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communication/family

Navel Gazing

Posted on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 by Will Cox

For one of her classes last year, D. wrote a paper which analyzes an effect of the self-absorption of the media, in response to one of the unfounded assertions ...

communication

On the Infrequency of Posts

Posted on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 by Will Cox

I wonder if Google tweaks PageRank to reflect links shared in instant messengers, Google Reader, Twitter, and other semi-public channels.

communication

All Kinds of Jargon

Posted on Sunday, June 15th, 2008 by Will Cox

After reading The Austrian Economists site for a while now, I notice it shares some features with some papers Niall Ferguson posted on his website. Namely, name...

communication/economics

Counterdisintermediation, in an attempt to remain relevant

Posted on Monday, February 25th, 2008 by Will Cox

A famous character once opined, Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. The executives at ABC are determined to prove that axiom by launching a video-...

communication/liberty

Telephonus Interruptus

Posted on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 by Will Cox

Perhaps I have a one-track mind recently, but on viewing this public service announcement [via Movie Marketing Madness, via Rick], I understood the tagline R...

communication/economics/transportation

Telephony Substitutes for Transportation

Posted on Friday, August 10th, 2007 by Will Cox

One oddity of visiting my family in Virginia is that there’s little to no cellular phone coverage in Highland County. This is partially due to the landsca...

communication/learning

Use English, not Jargon

Posted on Friday, February 2nd, 2007 by Will Cox

My elder daughter is in first grade. She loves to read almost as much as she loves math. She’s just started the thirty-third book in The Magic Tree House ...

communication/rant

Can I Get a Real Person Here?

Posted on Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 by Will Cox

What does it take to get a real person on the phone these days? I don’t want to talk to the computer. I’m not talking to the computer. I did not buy...

communication

Cablevision Offers TiVo

Posted on Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 by Will Cox

CED Magazine reports that Cablevision has signed a deal to market TiVo equipment to DISH and DirecTV customers. Someone’s been reading my journal. “...

communication

Not the TiVo!

Posted on Friday, January 7th, 2005 by Will Cox

DirecTV is effectively removing the impediment to my changing video providers. “We’ll support our existing TiVo customers,” a spokesman for Di...

communication/economics

No Video on Demand

Posted on Wednesday, December 15th, 2004 by Will Cox

Because HBO has nothing we want to watch while we wait for The Sopranos, because we’re not that desperate, and because DirecTV makes changing packages sim...

communication/economics

While I’m on the Subject

Posted on Thursday, August 19th, 2004 by Will Cox

Dear DirecTV, I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know that you’ve lost a customer. My loyalties are to my TiVo. I can get plain TV anywhere. Just...

Books/communication/economics

Posted on Wednesday, February 27th, 2002 by Will Cox

Andrew Sullivan: In fact, I’d argue, blogs could well be a milestone in the long history of journalism. By empowering individual writers, by reducing the ...

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