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You might not think of Harvard or Yale as small colleges. But when it comes to football - they ain’t going to be confused with Rose Bowl material. Still, their loyal fans want to watch the games - and they’re just not going to get the change of seeing those games on network TV. Enter that marvelous workaround - online video streaming. ABCNews.com looks at schools will be streaming more football games online this fall.
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While some still try to figure out about the power of YouTube, witness what happened to Sen. George Allen (R - Virginia) as he stumped for re-election. Sen. Allen, obviously cheesed off at an opponent’s campaign worker who was videotaping the event, called the worker “Macaca,” an odd choice somehow meant to denote the kid’s ethnicity in some way. (The worker in question, S.R. Sidarth is of Indian descent.) A Macaca is an asian monkey. Allen then said “welcome to America” to Sidarth, an American born in Virginia The video hit YouTube faster than you can say, well, “Macaca.”
The power to control the message - and the gaffes - is now out of the spin doctors’ hands.
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The NPD Group reports that sales of flat panel TVs more than doubled in the first half of 2006, as compared to the first half of 2005. The more the prices come down and the more HD programming becomes available, the more attractive the proposition becomes. Another big gainer - notebook computer sales, which were up 17% over the previous period a year ago.
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The release of previously private recordings from 9/11 has me wondering what Lost Remoters think. Listening to the recordings makes me queasy. And I am glad they have been released. Sanitizing the news does nobody any good. 9/11 was not about falling buildings, it was about people dying, in agony. I didn’t like how we covered the story back then and I still don’t like that we focus on buildings and planes and not people. Still, the argument goes that these recordings violate the privacy of the dead and their families; that we only want to hear their dying moments out of morbid curiosity. I always come down on the side of releasing all information, but I’m far more interested in your thoughts. So, comment below.
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So says YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley at a Bay Area conference. “We’re in a good position,” Hurley said. “We have the largest audience because we’ve created the largest library of content. When people make a decision to put content online, they want to get on YouTube to reach that large audience.” Hurley said YouTube is looking at ways to extend its video to the mobile universe. And he blamed yesterday’s site outage on a database problem. (Via PaidContent)
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Digg founder Kevin Rose said yesterday that the site is not yet profitable, and that’s OK. “We could slap on lots of ads, and we could be profitable tomorrow,” Rose said, explaining that Digg is going to taking its time, guard the user experience and keep it fresh and light. “We have a path to profitability,” he said. How refreshing. This strategy flies in the face of traditional media’s short-term ROI demands for new projects — which is often bent on exploiting the user experience, not cultivating it — and it explains why startup companies will always have an edge with online innovation. That is, unless traditional media companies begin to empower their most creative people to create new products in highly flexible environments with respectable R&D budgets and no hard deadlines. Yeah, right.
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An interesting sequence of events today in the Jon Benet Ramsey arrest story. First, MSNBC’s Dan Abrams (who’s also the cable network’s GM) took to the airwaves to explain that John Ramsey said an arrest was imminent. Then KUSA breaks the story of the actual arrest on 9News.com (not a bad little exclusive, eh?) MSNBC.com waited a moment with the story, while CNN.com went ahead and posted a couple lines attributed to KUSA. So now it’s time for the media circus to kick into high gear again — or will it?
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Some interesting stats from new study that examines the relationship between local TV news and the web. While 75 percent of internet users watch a local newscast at least twice a week, many of them aren’t relying on TV websites for the same information. “Local weather is the most sought-after information online, yet web users are much more likely to turn to other sources than to local television web sites to find it,” reports the study, conducted by Crawford Johnson & Northcott Inc. Just 26 percent of web users say they go to a local TV site for weather information — 40 percent go to “other” sites like Weather.com and Google. “Many stations spend a lot of resources building a strong local weather brand, yet they don’t deliver on the web,” said Jill Johnson, CJ&N partner. “It’s time to get more proactive.” Full press release below…
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If you missed the Weeds season premiere on Showtime, you can watch it in its entirety on MSN Video — but this week only. It’s yet another TV offering on MSN Video, which recently signed a deal to stream all 53 episodes of Arrested Development later this year.
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Brian Ross and the ABC News investigative team have been breaking details about the London terror plot on ABCNews.com’s investigative blog “The Blotter,” instead of holding the news for air. ABCNews.com tells Lost Remote that the investigative page and the blog have generated over 1 million page views in the first 15 days of the month — double last month’s traffic.
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