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"ONE NIGHT IN PARIS..."

TODAY'S PATHETIC PARIS FIX FOR

AUG. 22, 2006

(SORRY, COULDN'T RESIST)

WITH a little help from Paris Hilton, video-sharing site YouTube today announced the launch of two new advertising concepts that take queues from the site's own user-generated content.
"Hey, YouTubers, it's Paris," purrs socialite and aspiring pop-singer Paris Hilton in a new video that graces the right sidebar of the online video hub's front page.
The video is an example of what the company calls "participatory video ads," or PVAs. Like other YouTube videos, PVAs can be rated, commented upon, and embedded in blogs and MySpace profiles.

The clip pushes Hilton's newly released debut album, "Paris," and is part of YouTube's initial big test of the online advertising waters.
..."Just a little rich girl with too much money and a lot of time on her hands," YouTube user "ptmchale" posted on the new PVA for Paris Hilton's album promotion. And a user "zzzyax" added, "What a loser...YouTube isn't for 'celebrities' as some people may call them."

This one's even better...

Paris Hilton claims she was broke when she first moved to Hollywood.
The 'Pledge This!' actress - who has just released her self-titled debut music album - insists she refused her millionaire parents' offers of financial help after she first left home, because she was determined to prove she could make it on her own.

She said: 'When I moved to Los Angeles, I swear on my life I didn't have anything and was living in a crappy apartment for models. I told my mum I didn't want any money.'
Despite her privileged upbringing, Paris - whose parents, Kathy and Rick, own the Hilton hotel chain - insists her success and wealth are down to her own hard work.
She added: 'I've done it all on my own. My cars, my house, I bought for myself.'

IT'S A DOG'S LIFE

It's those Dog Days of Summer

When I'm feelin' Ho and Hum-mer

Maybe a Bit a' Blogger Bummer

Gonna get my guitar and Strum 'er

Need to go out, shoot some hoops

To get rid a' these loop-di-loops

Kinda feel like a pile a' poops

Waitin' on my l'il Betty Boops

No big offence is intended

But I can't no more pretended

My one brain cell's been extended

To a point it feels apprehended

I just needs a bit o' time away

To make these fuzzies go amscray

Then I'll be back and will surely say

I'm here and bloggin' same old way

HELLO CHINA, JAPAN, SOUTH AMERICA...

JUST A QUICK POST TO SAY HI TO THOSE I'VE SEEN REFERRED TO AS "LURKERS..." PEOPLE WHO VISIT A BLOG BUT NEVER LEAVE A COMMENT.

FIRST, YOU ARE ALWAYS WELCOME HERE, EVEN IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO SAY HELLO.

STILL, YOU ARE A MYSTERY.

So how do we know you have come here and left without saying a word? Have a look down the right hand sidebar of my blog, all the way to the bottom, down to my Cluster Map.

Click on it for a larger image. Then look at the red dot that's located right where you live.

I know people from China, Japan, New Zealand, what appears to be Russia, likely Finland and maybe Sweden, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, have all stopped by.

And you've peaked in from Churchill in the northern part of Manitoba, Regina, Saskatchewan, some other countries in Central Europe that are too small to determine and many other locations in North America.

You all have visited. And I thank you for that. While of course I'd like to hear from you -- even just to say hi -- and possibly pay a return visit to your own space, I respect your right to just walk in and silently walk out.

The door here is always open.