Tag Archives: media

Don’t be fooled by fake websites voting for Google Fiber | citizen-times.com | Asheville Citizen-Times

My “Letter to the Editor” in the Asheville Times today. Anyone not familiar with what’s going on: Asheville is a city being considered for 1gb broadband from Google. This site, GoogleFiber.com was created, “unofficially,” by someone to create a horserace online. People voted for a month.
The voted ended. Then, suddenly, another round of voting? Why, [...]

Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole – WSJ.com

The best part of sharing this story, is that I posted the story of Facebook “leaking” privacy information – on Facebook. You have to love it!
Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole – WSJ.com.

‘South Park’ season premiere Tiger gets clubbed; Cliffs missed oppty?

[But] the 14th season premiere wasn’t really slamming Woods and other famous names — it was doing its usual trick of satirizing a media that gets all huffy and self-righteous about bad behavior.

Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’ – Times Online

Amazing Interview with the TimesONline, UK with Gore Vidal.
Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’ – Times Online.

Paid Internet TV Would Cut Nearly 8 Million Viewers 10/30/2009

“TV Everywhere” efforts won’t be TV for everyone — as 7.7 million viewers could be out of the loop. That is, those who won’t pay a fee to watch TV programs online — shows they are currently seeing for free.
MediaPost Publications Paid Internet TV Would Cut Nearly 8 Million Viewers 10/30/2009.

Is Social Media working for Small Biz?

Interestingly, this article exposes a recent poll that asked, “Is Social Media Working for Small Business….” and more than three quarters of the respondents didn’t feel it was expanding their business.
So, how does this fit with the constant barrage of emails, newsletters, seminars, teleseminars, discussion offers I get every day to hear all the wonders [...]

Time for the media to fess up | Salon

“Better late than never” isn’t always true, but public candor from people and institutions that have misled us for many years can be refreshing — and sometimes even liberating.

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell, Jon Hamm and others

viral marketing at its best. 2 million viewers to date, for something that started less than one week ago.