“[AdManager's extensive targeting capabilities were also a factor in CCTVI's move to Accipiter. The company is currently using AdManager to target ads based on niche market content. With over half a million pages of content, the CCTVI network has an extensive network including healthcare, home, legal, and automotive topics, among many others. While the corporate entity defines the initial tagging structure, stations within the network control ad delivery at the local market level.] This solution has provided us with a new way to sell ads, ... By allowing our TV station networks to traffic their own ads, we have seen direct operational cost savings.”

“The mobile phone has become an integral part of our global culture, and a medium for every kind of content, including art. With Flash shipping on over 65 million mobile devices and consumer electronics products, artists working with Start Mobile are assured that their work will be accessible to a huge worldwide audience.”

“This second consecutive DVD Original hit reaffirms the viability of our innovative strategy for bringing exceptional content to the DVD marketplace. The aggressive and unique approach to production, marketing and distribution, combined with the massive appeal of the 'American Pie' franchise, proved an irresistible combination to consumers hungry for a post-holiday treat.”

“Often insurance companies buy applications on a silo-by-silo basis. They'll lack integration across processes or even similar systems. But we're now seeing the development of business process management philosophies or managing entire processes. That requires technologies to deal with the content that affects decisions along the process.”

“Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.”

“Consumers want their content portable, and the 79 percent increase in shipments of mobile disk drives into consumer devices in 2005 over 2004 is evidence of this dynamic. IDC attributes this growth to a combination of innovative disk drive designs and effective integration of HDD technology into consumer devices by companies like Toshiba.”

“Ideally, early in the planning stages, before reporters and photographers are assigned to a story, we like to be involved at that point, to make sure the content gathering keeps our needs in mind. If we don't find out about it until the night before, we're often not able to produce an interactive graphic.”

“Advertisers' response to PLAY exceeded our expectations, especially given the shortened sales cycle we had around the 2005 holiday period. We see this response as validation that there is a demand to be met for well-focused content that is tailored to readers' specialty interests--particularly sports-related news and information.”

“I didn't have my best round today. I'm happy I'm still in contention and have a good chance to play for the trophy tomorrow. I hope the birdies I didn't make today, they drop tomorrow. I feel good. It's OK to be a couple of shots back.”

After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.