Nielsen has announced organizational changes which will give set top box data greater visibility in the ratings company as well as testing to see how STB data compares to the ratings currency.

It’s Independence Day 2010 — and many of us aren’t feeling quite as independent as we did a few years ago. At least a million people without steady work will lose their unemployment benefits this week.

The pressures of meeting a mortgage, feeding a family, paying taxes and staying afloat are obvious. Valerie Menowsky says some of the other impacts and frustrations of being less than fully employed are less visible.

If you find yourself going online to learn what’s going on around town, you’re not alone. More Americans are using digital tools to complement face to face encounters with neighbors and friends to keep current on what’s up — downtown.

Google TV combines two commonly used consumer technologies into a can’t miss new product.

Just the same way AT&T’s Picturephone combined TV and the telephone almost 50 years ago. As Sarah Palin might say, “how’s that working out for you?”

LA consumers don’t have to pay an arm and a leg to see premium cable programming. Says who? Sezmi, a startup over-the-air-TV service.

Why would publicity seeking Sarah Palin, a politician with a streak of independence, make a pre-Independence Day announcement designed to avoid publicity?

Hyperbole alert: Will Google’s investment in AltaRock Energy turn Nevada into beachfront property?

A home-made Madoff political satire submission for public radio.

There’s a new WhiteHouse.gov in DC and they take their tech seriously.

Why should Ronald Reagan have all of the fun?