JohnFitzpatrick

Procrastination John Kelly (via loleti) great video on...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:12:39 -0500

Procrastination John Kelly (via loleti)

great video on procrastination

"Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new."

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:43:33 -0500

“Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new.”

- Rory Sutherland - #TEDTalks2009

My friend Porter Hovey (of Hollister+Hovey) just won a walk-on...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:21:57 -0500

My friend Porter Hovey (of Hollister+Hovey) just won a walk-on role in next season’s Mad Men in a photo contest. This is the winning pic.

".ads next to dispatches from Afghanistan normally cannot draw the same C.P.M.’s as lighter fare...."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:04:51 -0500

“.ads next to dispatches from Afghanistan normally cannot draw the same C.P.M.’s as lighter fare. MSNBC.com has found success with lifestyle segments that are sold as a package between TV and the Web. Last month it introduced TodayMoms, a section for mothers sponsored by Wal-Mart with a TV connection on the “Today” show.”

- Advertising - Online Ads Are Booming, if They’re Attached to a Video - NYTimes.com

Where is financial support for ‘real’ news coming from in the future?

"Google isn’t going after a frontal, brute force assault on Facebook… it is pursuing a softer..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:21:07 -0500

“Google isn’t going after a frontal, brute force assault on Facebook… it is pursuing a softer approach.. much like water flowing around a rock.””

- Revealing Google’s Stealth Social Network Play

hiten: rajivdoshi: eMarketer shares a list of action items...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:52:34 -0500

hiten:

rajivdoshi:

eMarketer shares a list of action items that brands can do that will be most relevant to consumers.

katykelley: caseydonahue: Ran into these guys on the...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:09:32 -0500

katykelley:

caseydonahue:

Ran into these guys on the train. They win Halloween.

"A good plan violently executed today is far and away better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:45:25 -0400

“A good plan violently executed today is far and away better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”

- General George S. Patton

Branded Content: in support of Thomas Pynchon’s new novel,...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:03:09 -0400

Branded Content: in support of Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, Inherent Vice.

I love advertising that has the primary function of informing or entertaining. Especially when it is well done.

And it actually serves its purpose; I want to buy the product.

I hope this is the future of advertising.

"We at Comcast have not seen any cord-cutting today,” said Amy Banse, the president of Comcast..."

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:09:57 -0400

““We at Comcast have not seen any cord-cutting today,” said Amy Banse, the president of Comcast Interactive Media (CIM Labs) , the unit behind Comcast’s Fancast.com Internet video hub and OnDemand Online initiative. “It’s not a true phenomenon yet.””

- ‘Cord Cutting’ Pooh-Poohed by Cable Cos.

First, let’s define the reference point: Cord Cutting - 17% of U.S. households (20M homes) ditched landlines. 15M of these in the last 5 years.

Cable companies have been battling encroachment for twenty years from computers, internet and gaming. And truth be told, the MSOs are holding up quite well, largely through ‘triple play” offerings of voice, cable and data.

Cable can stay viable, but they are going to have to move quickly to stay on top of the technology stack. Over the top devices such as the Roku or CE manufacturers such as MSFT, Sony, Vizio etc. with snazzy UI’s could eat their lunch in ten years time.

At that point, the MSOs are relegated to the role of ‘dumb pipes’. Then it’s just a race to the bottom on pricing.

thegongshow: That’s quite a few middle man hops to get from my...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:09:40 -0400

thegongshow:

That’s quite a few middle man hops to get from my eyeballs to SportsCenter on ESPN. I count three because there will definitely be competing providers for that authentication layer even through that layer of competition is not visually represented.

There’s a lot of value in this transaction (my cable+internet bill is $100/mo, which is my highest monthly bill, not counting rent). All that money is flowing into the MSOs today, and they’re cutting up the pie, but I don’t think that will be true 5 years from now.

As a simple analogy: If this market image were a sentence, my 6th grade grammar teacher would highly encourage editing of “unnecessary phrases.”

(image via readwriteweb)

The flow/categorization represented on this image does not make any sense to me.

The flow should center around the primary exchange of value; you, the consumer, sending your $120/mo to the MSO or telco.

