Media

Comcastic After All These Years

by bdunn on October 3, 2012

in Business, Communications, Media

Today I stood in line for approximately 20 minutes with approximately 20 other people, strangers at first, about half of whom were waiting for the privilege of returning various electronic boxes to Comcast in order to complete the process of dropping their cable TV service. It doesn’t matter why I dropped my TV service. Suffice [...]

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Facebucks

by bdunn on May 11, 2012

in Business, Media

I don’t think I’ve waded through so much hype over the coming initial public offering of a company’s stock since Google went public in 2004. Back then, Google gained its fame and fortune as the most useful of Internet search engines. To me, Facebook’s main claim to fame is that it has become the Internet [...]

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Requiem for a Mummy

by bdunn on May 8, 2009

in Government, Media

Members of Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee just held the latest in what’s become a series of hand-wringing sessions over the state of print journalism, having apparently discovered about 20 years after the fact that newspapers as a viable medium are dead. Said Jay: The numbers alone tell a chilling story. During [...]

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