new frontiers in entrepreneurship

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

from SLATE on-line magazine, 7/18/00:
> ABC [the American Broadcasting Company] is planning to advertise its fall
> schedule in some new places. In some major markets, stars of new shows
> will call you up and leave messages on your answering machine. (If you're
> home and pick up, the network's fancy
> technology will be able to tell and make the line go dead.) And in some
> major bathrooms, the voice of Norm Macdonald will plug his new show when a
> man approaches a urinal.

there are already advertising stickers on apples (for "AskJeeves" search
engine). Pretty soon, kids will be paid to advertise Smirnoff Vodka in
their tatoos...

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine