Tim, you may not have noticed but The NHL Network streamed some of the World Junior Championship games involving the United States teams played just at the end of last year (I believe it was December 28 and December 30).
I was away that weekend and the Internet was my only option to watch and using it, it worked very well overall. One of the games was virtually flawless while the other had major buffering problems in the second period. Also noteworthy is that my internet access was the tethering app in my phone, not some corporate T1 line and it still worked pretty well.
This is very close to being a solution for the awful distribution NHL games get in hotels and such nationally. The other major sports you can always find, but not hockey.
The Center Ice package is wonderful as content but overall is evil in terms of content control. I remember trying to use it to watch games on a computer a few years ago when I was routinely working late during the playoffs and even if you were paying for it, you couldn't use it online if you were in a market where the games were carried on television. Horrible.
This Avengers isn't a remake of either the British TV series "The Avengers" from the 1960s or of 1950s radio show "The Avenger," which was about a pulp character and was a blatant knock-off of "The Shadow."
That's actually a new movie about characters who have appeared in other movies but not together.
I blogged this two days ago because it ranks a new peak in journalists treating the practice of PR as newsworthy, which they never did until recently.
PR has become a normal part of corporate operations like finance or HR and we need to get used to being treated that way by the press. Yes, they will publish your pitches and e-mails, maybe even your voicemails. Make them transparent.
I covered this a while back on my own blog - see link and relevant quotation from "Common Sense" above. Anonymity was an important founding principle of political speech even before the founding of the Republic. CNN anchors asking to take it away now should register on the outrage scale.
Actually, I understand what the techs are saying about their mothers. I'm not even a tech and I remember telling her to just program the VCR herself and if she didn't try to do it, she'd never learn (she never did). The average tech must spend so much MORE time than I ever did explaining stuff that they assume everyone around them is a time-sucking idiot who needs a computer with the complexity of set of blocks in order to not call them every 10 minutes with a question. You're no doubt correct that most of them would rather do the work of learning to use a more useful, open machine but before they even try, they've called the person quoted in the article, who makes the rational, self-interest observation that stuff needs to be easier to use.
Dow Jones' philosophy for all of its products - online and offline - is that what they do is worth money and that nothing is free. Even if their Factiva news search tool cost $3 an article vs. the much higher costs of rival Lexis/Nexis, it had to cost something. On the other hand, once you pay them, you are a customer and due a customer's respect. My complaints about late deliveries of the WSJ once got them to change a delivery route to make sure the paper got to me by the time I had to catch my bus in the morning.
What I find most interesting is how The Wall Street Journal and New York Times each approached paid online content.
The Wall Street Journal gives away its editorial content through Opinionjournal.com, Careerjournal.com and that site where they put Mossberg's column. It protects its news content behind the paywall.
The New York Times gives away its news content but was protecting its opinion journalists behind a paywall.
The Wall Street Journal is convinced the product it can charge extra for is its news journalism. The New York Times thought it was Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd. "The news? Oh, that's free..."
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Streaming Hockey Games
Tim, you may not have noticed but The NHL Network streamed some of the World Junior Championship games involving the United States teams played just at the end of last year (I believe it was December 28 and December 30).
I was away that weekend and the Internet was my only option to watch and using it, it worked very well overall. One of the games was virtually flawless while the other had major buffering problems in the second period. Also noteworthy is that my internet access was the tethering app in my phone, not some corporate T1 line and it still worked pretty well.
This is very close to being a solution for the awful distribution NHL games get in hotels and such nationally. The other major sports you can always find, but not hockey.
The Center Ice package is wonderful as content but overall is evil in terms of content control. I remember trying to use it to watch games on a computer a few years ago when I was routinely working late during the playoffs and even if you were paying for it, you couldn't use it online if you were in a market where the games were carried on television. Horrible.
The Avengers?
This Avengers isn't a remake of either the British TV series "The Avengers" from the 1960s or of 1950s radio show "The Avenger," which was about a pulp character and was a blatant knock-off of "The Shadow."
That's actually a new movie about characters who have appeared in other movies but not together.
PR in the News
I blogged this two days ago because it ranks a new peak in journalists treating the practice of PR as newsworthy, which they never did until recently.
PR has become a normal part of corporate operations like finance or HR and we need to get used to being treated that way by the press. Yes, they will publish your pitches and e-mails, maybe even your voicemails. Make them transparent.
Anonymity
I covered this a while back on my own blog - see link and relevant quotation from "Common Sense" above. Anonymity was an important founding principle of political speech even before the founding of the Republic. CNN anchors asking to take it away now should register on the outrage scale.
Amazing
I compared this to trying to copyright the slapshot, or a batting stance in my business journalism blog, SeanReadsTheNews.typepad.com this morning.
Mothers and Tech.
Actually, I understand what the techs are saying about their mothers. I'm not even a tech and I remember telling her to just program the VCR herself and if she didn't try to do it, she'd never learn (she never did). The average tech must spend so much MORE time than I ever did explaining stuff that they assume everyone around them is a time-sucking idiot who needs a computer with the complexity of set of blocks in order to not call them every 10 minutes with a question. You're no doubt correct that most of them would rather do the work of learning to use a more useful, open machine but before they even try, they've called the person quoted in the article, who makes the rational, self-interest observation that stuff needs to be easier to use.
Murdoch's Paywalls
I blogged on this as well last week. My take is that he is doing The New York Times' market research for them.
http://tinyurl.com/ykedk4j
DVRs Saving TV
I blogged this one as well this morning, with the same conclusion. Waiting for the story about how the Pirate Bay saved television...
http://seanreadsthenews.typepad.com/seanreadsthenews/2009/11/dvrs-help-ratings-nyt-finds.html
Sean Dougherty
The Wall Street Journal Paywall
Dow Jones' philosophy for all of its products - online and offline - is that what they do is worth money and that nothing is free. Even if their Factiva news search tool cost $3 an article vs. the much higher costs of rival Lexis/Nexis, it had to cost something. On the other hand, once you pay them, you are a customer and due a customer's respect. My complaints about late deliveries of the WSJ once got them to change a delivery route to make sure the paper got to me by the time I had to catch my bus in the morning.
What I find most interesting is how The Wall Street Journal and New York Times each approached paid online content.
The Wall Street Journal gives away its editorial content through Opinionjournal.com, Careerjournal.com and that site where they put Mossberg's column. It protects its news content behind the paywall.
The New York Times gives away its news content but was protecting its opinion journalists behind a paywall.
The Wall Street Journal is convinced the product it can charge extra for is its news journalism. The New York Times thought it was Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd. "The news? Oh, that's free..."