David LaFontaine's
Sips from the Firehose
A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.
Ahhh! Tasty.
Why 4G Matters: 300Mbps Data Rate (well, almost)
HD video demands - at pretty decent color depth & resolution - about 15-25 megs. (Well, unless you're trying to deal with uncompressed 1080i HD, which calls for about 400 megs - but the only reason to do that is to capture/edit, rather than watch, which is a whole...
Relying on Bill Gates & Microsoft for Space Exploration?
Apparently, there is no government agency doing a complex & demanding job that a bunch of yo-hos don't think could be replaced by private industry. Even when said private industry has NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO with the job that the government agency was doing. With...
New Online Ad Models
To quote Michael Corleone: "Everytime I think I'm out - they draaaaag me back in!" I just got done with a Big Scary Article for the NAA about charging for online content. I've marinated myself in all sorts of arcane data about how to make money from online...
Print Classified Ads: the Numbers Don’t Lie
Quick hit: The Wall Street Journal today wrote an ominous story about one of the underlying causes for the newspaper crisis: the flight of classified ads from traditional print outlets to online competition such as CraigsList. The nut grafs: Last March, Baylor...
Doom or Negotiating Strategy: The San Francisco Chronicle Gets Its Two-Minute Warning
The last couple of months have seen the weaker papers in two-newspaper towns file for bankruptcy, fire their staffs & announce impending doom. A lot of this can be written off as the natural consequences of a contracting ad market and an epically bad...
Doom or Negotiating Strategy: The San Francisco Chronicle Gets Its Two-Minute Warning
The last couple of months have seen the weaker papers in two-newspaper towns file for bankruptcy, fire their staffs & announce impending doom. A lot of this can be written off as the natural consequences of a contracting ad market and an epically bad...