Evidence Local News Isn’t News: The Rain

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Last night, a puddle formed in Sherman Oaks. ABC 7 Eyewitness News had team coverage with Live Mega Doppler 7000 HD Plus.

Leading, yes, leading the 11 o’clock newscast was a story about the 1/10 inch of rain that drenched Los Angeles. The in depth report featured some residents surprised by the “April showers” and “cold” […]

What happened to The Ben & Dave Show?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Just a week after being called “a little hottie” (albeit indirectly) by Ben Harvey1, The Ben and Dave Show on HERE! Networks2 seems to have been cancelled.
I checked the podcast this afternoon to get the latest episode, only to be greeted by a 404.3 I searched Facebook and could no longer find the show’s fan […]

Amazon Kindle versus Paper, the leading DRM free book format

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Amazon launched its attempt to bring books to the digital realm with Kindle, a new eBook reader, this week.
Heralding Kindle as its Apple iPod, Amazon forgot the timeless lessons from the digital music revolution: proprietary, restricted formats with a single vendor lock in are A Bad Thing. The forgetfulness is rather ironic because the Amazon […]

The Survival of Newspapers

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Web portals profiting from the news business help the news industry. The survival of newspapers rests in the hands of those willing to adapt to changing reader demands.
On NPR’s Marketplace today, Neil Henry argued that Google should subsidize news reporters and editors because its free Google News service is responsible for declining newspaper readership.
Readership is […]