Just Asking

Free e-circulation, RSS and even Google alerts have eroded consumer relationships with the daily newspaper, quickly relegating the medium to a retail landfill at a cost that remains constant. Cell-phone advertising. It’s cute, colorful, tiny and incredibly annoying. As more people start to get it, more people will start to hate it. And just wait until they start sending you a ring-back tone to remind you that you’ve received an ad, er, message. When you see someone throwing their cell phone onto the subway tracks, you’ll know why.