Open Thread
I don't care what time it is, unlock his cell, unstrap him, and bring
him to the thread!
-Atrios 22:36
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Spare Us the Pieties
Wolcott.
-Atrios 19:14
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"Competence Hearing"
Wow. Just wow.
-Atrios 18:42
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We're All Tivo Now
Yes non-Tivo owners hate my Tivo posts. But, anyway, congrats to
Rocketboom for getting a Tivo distribution deal which might actually
make some money for them.
AMANDA CONGDON is a big star on really small screens - like the
4�- inch window she appears in on computer monitors every
weekday morning or the 2� inches she has to work with on the
new video iPod. Ms. Congdon, you see, is the anchor of a daily,
three-minute, mock TV news report shot on a camcorder, edited
on a laptop and posted on a blog called Rocketboom, which now
reaches more than 100,000 fans a day.
...
In case you're wondering, it has occurred to Mr. Baron and Ms.
Congdon that they just might be sitting on a gold mine. At a
cost of about $20 an episode, they reach an audience that some
days is roughly comparable in size to that of, say, CNN's late,
unlamented "Crossfire" political debate show. They have no
background in business, but Jeff Jarvis, who tracks
developments in technology and culture on his blog,
BuzzMachine.com (and who has served as a consultant to The New
York Times on Web matters), pointed out to them that they might
be able to charge $8,000 for an interactive ad at the end of
the show, which would bring in about $2 million annually.
The financial opportunity here has occurred to others, too.
TiVo, which can now be used to watch Web video on home
television sets, just signed a deal to list Rocketboom in the
TiVo directory - making it as easy to record as conventional
television programs like "60 Minutes" and "Monday Night
Football." Giving up no creative control, Ms. Congdon and Mr.
Baron will get 50 percent of the revenue from ads sold by TiVo
to appear before and after their newscast, and their show will
gain access to more than 300,000 TV sets connected to those new
TiVo boxes
Tivo isn't quite there yet, but they're half a step away from having a
system in place such that anyone can put video content directly on
your TV set, if you want it to be, over the internet. They've added
support for audio podcasting, and all they need to do is allow video
too (and, to be a bit more practical, allow for some formats other
than MPEG-2 to be used). Then, suddenly, anyone will be able to
produce video, put it up on a server somewhere, and have people watch
it on their TVs. Again, they're not there yet, but a system could
easily be implemented such that all you have to do is click on a link
and it'll get downloaded to your Tivo automatically, soon if not quite
immediately, or of course let you subscribe to a regular feed as you
can a podcast. You could, perhaps, subscribe to a Crooks and Liars
feed and have all the clips just sitting there waiting for you when
you got home. Of course, that might hurt John's traffic/revenue model
but Tivo could also put into place a generalized revenue sharing
program which could automatically wrap clips with ads, if the video
author wanted.
The rumored Apple Tivo killer, if it's real, might get there first.
...and, via ZatzNotFunny, they're obviously thinking along those
lines.
-Atrios 18:06
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Open Thread
She does pretty well with threads from hell.
-Atrios 16:36
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Vivak Roundup
Jeralyn.
RedHedd.
Greg Mitchell.
-Atrios 12:32
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Luskin - Big Liar
While there isn't all that much that is enlightening in Novak's piece
what we do learn is that Luskin has been less than forthcoming with
the press. Before this we were never entirely sure what Luskin knew
when. That is, when he declared that "If Matt Cooper is going to jail
to protect a source it's not Karl he's protecting" there was some
possibility that his client had just been less than forthcoming to
him.
However now we know that sometime between January and May Viveca Novak
told him that Rove was Matt Cooper's source, so he knew.
Luskin's not a journalist, he's an attorney, and he's free to lie to
the press on behalf of his client. But there have been numerous
articles which have been based on information from a source who is
most likely Luskin so journalists should be taking what he says with a
few grains of salt.
-Atrios 11:19
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Fristed
Frist, still big liar.
-Atrios 11:03
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Novak
Viveca Novak's tale us up now. I'm not sure there's anything that
enlightening in it, but she sure did screw up big time.
-Atrios 11:01
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Freight
Oh fucking hell.
-Atrios 10:23
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Kafka's America
We just live in in it.
-Atrios 10:20
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Open Thread
She does pretty well with threads from hell.
-Atrios 08:16
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Open Thread
We saved the thread. I say we have to party.
-Atrios 03:16
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