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Over in the UK, text messaging is taking on new importance as a way to communicate with the parents of school children.  From LeedsToday.net: FOR 27,000 parents, a reminder of an upcoming teacher training day, or a message that a school trip is returning late, could soon arrive instantly by text message thanks to Leeds-based…

The New York Daily News reports: Television will have to wait: Mayor Bloomberg is launching a $100,000, five-week Internet advertising blitz aimed at recruiting tens of thousand of volunteers, the Daily News has learned … The campaign currently has 6,000 volunteers, and it’s aiming to recruit a record 50,000. (Thanks to Kari Chisholm at Politics…

Rocketboom, a nifty little daily web video news spoof site, plans to try subscription fees to monetize their content.  BusinessWeek reports that their current free approach is getting eyeballs. The approach is resonating with viewers. Daily downloads have doubled in the past six weeks, to 50,000. If they stay on that pace, they’ll soon approach…

I’m at DEMOfall 05 today and tomorrow.  Some of what I post about it will be slightly off-topic for this blog, but becoming better aware of emerging technologies and companies undoubtedly helps many of my readers (and certainly influences my own efforts at innovation), so I’m going to share anyway. The basic concept of the…

NY candidate starts agressive online ad buy, according to MediaPost: ANDREW RASIEJ, ONE OF THE challengers to New York City Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, has turned to the Internet to promote his candidacy in the Democratic primary this September. His campaign went live Monday on over 20 New York City blogs, NYTimes.com, New York Magazine’s…

Another company targets video search, this time overseas: Autonomy has just signed a joint venture with China Netcom Broadband (CNCBB), one of China’s biggest internet companies with more than 110m subscribers. The pair have agreed to create a service that will allow Chinese consumers to search for news and video clips from 25 local and…