long tail

..Fox Adds Web Family Guy Run..

from Media Week Fox Adds Web Family Guy Run Fox will produce original episodes of it’s resurrected hit Family Guy exclusively for the Web sometime next year. Speaking at the UBS 33rd Annual Global Media Conference in New York, Ross Levinsohn, the president of Fox Interactive Media said that the original Family Guy episodes will […]

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Slate article on future of “tv”

It has now been 20 days since Apple announced it would sell selected ABC-Disney television programs via iTunes. As of Monday, iTunes customers had bought more than than 1 million videos. At first glance, these sales figures seem like another nail in the coffin of broadcast television. If we can get television content online, on demand, whenever we want it, how will networks convince us to tune in on their schedules? For that matter, how can they be certain we’ll tune in at all?

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Google CEO in defense of Google Print

showing they’re all about the Long Tail Official Google Blog: The point of Google Print Indeed, some of Google Print’s primary beneficiaries will be publishers and authors themselves. Backlist titles comprise the vast majority of books in print and a large portion of many publishers’ profits, but just a fraction of their marketing budgets. Google […]

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Rogers weighs in on the video iPod and how 4GM it is

The video IPod, of course, is a miserable idea. I’m one of those who believe people associate certain types of entertainment with certain viewing habits/places — one of the reasons downloaded movies are grifted by far less than 1% of the population, and the reason XBoxes and PS2’s bury PC games in sales. The flat-screen G5 is the real darling here, engineered to match our established viewing habits. Only 20 inches, though? Wonder what’ll come out for Christmas, hmmmm?

Some have e-mailed me to tell me that my 4th Generation Media has arrived. This is not technically true (and hey, I should be getting rich from this, right? Where are my filthy monies?). In my formulation, 4gM is a media, not a distribution, philosophy. To recap our central metaphor:

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*finally*, video iPod released!!!

For all the years of speculation and waiting, Apple have finally released the video iPod. They kinda had to though, given how good the PSP is for watching content. They couldn’t lose out to Sony, after all. 😉 from Bloomberg.com: U.S. Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs introduced a version […]

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books keep changing..

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Amazon.com starts selling exclusive digital “shorts” Amazon.com Inc. started selling new works of short literature and nonfiction on Friday from authors who write them exclusively for the Internet retailer. It’s not offering printed editions, just digital copies that can be e-mailed, downloaded or printed from a Web site for 49 cents a pop. […]

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B-Grade scifi is back

no, not the Fantastic Four.. I’m talking about good stuff B Movies Invade Your TV! – New York Times A combination of outrageous genre concepts, low-budget filmmaking and sensationalized titles like the roll call above are all part of the Sci Fi Channel’s attempt to establish a presence on Saturday nights, when a good number […]

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