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Buzz Watch: 123 Days Until The End Of Analog TV

Authored by Jay Baage on October 16, 2008 - 7:18am.

In all seriousness, what will happen to network ratings in 123 days? How many households will not be ready and hooked up to converter boxes? How many will choose not to bother and just watch their favorite shows online instead? Watching Shelly Palmer count down the days to the end of analog television reminds me that we are actually approaching a milestone in media. TV has been king of the media castle for decades in the United States and in 123 days, advertising dollars might actually start trailing media consumption habits more closely if TV households take a dip. That is good news for online media. For those of you eager to find out more about what will happen when digital TV takes over, don't miss our upcoming Future of Television Forum East in NYC on Nov. 18-19. See you there!
tags: Video | Law | TV | Regulation | FCC | Humor | HDTV Set-tops |

Guy Kawasaki: The Top Ten Ways to Tell If Things Are Really Bad

Authored by Guy Kawasaki on October 15, 2008 - 5:39am.

The experts are promulgating many esoteric ways to determine the financial condition of the economy. It's irrational to base one's mood on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). After all, (a) what does that have to do with the real world? And (b) it reflects the buying (and selling) decisions of the same investment bankers who got us into this mess.

tags: Investing | Humor | Finance | Economy |

What's The Best Funny Video Site Right Now?

Authored by Jay Baage on July 7, 2008 - 9:07am.
tags: Video | Marketing | TV | Polls | Humor |

All Things D On Microhoo Backlash and Backpedaling

Authored by Jay Baage on May 6, 2008 - 10:37am.

I think it's pretty interesting to see how this one plays out... Good vlog from John Paczkowski at All Things Digital today about the whole Microsoft/Yahoo deal debacle.
tags: Deals | Microsoft | Yahoo | Humor | All Things D |

Buzz Watch: No Internet in South Park? The Horror...

Authored by Jay Baage on April 17, 2008 - 5:49am.

In case you missed it, last night’s South Park was all about an Internet “black out”. I caught it today, on the Internet, of course. Embedded above is a clip from the show's beta site South Park Studios. To watch the full episode click here. It's both clever and funny. Isn't it scary how dependent we have become on the Internet?
tags: Video | TV | ISP | Comedy Central | Humor | South Park |

Guy Kawasaki: April Fools' Stories You Shouldn't Believe

Authored by Guy Kawasaki on April 1, 2008 - 5:48am.
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  1. Barak Obama and Hilary Clinton proposed the creation of the office of the co-president of the United States.

  2. Dave Winer joined Mahalo as the vice-president of marketing.

  3. Michael Arrington announced a conference called Kemo featuring startup life-science companies demonstrating medical cures in six minutes.

  4. Steve Ballmer donated $100 million to the Jane Goodall Foundation.

tags: Marketing | Publishing | Humor | Aprils Fools |

On YouTube, DutchWest Plays Differently than the Other Kids

Authored by Scott Goldberg on February 6, 2007 - 6:35am.
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Your friends and family are YouTube’s best filters.  The reason?  The majority of the clips you find browsing are terrible.  Most likely, unless you’re intentionally subjecting your friends to garbage, you’re not going to send them bad material.  What you send, naturally, is a mark of your identity.  Send something dumb and you think it’s funny?  Hope you have dumb friends.  A buddy recently sent me a clip too stupid to waste time describing with the subject line, “This is funny…I swear!”  Well, it wasn’t funny at all.  It was horrendous.  When I realized he was serious it made me consider whether or not we were really friends.  How could our senses of humor be so different?  I thought I knew him better than that! 

 
tags: Internet | Video | Social Networking | Comedy | YouTube | Humor | Scott Goldberg | DutchWest |

Bullshit Bingo 2.0

Authored by Robert Spears on August 21, 2006 - 8:10pm.
In the spirit of not taking ourselves too seriously, here are some fun links provided by EmptyBottle.org pertaining to this week's poll question:
tags: Internet | Marketing | Naming | Humor | Web 2.0 |

The Ninja on Net Neutrality

Authored by Robert Spears on June 14, 2006 - 10:09am.
"That's what the Internet is all about, people in funny hats making things that people like."
— The Ninja
Ninja, AskANinja.com

[Source: WSJ, June 14, 2006]
tags: Internet | Video | Law | Comedy | Net Neutrality | Quotes | AskANinja.com | Humor |