As ugly as most advertising billboards are, what’s even uglier is that most of them are made out of non-biodegradable vinyl, and that over three million billboards’ worth (that’s 10,000 tons) get thrown into landfills every year. TerraCycle and Yakpak, who will be turning discarded vinyl into durable backpacks and messenger bags. The material happens to lend itself exceptionally well to tough conditions—it was used for the outdoors, after all—and accordingly the bags come with a lifetime warranty. Yakpak is going to great lengths to ensure the manufacture of the bags is ethically sound—they own their own factory in El [...]
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September 28, 2005
Interview With Scott McKenzie Of Billboard Radio Monitor
At IF we like to listen to the songs on the radio as much as the next blogger, but recently we’ve started to get distracted by new fangled things like podcasts and shuffle. We decided to ask an industry insider, Scott McKenzie – Editor In Chief of Billboard’s Radio Monitor, to give us his view on trends facing the radio sector.
We’re watching a transformation in the radio sector with the take off
of satellite radio. How do you see distribution of radio evolving over
the next 18 months?
There is indeed a transformation underway but I
don’t necessarily agree that it’s being led by [...]




