Peter's Beard

  • How to Price a Media Product

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    We just finished producing the first seminar in a six part series called Finance for Media Professionals.
    We invited 15 people into our NYC studio @ $50 per person. We filmed the event with the intention of packaging the seminar as an online video course with online access to the professor, an American Management Association finance [...]

  • Streamy Awards Voting Ends Saturday

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    The Streamy Awards were created to recognize outstanding achievement in shows produced originally for broadband distribution. Nearly 100,000 nominations were submitted from across the world. Now it’s time to pick the audience choice award for Best Overall Series. Vote every day before the winners are announced on Saturday!

  • Infusion Show

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    I’m interviewing Infusion thursday night @ The Bell House in Brooklyn in advance of their new album. For those who don’t know Infusion, they’re an Australian electronica band. When I first saw them in 2004 I thought they were the second coming of Underworld. Great show. Great energy.

  • Ads on Amazon?

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    Maybe this is old news to other people, but I was searching for a 2 terrabyte external hard drive on Amazon to buy for a customer and I saw an advertisement for a Toyota. I’m not sure if this is contextual or behavioral advertising, or targeted advertising at all since I live in NYC and am searching for hard drives.

  • TV on the Internet

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    Monday night I missed 24 because we were producing a Finance for Media Professionals seminar in our studio. I didn’t stress it because two weeks ago I missed it as well, and watched it when I woke up Tuesday morning at about 6am. Nothing like watching TV in bed on your laptop.

  • The Poor Plan

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    Not a single candidate ever mentioned poor people during the campaign. Everything was about the middle class. The middle class was always positioned against rich people, the top 5%.

  • Anchorman

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    I’ve always thought it would be brilliant for CBS to replace Katie Couric with John Stewart to deliver the nightly news like it’s never been done before. News Anchors just read the teleprompter. It would be nice if they delivered some objective commentary as well.

  • Nancy Pelosi on Renewable Energy

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    I was listening to an NPR podcast on my subway ride home today and heard Nancy Pelosi say, “Renewable energy will mean nothing if there’s not a grid to transmit it.”

  • Exxon Mobile’s Big Cleantech Push

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    …Is non-existent, according to Rex Tillerson, CEO of America’s most profitable company.

  • Captcha for Dummies

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    Are computers so clever that it takes totally unreadable text to fool them.

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