As I almost never see them on the actual site, are you posting them in the same space as the advice column?

Yes, but they're clearly labeled/tagged/marked as reviews. My eventual plan is to have a separate section for them, but that will involve re-structuring the site.

Jilli, I don't think it's worth fretting over. As Tom points out, isn't a review an opinion, a well-informed opinion? And in the case of the specific review, I didn't think you sounded like a shill, it struck me that you chose Noxenlux Chapeau because you have been a fan of her work for a long time.

Also? Does this constitute a flounce?

I regret recommending your book and blog to a friend now...I feel like you're trying to sell things to your readers.

I didn't realize you could flounce off Twitter.

Oh, you can totally flounce off of Twitter.

Also, Pete read through that person's Twitter stream, and has come to the conclusion that they're a cranky teen. (They were complaining about algebra homework earlier.)

Yeah, the cranky teens will ALWAYS tend to flounce.

They were complaining about algebra homework earlier.

Did they say, "I regret recommending algebra to a friend now..."?

Did they say, "I regret recommending algebra to a friend now..."?

Ha! (Tho' that totally sounds like something I would say.)

Jilli, a good review is a well-stated and well-informed opinion. That person is a crank.

big variations in what you pay for drugs "not covered" by the plan.

Well, I'm glad if "not covered" doesn't really mean "not covered" but I am confused.

I'm reading up on Nielsen and DVRs, and this is what they said in 2008:

Nielsen identified three distinct groups of DVR users based on how much they time-shift:
Heavy Shifters are primarily middle income women, ages 18-49, who record and later watch nearly 26 hours of television– or about half of their TV viewing – a week. Males, 18-34, are least likely to fall into this group.
Medium Shifters watch somewhat more television than the average person; and about a third of their viewing is time-shifted.
Light Shifters, who represent nearly 70% of all persons in DVR households, watch less television than the average viewer. With incomes that exceed $100,000 and the most prone to own a high definition TV set, they spend only about 10% of their television time with time-shifted programming, watching shows they would otherwise have missed.

Okay, everything I watch gets time shifted, at least a little. I mean, it's all set to be recorded, and usually I start off a little late so I can FF through the first ad break.

But what really caught my eye is what seems to be the statement that 70% of DVR viewers have HDTV and an income in six figures. Am I reading right? The phrasing also makes it sound like they use time shifting to watch "shows they would otherwise have missed." And the other people? Use it like me?

Yeah, that all seems kind of suspect really.

I think you're reading that correctly. Which is...weird?

And I definitely fall into Heavy Shifters, then. The only thing I ever watch live are sports. And with those, especially hockey, I usually start about an hour late so I can skip both ad breaks and the period intermissions. So, relatedly, the only ads I ever see are sports ads, which are inevitably target marketed to Someone Other Than Me.

Aw man, news says Bill Clinton is in the hospital.