I got mentioned in the media 3 or 4 times last week and just finished my last interview (at least for a while). It is hard when you get used to doing interviews with friends or talking to the media because it is easy to be unprepared for the other. With reporters you have to be guarded because they often aim for a misquote because that sounds more interesting, whereas you can be really open with friends.

by Vera H-C Chan With less than 100 days until the presidential elections, coverage has shifted from horse race monitoring to all-out war . Political observers have been focusing on key " battleground states ." Figuring out just where those battles are may require a specially wired GPS attuned to indecisive voters. About.com identifies Nevada, Michigan, Colorado, Ohio and Virginia as political military grounds. The primary epicenters, Iowa , Florida , and Ohio ,

If you hear broadband partisans tell it, in a few years everyone will be sitting at home watching Wall-E vs. Batman on their home theater/computer/portal systems while downloading season 29 of The Simpsons to the family hard drive. Is this really the future for most families or even most internet users, or is this the stuff of moonbeams and applesauce, like jetpacks and airship mooring masts? Don't get me wrong, I love my broadband connection,

I usually don't go on rants here, but this one has been brewing in my mind for a long time. A recent trip to the Apple store made it that much worse for me too. I was one of the suckers that got the iPhone way back in the day, and own the old school, non 3G one. The one thats a piece of crap now ' right? I hear the commercials about how the new iPhone 3G is half the price, and twice as fast and the only thing I can think of is how I got 100% screwed by Apple.

ComScore said today it changed the way it's reporting on ad networks, effective with the August 2008 data. You'll get a chance to see the changes when they are released in mid-September. Where previously comScore only provided data on unique audience, the new reporting will provide two sets of data measures: "potential reach" and "actual reach.

Peter Krasilovsky at Kelsey Group reports that Chris Jennewein - former VP of Internet operations at Union-Tribune Publishing Co., where he led Web projects like its SignOn San Diego-associated radio site - will be joining another online local media guru, Rob Curley at Greenspun Media Group. Greenspun publishes the Las Vegas Sun. Jennewein was laid off from his San Diego gig in May, along with two close interactive colleagues, Ron James and Jim Drummond.

No one likes logging in to their SEM account to discover that there are editorial issues in need of attention. In order to help you avoid stumbling onto this common situation in adCenter, today we're going to take a look at some of the most common reasons.

by Claudine Zap Michael Phelps , the star member of the USA Swimming team , now has more gold medals than anyone and is clearly half man/half fish. So how does the dude with the golden touch do it? Like, what does he eat? ... The man, the myth, the menu . Web searches for " michael phelps breakfast " spiked 339%, along with " michael phelps diet " (+314%). ... We like to watch . The Olympian is also claiming a lot of our viewing hours. If we're not watching him,

Have you always wanted to learn how to effectively launch a pay per click campaign for either yourself or your company? Pay Per Click can easily propel your company to the next level but it can also eat through your entire budget if done incorrectly. If you have been spending money on pay per click for your company and have seen nothing but negative results than PPC Summit is a must attend event.

If you've been keeping up with the conflict in South Ossetia, perhaps you were curious about where the contentious events were occurring. I hope you ended up at Microsoft's Live Search Maps, because it is the only map of the top 5 search engines that could find both Tskhinvali, South Ossetia's self-declared capital, as well as Abkhazia, another separatist region where Russia has opened a second front.