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Tag Archives: tv
With Daily Show and Colbert, Hulu takes the trophy. Joost dead?
When NBC and Fox announced their ‘me too’ online video joint venture, Hulu, I was understandably skeptical. After all, Joost had already launched to much fanfare with top partners like Viacom’s MTV and Turner’s Cartoon Network. YouTube had quite a … Continue reading
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Tagged bay, bit, bittorrent, cartoon, colbert, daily, distribution, download, downloading, fox, hulu, hulu.com, illegal, joost, mtv, nbc, network, office, old, online, piracy, pirate, piratebay, report, shifting, show, the colbert report, the daily show, time, time-shifting, torrent, turner, tv, viacom, video, youtube
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Driving: Lawyers, reporters and crackheads, oh my.
Sunday was a busy and good day, buoyed by City events and nice weather. Monday and Tuesday were a bit slow. As usual, I picked up a few lawyers going to or from work. (Work seems to always be the … Continue reading
Posted in media, taxi, work
Tagged addict, bavc, bayvac, blog, blogging, ca, cab, cabbie, california, Canada, cocaine, com, crack, crackheads, cray, dot, driving, drug, drugs, internets, law, law school, lawyers, local, market, media, news, Philippines, reporters, reporting, san francisco, school, sf, soma, south, south of market, startup, taxi, taxicab, television, tender, tenderloin, tendersoma, tourism, tv
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Finally, I see a relevant advertisement on Facebook.
So, Facebook knows my favorite TV shows, my favorite authors, my favorite music, my zip code, telephone number, gender, age, work history, education history, friends and personal pictures. Given all this information, you’d think that Facebook would be able to … Continue reading
Posted in internets, marketing, tech
Tagged ads, advertisements, agencies, agency, book, capital, digital, face, facebook, fb, funding, internet, internets, media, nbc, office, online, over, overvalued, shows, spending, tech, the office, tv, valley, valleywag, valuation, valued, vc, venture, zuckerburg
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Satellite TV: How did it start?
And now for something from the archives. Here’s a paper I wrote in March 2004 for Herb Terry‘s excellent history of telecommunications course about the initial failed implementation of direct broadcast satellite — the precursor to the miniature dishes many … Continue reading
Posted in media, tech
Tagged abc, allocation, broadcast, broadcaster, broadcasting, c-band, cbs, commission, communications, comsat, comsat/stc, consumer, dbs, delivery, direct, direct broadcast, dish, fcc, federal, frequency, home, ku-band, media, nab, nbc, network, rca, regulation, satellite, stc, tci, television, tv, usci
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DTV Transition ads are confusing, ineffective.
The National Association of Broadcasters has commissioned 30 second advertisements meant to warn consumers about the impending shift from analog to digital only television transmissions. This DTV transition will render analog TV over-the-air broadcasts — those received by TVs connected … Continue reading
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Tagged ads, advertisements, air, broadcast, broadcasters, definition, digital, dtv, hdtv, high, high definition, nab, national, national association of broadcasters, ota, over, over-the-air, television, transition, tv, wireless
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