Category Archives: digital media

Same Old Same Old?

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I don’t get what all the fuss is about.  Or maybe I do.  See, lots of folks seem very disturbed by the fact that they’re doing the same old thing in new and different ways.  Sort of like when you get a new TV and the remote is different.  You’re doing the same old thing but in a different way.

“Get to the point, bozo.”  Right.  Radio’s the point today, the oldest of our broadcast media. It’s changing more than the others.  But it’s still the same. Continue reading

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What You Got Is Gone

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Like many (OK – MOST) of my neighbors, I woke up Saturday morning without several TV channels available to me.  I’m sure you’ve read about the dispute between Fox and Cablevision over what the distributor is going to pay the programming service.  It’s not the first (we lost Food Network over the holidays for a bit) or the last dispute of this sort and I’m not going to take sides.

Instead, I want to raise something this dispute got me thinking about.  High-def TV. Continue reading

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Prime-Time Apps?

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I’m not sure what to make of a new report out the other day from Flurry, a firm that tracks applications running under iOS, the iPhone’s operating system.  On the one hand, it reminded me of the power of aggregated numbers; on the other hand it contains a few comparisons I think might be sort of specious.  But as we do in matters of this sort, let me lay out a few things and you make up your own mind. Continue reading

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