or hair stylists. The trend is creating a big business opportunity for Web advertising start-ups and traditional yellow-pages publishers.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-local9oct09,1,7624035.story

BBC buys into Lonely Planet

BBC Worldwide has bought a majority stake in travel guide company Lonely Planet. The corporation's commercial arm has acquired a 75 percent stake in the privately owned company using part of its 350-million pound debt facility designed to snap up companies outside the UK. Independent: The BBC said the deal would enable it to develop a "huge amount" of digital and online opportunities with the brand.

 

The acquisition fits with BBC Worldwide's ambition to move from programming into a content business, it said in a statement.

 

The Lonely Planet operation will boost BBC Worldwide's travel output, which includes over 500 hours of travel programming such as Michael Palin's New Europe and Planet Earth.

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

- Henry Allen

Small Museums Pull Out All the Stops and Build Big for Visitors

In a quest to become players in the international arts community, museums in second and third-tier cities have undergone transformations in order to draw new patrons and bring attention to their cities like never before.

 

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Google AdSense for Mobile puts contextual ads at your fingertips

Google is launching AdSense for Mobile, which will allow marketers to place contextual ads on sites viewed via mobile devices. The company has been running mobile ads through its auction-based AdWords program since mid-2006. Now it will be automatically converting AdWords ads to text ads that will appear when someone accesses a participating Web site on a mobile device. The Web sites must be optimized for mobile browsers first. More Details

Alert for: "The Redfish"

Out of control gill netting
I saw this article this morning about the redfish catch being down 75% in parts of North Carolina where indiscriminant use of gill nets has begun to take a heavy toll on game fish species. There a sad video accompanying the article ...
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