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Prevent Diseases, Wrap Your Mac
Recently The New York Times ran an article about how Macs aren’t safer than Windows machines, just are a smaller target. I jumped out of my seat, shrugged my shoulders, lifted up my hands, relaxed my wrists, and condescendingly said, “Duh!” This was followed by thanking NYT for stating the obvious.
Last month, March 2009, Windows machines accounted for 88.14% of online activity,...
Back the Bus Over Neilson, Advertising is Inane
Taking an audience measurement course has only confirmed the inanity of the current cable and broadcast advertising environment. Just like Facebook’s response to Twitter, new technology has made the advertisers overreact. DVRs are not destroying the advertising industry; they are just misunderstood. The advertisers’ response has gone directly to apocalyptic fear over simple curiosity. In reality,...
According to Disney, I Am Right!
Once again the news comes from NAB’s coverage of The 2009 Cable Show, but what else can be expected when all of cable’s bigwigs are gathered in one place. I am actually surprised Ted Turner hasn’t already started a game of real life Clue.
Anyway, the CEO of the Walt Disney Co., Robert Iger, has confirmed some of the main points that I have said on this blog about the future of...
The Movies I Am Most Interested in for 2009
We are a mere 1/4 of the way through 2009 which means we haven’t hit the two main movie release times of the year, Summer and Christmas. After learning that there will be a Sherlock Holmes movie locked in for this year I decided to compose a list of movies that I am most interested in seeing. Seeing as how my memory is not the best, there are probably many more that I am forgetting about....
Debunking The 2009 Cable Show
Much of what you are about to read is going to be my regurgitation of the information I consumed from reading the Multichannel News coverage of The 2009 Cable Show. The keyword is much, and not all, but I do have to confess, if you are interested in keeping up with the Media Industry, Multichannel News and NAB365 have been doing a phenomenal job of covering the media convergence, and to a lesser...
The Social is the New Expert
A New York Times article that ran on March 30th announced that Microsoft was pulling the plug on Encarta. As a web designer I hold no feelings other than loathing towards Microsoft, thank you very much Internet Explorer, so it is pleasing to see that one of Microsoft’s ventures has failed. As someone who likes learning, this kind of worries me. Wikipedia is the leading online encyclopedia,...
March 2009
8 posts
Space Does Not Equal Soft
Again, another couple days without an update, I apologize. My weekend was a mixture of playing with Drupal, video games (oh Top Shop, how I love yet loathe thee), socializing, and (finally getting to our topic) toying with Squarespace. It was a fun, educational, stress-free weekend, those rarely happen so I milked it.
Anyway, every time I try to recall Squarespace’s name I seem to try to...
Woot! Drupal, Skimmer's
Sorry for the lack of updates this week, I have been…busy. Yesterday I worked for 10 hours. When I got home I made dinner and then watched Lost. While watching Lost I downloaded all of the elements needed to install Drupal, an open-source content management system. I then spent the next three hours after Lost configuring my USB drive to think it is an FTP server so that I can install Apache,...
Bye Bye News Plan
Do you like reading your Sunday paper while relaxing, still in your robe, drinking a cup of coffee, and slowly eating your, at one time, hot breakfast? Well, enjoy it while you can because some cities no longer produce a major paper and yours might be next. Living in Philadelphia, the fourth (in some studies fifth behind San Francisco) largest media market, one tends to get a first hand glimpse...
Back to the...50s?
So, this is a very long post, I hope it makes up for not posting this weekend as it was hectic, full of finals and documentary shoots. I also hope this makes up for the chance that I don’t update too often this week as I try to enjoy my spring break.
Anyway, it has been increasingly tough for all media during this era of convergence. TV is losing ratings to VoD and the Internet. Newspapers...
Your TV is on my Internet...which is on your TV
So, as stated in my last post, I managed to go through one of my newsgroups today and found some interesting articles that somewhat pertain to my post about TV I wrote the other night. The first is an Inlet Technologies and Microsoft team up, of sorts. Inlet is a “technology provider” of new media. On their website they proclaim their product can “produce the highest quality video, faster and more...
Curiosity Killed the Cat's Interest
If it seems like I have been rejecting this blog, you should see my RSS feeds. I just deleted 2,166 of them, dating only as far back at 2/11. That is just from one service. I still have four other services to check. My podcasts are not nearly as far behind. What helps with them is while I am at work I will pop in some headphones and listen. It also helps that I only subscribe to two podcasts, The...
TV
Going to start off by saying that this is really my first blog. I haven’t shared it with anyone so if you are reading this you probably accidentally found this. If you like what I write then awesome, if not I will try harder next time I suppose.
A lot of the research that went into this are things I found while researching for my classes. What this is is my ranting of what I believe the...