Television, the platform, is having a bad year. There are lots of reasons: the economy, consumer control, audience fragmentation/atomization, etc. On the other hand, Television, the art form, is alive and well with more (albeit different kinds of) projects in production than at any time in history. That being said, the long-term viability of big Continue Reading →
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Last week I wrote a short missive about a problem I was having with a very vocal minority of my daily MediaBytes video viewers regarding a pre-roll ad. Apparently, making money with online video is a very hot topic, as evidenced by the several thousand email responses to the article. (You can read last week’s Continue Reading →
As most of you know, I am the host of a daily, two-minute show called, MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer. It is not a television show, although it can be seen on TV. It is not a radio show, although it is broadcast on dozens of news/talk radio stations. It is not a video blog, although Continue Reading →
“When the plane gets to 10,000 ft, the door will open. We want you to hook your thumbs into your harness and get into a catcher’s squat. Put your toes over the edge of the doorway and be ready to jump.” You know, this is not a sentence that I’m used to hearing. But this Continue Reading →
The Inter-web is in over-tweet! The citizens of Facebookistan are being phished and spammed. 20-somethings are ditching Facebook and creating LinkedIn profiles so they can join the “real world.” And no one ever speaks of MySpace in polite company. Tweet, tweet, tweet or, should I say, yammer, yammer yammer? There are a few thousand companies Continue Reading →
In our last episode, Debbie's Facebook account had been hijacked. She would receive random notes from her friends telling her that they suspected that her account had been hacked, but everything looked fine. Then, the cybercriminal opened a chat to me from her account typing, "... still stuck in London." Since, at that very moment, Debbie was standing next to me, it was pretty obvious we had a problem. Continue Reading →
What happens when you drink the Kool-aid? OK, better question … What happens when social media becomes woven into the fabric of your life and you rely on a web-based, profile (that you cannot back up or export) as the center of your social universe? Answer 1: When everything is working as designed, the world Continue Reading →
The end is actually here. Sorry. Last Sunday evening I was home with my family doing what millions of other American families were doing — I was watching Celebrity Apprentice through my DVR 24 minutes delayed, so I could finish it at 11pm EDT, but skip all of the commercials. Now, this is really old Continue Reading →
The following is an excerpt from a White Paper I recently wrote for Cisco. You can download the entire document here. There’s a short video presentation as well. The idea behind this paper was to explore some of the issues that will face service providers (like cable and IPTV) as the world becomes more broadband-centric. Continue Reading →
This past week the first of America’s major metropolitan newspapers has made the decision to cease print operations and transform itself into an online only news organization. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer RIP, long live www.seattlepi.com — if only it could be true. If you’re interested in the details, you can read a very thorough article in Continue Reading →