Everything about TV Everywhere stems from this value exchange.

Leo Laporte Rakes In $1.5 Million A Year Podcasting

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:35:32 -0400

Leo Laporte Rakes In $1.5 Million A Year Podcasting:

Is Leo Laporte the highest paid web video producer in the world? Or is it Rush Limbaugh?

The RUSH 24/7 product includes video podcasts. He charges $57/year. Assuming >26k subs, that’s more than 1.5M.

Is it all just a red herring?

Both Leo and Rush have been around 20+ years building brand equity through radio shows, books, TV shows, etc.

True value resides at the level of the individual creative. Reputations and followings are built over time, agnostic to the mediums used to achieve that value.

"YouTube said that 1,000 media companies, small and large, are using the Content ID system and about..."

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:02:30 -0400

“YouTube said that 1,000 media companies, small and large, are using the Content ID system and about three-quarters of those choose to monetize clips.”

- YouTube Eases the Way to More Revenue - NYTimes.com

"Since 2000, the largest media conglomerates have collectively written down more than $200 billion in..."

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:36:19 -0400

“Since 2000, the largest media conglomerates have collectively written down more than $200 billion in assets, a record that would make even Citigroup blush.”

- The Moguls’ New Clothes - The Atlantic (October 2009)

"Noah Horowitz, at the Natural Resources Defense Council, calculated that the nation’s gaming..."

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:26:51 -0400

“Noah Horowitz, at the Natural Resources Defense Council, calculated that the nation’s gaming consoles, like the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the Sony PlayStation 3, now use about the same amount of electricity each year as San Diego, the ninth-largest city in country.”

- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/business/energy-environment/20efficiency.html?_r=1

" The innovator need not always try to understand why things do not work the way they should. He..."

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:06:50 -0400

““ The innovator need not always try to understand why things do not work the way they should. He should ask instead: ‘What would exploit this incongruity? What would convert it into an opportunity? What can be done?’ ” Peter Drucker”

- Entrepreneur Wisdom Database

18hrs, 3 flights and 2 tropical storms later I’m out of Costa Rica at the hospital just in...

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:46:29 -0400

18hrs, 3 flights and 2 tropical storms later I’m out of Costa Rica at the hospital just in time. Baby coming 5 weeks early.

"New Yorker editor David Remnick will be exempt from meeting with McKinsey, as will anyone from the..."

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:19:51 -0400

“New Yorker editor David Remnick will be exempt from meeting with McKinsey, as will anyone from the editorial side of his magazine. Two well-placed sources said that Condé Nast’s chairman, Si Newhouse, reached out to Mr. Remnick shortly after the McKinsey announcement was made and told him not to worry about anything—the magazine would be just fine, and neither McKinsey nor company executives would be mucking with his editorial costs.”

- The Gilded Age of Conde Nast Is Over | The New York Observer

The latest scuttlebut from McKinseys insanley high profile cost audit of Conde Nast.

I don’t know how or why Remnick got the assurances that his editorial staff would be left unscathed, but that is an insanely dangerous assertion to make public in advance of the report.

All the other editors-in-chief must be wringing their hands wondering if they are in similarly good graces. And the the publisher side of the house must be bitter as hell.

thedailywhat: Ji Lee: “10 Levels of Intimacy in...

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:52:34 -0400

thedailywhat:

Ji Lee: “10 Levels of Intimacy in Communication”

Overheard in the future: “I’d say we’re about a 5 on the Levels of Intimacy scale.”

[more.via.]

mikehudack: soupsoup: alwayscapitalize: Gartner Inc’s 2009...

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:18:18 -0400

mikehudack:

soupsoup:

alwayscapitalize:

Gartner Inc’s 2009 report “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies” forecasts the death of Twitter.

Gartner hype cycles are awesome. Although I’m not sure I understand the difference in this case between “Internet Television” and “Online Video.”

To be clear: this doesn’t forecast the death of Twitter. It simply points out the inevitable drop of Twitter into the “Trough of Disillusionment,” which it will emerge from into the Slope of Enlightenment.