Losing America’s History

Readers will remember that one of the companies I am involved with is CustomScoop, an online media monitoring service.  Our industry has typically been based on an "all you can eat" mentality, where there are no per clip fees or limits.  This can be explained by the original impetus for many of our services: a…

Steve Rubel points to a Pew statistic that shows 5 percent of users take advantage of RSS feeds.  That’s obviously a number that shows the technology is in its very early stages. The interesting thing to consider here is how RSS might impact politics in a few years.  For example, it could be used as…

Poynter Online reports: DenverPost.com’s podcasts are finding some funding. Executive producer Gil Asakawa reports that the retailer Best Buy is paying for a $30,000 campaign that begins October 3. The podcasts will have a short sponsor mention at the beginning, then a longer (10-second) product-specific mention at the end. [via Online News Squared]

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For a few years now, there has been talk about phone companies successfully competing with cable companies for your TV programming dollar. Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg’s speech at CES seems indicate that company is well down the path to competition by wiring 3 million homes so far with plans to double that by the end…

My Internet radio show, Disruptive Dialogue, is coming back.  It has been on hiatus since the last episode was recorded and released on July 4.  I had put it on the shelf because of time constraints and because, although I was getting positive feedback on it, I didn’t feel it had really found the right…