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DisrupTV: January 2011
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Thursday, January 20, 2011. Jan 19, 2011. Ironically, over the prior week I had begun working on today's column, with an eye to providing some personal insights into how Apple might innovate the TV space over the next 24 months. Candidly, most don't recognize the impact Apple has already had on the industry - and it's something I hope to investigate a bit more over the coming weeks. But for today, right now, it seems almost. disrespectful. And that's to say, "Thank you.". But dollars do not thanks make, ...
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DisrupTV: Beware the Ideas of March
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Friday, April 1, 2011. Beware the Ideas of March. First published on MediaPost. March 31, 2011. At last June's D8 Conference, Steve Jobs made some astute remarks. About the TV industry's seemingly insurmountable roadblocks to innovation. Critics and fans alike posited that Jobs was posing as a decoy, while Apple geared up for a sneak attack into the TV space. So all you can do is ADD a box to the TV. You just end up with a table full of remotes, a cluster of boxes. and that's what we have today. All type...
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DisrupTV: February 2011
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Thursday, February 17, 2011. I'll Take 'Game Show Guillotines' For $600, Alex. First published on MediaPost. February 16, 2011. This evening, the world learns the answer to the burning question on everybody's mind: "Are the TV game shows of the future safe for humanity? Personally, I believe all game shows are in jeopardy unless the producers and networks embrace the reality that it's not an IBM supercomputer that threatens to make on-air game show contestants - and the genre - irrelevant. Watson has two...
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DisrupTV: I'll Take "Seigniorage" for $600 Million, Alex.
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Friday, March 7, 2014. I'll Take "Seigniorage" for $600 Million, Alex. So, we must now surely begin to see that the Bitcoin “cryptocurrency” has actually become nothing more than (another) monetary instrument for speculative acquisition and sale. As “… the difference between the value of money and the cost to produce and distribute it. 8221; seigniorage is essentially the ultimate arbitrage, the prized tuber at the very root of currency creation. Today, Newsweek reportedly uncovered the secret creator of...
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DisrupTV: Put Down The Remote, And Step Away From The Couch
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Thursday, March 17, 2011. Put Down The Remote, And Step Away From The Couch. March 16, 2011. The virtual pages of the TV Board blog are used, from time to time, to define some of the phrases and terms unique or germane to the TV industry. Rarely, however, are these brief tutorials potentially lifesaving. Today might be different, as we discuss a phenomenon known as the "normalcy bias.". This, of course, is a SYMPTOM of the normalcy bias, but not its definition. About the growth of Internet news over prin...
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DisrupTV: April 2011
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Friday, April 1, 2011. Beware the Ideas of March. First published on MediaPost. March 31, 2011. At last June's D8 Conference, Steve Jobs made some astute remarks. About the TV industry's seemingly insurmountable roadblocks to innovation. Critics and fans alike posited that Jobs was posing as a decoy, while Apple geared up for a sneak attack into the TV space. So all you can do is ADD a box to the TV. You just end up with a table full of remotes, a cluster of boxes. and that's what we have today. All type...
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DisrupTV: On Media, Money, and Metamorphosis
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Monday, August 15, 2011. On Media, Money, and Metamorphosis. 8220;One morning, upon awakening from agitated dreams, Gregor Samsa found himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin.”. From “Metamorphosis,” 1915, by Franz Kafka. Where I am a periodic contributor. So, that explains the references to “Media” and “Money.” But, “ What’s with the ‘Metamorphosis’. 8221; you might be asking. In this, the era of “ Change we can believe in. 8221; the metamorphosis is the often ugly manifestation of chan...
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DisrupTV: Beck Backers Beckoned Back
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Thursday, March 10, 2011. Beck Backers Beckoned Back. March 9, 2011. Mainstream media has been all atwitter over the recently. Of Glenn Beck's popular TV news program. Year on year results appear to indicate that approximately 75 Nielsen households who watched his program in January of 2010, have now either stopped watching, or are now recording his program on a DVR, outside of Nielsen's measured window. The loss of 75 Nielsen households is truly staggering. By way of example, before the great Beck c...
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DisrupTV: March 2014
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Friday, March 7, 2014. I'll Take "Seigniorage" for $600 Million, Alex. So, we must now surely begin to see that the Bitcoin “cryptocurrency” has actually become nothing more than (another) monetary instrument for speculative acquisition and sale. As “… the difference between the value of money and the cost to produce and distribute it. 8221; seigniorage is essentially the ultimate arbitrage, the prized tuber at the very root of currency creation. Today, Newsweek reportedly uncovered the secret creator of...