Linkpile

• Majority of US Consumers Peeved by Internet Ads: Actual poll taken on this issue. Shocking!
• Google Developing ‘Ringback Advertising’ For Google Voice: “Audio ads, the patent application says, may unnecessarily annoy consumers. But providing audio ads during a time otherwise used to play a ringback tone may allow advertising without annoyance ‘because the consumer would have to otherwise listen to some other form of audio.'” Sure. Any moment in the day when you might have to listen to “some other form of audio” seems like fair game for advertising. I look forward to the poll that reveals that people find this annoying.
• The spread of pop-up retailing…: … because of empty retail spaces. Says the Economist. Recent onsumed on empty retail here; 2005 Consumed on the pop-up thing here.
• The 2009 Consumer Action Handbook: Free for the downloading, on Consumerist.com
• Clothes Make The Brow: “Forget rooftops: I shall wear my barbaric yawp!”
• “Hakuna Matata” figurine | Significant Objects: “Kathy is smoking a joint in the kitchen and looking at Michael Phelps on a Corn Flakes box.” Story by Jennifer Michael Hecht
• Tin Ark | Significant Objects: “So then this morning I hit a dog with my car.” Story by Rebecca Wolff.

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