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Professor Marshall McLuhan published a book that changed the way America looked at media: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964). He looked at the effects that the communication media had on society and human development. With each advance in human communications, different senses were used in unique manners. He warned that we should be Continue Reading →

Just in time to completely blow away that puny flat screen you nabbed for your dorm room, LG has announced its 84-inch ultra high definition LCD TV is ready to ship in South Korea. The company put its first UHDTV up for pre-ordering last month, at a price of 25 million won, which currently converts Continue Reading →

LG Display on Tuesday announced that 11 people, including six of its own employees, have been charged with stealing advanced OLED TV display technology from Samsung, the Associated Press reported. Three of those charged were employees of Samsung Display at the time, and the alleged theft of OLED technology took place between 2010 and 2011. Continue Reading →

Social sports are in the air. The NBA playoffs just ended with a big social bang. The MLB is about to kick off the most social All Star Game ever. NBC is preparing for a social TV infused Olympics. Wimbledon is being shared across the social web and Euro 2012 was second on the social Continue Reading →

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, is to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true. –Freeman Dyson, theoretical physicist For thirty years I have been at war with myself. In these years, we have owned media, sold it and alternately owned a marketing Continue Reading →

Paradoxically, these are the times we as leaders should lead and teach our teams that slack is not only appropriate, it’s likely the only way to get out of the mess we’re in. –Jason Montague, software engineer My last treatise on “Efficiency and Fragility” was not well received. It seems there were two reasons; one Continue Reading →

Many among The Cable Show’s 12,000-plus attendees in Boston last week may, in the years ahead, tell anyone they like about witnessing the birth of not one, but two landmark TV developments. We’ll see…and maybe you’ll see. Let’s explain what went down first. This pair of developments came from Comcast, cable operator numero uno and Continue Reading →

Originally posted at MediaBizBloggers Most social media advertising is poorly suited to the medium. According to Vindico, nearly all (98%) online video ads were re-purposed from a broadcast original.  The lack of originality is one reason ads and sponsored stories on Facebook realize comparatively low average click through-rates of under 5%, says Spruce Media. One Continue Reading →

Originally posted at TVHowl.com Here’s a surprise about this Sunday’s season premiere of “Mad Men” that might spoil the show for you: It’s terrible. Yes, I know — it’s a shocker.  It might even be the first time any critic anywhere has ever used the word “terrible” to describe “Mad Men,” but there it is.  Continue Reading →

At some point growing up, many kids heard this advice from one or both parents: “Now ____, be on your best behavior.” Quite soon, we TV viewers may have to heed that advice, when dealing with our relationship to TV sets. There’s a huge disrupt ahead for that relationship, and thank Ralph Santana for the Continue Reading →