Navel Gazing
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 ...
Category: communication
On the Infrequency of Posts
I wonder if Google tweaks PageRank to reflect links shared in instant messengers, Google Reader, Twitter, and other semi-public channels.
All Kinds of Jargon
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...
Counterdisintermediation, in an attempt to remain relevant
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-...
Telephonus Interruptus
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...
Telephony Substitutes for Transportation
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...
Use English, not Jargon
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 ...
Can I Get a Real Person Here?
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...
Cablevision Offers TiVo
CED Magazine reports that Cablevision has signed a deal to market TiVo equipment to DISH and DirecTV customers. Someone’s been reading my journal. “...
Not the TiVo!
DirecTV is effectively removing the impediment to my changing video providers. “We’ll support our existing TiVo customers,” a spokesman for Di...
No Video on Demand
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...
While I’m on the Subject
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...