Monthly Archives: December 2011

The success of comedian Louis C.K.’s concert video online with a just a website, extra bandwidth, and a PayPal account is reverberating throughout the entertainment world. Charging folks $5 a pop to buy the video without any middleman intervention (the … Continue reading →

My head’s already in 2012. Sweeping up the last crumbs of this year, I can safely say 2011 was possibly the best year of my life. Not because of luck, inheritance, or outside, unseen forces. Based on current economic conditions, … Continue reading →

While broadcast networks still own most of the TV audience, they are totally beholding to the cable nets who produce watchable, original, scripted shows broadcasters ultimately can copy and augment with higher-paid stars and staffs. Of course, the networks have … Continue reading →

Media hoaxes are hardly new but the range of hoaxable (?) material continues to expand. Now the chimpanzee purported to be the original “Cheetah” in the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films may not have been in the films at all. And … Continue reading →

Meghan Peters of Mashable has a great article about digital journalism’s big moments of 2011. What is digital journalism, you say? It’s pretty much what used to be known as “journalism.” But it’s really a whole lot more and not … Continue reading →

Think back just ten years ago when the only online video you could watch without freezing, garbled sound, or ugly pixelization was visible only with a microscope. Cut to today and online videos not only play back consistently but the … Continue reading →

The Internet giveth quickly and taketh away just as fast. That’s what domain giant Go Daddy found when they lost 21,000 names in a matter of hours. It’s believed that the company’s support for SOPA- the Stop Online Piracy Act- … Continue reading →

This must be a tough time for doomsayers who proclaimed American manufacturing dead years ago. The latest news is that manufacturing expanded again in November with aircraft, heavy machinery, and durable goods solidly up. I can personally attest to this … Continue reading →

Whether you love or hate Apple, you’ve got to love this.

The Super Bowl of consumer culture that Christmas has become is the major reason I don’t care for it much anymore. What I do like is seeing old friends and family, the music (measured by minutes, not hours), and assessing … Continue reading →