How the Web Changes my TV Habits
Posted on May 9, 2010
Aside from the Clintons, who are either famous or notorious depending upon political polarity, few public figures are from Arkansas. Admittedly, every now-and-then there’s a Huckabee whose very name implies Arkansas, if not Mayberry.
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Along the state’s eastern border, the Mississippi River Delta is little changed in the past half-century. Although four-lane roads replaced two-lane blacktops, visiting there is a form of backward time travel. It’s still not rare to encounter vehicles looking like mutant forms of 1940s pick-ups trucks crossed with 1980s vintage rice harvesting equipment hauling overfilled loads of used tires or similar junk while crawling in the left lane at 25 miles per hour. It’s tempting to pass them on the right, except that half the time their uneven cargo tips the contraption that way too, threatening to topple everything on any driver with courage enough to try it. Read more…
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Apple Service Might be a “Game Changer”
Posted on January 18, 2010
Phil Leigh
It’s become obvious over the past seven years that Apple can develop innovative products that revolutionize both emerging and established industries. An example of the first is the iPod. When it hit the market about seven years ago it was the first portable MP3 player with enough capacity to enable most of us to carry our entire music collection around with us. An example of the second is the iPhone which forever changed our concept of what a mobile phone should be able to do. In short, it combined voice telephony with unlimited Internet access.
Now, speculation is rife that Apple is at the threshold of introducing not only a new product but a new service as well. Read more…
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Lessons from Early Radio
Posted on January 6, 2010
Today’s post is a reprint of an article I wrote for Online Video Insider yesterday.
Lessons from Early Radio
By: Philip Leigh
January 5, 2010
Much like today’s Internet, during its early years radio enjoyed a high intrinsic growth. For example, while most industries were shrinking during the Great Depression radio advertising alone grew from $27 million in 1929 to $185 million in 1939 translating to a compound annual growth rate of 21%. Radio entertainment during the era included mix of music, drama, comedy, and variety shows. However, music was considered essential. Read more…
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