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In case you missed it, NY Times ran a huge story over the weekend on Arbitron and a new system it develops for passive audience measurement that doesn't require the respondents to deal with the awkward diaries. The new portable people-meter is a pager-sized device that picks up special inaudible noise added by the broadcasters into the programming.