Netflix’ great House of Cards has this character named Zoe Barnes who writes for a political news website called “Slugline.” In the wake of the NSA’s PRISM… Read more “Writer on Your Show? Show the Writing”

Evan Shapiro of Pivot wrote about the decline of the traditional nationwide scheduled television model, sometimes referred to as Appointment Television; when everyone watched the same revenue-generating commercials at the… Read more “Appointment TV and Character Blogs”

A stat from Jeffrey Cole, Director of the Center for the Digital Future, of the Annenberg School furthers one my favorite theories about TV’s evolution. When talking… Read more “CBS Interactive: On a Path to Solving the Piracy Problem”

Gen Y and the early Millennials are the last group of people who will remember broadcast ubiquity and an advertisers’ ability to rent a captive audience. They’re… Read more “What’s Outside the Box”

Mark Pesce, a media professor at the University of Sydney, lectures on his “Hyperdistribution Theory.” The theory is predicated on a few assumptions: the internet’s revolutionizing effect… Read more “Hyperdistribution Theory”

The Times reports on the spread of branded content.  A few quotations stood out for me as furthering theories: This branded content, the term for products figuring… Read more “New York Times on Branded Content”

I’ve heard grumbles from many friends about facebook.  Indeed, there’s something amiss about this megalithic inbox replacement social utility that I have had difficulty diagnosing until recently. … Read more “facebook: disorienting”