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Wednesday, July 10, 2002 |
Those of us who grew up in a television culture know that this was probably never true, but it kept the accounting simple for those in the business of buying and selling spots. Consequently, despite a succession of significant shifts in broadcast technologies and consumer behavior, the same basic vocabulary dominated commercial negotiations for decades. Today, those negotiations are reaching a crisis point. The networks are responding not by rethinking how they do business, not by developing new metrics for measuring and accurately reporting viewer interactions with media content, not by adopting new marketing strategies which take advantage of the affordments of the new media environment, but by wagging a finger at consumers and demanding that we behave according to their antiquated dictates.
— Henry Jenkins, "Treating Viewers as Criminals," MIT Technology Review
What if the advertisers just didn't buy the timeslot?
1:19:54 AM 
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Joe Buck, just shut up. Bud Selig is an ass.
You know how sometimes you see a movie, you think it's great, and then all of sudden the ending just sucks? Yeah? Well, that was tonight's All-Star game. The 11th inning proved once again that Joe Buck is not fit to be an announcer, and that Bud Selig is not fit to be baseball commissioner.
And the managers? Wanting to spare the pitchers after two innings? Come on! You have the joy to be playing the Game, and you want to quit?
1:14:28 AM
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Monday, June 24, 2002 |
A distribution network, broadband, complements content. HOWEVER, content is not a complement of broadband.
9:32:28 PM
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Thursday, June 20, 2002 |
Verizon + Microsoft: http://news.com.com/2100-1033-938043.html?tag=fd_top
Qwest + Microsoft
SBC + Yahoo
BellSouth + ?
The telecom companies are making these moves not because they don't want to be in the advertising and hosting businesses, but because it's more cost-effective to take a percentage than to provide the service yourself. I'm not entirely sure why. Microsoft is in the deal not for the aggregated eyeballs, though that's not bad, but for the customer relationships. That is, they wantt your identity.
Yahoo just wants the eyeballs.
9:29:41 PM
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Wednesday, June 19, 2002 |
The complementary product for a network is stuff on the network.
The complementary product for stuff on the network is a way to get the stuff on the network -- that is, the network, or, alternatively, access.
What is the stuff?
Is it the self-absorbed "content"? Or is it the nodes on the network: the people?
12:50:27 AM
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Tuesday, June 18, 2002 |
payola in the pharmaceutical industry: neurontin
11:52:18 PM
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Tracing Heritage Through Disease. In Part 2 of her 3-part series on the origins of a group of people in America's Appalachian Mountains, Kristen Philipkoski takes a look at a woman who discovered she is a member of the 'lost tribe.' [Wired News]
10:45:07 PM
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Wednesday, June 5, 2002 |
Wireless study: Low prices beats features. A survey of more than 2,000 people with wireless phones indicates that the way to win consumers' hearts is through features like lower prices and better coverage. [CNET News.com]
They needed a survey to tell them that?
10:17:48 PM
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Monday, June 3, 2002 |
Senator's E-mail on Broadband Keeps Replicating and Morphs into Spam
From GigaLaw: "Sen. Joseph Lieberman's office has been straining under the unrelenting embarrassment of an e-mail that will not stop replicating itself. "To my knowledge, this is one of the most severe episodes" of unintended spam mail in Senate history, said Dan Gerstein, a spokesman for the senator in Washington." [Story Link]
Apparently, he was using "cc:mail" as his E-mail program. Does anyone really use that anymore? [Ernie the Attorney]
Yes. The rumor mill had it that the only reason the White House kept a cc:Mail postoffice online, after the rest of the staff had moved to Lotus Notes, was because Tipper liked it better.
10:22:50 PM
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© Copyright 2002 Will Cox.
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