Sunday, January 02, 2005

Required Reading

Remember When You Wanted Your Own Ms. Pac-Man? is an article I read in the business section of the NY Times of all places.

Gambling addiction soaring in the city is one of those "No duh?" moments that I just had. By the way, have you signed up for a Party Poker account using my bonus code: TAO4?

The War Inside the Arab Newsroom is an interesting article about Al Arabiya the new news alternative to Al Jezeera. Here's a bit:
Al-Rashed's job is to find a place for Al Arabiya within this array, preferably at the top of the ratings. For now, though, it is Al Jazeera, which was started in 1996 by the emir of the gulf state of Qatar, that sets the standard, and the tone, for Arab television news. According to a poll conducted last May by Zogby International and the University of Maryland, Al Jazeera is the first choice for 62 percent of satellite-news viewers in Jordan, 66 percent in Egypt and 44 percent in Saudi Arabia. In most countries in the poll, Al Arabiya came in a distant second, although the professor who designed the poll, Shibley Telhami, said it had captured a ''remarkable'' market share for a satellite channel that, at the time, had been on the air for only a year; 39 percent of satellite-news viewers said they watched Al Arabiya almost daily. And in Saudi Arabia, the biggest advertising market in the region, the ratings race is much closer.
And is anyone else concerned about China to get 20% stake in Yukos Oil?

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