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Archives for April 2006

The Daily Loper – April 30, 2006

April 30, 2006 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Jon Favreau to direct Marvel’s Iron Man movie
    Has he lost his mind?
  • PC user sued for illegally downloading 2 films
    There. That oughta stop film piracy once and for all. Quoth the woman being sued: ""They weren’t even good movies."
  • TV or more TV?
    Um, more TV, please.
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The Perpetual Campaign Ad

April 30, 2006 by Jim Connelly

Is there anything on TV more infuriating than the political ad? If you agree with the candidate or issue, then you really don’t need to see it, and if you disagree, then you end up tallying all of the distortions of your reality that you see in the spot.

Each time an election draws near, I often wish that the fast-forward could go a little bit faster, or that I didn’t watch things like the World Series in real time, as I get pounded over and over with shoddily-produced, unhumorous ads that all look and sound alike.

However, as is often the case, what pisses off the consumers is seen as good news for the executives, so it is that Cable ad executives are looking forward to the plethora of spots that will plague the rest of us.

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Filed Under: Services, Television Tagged With: Advertising, cable, Comcast, video-on-demand

The Weekly ‘Loper – April 30, 2006

April 30, 2006 by Jim Connelly

While you were busy emptying your savings account to buy another tank of gas, here are some of things that we were discussing:

  • Is The Future Of Magazines Glossy? – Turns out that the future of magazines might just be email, baby.
  • Television As A Hunter-Gatherer Experience – Why we’d all be better off if the networks decided not put their shows on their own websites, and stuck to using portals.
  • Dancing About TV – A look at TV critics who blog about TV on the side.
  • ‘Loper Challenge! Test Drive Pandora – Check out Pandora and let us know what you think — you could win a Medialoper T-Shirt: suitable for wearing!
  • That’s What I Like: eMusic – Kirk discusses what just might be the only online music download service that looks at things from the perspective of the music lover who wants to listen to anything, anywhere, anytime: eMusic.
  • This Lawsuit Isn’t Just A Cheap Trick – Why The Cheap Trick / Allman Brothers lawsuit against Sony Music could be a heckuva lot bigger than say, Cheap Trick and the Allman Brothers.
  • Google’s Puzzling Move – Are those “Crack the DaVinci Code” ads at the bottom of every search results page the precursor to the decontextualization of advertising on Google?

Filed Under: The Weekly 'Loper

The Daily Loper – April 29, 2006

April 29, 2006 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Fundraising via download: Sweet music to nonprofits
    Creative fundraising, new technology. We like it.
  • Rhode Island embarks on wireless network
    And Rhode Island enters the battle. Go Rhode Island!
  • County Considers Free Wi-Fi for Residents
    As the network neutrality battle heats up, local agencies look to offer better service to their constituents. Of course, in Texas, the phone companies put an end to that nonsense.
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Google’s Puzzling Move

April 29, 2006 by Kirk Biglione

It’s no secret that Google is virtually printing money with its contextual advertising business. If you’ve read The Search you know that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were originally adamantly opposed to selling advertising alongside Google’s search results. It was only after Google developed a way to deliver advertising that was relevant to the context of a user’s search that Brin and Page embraced advertising as a business model.

With this in mind it’s kind of strange to notice that Google is currently running ads promoting the Da Vinci code on literally every results page, regardless of what is being searched for. Take a look at the bottom of the page, right below links to the ‘next results’.

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Filed Under: Google Tagged With: Advertising, Da-Vinci-Code, Google

The Daily Loper – April 28, 2006

April 28, 2006 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Sony To Launch iPod Rival
    If I had a dollar for every time Sony launched an iPod rival Medialoper HQ would be in Tahiti.
  • ‘Saturday TV Funhouse’ Gets Its Own ‘Saturday Night Live’ Special
    This is totally a reason to tivo SNL this weekend.
  • Branch Goes the Speakeasy Route
    Stores for the new world: Here today, gone tomorrow. Literally. You don’t need the physical story anyway.
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This Lawsuit Isn’t Just A Cheap Trick

April 28, 2006 by Kassia Krozser

Way back in the early eighties, a revolution happened. Giddy with the power of new technology, motion picture studios rushed to release their back catalogs on the new-fangled videocassettes (and some on laser discs, but that’s a story for another day). They knew full well that this was a foolhardy decision, but with dollar signs in their eyes, how could they resist this new revenue stream?

Why foolhardy? Because the existing agreements with talent, from a participations and residuals perspective, didn’t cover this new distribution channel. With residuals, somehow the studios won and were allowed to continue to calculate payments as a percentage of a 20% royalty calculation. As I noted earlier this week, the guilds aren’t likely to take this forever.

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Filed Under: Mediacratic, Music Tagged With: Allman-Brothers, Cheap Trick, class-action-suits, iTunes, lawsuits, music industry, Sony

That’s What I Like: eMusic

April 28, 2006 by Kirk Biglione

At the risk of sounding like an old timer I’m going to tell you some Internet trivia that you might find hard to believe: iTunes was not the first online music service to sell downloadable songs for 99 cents. Back in 1998 a site called Good Noise started selling a small catalog of songs for just under a dollar. The iPod hadn’t even been born yet. In fact, Apple had just barely launched the iMac product line. It was a different world back then.

Good Noise eventually became eMusic and dropped the per song pricing in favor of a subscription model. While the structure of eMusic’s subscription pricing has changed over the years, it is still arguably the best digital music service around.

I’ve been a paying eMusic subscriber for many years, and here’s why:

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Filed Under: Music, That's What I Like Tagged With: emusic, mp3

How To Figure Out Who Will Win The HD DVD Format Wars

April 27, 2006 by Jim Connelly

We’ve made a lot of fun of the HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray format wars, and rightly so. After all, it’s very entertaining to point out the parallels to VHS vs. Beta, and — more ominiously — SACD vs. HDCD (everybody say “huh?”); the troubles getting product to consumers and the possibility of no backwards compatibility with older HD TVs.

Obviously, watching high-definition films in the privacy of your own home is such a perfect 21st century idea I guess it’s no wonder that more than one consortium of evil multinational technology and entertainment companies had it at roughly the same time.

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Filed Under: HD DVD/Blu-Ray Tagged With: Blu-Ray, Digital-Playground, HD-DVD, porn

The Daily Loper – April 27, 2006

April 27, 2006 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Net Neutrality Provision Rejected
    Well, all the Internet is good for is porn and crime, so who needs it to be open to everybody in the same way anyways?
  • Skype to Sell .50 Ringtones
    Great. Not only can you annoy total strangers with your awful taste in music via your cellphone, you can now do it with your laptop.
  • It Won’t Be Kirk And Spock
    JJ Abrams contradicts the Variety report that the next Star Trek movie will be about the young Kirk & Spock.
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