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Bandwidth Shortage Will Keep Your Computer From Becoming Your TV
I saw Mark Cuban on C-SPAN the other day. He said there's not enough bandwidth available for rich media content distribution on the interweb. You can also read about it on his blog, where Cuban shares some of Craig Moffet's Congressional testimony: Despite a great deal of arm waving from “visionaries,” our telecommunications infrastructure is woefully unprepared for widespread delivery of advanced services, …
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Egg On A.P.’s Face
Huffington Post writer, Larisa Alexandrovna, was violated by Associated Press. AP writer, Katherine Shrader, plagiarised a piece Alexandrovna wrote for The Raw Story. While that sucks, it's not the worst part of this woeful tale. Upon being confronted about their lack of ethics, a senior editor and ombudsman at AP both admitted they lifted from the original piece, and chose not to credit, because "they don't credit …
Where Rockers Chow
This is a good ad from Duncan/Channon, but I find it difficult to believe it's the Best of Show winner in the latest San Francisco Addys competition. Adweek says it is, so I guess I need to accept that the Bay Area ad community has fallen on tough times. Either that, or the judges were unanimous in their fondness for mullet bands. …
The Medium Is Not The Message. The Message Is The Message.
According to BBC News, an anonymous blog by a young woman in war-torn Iraq has been longlisted for BBC Four's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Baghdad Burning, a first-hand account written under the pseudonym Riverbend, is one of 19 "books" in contention. The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced on 14 June. Here's some of the writing from her latest post, to give you an idea about why she's …
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Stop Projecting Human Qualities On Inanimate Objects
Marc Babej points to this Seed Magazine piece that debunks the idea that brands have personalities. Researchers from the University of Michigan and Harvard University discovered that despite being told over and over again, the American public won't really be "lovin'" their meal at McDonalds, doesn't actually believe Disneyland is "happy" and isn't under the impression that United Airlines' skies are all that …
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Whazzup With The Ink?
AdPulp user, Vinny Warren, picked up some glowing press from Lewis Lazare this morning. I wonder if he had to take the reporter to dinner or drinks. Writing about a print and outdoor campaign in support of OfficeMax's new refillable printer ink-cartridge program, Lazare said: There are few products in the vast pantheon of office supplies more mundane than printer ink. But DDB creative director Vinny Warren and his …
While The Valley Wags
Flickr founder, Caterina Fake, thinks it's not the best time to start a company, especially in the Bay Area. Every night there's a Mashup get together, or a TechCrunch party, or it's Tag Tuesday, or SuperHappyDevHouse or SXSW or this conference or that conference. And this stuff is fun. It's a real community. But all of these things are great by themselves, but terrible in combination. I see some entrepreneurs in …
Lurid Content Brings Mad Traffic
According to Technorati, Steve Rubel's site, Micropersuasion, has 10,733 links from 3,149 sites. I bet there are times—now, for instance—when Rubel wishes there were a link, or two, less. Strumpette, the latest entry into the PR blogging club, came out with all guns firing. In her first post, Amanda Chapel rips Rubel and his employer, Edelman, a new one. Rubel’s uncensored words are an indelible tattoo on the …
Old Guys Get Up To Internet Speed
Deanna Zammit and Eleftheria Parpis of Adweek have put together a funny piece on aging creative leaders, and their various techniques for staying current in today's digital milieu. "I used to think you could noodle something out on a pad and have someone else execute it on a computer," said Jeff Goodby, 54, co-chairman at Omnicom's Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. "But now I believe you have to understand technology …
