Are you in?

#1

Post by raganwald » Sat, Nov 27, 2010, 5:54 PM UTC

Are you in?
weblog.raganwald.com

Re: Are you in?

#2

Post by mhb » Sat, Nov 27, 2010, 6:50 PM UTC

What are those big quotations in the article? Who is being quoted?

Re: Are you in?

#3

Post by JoachimSchipper » Sat, Nov 27, 2010, 7:03 PM UTC

mhb wrote: post #2

What are those big quotations in the article? Who is being quoted?

Fake Steve Jobs, http://www.fakesteve.net/2007/11/this-writers-strike-cracks-.... There's an attribution after the last quote.

Re: Are you in?

#4

Post by Clarity1992 » Sat, Nov 27, 2010, 7:31 PM UTC

If there is a recent event that makes the posting of this three year old article immediately relevant, then it eludes me.

Re: Are you in?

#5

Post by raganwald » Sat, Nov 27, 2010, 7:40 PM UTC

Clarity1992 wrote: post #4

If there is a recent event that makes the posting of this three year old article immediately relevant, then it eludes me.

Does it need some sort of trigger? Must all things be connected by a thread?

Re: Are you in?

#6

Post by callmeed » Sat, Nov 27, 2010, 7:41 PM UTC

I'm curious how big a role sports play in terms of TV's bottom line and how that will play out online.

The networks and pro leagues seem to have a very tight grip on distribution and I don't see a lot of attempts at innovation there. MLB.tv is cool but why can't I pay $2.99 to watch an NFL game on demand on my AppleTV or Boxee?

Re: Are you in?

#7

Post by StavrosK » Sat, Nov 27, 2010, 7:55 PM UTC

> Western Culture is pretty-much defined by the consumption of media. After we stuff ourselves with food we don’t need, squeeze into Hummers and SUVs we don’t need, then head down to The Mall to enjoy the sterile atmosphere of a pretend-main street in a pretend-small town, where we eat some more

Western culture != U.S.

Re: Are you in?

#8

Post by ojilles » Sat, Nov 27, 2010, 8:12 PM UTC

raganwald wrote: post #5

Clarity1992 wrote: post #4

If there is a recent event that makes the posting of this three year old article immediately relevant, then it eludes me.

Does it need some sort of trigger? Must all things be connected by a thread?

It doesn't need one, but I'm sure there is (maybe significant, maybe not, but a trigger in any case).

Re: Are you in?

#9

Post by raganwald » Sat, Nov 27, 2010, 8:20 PM UTC

ojilles wrote: post #8

raganwald wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it need some sort of trigger? Must all things be connected by a thread?

It doesn't need one, but I'm sure there is (maybe significant, maybe not, but a trigger in any case).

It's a Saturday afternoon and I'm working rather than outside riding in the sunshine :-)

Re: Are you in?

#10

Post by jerf » Sat, Nov 27, 2010, 8:34 PM UTC

callmeed wrote: post #6

I'm curious how big a role sports play in terms of TV's bottom line and how that will play out online. The networks and pro leagues seem to have a very tight grip on distribution and I don't see a lot of attempts at innovation there. MLB.tv is cool but why can't I pay $2.99 to watch an NFL game on demand on my AppleTV or Boxee?

I just got done watching the MSU vs. Penn State game on "ESPN 3" on my XBox 360. I can also watch it online on my computer.

Whether you could have watched it online is anybody's guess. It seems to involve whether your ISP has cut a deal with ESPN to be able to do this, and "ESPN 3" is also clearly just sort of wedged between the licensing cracks as games seem to get blacked out at the drop of a hat. But other than some weird quality issues with the stream, it did basically work. (And, oddly, this game was also locally broadcast so I have no idea why I was able to see it.)

No commercials on the XBox 360, either. It was weird, it just puts up a screen about how the game will resume shortly. Kinda nice, actually.

It seems to be ESPN is willing to do the subscription thing, but the sports fields are so tied up in licensing snarls that it's hard to get anything through yet. But it is starting.