Category Archives: Chapter 1

Media Trends for 2011

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

E-books outselling print books, week after holidays – USA Today Perhaps 2011 will finally be the year of the E-book.  This week’s USA Today bestselling list will show that the E-book version of the top six books will have outsold … Continue reading →

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Digital Media News Roundup

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

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 … Continue reading →

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Rocky Horror Glee Show – Everything from the margin moves to the center

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

The ever-popular Fox show choir series Glee is doing a Rocky Horror themed Halloween episode next week.  As a long time Rocky fan, I’m both pleased and dismayed.  Pleased, because I think Rocky is good, campy fun and could fit … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Omaha 10/10/10

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

Updates with more links coming I had a great visit Monday to the Omaha 10/10/10 conference held at the University of Nebraska at Omaha this last weekend.  The conference was designed to look at communication technology development in all fields … Continue reading →

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We Were Promised Jetpacks – Day 2

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

Not surprisingly, CNN’s Jeanne Moos had fun with Fox’s mistaken story about the LAPD buying 10,000 jetpacks at $100,000 a pop. She did manage, initially, to miss the fact that Fox corrected the story approximately 40 minutes after it ran. … Continue reading →

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Truth 7 – There is No They Dept. – We were promised jetpacks

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

Except when it’s tragic, it’s funny to see news organizations caught with their pants down when they didn’t bother to check on the truthfulness of stories they report.  The news organizations decide that the story is good enough that it … Continue reading →

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Media News I Found On Twitter

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

Bob Dylan Song Featured in Ad for Google Instant Given that he previously appeared in a Victoria’s Secret ad, I guess we can’t get too upset.  How having search capability that is even faster than an every-few-seconds basis is a big … Continue reading →

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Comic Books, Copyrights and Changing Media

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

As I noted yesterday, comic writer Mark Waid upset the comic world over the weekend with his keynote speech at the Harvey Awards (for excellence in comics).  Although I cannot find a transcript or video of his speech at the … Continue reading →

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Media are Evolving – Part II

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

Yesterday I posted a blog entry about how old media are changing to respond to new technology and new demands from audiences.  Today, I’ve got a couple of followups to these stories: Wired’s Chris Anderson discusses “Web is Dead” Chris … Continue reading →

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New Media Are Scary Dept. – Media Are Evolving, Not Going Extinct

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

We get a lot of proclamations about the future of media, many of which involve the death of one particular medium or another.  For example, a week or two ago Wired magazine ran a story proclaiming that “The Web is … Continue reading →

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