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…
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…
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 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,…
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…
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. …
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…