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Cycle This: Rating The Race & The Riders

July 2, 2010


A little after Wimbledon and just before the MLB pennant races heat up, a lot of people with foreign names wear spandex and race bicycles crazy fast up and down mountains in a far away land we love to visit and Fox News loves to criticize. Beginning today in Rotterdam and ending three weeks later in Paris, it’s the Tour de France.

2010 TV Ratings Up; 2009 Nielsen Revenue Down

February 28, 2010

2010 has been good to the TV ratings business but the 2009 revenue story for TV’s scorekeeper wasn’t as rosy.

Thinking Outside of the Polybag

January 27, 2010

Will Apple’s iPad save print or put the final nail in paper-based media’s coffin? Here’s one dream sequence about how things could work out for the best.

Woodstock: Peace, Love and Mud

September 21, 2009

Forty years ago this summer, Woodstock was the place to be…or so the media and fading memories of today’s baby boomers would have you believe. Peter Gordon, who spent summers in the Catskills not far from the Bethel, NY site of the Woodstock Music & Arts Festival, remembers it all quite differently.

The Crumbling Cookie of Web Measurement

June 23, 2009

Although Internet Advertising may be the fair haired child of the ROI set, it has its share of measurement problems.

Newspapers in Lumbago Days

June 2, 2009

If you think that the newspaper business is having a tough time today — read your history books.

Clean-up On Aisle 5

March 5, 2009

It’s all about shelf space and being eye-level with the consumer. Even on the Web.

Recently Released, The Prisoner Passes at 80

January 15, 2009

No longer imprisoned in your TV past, The Prisoner is online again.

Future Headline: I Don’t Like Ike

September 11, 2008

Contest idea: See if you can guess which major news organization will be the first to use the headline, “I Don’t Like Ike” to describe the hurricane now headed for Texas. For those of you aren’t up on your post-WWII political history, it’s the flip side of the 1952 campaign slogan for President Dwight Eisenhower.
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FCC Throttles COMCAST Over Internet Throttling

July 12, 2008

The FCC says NO to COMCAST’s interfering with P2P sites they feel are naughty and not nice to their network.