The Media Drop

Hey Business Wire, you know that I love you, but what’s up with your feeds only having the first few words of any press release? Makes it kind of annoying while I’m traveling to not be able to see whole items. Just a thought.
Oh, and PRN, what’s up with the feeds I have for you? […]

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Before saying anything, I’m linking to the place where the best tribute I’ve seen for something like this has been done.
For those of you who’ve known me for awhile, you’ll probably remember that I launched AdJab for Weblogs, Inc. back on Super Bowl Sunday of 2005. I’d been working on the project for months and […]

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Now that title may seem a big aggressive, but I’m not sure that is completely the case. On Saturday, CBS Radio announced its second major firing in a month, this time with “The Dog House with JV and Elvis” being booted from the network’s WFNY-AM station.
Whether or not the firing is justified or not […]

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You know, it’s a fantastic thing to have someone who works on your staff that pours over media the way that I do. Well, when I have the time. This morning, Chris Thilk IMed me this gem of a post from Jeff Jarvis, where he’s talking about having participated in an event with Rupert Murdoch […]

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Dear Internet,
Please stop subscribing me to your mailing lists. I don’t mind the pitches (as long as I actually write about what you’re sending me) and everything else that comes in (sans spam, natch) but if I’m not subscribing to your mailing list, and have no idea who you are, you should know that you’re […]

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This is iyet another reason why I’ve been in love with Netflix since day one and feel they have the edge over Blockbuster, even with that company’s latest announcement that customers can return any mailed video to a store location and get a free rental. I mean, free rentals are great and all, but 90% […]

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Last weekend, we finally got the DirecTV HD programming and dish set up so we could fully utilize the television we have at home, and while the number of channels available is kind of disappointing (and I don’t want to hear about cable this or that, I’m not changing), some of the programming is flat […]

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FMQB informs about a bill introduced by a Vermont legislator to halt the possibility of censorship of programming on cable/satellite television and the Internet.
Want to see an uproar of the financial sense? People would start seriously limiting their cable television and other Internet usage if censorship went into effect across the board […]

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Matthew Sheffield penned his “last words” on Dan Rather for the moment, after years of working the RatherBiased.com website with his brother Greg. There’s no need to point out what the highlights are, because it’s all well worth the time it’ll take you to read - along with the links.
When they said “The Last […]

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Via Steve Rubel, I’ve just heard about Susan Mernit’s post about the Associated press (quietly) putting RSS feeds up on their website. I’ve got to say that not only am I really psyched about this, but I think it has a lot bigger of an impact than we’re immediately thinking.
This comes shortly after Business […]

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