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I'm Shocked. Really. Well, not really. You give young people phones with cameras..and what do you expect? in an era of "girls gone wild" this should surprise nobody. What should surprise people is that some enlightened law enforcement officials have read the letter of the child pornography laws strictly (so far so good) and decided that the proper course of action is to arrest the teens involved. This makes little sense.

Yes - such activity does appear to violate these laws. Laws crafted to PROTECT teens against predators, not punish crazy/quasi-normal teen behavior. And they guy they arrested had an image sent to his cell phone. We used to call that "push" in the business. How can a photo pushed to a teenager from another teenager be construed as anything truly "criminal" in the vein that this law was crafted? this is not exploitation, just sort of dumb.

You never think it's going to go this way

Well, many don't. some do however. Call them skeptics or realists. They miss the great times but are well protected on the downside. Many never would have thought that 5% of a well funded startup would be worth $0.01 after a couple of years and $1B later, but many are in this boat (or in the water without a life preserver)

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Superbowl - wow what a game...and thanks Hulu

Anybody who actually watched the game - and the terrific halftime show - had to admit this was one of the best SuperBowls ever. The first half ended with a bang and so did the end of the game. And The Boss commanded viewers to "put down your chicken wings" and watch his 12 minute show.

As always, there were many great commercials as well. Many TiVo fans - but not the sport fan variety - were actually using the FF function in reverse: fast forwarding past the game to watch the commercials. Ironically, one of the best commercials - and there were so many to choose from - was from on-line video firm Hulu. That is, you would go to their site to re-play high quality versions of the commercials. And if watching the commercials was not enough, the playback of the commercials was sponsored by Coke and others. Several on-line job hunting websites had ads as well reflecting some strength in that market as well as a sign of the times.

After all, "you're not going to turn of your television and computer at the same time"