It's amazing how video continues to be so dominant all over the Internet.  For this, we have YouTube to thank.  But as that category killer has grown and become an even greater force in web entertainment, something interesting has been happening back at the network ranch.  NBC ...

Quietly, without trumpets, fan fare, ticker tape parades or walks outside of the limo that give the secret service heart attacks, President Barack Obama has been changing the way the executive branch of the government does business online.  Not only that he's influencing the other branches, in part...

McGrath worked at a PR agency and sent out the usual PR request to bloggers to generate a bit of buzz. One blogger, Borsch, got pissed and sent a not too happy email back. McGrath acted like a decent human being and apologised and asked how he should go about it. Apparently this is against the PR pr...

Last summer I started a MySpace account and a Facebook account. My goal was to experiment with these social networking services to promote HRmarketer.com and my children's book. Less than 15 minutes after I registered with MySpace I was contacted by an attractive young woman wanting to be my "friend...

One of the things that continually delights me about 'doing business online' is the rather more 'abundant' mindset which tends to go with it - compared with the 'scarcity' attitude so typical of 'old school', 'bricks and mortar' business where typically your competitors are 'The Enemy'. I used to wa...

Porn porn porn. Cable companies are hoping to "quietly" sell enough pay-per-view porn to make, you know, a profit. Ad Age wrote a whole story about it just so it could use this quote: "If you you're creating something that's just going to be masturbatory, fine, but if you want to stay alive in this ...

I'm a visual learner, so I occasionally create PowerPoint slides to provide another way of understanding and communicating the concepts I'm writing about.  I wanted make it easier to reference these slides, so here's a compilation of posts where graphic images have (hopefully) helped to augment...

Look, the nimble television networks are seamlessly transitioning into recession-era programming! Instead of sitcoms about upwardly mobile whites, it's sitcoms about downwardly mobile whites. With product placement for the poors! ABC is leading the way with two new pilots for the upcoming post-boom ...

So, how’s the economic meltdown treating you? Excited about the opportunities, or sick to your stomach worrying about how your bills will get paid? Exhilarated or freaked out? Maybe a little of both? It’s impossible to really see massive change when we’re still in the middle of it. But there a...

Faithful readers of this blog know that I follow the inside scoop of the TV news industry. Having survived a stint in cable news, nothing makes me smile/cringe more as when I see the latest efforts of a network flack......