Archive for January 1st, 2007
Disney.com has long been on my list of one of the worst major media web designs imagineable. Really, is it a website or a board game? Fortunately, Disney CEO Robert Iger is expected to debut a new design at CES next week that’s taken a year to build. Meanwhile, some in Disney want the group heads, instead of the Disney Internet Group, to oversee their respective internet strategies. The idea is to integrate the web more seamlessly into their traditional businesses. This organizational struggle is reflected at media companies everywhere: while the traditional media execs should have more control, at the same time they tend to extend old media thinking to the web. Old look below…
January 1st, 2007
Ok, that was the most exciting college football game I’ve ever seen. I mean, how many overtime games, won by a trick play, end with the tailback proposing on live TV to the head cheerleader? Missed it? Download the entire game on iTunes.
January 1st, 2007
For those of you interested in the worldwide discussion of the cellphone-shot Saddam hanging video, I was part of a discussion on BBC Radio 4 today. I’ve rigged a pretty ugly podcasting page at podbean. Or you can download here. Which brings me to this question: do you guys know of a good, free podcasting service that allows me to embed the player in WordPress, and has the same ease of sharing as YouTube? I’ve looked all over. If it doesn’t exist, I say we start the company… UPDATE: There is a terrific conversation going on at the BBC show’s blog right now. Very intelligent and provocative. We need to do much more of this in the U.S. Check it out.
January 1st, 2007
