The Media Drop

From the “did they really just say that?” file comes a spot that’s been running for a few months now from Vitamin Water, featuring Kasey Kahne, who drives the #9 Dodge in NASCAR’s Nextel Cup Series. It features Kahne in what appears to be Tibet, working with some people in the country and building up […]

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When it comes to codes of conduct, ethics, and people being ever-so-stalwart to dig and dig into what people are doing and saying, the blogosphere has its serious ups and downs. But while the Web’s semi-disorganized yet sometimes-really-organized ways have left people to do much of the decision-making to themselves and the organizations they are […]

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Oregon Public Broadcasting is opening up its source code in a way by asking anyone within its community to become a source of the media outlet. They’re teaming up with American Public Media to launch what will be called the Public Insight Network®, and will handle things in a different manner than what we’ve traditionally […]

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Over at Lost Remote last week, Michael Gay pointed out the ability for you to now drop video content from MTV’s Overdrive into your blog. Quite a big change from *ahem* these days, when Overdrive only worked for Internet Explorer users.
Instantly, MTV is actually relevant to significant numbers of people who’ve grown up addicted […]

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Okay, so it’s not a fancy sports contract like most of you might be used to hearing about, but the Cincinnati Reds will have Marty Brennaman doing radio broadcasts for the club through 2010. The announcer, currently in his 43rd season in broadcasting, signed a contract extension that will keep him in the booth with […]

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The Associated Press is reporting that the National Football League will be offering high definition replays to officials to utilize during reviews taking place in games. Why is this just happening now? Oh, wait, it’s not cheap. My bad.

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Thilk sends along this story from today’s Chicago Tribune about how Tribune will be distributing - sans in-city boxes and newsstands - the Chicago Sun-Times on behalf of that publisher. But the kicker just so happens to be in the middle of Phil Rosenthal’s column:
Sources also said the Tribune’s profit from the arrangement will exceed […]

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