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Archives for September 2006

The Daily Loper – September 18, 2006

September 18, 2006 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Lohan breaks wrist in fall
    We only mention this because if she sues for a fall she took at a party, Lindsay Lohan officially passes Paris Hilton as The Worst Celebrity In The World.
  • iPod fans ‘shunning iTunes store’
    Something about this study feels wrong..maybe it’s the conclusions, not the assertions.
  • Former FCC chairman denies seeing media ownership study
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, but was he listening when people said this would happen?
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Filed Under: The Daily Loper

Playing For One Night Only: The Fall Television Season

September 18, 2006 by Kassia Krozser

Studio 60 promo shotAs you may have heard (or more likely seen, especially if you’ve been at a red light next to a bus), the 2006 – 2007 television season kicks off officially tonight. Starting tonight, approximately two dozen shows will attempt to find an audience; starting tonight, approximately two dozen shows will be biting their nails and hoping to survive until morning.

Television is not a sport for wimps.

Networks and studios spend months picking just the right shows, millions on production costs, sleepless nights on creating marketing campaigns, and far too many Post-Its to mention on setting just the right programming schedules to tempt our eyeballs. Then they ruin it all by throwing everything they’ve got at us all at once.

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Filed Under: Focusing on the Wrong Problem, Television Tagged With: fall-season, Television, TV

The Daily Loper – September 17, 2006

September 17, 2006 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • The Media Assault on Male Body Image
    Sure, women will snicker when they read about this. Just remember that men used to snicker when women first started talking about the media’s impact on female body image.
  • Explore banned books
    We’re gearing up for Banned Books week around here. Let’s get this party started.
  • UK-FX tries commercial to combat ad-skipping
    It remains clear that the powers-that-be do not understand the purpose of commercial breaks…without them, we’d never refill our wine glasses.
  • Applause for lonelygirl15, and DVD Extras
    We’re giving Virginia Heffernan the final word because she owns this story. Plus the LG15 team is also the Zune team, and they’re resting up after week of thrilling news.
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The Weekly ‘Loper – September 17, 2006

September 17, 2006 by Jim Connelly

While you were exploiting the memory of 9/11 for your own political gain, here’s what we were looking at:

  • Debunking A Few Amazon Unbox Myths – The first of the rash of the major product announcements in the past week or so was Amazon’s Unbox. Remember that? Didn’t think so.
  • Unbox: High Prices, Restrictive Terms – High prices and restrictive terms?? Golly! Where do I sign up!
  • What is a “Webisode” Anyways? – Content generated for specifically for the web is its beast, with its own rules (which are still being established), so we shouldn’t treat it the same as content generated for other mediums.
  • Why Steve Jobs Pre-announced Apple’s iTV Product – Because he’s Steve Jobs and can do whatever the hell he wants?? Er, because Apple didn’t want to get lost in the rash of product announcements.
  • Hello EMI! Goooood-bye! – In which another major label does the wrong thing in the name of “protecting” their artists.
  • Rushing For Gold – The dirty little secret about gold rushes is that it’s never the prospectors who get rich, but rather the hustlers who sell stuff to the prospectors. Just ask Al Swearengen. Or Mark Burnett.
  • Why I Won’t Swoon For Zune – Why Microsoft’s vision of a nation of consumers beaming songs at each other like so many souped-up Palm Pilots probably won’t come to fruition.
  • Zune’s Big Innovation: Viral DRM – Somehow, I don’t think that this is the Zune discussion that Microsoft wanted.
  • That’s What I Like: Bob Dylan – If this article were a Bob Dylan song, it would be “Highlands:” perhaps a bit overlong, and most certainly meandering about.

Filed Under: The Weekly 'Loper

The Daily Loper – September 16, 2006

September 16, 2006 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Facebook Fracas::Why Participants Matter in Online Communities
    File under: Things that should go without saying but clearly must. It’s the community, stupid.
  • All hail the OED
    The title says it all.

Filed Under: The Daily Loper

That’s What I Like: Bob Dylan

September 15, 2006 by Jim Connelly

[Note: in honor of Bob’s 70th birthday, I change my “Favorite Songs” list from 30 to 70.]

Bob Dylan & The Hawks, Manchester, 1966 — Artist Rendering It’s my thought that, after 45 years, everybody who loves Bob Dylan has their own Bob Dylan. By which I mean, once you’ve fallen in love with Bob’s music, your relationship to it is different than anybody else’s.

So rather than some kind of overview of details that you’ve heard a zillion times before and/or don’t really care about, here are are some snippets of how my ongoing love of Bob’s music, etc. has intersected with my life for the past 30 or so years. 30 more, please!

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Filed Under: Music, That's What I Like Tagged With: Bob Dylan

The Daily Loper – September 15, 2006

September 15, 2006 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • R.E.M.: And I Feel Fine
    Pitchfork shows that they have a sense of their — our — history. Sure, the 1980s almost killed a whole bunch of us, but that amazing, groundbreaking, epochal music R.E.M. made on IRS is definitely something to remember fondly.
  • FX channel tries commercial to combat ad-skipping
    Hey!! This is a pretty smart idea. It’s also pretty inexpensive, as well.
  • Consumers not impressed with DVD formats
    Darn consumers, never happy.
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Zune’s Big Innovation: Viral DRM

September 15, 2006 by Kirk Biglione

Now that Microsoft has released some hard facts about Zune we can finally begin to sort out how much of an impact the product might have on the digital music market. For weeks we’ve been hearing rumors about how Zune’s wireless capabilities will be used to enable new types of music sharing and discovery. It’s the one feature that could potentially set Zune apart from the iPod.

Unfortunately Zune’s wireless music sharing is turning out to be one of those features that seemed better when it was just a rumor. While Zune users will be able share music with friends, there’s a catch (isn’t there always). As Jim noted earlier, recipients of shared songs will only be able to listen to them three times or for three days, whichever comes first. It sort of sounds like a really bad tire warranty.

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Filed Under: DRM, Microsoft, Music, Zune Tagged With: DRM, Microsoft, Zune

The Daily Loper – September 14, 2006

September 14, 2006 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • The gospel according to Buffy?
    Still not as cool as The Church of John Coltrane, but that’s in part because the music isn’t as good.
  • Living it up
    Apparently, the British are rejecting the Internet and going for live art. As in living and breathing.
  • No Longer the Loneliest Number
    Apparently, getting to the top of the Billboard charts is the easy part. Staying? Forget about it.
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Why I Won’t Swoon For Zune

September 14, 2006 by Jim Connelly

This is going to be pretty short and sweet. I’m sure that Kirk may have a blow-by-blow analysis of all of Zune’s shortcomings forthcoming, but I just want to do a quick take on what is supposed to make Zune an “iPod Killer:” — that killer app that would coax people like me away from purchasing yet another iPod — the wireless song-sharing.

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Filed Under: Apple, Focusing on the Wrong Problem, iTunes, Microsoft, Music, Zune Tagged With: Apple, iPod, Microsoft, Zune

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