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Mayer Fertig at the Jewish Star on November 2nd reports (my link/ emphasis):

According to new data from TNS Media Intelligence, Internet phone company Vonage spent over $185 million on display ads in 2006, outspending competitors Verizon Communications and display ad giant Netflix. The budget share for display and classified ads will remain unchanged through 2011, with paid search gaining ground and rich media along with video increasing according to eMarketer senior analyst David Hallerman.

I was just reading the Global Voices Online blog (excellent blog, rarely is about tech, but brings lots of news and opinions from around the world) and saw this post about an Iranian blogger who is tired of having her blog "filtered" by its government.

The Internet plays a key role in many peoples lives. It can entertain and educate. It has also changed the landscape for both job seekers and employers. In October of this year there were 2.5 million new postings for available positions on job search sites or in online newspapers according to the Conference Board. The number marks a 28 percent increase from a year ago.

ZDNet's Ed Bott captures the pains of interpreting the do's and dont's of a corporate NDA in a media environment where bloggers are increasingly receiving the same levels of information and access as their big media counterparts, but are oddly being held to different standards of disclosure -- which is the case, right now, with Microsoft's Office 12 beta:

We've all heard it... "Content IS King" and for good reason because it IS as far as the Internet is concerned.

The US Commerce Department announced yesterday its decision to indefinitely maintain supervision of the Internet's "root servers" that control web traffic. The decision hasn't been popular with international stakeholders who think oversight of Internet traffic should be a multi-national effort.

The Xbox buzz has sleepily settled around Microsoft's ankles, laying in limp disillusionment; as executives leer in the direction of King Sony, they can't help but scorn the fair-weather Johnsons that left them there, skulking, controller in hand.