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The Jay Leno Effect: Eyeballs Bail on Broadcast for Cable
When you sit down to watch TV at night (which you are still doing an awful lot of, no matter how much Web time you’re logging), you don’t distinguish between shows that are on broadcast TV and those on...
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Viral Video: The Long NBC Late-Night Nightmare Continues! (Well, for NBC, Not...
Oh, it goes from bad to worse and to much, much funnier. Here are a few new online videos about NBC’s best drama in years: The wrestling over its late-night lineup. It looks like “The Tonight Show”...
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Post-Legal Soap Opera: Skype CEO Josh Silverman Speaks!
Late last week, BoomTown sat down with Josh SIlverman, CEO of Skype, to get an update on the popular Internet telephony company. When we last checked in with Skype, it had turned into the “Peyton...
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More Yahoo Deal Scenarios Keep the Goat Rodeo Going Strong!
If wishes were horses, as the old proverb goes, all beggars would ride. Or, in the case of the incessant corporate drama around Yahoo: If wishes were deals, all bankers would get big fat fees. Even...
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The Facebook Movie Picks Up Golden Globe Noms, and Readies Its Oscar Close-Up
Wouldn’t it be cool if Mark Zuckerberg donned a hoodie-tuxedo and ran up and grabbed any statuette actor Jesse Eisenberg won over the next few months, as the Hollywood awards season gears up?...
View ArticlePutting Twitter Into a Historical Context
Certainly in the context of Twitter there are memorable tweets that reflect the drama of a particular moment, but the dilemma for Twitter, which is to some extent the challenge for all of us in this...
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The Failures and Fallacies of Mike Daisey's Apple Attack and the Media
Who in their right mind would lie to Ira Glass? That was my first reaction to the revelation that the theatrical monologuist Mike Daisey had lied or fabricated — or in his words, “taken dramatic...
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Exclusive: Digital Chief Jon Miller Leaving News Corp.
According to sources close to the situation, News Corp.’s Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller will soon be leaving the media giant. It seems to be a cordial, although perhaps inevitable, parting —...
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The Kids Love Twitter; Facebook, Not So Much
Flickr/Ei KatsumataAs far as social networks go, recent popular opinion suggests Facebook, for all its reach and power, just ain’t cool anymore. Most of those claims have been anecdotal. The most...
View ArticleViral Video: "Downton Abbey" Trailer (Admit It, You Care)
The Crawleys. Their servants. The clothes. Back. Enjoy the trailer from the British television hit:
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