Time’ Blogs, Bloggers Rally, Ecommerce Billions, Consumers Create

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– Cynopsis reports, “The retransmission rights payments disagreement between MediaCom Communications and Sinclair Broadcast Group came to a head late Friday and into Saturday with MediaCom being forced to drop 22 Sinclair stations from its cable system in 12 states as of 12:01a January 6.”

– Time Magazine is getting into the blog game with a site makeover, a news aggregator and topical blogs.

– Ecommerce hit the 4100 billion mark in 2006 and continues to charge ahead.

– Brands should know by now an angry mob of bloggers is something to steer clear of lest you want amplified what you intended to be hushed.

– Time says you are the Person of the year. Advertising Age says the consumer is the Agency of the Year. Jonah Bloom explains they really didn’t copy Time.

– The free 411 services are catching on with advertisers. Aegon Insurance and Absolut are the latest brands to become advertisers on 1-800-FREE411.

– Heavy.com has closed on a second round of financing, $20 million from Polaris Venture Partners. The financing will be used to expand the network internationally.

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