Tag Archives: Media

I want to take a moment and commend Henry Copeland and Blogads for doing what a year ago looked impossible: turning blogs into a viable advertising medium. When Blogcritics was getting off the ground 14 months ago, the notion that blogs could generate traction enough to interest advertisers was viewed …

Only two days until Halloween – why do the holiday, movies, attractions, stories, etc., that trade in fright find such resonance with us? I looked into this and the bizarre rise of Internet “ghoul pools” on MSNBC.com: “It’s a dead man’s party, who could ask for more?Everybody’s coming, leave your …

Long-time Cleveland radio exec and consultant John Gorman says Clear Channel doesn’t have a clue: What does Clear Channel radio have to do with the Detroit automobile manufacturers in the ’70s? More than you could imagine. Since the beginning of the radio industry, success was measured by ratings. Survey results …

VentureBlog contributor Naval Ravikant, inventor of the jelly, muses on the ubiquity of wireless computing at Dartmouth: Instant Messenger for voice will emerge – Just as ubiquitous wired connectivity lead from email (sporadic and asynchronous) to IM (always-on and synchronous), so ubiquitous wireless connectivity takes us from cellphones to a …

This very informative run through copyright history and theory since the Betamax decision of 1984 is marred by just one thing: the conclusions are EXACTLY 100% wrong. It isn’t Betamax that needs to be overturned, it is the extensions of copyright over the last century past any reasonable time limit, …

Setting aside the merits of file sharing legality and morality, check out the spin on this story from Billboard – any doubt about who butters their bread or fluffs their pillows? It seems that music companies can’t catch a break these days. Recent news coverage of piracy lawsuits has been …

Current and potential webcasters, take note of this: SUMMARY: The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is requesting public comment on the adoption of regulations for records of use of sound recordings performed pursuant to the statutory license for public performances of sound recordings by means of digital audio …

The NBC-Universal deal announced on September 2 has officially gone through: Vivendi Universal and General Electric Co. have reached an agreement to merge the French company’s Hollywood studio, cable TV networks and theme parks with GE’s NBC business, creating a media giant with about $13 billion in annual revenue. ….The …

I agree with Glenn Reynolds on political matters far more often than not, but I definitely have a different perspective on this: the networks were going to call it for Schwarzenegger the minute the polls closed, and then turning on the TV just before they did and seeing the talking …

Arnold wins! Love him, hate him, indifferent, or disgusted because the whole recall seems like a bad movie, people are fascinated with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a literally larger-than-life figure with a mythic if checkered past. We have a number of stories on Arnold and the recall: TOTAL RECALL: The Terminator Rules …