Monthly Archives: September 2009

Backwards

The Nielsen Company

The latest Nielsen Three Screen Report is out this morning. In a nutshell:

During 2nd Quarter 2009, the number of people watching mobile video increased 70% from last year and people who watch video on line increased their viewing by 46% compared to a year ago. In addition, the average American TV consumption remains at an all-time high (141 hours per month) compared to the same time frame last year.

Great, except they’ve got it backwards. Continue reading

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MIA

Image representing Gmail as depicted in CrunchBase

If you use Gmail as your primary email provider, you had a problem yesterday. Gmail went down for a lot of the day.  From the thunder reverberating around the web, Twitter, and elsewhere, one would have thought the digital world had ended. Strangely, I use a Gmail account for my personal mail and never noticed a thing since I was accessing that mail via Blackberry yesterday. Aside from yet another example of how these machines are evil, sentient beings, the outage raises a bigger point in my mind. Continue reading

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A Higher Standard

60 Minutes

We were watching 60 Minutes Sunday evening and they re-ran a report on the dumping of computers under the guise of recycling.  This piece first ran last November and I’m surprised it hasn’t had more repercussions.  As the piece went on, getting more disturbing by the minute, I had one of those little epiphanies I have from time to time and which I like to share with you.  I realized that this piece is why professional content matters. Continue reading

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