Digital Media News Roundup
- WSJ’s Walter Mossberg says Google TV not yet ready for prime time.
Google’s entry into the set-top box tries to merge Web video and television into a single universe. He likes the idea, but says it isn’t a smoothly operating product yet.
- 7 Truths: Actavism and analysis are not the same thing: Comcast claims “Consensus at hand on net neutrality”
Comcast claims the engineers will solve everything in the best interest of the public, but Ars Technica writer suggests that only the threat of federal regulation kept the cable giant (and new owner of NBCU) on the net neutrality path.
- 7 Truths: New media always scary: 10 years post Napster, Warner Music is still selling plastic discs
Despite the fact the that music listening public has pretty much moved over to digital music files in one form or another, 75 percent of Warner Music’s sales are still in the form of CDs.
- 7 Truths: Media are essential components of our lives: Mobile WiFi hits Mount Everest
You no longer need a satellite connection to go surfing at Everest base camp. There’s almost nowhere to escape our media.
