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The Barenaked Ladies are set to release yet another self produced studio album.  Susan Rogers, their producer from earlier albums that threw the Ladies into the public eye is also helping them out the this new release.  On September 12 "Are We" will hit the stores.  As well, their first single "Easy" will hit the air.  Compared to previous albums "Are We" shows no disappointment.  To be honest the single "Easy" is pretty similar to their older songs.  However the tune is catchy and could easy be a hit even though the acoustic guitar riff throughout the whole song with exception of one key change does get a little too repetitious.  But if your a  Barenaked Ladies fan you will probably love it.  So don't take my word for it pick up the album and see for yourself on September 12.

Here's the video for the new single below. 

                                                                                       
Tags: Music, CD's, Ladies, New, Album

Their new CD, Barenaked Ladies Are Me, is out September 12. Click here to pre-order. 

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Tropical Storm Ernesto formed Friday over the Caribbean as it moved toward Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and could develop into the first hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

"The essential message to the public is to continue to monitor the system carefully, listen to local media," said Education Minister Alden McLaughlin.

At 5 p.m. ET Friday, Ernesto had maximum sustained winds near 40 mph. The fifth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was centered 300 miles south-southwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and 660 miles east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica.

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MyFabrik, loosely related to Maxtor, is a new online data storing/sharing/organizing application that lets you manage files remotely with just a web browser. You can upload and download pictures, music, videos and documents privately or publicly, depending on what permissions you set. The Web 2.0-ness of the web-app comes from tagging, sharing with others, and the ability to quickly post the files you choose onto eBay and MySpace.

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At Summerland Waterfront Resort you’ll enjoy all the amenities of a high quality hotel. Friendly front desk staff is available 24 hours a day for your convenience and maid service is offered daily. Rates starting at $219 per night. More details...

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A new study from Atlas Institute proves what many marketers have intuitively known: Running display ads can help improve the results of a concurrent search campaign.

The study, which looked at 11 direct response advertisers, found a 22 percent lift in conversions when users were exposed to both search and display ads from the same advertiser, compared to being exposed solely to a search ad. A lift of 20 to 65 percent was seen in eight of the 11 advertisers, while three others saw no positive or negative effect.

One possible explanation is display advertising's ability to generate brand awareness and increase purchase intent, helping to win over users who are on the fence about a brand or product they have previously searched on. Another factor is the likelihood of display ads to drive brand searches. In addition, many consumers tend to use search as navigation, so users who first visit a site via a banner ad may later return to the site via search.

Source link:  ClickZ

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More than three-quarters (76 percent) of corporate blog owners said web traffic to and "media attention" on their company increased because of the blogs, writes BtoB Online, citing a Russell Research study sponsored by Cymfony and Porter Novelli. Some 42 percent said at least one post on their blog has affected the company or brand, in most cases in a positive way.

Source link: MarketingVOX

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Here is some new and exciting information from the Canaada ski council.

GRADE 5 STUDENTS CAN SKI OR SNOWBOARD FOR FREE
If you are in Grade 5 (or born in 1995), you need a Grade 5 SnowPass. It has over a hundred pages of valuable coupons for FREE lift/trail passes at resorts across Canada.

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Outsell, Inc., a technology research firm, released a study that estimates click fraud as a $1.3 billion problem that is significantly reducing advertisers' pay-per-click spending.

The study also found that 27 percent of advertisers are slowing or stopping their pay-per-click advertising due to click fraud concerns.

Advertisers estimate that 14.6 percent of the clicks they're billed for are fraudulent, representing about $800 million in spending for fraudulent clicks in 2005, according to the study.

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    Feel The Fire! A new album for all you metalheads out there. Check it out!

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“This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using the popular applications: Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others.”

The New York Times is reporting that Gawker Media founder and CEO Nick Denton is putting two of his lowest performing blogs on the block, reorganizing others and laying off several people.

This isn't the first time Denton has sold a blog. He shut down Oddjack last year. However, it continues to publish today without Gawker branding. It was sold late last year.

Even though Gawker is a blog publishing company, it is not exempt from the laws of media gravity.

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Dave Dederer - making great money off iTunes.

But Apple controls 85% of the music download market. iTunes only has .5% penetration.

Ioda, Promonet. It's ok to put music on you blog as long as you put a Buy link to the album

Music labels are all about music distribution.

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"The key part of Web 2.0 is that there is something about these new tools that enable new practices of collaboration," said John Seely Brown, a consultant and former chief scientist of Xerox, who spoke at the Collaborative Technology Conference in Boston last week. "Web 2.0 is a profoundly participatory medium."

BMW's UK division officially revealed the restyled BMW X3 today, and the alterations to the little ute aren't just skin deep.

The car's overall shape is fairly unchanged, but a quick look fore and aft reveals restyled front and rear lower fascias. In front, a new bumper and spoiler are incorporated. Openings below the bumper are now larger, and the foglights have been moved up into the main bodywork. This gives the X3 a tougher appearance when viewed head-on. In back, the rear bumper receives a very subtle restyle, and the taillight clusters now house LEDs instead of traditional bulbs.

Inside, the center console benefits from improved-quality materials, and a new steering wheel is fitted (it should be noted that based on the press photo, this is the same wheel used on the North American model, save for an aluminum accent on the bottom spoke).

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Readers are mixing and matching and have far more choices in how they get their news than ever before, according to a recent article in the Washington Post.

"The Internet has largely replaced the immediacy of radio and television for breaking news. Blogs of every conceivable perspective offer free opinions and arm-chair analysis. Community listservs supplement neighborhood newsletters. Videologs and RSS feeds target specific interests."

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Google will continue to work to improve its ability to target advertising to the right users. “A more targeted ad is a more valuable ad,” he said, and more value for advertisers will mean better revenue performance for Google.

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There's a concept in business called "the float." It's basically defined as the time period when you hold on to someone else's money, earning interest off of it, before you have to give it to them. Think of the money in your bank account, sitting in PayPal, or sitting in your Google AdSense account. That's the point being made by Nicholas Carr in his Rough Type blog this week.

What Carr is talking about is the Google AdSense $100 rule. Basically, when a publisher opens up an AdSense account, they agree to wait until there is $100 in their account before Google will cut them a check. While many publishers have no problem quickly reaching that $100 mark, many small businesses earn less than a dollar a day, meaning that it will be at least three months (or longer) before Google has to cut them a check. In the meantime, that money sits in Google's bank account earning interest.

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The online world is clearly becoming always on. Last night I was speaking to one of the Qumana team, Jon Husband, while he was flying somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean via Skype. Now that's pretty amazing! Jon was using a new service called Connexxion by Boeing and I have to admit it worked very well. The connection was clear and we could have spoken for as long as the batteries in the laptops lasted.  The world is becoming smaller and now always on.

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