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Today, Comcast is expected to close the deal on a 51% stake in NBC Universal. Comcast is the cable service provider in 25% of the homes in the United States. For NBC, the oldest broadcaster of record, this is the end of an era. Comcast, known primarily as a provider of the pipeline, will now be holder of one of
Great article over on TechCrunch today (by Paul Carr) about how social networking-based reporting may mean well, but actually causes more harm than good. In this case, the incident was the shootings at Fort Hood on Thursday, and the social networking site was Twitter. The military and its official spokespeople were informing the press (and by definition, the public) with
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
The origins of the Onion newspaper come from my hometown. In fact, I worked with a few of the staffers at other local University newspapers. I did do a couple "Satire" articles for the Onion, but nothing was published. Apparently, the Onion has a great reach - even to those who don't understand. Another article was re-published as actual news.
How many of us multi-task? How many of us multi-task to the point of distraction? I'm not talking about doing two or three things at once, but excessive multi-tasking. The kind that ends up with poor quality output on every task, not just a few. I am often guilty of this. I'm one of those "busy people" that tries to
Word (yes, pun intended) comes today that a Federal District Court judge has barred the sale of Microsoft Word until further notice. The ruling stems from a patent infringement lawsuit brought byI4i, a software company located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The infringement relates specifically to customized XML being used in the creation of XML and/or DOCX files. In addition to
I have to give it to Google; they are 99% of the time ahead of the game. They are bringing to bear things that other companies have only dreamed about. And when they get push-back, they give as good as they get. Today comes news that after Apple rejected the Google Phone app, Google has retooled the app and has