The Media Drop

A colleague of mine, Anna, pointed me to a great article on SI.com from Peter King, where King details a conversation he had - via text message - with Miami Dolphins QB Trent Green in the hours after Green was taken off the field with a concussion after hitting Houston Texans DT Travis Johnson in […]

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Late last week, I was given the heads up that the Times Square Alliance had announced that it would be enabling pretty much anyone with access to satellite feeds - and others who might only have access to public IP-based websites, the opportunity to see what is going on behind the setup for the big […]

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Wow, now here’s an interesting idea. Rebecca Blood points out that Ithaca College is running a film contest for students who shoot a 30-second film. Sounds easy, right? Well, it’s got to be shot completely from a cellphone.

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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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MediaPost’s Shankar Gupta informs about an effort by College Sports TV (CSTV) to bring live footage of sporting events (basketball games, in this case) directly to mobile phones via SmartVideo, which offers a pay-to-play service to phone users.
If at first this seems unnecessary to you, that’s fine. What’s important here is the wireless aspect […]

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