the other side of the tube

daily life internet media politics

while you are watching commercials for something this is what is going on

p&g TV ad spend

media

Procter & Gamble will reduce their Ad spending by 25% for cable and 5% for terrestial TV.
Ad markets in general are slated to grow.
Procte & Gamble is one of the biggest advertisers in the world.

Below the line this means much less money for TV.

google video: muscling in

google internet media

of course all eyes are on google on this one. google is big, video will be big. 1+1 = 2. Easy to see for everybody. Yes? Kind of. The devil is in the detail. I think that google-video will not be that great.

Right now it is content driven. A real long tail market. And people expect content to be free. Google has the bandwidth and the server capacity. But for a publisher they have very very sketchy terms.

They think they don’t need to sort these things out. After all, they are google. Their Midas effect was never as it looked. All the projects that did not work out, simply dissappeared. Google Video might be one of them.

no more rewinds

history media technology

walmart stops selling VHS

I still remember when you could buy 15 different DVDs.

update:
rewind on the rewind kind of

shower jesus

daily life free of any reason internet

whatever happened to the lincoln fry from the super bowl?

gwei

google

google will eat itself

the big mac index

daily life economy

the big mac index

[as we can See I like the dashboard blogging thing]

one image

daily life

dorothy

iraq war timeline

history politics

the timeline of the iraq war

Anybody remembers that 70% of all US Amercians thought that Iraq was involved in 9/11. Despite the fact that there never has been any credible evidence.

g5 with an issue

Apple technology

DVIsochComponent.c:1191: failed assertion `!(deviceDescriptionPtr->clock == 0)’

we use firewire to video bridges from Canopus. Lots of them, the ADVC 100 and 110 are quiet nice. Seem to work very reliably.

One of our G5s however stopped cooperating after we install 10.4.
The other G5 we have is fine, and so are all G4 based installtions.
If I would not have found this then I would think it would be a hardware bug. Like this it sounds like a 10.4.1 problem.