Remember the song “Woodstock“? Joni Mitchell wrote it, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young made it famous. One lyric is
We are stardust, we are golden, we are caught in the devil’s bargain,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.Image via Wikipedia
I thought of that last night as I listened to an excellent discussion of Google+ and Facebook at the tech meet-up I attend monthly. What does one have to do with the other? Continue reading
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A little research to start the week. A new study came out from Burst Media last week. It was about how people view and interact with online video. Not very much surprising in it – 71.6% of web users overall watch online content in a typical week—and 39.0% of all viewers spend between one and five hours per week with online video. Men aged 18-34 are the heaviest consumers of online video content, with 19.7% saying they consume 10 or more hours of video on the web per week. Not much of a shock – almost every content company with which I work has a focus on video and I suppose it’s sort of chicken and egg – there’s more content offered in the form of video so the usages rises and because the demand goes up, content providers produce more.
There was also a nugget that made me pause. Continue reading
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If you’re a Boomer like me, you grew up in a 12 channel universe. There were a few commercial TV networks, maybe PBS as well. Throw in the independent and some UHF stations (remember those?) and those were your viewing options. If you are GenX, you grew up the same way although there were a few new activities such as Pong and Sega to keep you busy.
Things start to get interesting with my kids’ group – GenY, Echo Boomers, whatever you call them. By 1992, there were “57 channels and nothing on”, 10 or more times what I had available growing up. Today, I have 10 times those 57 channels available and that’s just on TV. There are an infinite number on my computer, and I can view them on the same screen that once made only a handful available to me. The point? Continue reading
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