Just because the rest of you were off partying with Britney Spears over the New Year's weekend doesn't mean the Weblogs, Inc. team wasn't working hard.
- The United Kingdom, according to Slashfood, is about to introduce advertising regulations that would put cheese in the "junk food" category.
- Engadget talks about Head & Shoulders introducing a photo booth that alerts you to any dandruff you might have, thereby ensuring you have a lousy day.
- Blogging Stocks says that the much-touted redesign of the Wall Street Journal, meant largely to lower print expenses when it's online where the ad revenue is, comes about three years too late to really mean anything.
- Blogging Stocks also points out that while eBay has survived largely on its good user reputation, many critical voices have been muffled by the true believers.
- Lots of good stuff from the BS crew, with this piece on how there might not be the advertiser support for Fox's upcoming business channel debut.
- TV Squad has a screen shot of the web promotion CBS has up for "CSI: Miami," the next run of which will feature some character shifts that are alluded to in this Beatles-esque picture.
- TUAW mentions that Apple was named by MediaPost to be their "Marketer of the Year."
- Slashfood says scented ads, especially scent-infused packaging, are just going to become more and more common.
- Joystiq talks about Burger King's crowing over selling two million King-themed Xbox games.
