The Daily Loper – March 24, 2006

Todays links of interest:

• ‘99 Red Balloons’ Video to Air for an Hour
  Noted as a public service announcement.
• Toshiba Delays Hi-Def Players
  Given the constant shift of release dates, one thinks it might not be a case of the world note being ready for hi-def as much as hi-def not being ready for the world.
• Google Hits 500!
  The S&P 500 that is. What did you think I meant?
• Recasting the Concept of Podcasting: Part I
  80% of all podcasts never make it to a portable player. Care to guess how many of those go unlistened to?
• An Orchestra Of Laptops
  Gives a whole new meaning to the term "band geek".
• WB Censors Its Pilot, Serves It Uncut on the Web
  How to work around FCC fines? Go where they can’t catch you. WB (or rather the late, great WB) is showing heavily, well, censored content on television. You can catch the full program, in all its girl-kissing glory, online.
• CBS and Yahoo! Bring ”60 Minutes” to the Internet’s Most Popular Destination; A Preview of the Service Launches Sunday with Rare Tiger Woods Interview, Full Offering Starts This Fall
  First off: this wins the ‘loper award for longest headline. Second, just not feeling the love. How will I find this service? Do I need to find this service? And is "60 Minutes" really hip enough to start blogging?
• Extraterrestrial Radio Putting Listeners in a Trance
  It turns out that satellite radio offers variety. Who knew that radio could do that? And, yeah, terrestrial stations are panicking. They might even consider dumping the corporate playlist. Kidding…
• Designs On The Disaffected
  Office Pirates debuted last month. You noticed, right? It’s perfect for the disaffected office worker — if a little on the corporate branding side that disaffected office workers get enough of during the day.
• NBC Seeks to Come Off the Mat
  NBC wins the tap dance known as the upfronts thanks to a promise to exploit the hell out of alternative media. The other nets? Not so much.
• Advertising, Disrupted
  Traditional television ads are dead. Dead I tell you. In the future it will all be about the database of intentions.