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The wiki-liciousness of New York Times Pollers We all have our own little predictions of where the media industry will go in 2007. We personally don't think their will be any major break throughs in media in 07, at least nothing fresh. However New York Times Pollers predicted some way out shit like cell phones with night vision to enable snapping pics through someone's clothing. But the most orginal prediction was from Tony Trippe, an associate professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology who predicted that 2007 will be the year of buyouts, mergers and consolidations. However for some reason we think we heard this one before......kinda You will pay anyway Some advertisers are getting into bitch mode due to worries of web publishers raising prices for ad space. Here is a little note for you ad buyers. The more the demand, the higher the price. You want to buy more but you're not willing to pay the price named by the website's whose audience you want to reach. At the end of the day though, you will pay for that ad space. If not there is always those old boring print ad spaces you can buy. No pun intended. The Things People/Companies do to Get The Word Out FLOGS, is in fake blogs, according to the New York Post is the latest vehicle being utilized by major companies looking to put some cool in their image and/or products. Some of these services offer money to bloggers to endorse a company or product, while others pay people to manipulate popularity rankings on sites such as Digg, Delicious and Reddit.