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New Media

Should You Pay For Content?

I was listening to a podcast where the hosts were chatting back and forth about the newly offered Hulu Plus, where for $10 dollars a month, you can get Hulu on a wide variety of devices including smart phones and over-the-top Internet TV boxes. Hulu is also offering a somewhat wider, but still incomplete back catalog archive of shows. One

Why Did The Initial Joost Experiment Fail?

A few years ago remember seeing all those “Joost” commercials pushing their Internet TV application? “Proper TV – Joost” the sophisticated-sounding British spokesman endlessly blurted out towards the end of the ad. Of course, the initial Joost experiment ended badly. The Joost application stopped working December 19, 2008. Literally millions of dollars went down the drain. I remember downloading and

Ending A Relationship

Our relationship had always been so full of promise and fun. Being gone so much of the time due to my job was certainly a strain. Even so, when I was around, I didn’t make many demands. Something was coming between us. Lately I’ve been looking elsewhere and slowly began finding satisfaction on the Internet. The thought of divorce has

Do Paywalls Ever Make Sense?

There was a recent article at Arstechnica.Com describing how The Times in the U.K. ended up cutting its web traffic in half by simply requiring registration so that viewers could read their articles. Prior to this, the articles on the site were freely available. The registration requirement is in anticipation of their future paywall plans. I have to admit that

TechPodcasts.TV

I want to Introduce TechPodcasts.tv which is part of the Tech Podcast Network. TechPodcasts.tv will centralize the best tech video content in the new media space. Content for the site comes from member shows.  TechPodcasts.Tv like the Tech Podcast Network will be a central place where you can get family safe content by a variety of content creators. We built

Will online media become a monthly subscription?

Rumors are circling that Apple is proposing an online TV media subscription model.  For just $30/month you could possibly have access to the archive of syndicated shows and the new shows as they come.  Later in the day I read of a favorite tutorial site, which shall remain nameless until I do a proper review, was bumping its fees to

Want to see an Internet Oxymoron?

Check out this screenshot. Tell me why it's an Oxymoron: If you said "This is an Associated Press article - I CANNOT share it on Mixx, Buzz, Digg, Reddit, Facebook or Newswire", then you are correct! If you go to the A.P.s site, you do not see any sharing widgets. However, if you go to the sites that pay for