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EVENT: Tonight at the Apple Store, the NYC photobloggers get together again. Come check out: Scott Heiferman, Kara Canal, Rebecca Smeyne, Will Sherman, Kamau Mucoki, Boogie and Martin Fuchs.

-- Tomorrow is One Web Day, and to celebrate, Cardozo is sponsoring a panel with Craig Newmark and Scott Heiferman at Castle Clinton in Battery Park. It starts at 12pm, and just like (most of) Craigslist, it's free!

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Remind us to never go to the Khim Millennium Market on Bedford.

The Village Voice's Tom Robbins looked at the city's impending announcement of an outdoor agency to handle all the advertising that goes on "3,300 bus shelters, some 330 newsstands, and 20 public toilets" - a $1 billion deal. One article looks at the politics behind the bidding, with French firm Decaux the frontrunner (it donated money to the NYC 2012 bid!). The second article hit closer to home, because it bemoans the slow saturation of outdoor advertising all over. Think Houston Street and Broadway/Lafayette: Gothamist has to agree that it's slowly becoming a Times Square South, with many huge billboards...that big PSP model...the Adidas ads...all the alcoholic beverage we're supposed to like 'cause we're downtown. Once upon a time, we'd be able to concentrate on seeing the rooftop watertanks, but now we're distracted by David Beckham (perhaps not unhappily distracted, but still).

When Jamba Juice first moseyed into town, New Yorkers were thrilled. Like most out-of-town drinks (the margarita, a Starbucks coffee), Jamba Juice was welcomed with a fervor equal to that of a sample sale. They even had bananas playing the bongos, to tempt us! But now, in the winter of our mothereffing cold blast, Gothamist feels Scott Heiferman's Jamba Juice thoughts might be on the money. He writes:

Over the past decade, I`d often travel to California and always pay a visit to a Jamba Juice. I`d crave Jamba Juice when home in NYC. I`d think, "Wouldn`t it be great if there were a Jamba Juice near home or work?" Now, Jamba Juice is popping up all over NYC, and they just opened one very close to my office. But something ain`t right. I`m not feeling it. The problem is: Jamba Juice is California. In California, the staff and customers are California. The California sun shines into the stores there. You get your juice and step outside into California air. Here, the people aren`t California. The staff is thinking: "I don`t know what this California shit is." The customers look baffled at the hippy menu. Take your Jamba Juice out into winter cold in your winter jacket? NYC grit makes it taste differently.

Is having a frosty 'n' fruity drink the way to warm your winter bellies? Or are you sticking to hot chocolate or hot toddies? Perhaps Jamba Juice should look into offering those UV lights, for people who have Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Check out transcripts from heath row, and more GEL posts and pictures from Bluejake: Good Experience Live, Satan's Laundromat, and Ten Years of My Life.

It seems the Times doesn't feel right if they aren't covering the phenomenon of blogs. This week, the Arts & Leisure section has a cover feature on photo blogs. Writer Sarah Boxer does a little exploring, and discovers some photo bloggers that also happen to be favorites of Gothamist: David Gallagher's lightningfield, Eliot Shepard's slower.net, Todd Gross's quarlo.com, Laura Holder's fotolog.net/lauratitian, and the site, fotolog.net, which was started by Adam Seifer, Scott Heiferman and Spike. Congratulations, guys.