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A study is about to give Madison Avenue a fresh pummeling: McKinsey & Co. is telling a host of major marketers that by 2010, traditional TV advertising will be one-third as effective as it was in 1990
It will be interesting to see if advertisers continue to support TV as they have in the past, especially […]
Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McChesney in the Washington Post on net neutrality:
No Tolls on The Internet
Their idea is to stand between the content provider and the consumer, demanding a toll to guarantee quality delivery. It's what Timothy Wu, an Internet policy expert at Columbia University, calls "the Tony Soprano business model": By extorting protection […]
The Times Literary Supplement on the famous media theorist, Marshall McLuhan.
Famously – some would say notoriously – McLuhan defined television as a “cool” medium, that is one in which consumers felt they were participants, as opposed to a “hot” medium like radio where, he argued, they were more like passive recipients (few people talk back […]
Thomas Friedman hosts a Discovery/Times program on the effects of outsourcing on India. He highlights the burgeoning call centers and tech cultures, and how globalization is drastically changing Indian youth culture. (about 45 minutes long)
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The Other Side of Outsourcing
An article on AT&T from Salon:
Specifically, AT&T has hinted that it plans to charge Web companies a kind of toll to send data at the highest speeds down DSL lines into its subscribers' homes. The plan would make AT&T a gatekeeper of media in your home. Under the proposal, the tens of millions of people […]
A showdown may be looming over a free wireless internet network that New Orleans set up to boost recovery after Hurricane Katrina pummeled the city.
Calling the network vital to the city’s economic comeback, New Orleans technology chief Greg Meffert is vowing to keep the system running as is, even if it means breaking a state […]
Link to the pdf
Extremely detailed map of the North American Internet backbone
including 134,855 routers. the colors represent who each router is
registered to: red is Verizon, blue AT&T, yellow Qwest, green is
major backbone players like Level 3 & Sprint Nextel, black is the
entire cable industry put together, & gray is everyone else, from
small telecommunications companies to […]
GigaOm weighs in on ala Carte Cable:
The Myth of ala Carte Cable?: ”
Legislators are busy crafting together a bill that will allow consumers to get ala carte cable - which is to say they can pick and choose what cable channels they want. Cynthia Brumfield has a good overview of the situation and points to […]
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