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AT&T Fell for Media’s Inflated Sense of Self-Importance

Posted on Friday, March 15th, 2019 by William Cox

AT&T was wrong to acquire DirecTV and TimeWarner. Now what?

communication/learning/Work

Feedback

Posted on Friday, May 18th, 2018 by Will Cox

I don’t recall many of my college successes with great clarity, but I do recall my few failures. Two in particular stand out: both D’s on short pape...

communication/security

Intrusion

Posted on Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 by Will Cox

There are times when I get myself in trouble because I minimize the details, and see only the Big Picture. One of those days was when one of our clients complai...

communication

Now

Posted on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018 by Will Cox

The iPhone crouches at the corner of my chair, well within reach. The iMac sits on the altar in the living room, but I can worship from afar by picking up the i...

communication

All These Many Voices

Posted on Monday, April 2nd, 2018 by Will Cox

In which I feel relatively free making up statistics because my assertion doesn't care -- and reliable data is hard to find if not nonexistent.

communication

Connectivity

Posted on Saturday, March 31st, 2018 by Will Cox

Respect for others’ time is difficult when you cannot see them. The telephone interrupts dinner, church, conversations. The burden of ignoring the interru...

communication

Member Since 1994

Posted on Friday, March 23rd, 2018 by Will Cox

One does not simply passively consume the Internet–though small children with YouTube on auto-play might. It is not broadcast, or even interactive, televi...

communication/politics/rant

The Customer Perspective

Posted on Thursday, December 14th, 2017 by Will Cox

There’s too much wrong with the FCC — in all its various political, technical, and regulatory aspects — to get into arguments on the line. How...

communication/General/politics

Pictures of It Didn’t Happen

Posted on Monday, October 30th, 2017 by Will Cox

Twitter and smartphones have changed the art of citation on the Internet. It’s not enough to quote something and to link. A picture must also be included ...

communication/rant

You’re Dead. Stop Kicking Me.

Posted on Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 by Will Cox

Interactive Television has always failed, and will always fail. A lesson from the early days of telephony is significant. Early on it was thought that telephony...

communication/economics

Hasta la Vista, Baby

Posted on Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 by Will Cox

We’re cancelling DirecTV service. It’s been about a year since purchasing the HDTV and the associated DirecTV package. Meanwhile, our viewing of ...

communication

Why Do I Use Facebook?

Posted on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 by Will Cox

It’s quite simple, really. I use Facebook because I know people who use Facebook. If I say something witty, they can read it, and comment, or laugh silent...

communication

Observations Made While Waiting for an Oil Change

Posted on Saturday, August 29th, 2009 by Will Cox

Are the anchors on Fox News trained in rhetorical technique, the use of logical fallacies, and paranoid sarcasm? Or do they just come by it naturally?

communication

Parrots

Posted on Friday, July 24th, 2009 by Will Cox

The differences between American media and the BBC World Service in treatment of the financial situation with the automotive industry, or anything really, are j...

communication/rant

DirecTiVo, your return can not be too soon

Posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 by Will Cox

Our DirecTiVo was dying. Every now and again, frequently at times, it stopped, hung. Maybe it waiting on a bad block on disk. Maybe it was just the heat. But th...

communication/politics

Pointless Distinctions: barriers to entry to Real Journalism

Posted on Monday, May 4th, 2009 by Will Cox

Journalists can obtain a copy of this publication via the Password-protected Web site for accredited journalists or from the OECD’s Media Relations Divisi...

communication/economics

What Benefit are Wire Services in a Well-Connected World?

Posted on Saturday, April 11th, 2009 by Will Cox

As a former employee of The Associated Press, it’s been somewhat embarrassing to watch their plodding attempts to control data which has already escaped f...

communication

Friend or Foe?

Posted on Friday, March 13th, 2009 by Will Cox

I’ve added Google Friend Connect. I see that Feedburner says that there are 164 subscribers today, so I expect to have more than two members on the site. ...

communication

Recommendations

Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 by Will Cox

John Battelle made some comment about Facebook and Twitter that Rick Klau shared in Google Reader the other day, and which I’m too lazy to find the link t...

communication

Not Enough Time

Posted on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 by Will Cox

We’ve been very busy with work over the past month, preparing for a release this past weekend, and so parts of my normal routine have slipped away, such a...

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