We are all excited that a new Walgreens opened up down the street from our house a few weeks ago. One of the supposed advantages is that you can get your prescription filled at any of the 5,461 stores nationwide. Unfortunately, last night their nationwide system must have mixed our [...]

This post if off my usual web/media fare, but I felt like writing about it: NYC Mayor Mike Bloombergannounced yesterday he was leaving the Republican party and becoming an independent. Not really that surprising in and of itself since he was a Democrat before he ran for NYC Mayor. The [...]

Major League Baseball was back in court last week aruging that fantasy baseball companies should pay a licensing fee to them for use of MLB player’s names and statistics. MLB argued that fantasy baseball “exploit players by effectively turning them into game pieces and using their names to draw more [...]

Congratulations goes out to Eric and the rest of the folks at commercialappeal.com for winning an EPpy award for AppealTV.

Onthe lonely plains of Kansas where Ellington CMS first appeared as the brainchild of Adrian Holovaty and Rob Curley made a name for himself comes the new ultrasimplistic redesign of LJWorld.com. Simplicity is good, but is this too far?

At the National Association of Broadcaster’s convention in Las Vegas Adobe has announced their new Adobe Media Player. Unfortunately when I think of Adobe Media Player I think of Windows Media Player meets Acrobat reader. Not very pretty. I think Flash works pretty well for transparent, cross-platform video playback.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is after college students again and has started sending out query letters to numerous colleges and students. Techdirt has pointed out that his time around a couple of university’s either are refusing to cooperate or charging the RIAA for their employee’s time. There [...]

Start-up review does some great case studies on Internet start-ups and why they worked and made big money for their founders. This week they posted their case study on YouTube. Here are some of the interesting facts they pointed out about YouTube at the time of Google’s acquisition. Fastest growing [...]

Television and radio stations receive their broadcast licenses to operate under the PICON (public interest convenience or necessity) standard because of the scarcity principle (limited number of broadcast channels available). Before the mid-80s the PICON standards were strictly enforced and if a TV station wasn’t operating within those standards, it’s [...]

The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) reported last week that newspaper online revenue jumped 35 percent in the fourth quarter of last year and that ad spending on newspaper web sites jumped 31.5 percent last year accounting for 5.4 percent of all newspaper ad spending in 2006. NAA President, John [...]