Caveat: Swedish?

Periodically I watch the Daily Show or Stephen Colbert at the Comedy Central website. About a year ago Comedy Central became really reliably consistent in delivering little TV ads during the intermissions of their streaming video. The ads were annoying but I could hardly begrudge them.

At first, mostly I was seeing ads for other Comedy Central programming. Then it branched out to include MTV programming, and lately, they’re really dropping this truly obnoxious product/program (I can’t even figure out which it is) called “game trailers.”

In general, the ads were painfully repetitive and didn’t seem at all “targeted” – they mostly made me remember late-night infomercials on 1980’s cable.

Then suddenly, about a month ago, things got interesting. My Comedy Central streaming video ads turned Swedish. Seriously.

Is this an effort at geo-targeting gone horribly wrong? Is it something meant to be funny? Do other people watching Comedy Central online get Swedish ads, or only people in Korea, or only me?

Regardless, I like the Swedish ads a lot more than the previous fare. There are quite a variety of them, and I have always enjoyed advertising more when it’s in a language I don’t really understand. It becomes quaint and culturally intriguing, that way.

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Above, a screenshot of an ad for some express train service. The tag-line is: “Ju fler som åker, desto billigare blir det.”

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Caveat: A newsletter for the voices in my head

Thinking of good names for blogs is a bit like thinking of good names for rock bands. It's fun to do, even when you have no blog or rock band currently in need of a name. Occasionally, I stumble across a phrase or name where I think, I really wish I were using that name. But, my blog already has a pretty good name (it's memorable and unique, anyway), so I just think I'll use it as a motto, instead. Here's what occurred to me today as a potentially great blog name:

A newsletter for the voices in my head.

It's maybe a little bit long, but you could make an abbreviation; regardless, there are some great blogs with long names – I'm thinking of Stop Me Before I Vote Again, for example.

Anyway, I like this one I thought of enough that I might add it to my list-o-mottos at left, anyway.

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