Thoughts & Experiences from the Mile High City
In a posting on her website, Veronica Belmont announced that she was leaving CNET to produce a daily video show on Mahalo.
Read the announcement, “Big (early) announcement day!“
Veronica will definitely be missed on Buzz Out Loud and I look forward to watching her show on Mahalo.
A good day for Veronica and a bad day for us BOL diehards. Molly and Tom, don’t leave!
Russian Probe Shuts Media Foundation – washingtonpost.com
While many other things are going on in the world, Russia is slowly clamping down on rights and privileges, without much cause or concern from around the world.
They took a media foundation that trains journalists and closed it down for a mistake. Not one world from the U.S. Government or any other government around the world.
I think that we need to be careful of Russia and provide more insight on what is happening there to the outside world. Otherwise they are going to be back where they were many years ago, treating their people poorly and scaring the entire world.
Apple’s New iPhone | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
The Onion has come out with the specs for the new iPhone due out from Apple on June 29.
Who knew it could do all this stuff?
This is pretty good article for all of those who are tired of all this iPhone news.
I will vouch that David Meerman Scott has published a book so his mom will know.
He just posted a YouTube video having everyone who attended his keynote show his mom the book.
I attended the Vocus User Conference and have a copy of the book. I am just starting to read it and it is interesting and I hope to learn a lot from it. It was good to hear him speak and he had a lot of good points on how the world of marketing and PR is evolving and changing.
Here is the Book: The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing and Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly
If you know where to look, you can see me.
A reporter for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, was told that blogging at games was against NCAA regulations and was escorted from the game.
Brian Bennett had been blogging the third game of the Louisville – Oklahoma State Super Regional baseball game, just like he had done the previous two games when he was approached by a representative of the NCAA and told what he was doing violated NCAA regulations and the NCAA official pulled his credential for the game. Continue reading “Reporter Blogging NCAA Regional Baseball Game Kicked Out”
I like to read news via RSS. I use Google Reader to read posts and I am trying to add the Denver Post to the reader so I can read the feeds.
But, they are driving me to use their own reader. I just want the feeds. Give me the feeds.
Contrast that to the Rocky Mountain News, the Post competitor, and they provide a whole page of rss feeds.
This is the way to do it. Make it easy for me to get and subscribe to the information. I always knew why I like the Rocky better.
In an article that appeared on the weekend edition of CNet’s News.com website, newspaper publisher’s are harshing on Google wondering why they are getting a free ride.
Last month in a speech at Stanford University, the Tribune Co’s new owner wanted to know, “If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, how profitable would Google be?”
But the problem is that newspapers get about 25% of their traffic from search engines. If they start trying to get compensated for this coverage, then they will lose viewership and revenue.
Basically, if someone can’t find you on Google, then you don’t exist on the web. Whether that is right or wrong, it is the truth.
When I search news stories on the Internet, I am searching for specific stories. If I can’t find them, then they don’t exist. It would be best for them to let Google index them and make them available so I can find them.
That increases views and that increases their ad revenue.
The newspaper business is changing from a paper based model to a mixed paper and electronic and will soon be all-electronic.
If they don’t adapt and move towards new ad revenues, then they won’t be around. And that would be a bad thing.
Now don’t get me started on subscription based newspaper websites. I think that they are stupid. More soon.
Read the entire CNET story: “Newspapers want Google News’ quarter“
Well in my inspection of using an online reader for the New York Times, I stumbled upon the New York Times Reader.
This has been in Beta and is coming out of it soon. It may already be out of it.
This is really cool. It takes the paper and continuously updates it. If your device does not have internet access, you can read the latest version it downloaded. It is pretty simple.
It automatically scales to your screen size and it is quite easy to navigate between sections and pages. I think this will revolutionize newspapers and how they are read.
But there is one problem. The New York Times is charging $14.95 a month after 30 days. This is ridiculous. They sure know how to kill a good thing.
The New York Times is still living in the print world. If they want people to use it and make money, they need to charge a lot less. They would get a lot more subscribers.
I am awaiting NBC‘s decision on when Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip will return.
For some reason, NBC has placed Studio 60 on hiatus because it hasn’t been getting the ratings. But if you add in the statistics of people who are recording it on their DVR and watching it later versus live, the numbers are a lot higher. That doesn’t even take into account the number of people who are buying it on iTunes.
In the meantime, NBC is running programming that is horrible and not even worth watching. Need I mention the show The Real Wedding Crashers airing tomorrow night?
For the most part I have stopped watching NBC except for a few shows. Here is the stu
Bring back Studio 60. According to a post in TV Squad, Studio 60 is still filming and will have 22 episodes in the can. If you don’t want to bring it back, put up the rest of the episodes on iTunes so I can purchase them.
It was one of the best shows on television and NBC’s ratings will only go lower if this is gone. TV Squad also had a good post on why Studio 60 won’t be brought back and 30 Rock will be.
Well I just signed up for the New York Times Electronic Edition. It was free for seven days and then is going to become a version that charges
In the process, it kept having page failures and it created two accounts for me. But in their account maintenance page, I must call a phone number in order to cancel. The New York Times uses a service called NewsStand. I would stay away from it if I were you.
This is ridiculous. I should be able to cancel my subscription/account online without having to call someone.
Finally, I am not impressed with the service that they. It allows me to download to my computer and browse offline, but I want it in PDF, not whatever weird form that they have.
Improve the service and I may come back.
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