The Most Disruptive TV Technology Yet Has Arrived
The Real Meerkat Manor Has Arrived First it was Meerkat launching at SXSW. Then, a day later, it was Periscope. And there are surely more to come. Many more. The latest in the never-ending media/tech/video/TV revolution is ‘live streaming’....
Read moreHow The Other Half Lives
This just in… Sent by my friend Jim Long on his iPhone. Jim is a professional cameraman with NBC News. He is in Asia with Obama on the White House press corps. All of this stuff, all of it,...
Read moreToward A New Architecture For Media
The experience of Current TV taught me two things: There were literally millions of people who were ready to contribute content of all kinds in video 99% of it was junk. It was junk because no one had ever...
Read morePimp My Series
And now, a word from our sponsors.. I used to think that NBC’s Today Show was a news show. I was wrong. It turns out it’s a reality show called Pimp My Series. Should be on TLC. This morning,...
Read moreTime To Grow Up
Tonight, on NBC News… Yesterday, the LA Times ran a very interesting story that says a lot about the old Mainstream Media. Brian Williams, so the paper reports, reacted to a story in RadarOnline.com that Supreme Court Chief Justice...
Read moreWhy Network News is Dead
And that’s the way it is… The announcement by ABC News last week that they are going to cut 300-400 jobs, a full 20% of their news staff is only confirmation of what we predicted along time ago: That...
Read moreThe Media Tragedy from Haiti – Live!
Now…this! I woke up this morning and turned on the Today Show. I wanted to see the latest news from Haiti. The devastation is mind-boggling. Perhaps as many as 500,000 dead. So I tuned in to NBC to see...
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