Journalism, Technology, History

I'll take a long neck

The “long neck” concept is a new one on me. Andy Dickinson says it’s basically a 25:5 rule … The 25:5 rule states that at least 25 percent of demand is for 5 percent of tasks; that 5 percent of...

A most useful video tool

One-stop for video stats, facts and figures. Bookmark it; Howard’s done the work for you! Tags: video video stats

Do you see a Niche or a Demo?

Sweet. The difference between a niche market and a demographic is in the berries. Tags: niche marketing niche products niche publications

eBay country

Attention Internet sellers. Bryon Chesney noticed the venerable Scarborough Research says Knoxville, Tenn. is tied for No. 2 in the penetration of eBay among Internet users. It’s an interesting list. Some factoids from the release:

Lack of face time

The latest lament of the death of AP’s youth experiment ASAP is Will Sullivan. For him, it was an experiment he would have liked to have seen succeed in that newspapers need to do something that will actually attract younger...

Kudzu of Connections

I’ve seen a lot of thoughtful react to Jason Calacanis’ weekend post about Facebook bankruptcy, but Ethan Kaplan has the best two sentences I’ve read:

Back in the gym

Did a couple worksouts at the gym in addition to jogging; I dislike weight training, but I need to do it. I was sore Tuesday and Wednesday. Some of my exercising tunes this week were “Say You Love Me,” Rodney...

Just like the Astronaut Farmer

Arvinder Kang from Ole Miss pointed me to this strange project from a guy who grew up in Knoxville and South Africa, and now lives in Greensboro, NC. He’s creating an IMAX movie from still photos. Ah, yes. There’s a...

iPhone sex appeal overrated!

Here’s two video views of the sex appeal (or social networking creds) of the oh-so-trendy iPhone. iPhone of the Sexes from New York video blogger Ilana Arazie and iPhone Lovin’ from the Wall Street Journal’s Andy Jordan and his new...

Online Video: They saw this

Some views on the new Pew study on Video Online. On the sticky note write, “Here’s proof that there’s a Revolution happening.” -- David All
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