February 2012
Young People Are Watching, but Less Often on TV -... →
Americans ages 12 to 34 are spending less time in front of TV sets, even as those 35 and older are spending more, according to research that will be released on Thursday by Nielsen, a company that tracks media use.
The divide along a demographic line reveals the effect of Internet videos, social networks, mobile phones and video games — in short, all the alternatives to the television set that...
Apple to Announce iPad 3 First Week in March -... →
Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2, and will do so at one of its trademark special events. The event will be held in San Francisco, presumably at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apple’s preferred location for big announcements like these.
No word yet on a street date for the iPad 3 (assuming that’s what it’s called), though my...
KCET's costly exit from PBS - latimes.com →
The network, which severed ties with PBS last year, announced a new slate of spring programming Wednesday, includingdocumentaries and a BBC detective series import, that executives hope will attract new viewers — and, potentially, new donors. But financial documents obtained by The Times show that the station’s balance sheet has taken a big hit since it left PBS at the start of 2011....
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“A sad fate for a once-great company. But when not selling a product saves you...”
– Daring Fireball: Kodak to Stop Selling Digital Cameras
To put this news in perspective, remember that Apple made almost $50 Billion last quarter. $100 Million is a rounding error for Apple, but could make all the difference to Kodak. - Shane
The iPad at work, Day 3: making adjustments |... →
By the end of my three-day experiment, I felt as though I’d gotten the hang of working on my iPad. I felt like cursing it only once, when Safari reloaded a tab in which I’d been writing, erasing all of my progress. And there were Mac things that I definitely hadn’t missed: the spinning beachball, for example. The iPad’s snappiness rivaled that of my MacBook Air, and I rarely felt as though I was...
What Professional Designers Can Learn from the DIY... →
What changed? In short: the Internet. The web has provided budding entrepreneurs with easy access to the materials, manufacturers, and talent that previously required corporate relationships and massive scale to acquire. It also allows entrepreneurs to better understand what they should be building - just by asking around online. It even provides the market, giving vendors access to scores of...
“In yet another blow to troubled Research in Motion, one of the world’s...”
– Halliburton to ditch BlackBerrys in corporate transition to Apple’s iOS platform
US Air Force may buy 18,000 Apple iPads for cargo... →
The Air Mobility Command’s planned purchase could prove to be the largest single federal order for iPad 2 units, according toNextgov. The site spotted the AMC’s plans in a Federal Business Opportunities posting, where it revealed it plans to buy a “minimum of 63 and a maximum of 18,000 iPad 2” units or “equal devices.” Though the iPad was the only tablet named...
Announcing OpenNews: The Knight Mozilla... →
This morning, our Mozilla partners announced the “retooling” of the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership under a new name, OpenNews. We began talking with Mozilla in 2010 and launched the project a year ago to advance media innovation and the open web. As Project Lead Dan Sinker says in his post today, “two years is an eternity on the internet.”
“If Samsung was targeting Apple customers then why did they make fun of us by...”
– Samsung Shoots At Apple, Hits The Customer — Shawn Blanc
The Most Influential Business Book Of The Last 30... →
According to the authors, excellence is all about a focus on people, customers, and action.
Those three focus areas of people, customers, and action in turn created the 8 famous variables or themes identified in Excellence:
A Bias for Action - Active decision making; “ready-fire-aim; experimentation;
Close to the Customer - Understanding the customer; obsession with service and...
“As people increasingly share stories, videos, and tips through their networks,...”
– Teaching News Literacy in the Digital Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
NBC's Super Bowl XLVI live stream draws 2.1... →
The first live stream of the Super Bowl drew 2.1 million unique viewers, NBC said Thursday.
That’s a small fraction of the record 111.3 million viewers that watched NBC’s broadcast of the big game. But it was still enough to make it the most-watched single-game sports event online, according to the network.
Kevin Monaghan, managing director of digital media for NBC Sports Group,...
'Apple HDTV' imagined in Best Buy survey: 42-inch... →
Best Buy appears to be sending surveys to customers getting feedback on potential new products and services — something that virtually every consumer-facing company does on a regular basis — but one thing stood out this time around: the very first product in this survey that Best Buy asks about is the oft-rumored Apple iTV, identified here as the “Apple HDTV.” The big box wants to know...
Reuters productizes social media through Social... →
Just as a marketplace developed around aggregating disparate news feeds, a new one is forming for services that can coalesce the raw noise of social networks. Like any good media company, Reuters has tried to be diligent in using the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and now of course YouTube to bring its journalism to new audiences and expand their brand. Social Pulse is an experiment in finding...
Amazon about to open a retail store: reports -... →
A pair of industry bloggers are reporting that Amazon.com is about to open a bricks-and-mortar store in Seattle to test the waters for a retail launch.
Michael Kozlowski, editor in chief of Good e-Reader, quoted “Amazon sources close to the situation” as saying the store would concentrate on “books from their growing line of Amazon Exclusives” as well as e-readers and tablets.
“They are not...
“TV manufacturers have mostly been concerned with hardware improvements: bigger...”
– The Shift From Watching TV to Experiencing TV
“Traditional TV networks have already been disrupted by time-shifting devices,...”
– Get Ready For a World of Connected Devices
The Future of the Book Is the Stream - The... →
courtenaybird:
“What if you could re-define books’ value proposition? What if book-buying became less about one-off salesmanship, and more about ongoing membership? What if you didn’t buy books so much as join them?”
My hesitation with ebooks is the price. For what they cost, I want something physical in return. This subscription model would be an appealing compromise.
“The Daily has been limited by the structure of the app itself, which renders...”
– After a Year, The Daily Tablet Paper Struggles - NYTimes.com
“Hsieh plans to turn downtown Las Vegas into something resembling Austin. The...”
– Tony Hsieh’s Excellent Las Vegas Adventure | Inc.com
“Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and...”
– Salman Rushdie (via usgroovykids)
Army Colonel Challenges Pentagon’s Afghanistan... →
Colonel Davis, 48, began an unusual one-man campaign of military truth-telling. He wrote two reports, one unclassified and the other classified, summarizing his observations on the candor gap with respect to Afghanistan. He briefed four members of Congress and a dozen staff members, spoke with a reporter for The New York Times, sent his reports to the Defense Department’s inspector general — and...