{"id":1972,"date":"2006-09-02T21:20:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T03:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/albahquerque\/puh-lease-god-no\/"},"modified":"2006-09-02T21:20:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T03:20:23","slug":"puh-lease-god-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/albahquerque\/puh-lease-god-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Puh-lease, god, no!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/biz\/488401business08-31-06.htm\">ABQjournal: Watch for Dancing Billboard<\/a> By Rosalie Rayburn, Of the Journal<\/p>\n<p>Albuquerque is riding the crest of a new wave in digital billboard technology.<\/p>\n<p>    Phoenix-based billboard giant Clear Channel Outdoor has picked Albuquerque for a pilot test of digital technology that allows advertisers to beam rapidly changing messages from street-side billboards. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Clear Channel lit up the first of its <strong class=\"highlight\">10 digital billboards<\/strong>, located on Lomas just west of Interstate 25, this month. The remaining billboards are located along similarly busy streets near intersections.<\/p>\n<p>    Instead of the traditional printed text and image, digital technology enables the billboards to display a series of images and <strong class=\"highlight\">messages that change every eight seconds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>    The technology allows advertisers to introduce <strong class=\"highlight\">new information daily or even hourly<\/strong>. For example, a McDonald&#8217;s restaurant could advertise specials for breakfast, cheeseburgers for lunch and something else for dinner, Adams said.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>When I can, I&#8217;m going to add pictures of these and the countless other vomit-inducing, eye-gouging billboards all over the god-damn state. We need to ban billboards in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed both sides of I-25 between Isleta and Los Lunas have more and more billboards going up. Two side-by-side evenly spaced for a mile or more. A couple of guys are putting these up every weekend. Who is behind this? <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/albahquerque\/\">Flickr: mjhinton&#8217;s photos tagged with albahquerque<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal: Watch for Dancing Billboard By Rosalie Rayburn, Of the Journal Albuquerque is riding the crest of a new wave in digital billboard technology. Phoenix-based billboard giant Clear Channel Outdoor has picked Albuquerque for a pilot test of digital technology that allows advertisers to beam rapidly changing messages from street-side billboards. &#8230; Clear Channel lit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/albahquerque\/puh-lease-god-no\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puh-lease, god, no!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albahquerque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}