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January 21, 2008
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Black Sheep: Take Note!
Black Sheep on Independence Pass
Get your bike maintenance done and get ready for the next Black Sheep ride!

We'll meet at the Comfort Inn in Knoxville, Tennessee in the afternoon of Sunday, June 14 for three days of riding, touring and having fun.

The Black Sheep tour is a group of motorcycle enthusiasts that get together once a year to ride. The ride is open to any and all free paper associates, their friends and relatives and anyone else who wants to join us.

Hotel Information:
Comfort Hotel, Knoxville, TN
PH:  865-690-0034
FX:   865-690-8173
(Room rate is yet to be set.)
Ask for the group rate under "Black Sheep of AFCP"

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Google Drops Print Ads Program
Business Week Posted by: Rob Hof on January 20

Not having heard much at all in the past year about Google's Print Ads program, which let advertisers bid to place ads on hundreds of newspapers using a Google auction system, I'm not surprised to hear today that the search giant is dropping it.

Although it had signed up some 800 newspapers, which initially reported positive results, clearly those results weren't positive enough. I also wonder if many of those newspapers were either struggling so much with their core business that they had little time to spend on an entirely new way of selling ads, or they had already lost that struggle and gone under.

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Craig McMullin
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