May 2006 Archives
Tags: Broadband | New Media | Media | Technology
The Pew Internet & American Life folks released late last week their latest Broadband survey and it's got some really interesting findings.
The headline: Broadband adoption grew by 40 percent in the past year with the Telcos the winners.
Tags: Marketing
Marketer Seth Godin wonders if one of the downsides of "free" as a business model is the "freeloader problem" wherein free "isn't just an inducement to pay attention, but is, in fact, a right."
Who knows where history and myth intertwine.
Faded memories, stories that changed with the tellers . . . or just crumbled over time.
I got a letter today from my mother with a clipping from a September 10, 2003, column in The Dickenson Sun/Cumberland Times.
Columnist Anna Belcher was writing about my great-great-grandfather on my mother's side the family, Rainwater Ramsey, who started his family on Ramsey Ridge in Dickenson County, Va. Dickenson County is a small county in mountainous country. There's maybe 6,750 households. The three towns in the county are Clintwood, Haysi, and Clinchco.
I haven't noticed mentions of this, but Google Video has gotten a lot smarter.
When asked to name the top four TV networks, 4 out of every 5 people ages 16-18 could not name all four of the networks .... 1 out of every 3 people under 34 could not name ANY of these networks.
-- New online survey, which polled people aged 16-34 about their time spent online and watching TV, from Bolt Mieda. See the study here.
Got a copy of a news release this morning that Newsbank and iCopyright have cut a deal whereby Newsbank will be added iCopyright's copyright licensing technology into its database.
That's good news.
We already use both! Our data was tagged for iCopyright on Knoxnews, but articles that were in the Newsbank database were not.
It's a natural partnership. Congrats to all.
The daily traffic of most news sites depends on the day of the week and whether there is a big story.
A big news story results in a traffic spike. Makes sense?
What I find really interesting is how big the spikes can be for TV news sites.
(A story getting spiked online is a good thing while in the jargon of the newsroom, getting a story spiked was never a good thing -- for the reporter.)
A couple clues on where not put your investment dollars -- even if you get the chance.
I thought newsroom colleague Michael Silence had a good post Friday on how hard it is to kick the smoking habit even after a heart bypass operation.
It seemed to strike chord with some. Several commenters had their own tales to share.
We've been doing some work with Olive Software so found this item on John Battelle's Searchblog intriguing:
Caught up with David Carlson while he was in Knoxville. That was good.
Dave is national president of the Society of Professional Journalists and was in town for the local chapter's annual Golden Press Card Awards on Friday night.
At lunch at the Riverside Tavern with SPJ stalwarts Georgiana Vines, Jean Ash, Lisa Hood Skiner, Bonnie Hufford and Mark Harmon, he gave me some credit for his current involvement in SPJ.
There are some albums that just sound like summer. You can just feel the sunny hot summer afternoons or warm summer nights hanging outside with lightin' bugs and crickets.
The January 2006 release of the Subdudes' "Behind the Leeve" is just one of thsoe really nice summer sounding albums.
In "But the focus group loved it" marketing maven Seth Godin started a nice conversation on focus groups.
Reading about Louis Rekeyser's death last week and listening to a special hosted by CNBC's Maria Bartiromo reminded me of an interview I did years ago with Rukeyser's remarkable father, Merryle S. Rukeyser (Jan. 3, 1897 -- Dec. 21, 1988).
It must have been in 1988, just months before his death. (Update: I went back and checked the files; it was about a month and a half before this death.)
He was a very sharp 91-year-old.
Yeah, I'm an Alison Stewart fan.
I'm glad to see she's got her own afternoon show on MSNNBC, "The Most," which debuted May. 1.
I'm Tivoing it for awhile to see if it lives up to the hype. It sounds like a good vehicle for Stewart. Wish it didn't air at 3 p.m.
This is just wacky enough to be a hit, but it just sounds too nerdy and since somebody at HP thought it was really cutting edge neato, I'm thinking: Another good idea gone bad.
Taylor Larimore, 81, a former official at the Small Business Administration, one of the co-founders of the Vanguard Diehard forum on Morningstar, and one of the three authors of "The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing" on the the Boglehead philosphy ....
We have on the knoxnews.com Web site something called Quigo ads.
They are text ads much like the "Goooogle Ads" you see everywhere. I knew that story.
But I didn't know much about the Quigo company story until I stumbled upon Yaron Galai's "Web X.0" blog and his "sixth anniversary" post on Quigo.
Some "Random" girls at work thought I was just too silly in this photo of me displaying some spring colors News Sentinel swag.
Ya think it was the tie?
"If you lose great people, you lose success. It's that simple."
-Barb Karlin , Intuit Inc.
(from Fast Company magazine's Web site)
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