The Media Drop

The world of media has been a popular place for bloggers to hop into - whether it’s industry talk and some criticism (kind of like some of TMD’s topics) to media bias analysis - and now, we’ve got another entrant, this time on BusinessWeek Online’s site. The magazine’s Jon Fine is now writing Fine on […]

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Over at HD Beat, Kevin Tofel has an interview with media guy Mark Cuban - and it’s not all about basketball, either. Cuban talks about everything from the creation of HDNet to his goal of having multiple-outlet releases for film (home video/DVD, pay-per-view and theater). Read the whole thing.

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With all the hubbub and M&A activity going on in the world of weblogs this week, Josh Hallett thought it wise to be completely transparent as to some potential content deals he was working on.

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Wayyyy back in March, we heard that CRACKED magazine would be relaunching sometime this year with a spankin’ new website and a bit more multimedia than its previous iteration. Well, it’s here, and ready for your online enjoyment. As of right now, you’ll have to wait 103 days, 6 hours, 32 minutes until the print […]

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Just caught this news over at Fool.com where Rick Aristotle Munarriz details Comcast’s announcement that it would offer “as many as two live National Hockey League games from [their customers’] computers daily.”
This is awesome, as being a non-Comcast television customer, but a Comcast broadband customer, it gives me the best of both worlds, if you […]

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In what isn’t really surprising to me but what might be to others, CNN/Money has a story Wednesday about the possibility that mobile phone networks could be damaged or slowed by an individual or group who sent a flood of text messages its way. Truly, it’s like anything else of this sort - the pipes […]

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Rafat Ali pointed out yesterday that PaidContent.org is now accepting comments and trackbacks on individual postings - that’s great to hear, because that site has broken so many different stories and being able to follow the flow and evolution of those will be every enlightening.

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I’ve gotta say that I’m so psyched for hockey season starting up. I’m in a fantasy league for what seems to be the first time in years, and we’re ready to roll. HDNet is going to run 50-something games on its network, in staggeringly cool high definition, to add to the fun. What beats having […]

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Proving yet again that the biggest thing that will come out of Web 2.0 - or whatever we’re calling all the new and improved solutions, software, and technological advances - is choice, Microsoft has stated that Office 12 will do the one thing that many a person has wanted to do for years and years, […]

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