We're Not Who You Think We Are
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As 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.
[Read more…] about Playing For One Night Only: The Fall Television Season
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While you were exploiting the memory of 9/11 for your own political gain, here’s what we were looking at:
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[Note: in honor of Bob’s 70th birthday, I change my “Favorite Songs” list from 30 to 70.]
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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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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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.