Month: September 2007

  • Some of that Om Magic

    Om Malik boils down a survey on video advertising into five takeways: Video-sharing sites are getting a bigger share of visits (77%) versus news sites (55%) and broadcast TV sites (49%). Lesson: Good for YouTube, not so good for old tubes. 43% of those polled want ads to be interactive and clickable. Lesson: Don’t put…

  • Beta news

    Knoxnews’s participation in the local advertising beta of the AP’s Online Video Network got a mention this morning in Microsoft’s news release touting the capability.

  • Spook Country jogging

    Was listening to an audio version this week of William Gibson’s Spook Country.  I will be listening to that for awhile; it’s 11 hours and 3 minutes. Here’s a link to an audio interview by Amazon with the author.  I was pretty slow. At least two days it was very hot when I got out…