Valentine's Day Surprise: Men and Women Are Different

Two mini-posts for the price of none.

In honor of Valentine's Day: A new Nielsen survey says that women prefer to view network TV online by nearly a 2-to-1 ratio, while more than twice as many men prefer sites like YouTube. No surprise on the YouTube side. I show the Baroness hilarious clips all the time from those sites, but she definitely does not enjoy them as much as I do. One surprising note: Online viewers of network TV tend to be loyal to one site over another. This is strange since people don't mind flipping channels on TV from one network to the other. My guess it has to do with feeling comfortable with the online video player more than anything.


Starbucks has finally seen the light and realized that charging customers (at least your most loyal ones) for wireless access is not a good idea. It's about time. Nothing is worse than going into one of those places and getting nickel-and-dimed for 30 minutes of Internet access. I hate when hotels do it also.