AT&T Fell for Media’s Inflated Sense of Self-Importance
AT&T was wrong to acquire DirecTV and TimeWarner. Now what?
Category: communication
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I don’t recall many of my college successes with great clarity, but I do recall my few failures. Two in particular stand out: both D’s on short pape...
Intrusion
There are times when I get myself in trouble because I minimize the details, and see only the Big Picture. One of those days was when one of our clients complai...
Now
The iPhone crouches at the corner of my chair, well within reach. The iMac sits on the altar in the living room, but I can worship from afar by picking up the i...
All These Many Voices
In which I feel relatively free making up statistics because my assertion doesn't care -- and reliable data is hard to find if not nonexistent.
Connectivity
Respect for others’ time is difficult when you cannot see them. The telephone interrupts dinner, church, conversations. The burden of ignoring the interru...
Member Since 1994
One does not simply passively consume the Internet–though small children with YouTube on auto-play might. It is not broadcast, or even interactive, televi...
The Customer Perspective
There’s too much wrong with the FCC — in all its various political, technical, and regulatory aspects — to get into arguments on the line. How...
Pictures of It Didn’t Happen
Twitter and smartphones have changed the art of citation on the Internet. It’s not enough to quote something and to link. A picture must also be included ...
You’re Dead. Stop Kicking Me.
Interactive Television has always failed, and will always fail. A lesson from the early days of telephony is significant. Early on it was thought that telephony...
Hasta la Vista, Baby
We’re cancelling DirecTV service. It’s been about a year since purchasing the HDTV and the associated DirecTV package. Meanwhile, our viewing of ...
Why Do I Use Facebook?
It’s quite simple, really. I use Facebook because I know people who use Facebook. If I say something witty, they can read it, and comment, or laugh silent...
Observations Made While Waiting for an Oil Change
Are the anchors on Fox News trained in rhetorical technique, the use of logical fallacies, and paranoid sarcasm? Or do they just come by it naturally?
Parrots
The differences between American media and the BBC World Service in treatment of the financial situation with the automotive industry, or anything really, are j...
DirecTiVo, your return can not be too soon
Our DirecTiVo was dying. Every now and again, frequently at times, it stopped, hung. Maybe it waiting on a bad block on disk. Maybe it was just the heat. But th...
Pointless Distinctions: barriers to entry to Real Journalism
Journalists can obtain a copy of this publication via the Password-protected Web site for accredited journalists or from the OECD’s Media Relations Divisi...
What Benefit are Wire Services in a Well-Connected World?
As a former employee of The Associated Press, it’s been somewhat embarrassing to watch their plodding attempts to control data which has already escaped f...
Friend or Foe?
I’ve added Google Friend Connect. I see that Feedburner says that there are 164 subscribers today, so I expect to have more than two members on the site. ...
Recommendations
John Battelle made some comment about Facebook and Twitter that Rick Klau shared in Google Reader the other day, and which I’m too lazy to find the link t...
Not Enough Time
We’ve been very busy with work over the past month, preparing for a release this past weekend, and so parts of my normal routine have slipped away, such a...