At first I thought it was THE ONION pulling my leg – I thought haha, got me again … But nope, it’s real. So basically they are willing to spend $20 million on a new name campaign, changing corporate signs, getting new urls and junking a million business cards but they’re not willing to spend [...]

It took a while but Warner Bros. FINALLY realized – hey, there might not be 2 million fans of ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS but if a couple thousand want a copy, they’ll pay upfront for it, press one DVD and print some artwork on it – $19.95 – more than they normally make at wholesale [...]

As eBay is discovering through rapidly dropping sales – we pretty much loathe eBay. The current feeling of the general public towards eBay is the result of extraordinary arrogant customer relations since about 2000. Note that I did not use the word ‘service,’ and this should be a warning to all companies who go that [...]

In the early 1990′s, AT&T knew the world of communications was changing rapidly … the consumer internet was still virtually all dialup but the future was so bright, we all had to wear shades … so they create a series of ads highlighting wireless and wired connectivity possibilities … Keep in mind, the 1993 AT&T [...]

NBC decided to dump iTunes because they wanted to go down their own path. Why offer consumers, viewers and customer convenience when consumers will do ‘whatever we at NBC say?’ NBC – we’re so good – people should jump through flaming hoops to watch us! iTunes was oh so simple and boring. Sure, ONE CLICK [...]

By now, you’ve heard the Writer’s Guide is on strike for a better percentage of the residuals (royalties) from non-broadcast revenue (DVD’s, internet, etc …). As usual, the lawyer suits running the networks are nitwits. First, without writers – you have NOTHING. A lot of people smirk and claim that what’s on network TV is [...]

PORTFOLIO magazine is the new business magazine from Conde Nast … publishers of VOGUE, GQ and subsequently, the current owners of the NEW YORKER and even WIRED magazine. They are the GE of publishing. We’re here to be #1 in the category, we will wear you down with professionalism, a crack sales staff and if [...]

NBC-U Jeff Zucker is now mad people consider him and his Hulu venture idiotic so he is trying to talk as if he actually understands digital and the television business going forward. He now claims that $15 million from NBC iTunes sales is not enough for him. Nevermind that is 7.5 million impressions of NBC [...]

Nintendo Power magazine, the house organ of Nintendo (please make your own joke here) will now be published by FUTURE out of SF. Future Publishing, not exactly the Conde Nast of publishing when it comes to budgets, is not likely to offer many relocation benefits to the current staff … and not to be rude [...]

As someone who has to do a lot of research, I have used a lot of different search engines & search sites and recently Charles Knight of Read/WriteWeb came up with a list of 100 alternative search engines. Some were familiar to me, some were not and I knew of a couple dozen more not [...]