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  • What Do I Do For A Living?

    Reunions of any sort follow the same template. People who have lost touch ask the same questions. Of the top three asked, the one that I have recently had to answer the most was “what do you do?” And with that, I confidently reply “I work for…

  • Telecommute – NY Transit Strike

    On Tuesday, December 20th a key component of New York City’s infrastructure gave out in the way of a massive transit worker strike and left most of ICMediaDirect.com’s staff stranded along with millions of others in Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island and…

  • Extraordinary Is A Good Word

    Extraordinary is a good word. It’s a word that you call great people. I hardly ever call anyone something as special as “extraordinary”. The person must speak in person or through the phone with integrity, honesty, fun and professional enough…

  • NBC Links Viewers to TV Show Via Interactive Game

    NBC is giving viewers of its new game show Deal or No Deal a chance to get in on the action and win $10,000 via a live interactive game using their computer or cell phone.

  • Ralphs Indicted for Fraud During 2003-04 Strike

    A federal grand jury has brought an indictment against Kroger Co.’s Ralphs Grocery Co. division for allegedly hiring replacement workers illegally during the 2003-04 labor strike in California.

  • Motel 6 Targets Consumers Via Podcasting

    Motel 6 is out with a new ad touting the top six reasons to stay at the chain. Only this time, the brand is streaming its message in its first-ever podcast. Podcasts are downloadable audio recordings consumers can listen to on a home computer, an iPod …

  • Microsoft and MCI Join the VoIP Fray

    Microsoft’s MSN and MCI announced on Monday that they have teamed up to form a global computer-to-phone service. Users will be able to make calls for as little as 2.3 cents per minute, which is lower than the best MCI rate…

  • MTV Gets the URGE to Team With Microsoft

    On Tuesday, MTV Networks announced that it had partnered with Microsoft to develop an online music service that will be called URGE. It will be integrated into the next version of the Windows Media Player, and will be launched in 2006. A statement…

  • Yahoo! Teams With Movable Type

    Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo! has teamed with Six Apart, creator of Movable Type, the most popular software used to generate professional blogs. The announcement made on Sunday asserted that Yahoo! is now the preferred supplier of Movable Type for…

  • Welcome to

    If we took all the movie buffs of the world, grouped them according to favorite movies, and made a graph of the head-count starting from largest to smallest numbers, we would end up with a line gently sloping down from the box-office smashes to contemporary…