At a conference where every speaker was an industry insider talking to other professionals in the industry about how great our industry is, I talked to an actual viewer, watcher and consumer of all the media we’re producing.
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Turkey Day
via Peter's Beard, Scribe GearInge gives us the run down of what we’re going to eat for Thanksgiving.
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Dangerous Journalism
via Peter's BeardThis cracked me up. Our intrepid journalist is reporting from in the trenches, right next to the action. He’s really helping the viewer feel the experience as if we’re right there with him.
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Brian Roberts Talks Comcast Future
via Peter's BeardBrian Roberts of Comcast talked about what Comcast likes about the content business without mentioning NBC, their on-demand online product as part of the TV everywhere strategy, Apple as friend or foe, Net Neutrality, broadband, IPTV, open platforms, 3rd party developed interactive applications on the set-top-box.
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Paying to Watch Sports
via Peter's BeardIn 2010, MLB will continue to focus on developing their wireless application. Over 1 million people have downloaded the MLB app on the iPhone @ $9.99 a pop. MLB will focus on Android, Sprint and all the other platforms that are out there. The goal is to have 3-4 million new app downloads in 2010.
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Full Disclosure on Political Talk Shows
via Peter's BeardI’ve never seen a political talk show in which guests disclose any conflicts of interest or other full disclosure that might be relevant as they spew opinion on health, military or energy policy.
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Skype Calls
via Peter's BeardSince my AT&T cell phone rarely gets reception…anywhere…I’ve started to rely on Skype more and more to make phone calls. It’s pretty satisfying. I always use Skype or Google Chat to talk to other people who are on their computers, but haven’t really used Skype to make calls to phones.
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AT&T How Doth You Scorn Me
via Peter's BeardMy question is if my 2 year contract requires me to commit to paying about $100 per phone to AT&T each month, isn’t AT&T required to provide reasonable service in return? Am I allowed to break the contract, arguing lack of performance on their end?!?
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Social Media Monitoring Tools
via Advertising, Peter's BeardA non-exhaustive list of monitoring tools and places to go to keep up with the newest and greatest tools.
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Linkedin Recommendations
via Peter's BeardCindy eats projects for breakfast and poops out the deliverable before lunchtime.
