The Daily Loper – April 26, 2006

Today’s links of interest:

• Yahoo Releases DVR Software for PC
  Guess what. Yahoo isn’t competing with TiVo. They’re about to start their own network. Full Medialoper review to follow.
• Samsung grabs iPod design win
  Samsung will be producing the media processor chips for the next generation iPods. Why does this matter? Samsung is one of the companies rumored to be developing an mp3 player for the new Amazon music service.
• SCI FI announces Galactica spin-off!
  Uh-oh. Quick, name three great spin-offs from great shows. Frasier. Angel. er, um, er.
• Bush picks pundit as spokesman
  Tony Snow jumps from Fox News to become the White House spokesman. I wonder what going from the private sector to the public will do to his cost-per-lie ratio?
• NAB/RTNDA: Fear Of The Frog
  TVNewser covers a convention that involves parasols, frogs, and terror of blogs. Not necessarily in that order.
• Sites Vie To Be the Next MySpace
  Oh yeah, meant to mention, BBC? You have a lot of competition. Just so you know.
• BBC to shake up web with more interactivity
  BBC goes 2.0, plans to challenge MySpace in the Battle of the Bands. Popcorn, anyone?
• What’s the Message Behind Evening Newscasts’ Theme Songs? (Public Eye)
  Wow — someone actually puts thought into newscast theme songs (which, we surmise, means that newscasts have theme songs…something we might have guessed had we watched one in the past twenty years). Also, CBS has a blog. Just thought you should know.
• Mick Jagger Joins a New ABC Sitcom
  Really, what else is there to say?
• BBC Is Criticized Over Web Site Plans
  The BBC is accused by Rupert Murdoch’s company of using public monies to build a "digital empire" to compete with commercial interests. Because global empires are only for News International. Oh, and "Lost."
• Disney signs rev-sharing contracts for ?Lost? mobisodes
  If "Lost" takes over the entire planet, wouldn’t that mean that also include the Lostaways? Or maybe it already has, which would explain all of those coincidences like when Jin saw Hurley on TV or that other time when
• To Reboot Or Not To Reboot?
  Will JJ Abrams be able to reboot the Star Trek franchise in the same way that Ron Moore rebooted Battlestar Galactica? Dunno, but it had been a few days since we had mentioned Battlestar Galactica.