Thus far, the second day of Pipeline appears to be showing improvement. I liked the first day, but one of my complaints were that there was a lot of filler. I don't know if it's a function of it being Tuesday, a response to all the good press or the producers are just getting more comfortable, but today looks like they're offering more hard news ( Read more... )

I'll be pseudo-live-blogging the first day of CNN Pipeline. Anyone who may interested should bookmark this entry and come back for additional updates. All times will be Mountain which is one hour ahead of the west coast, two hours behind the east and seven hours from GMT. This record of the service's launch is not intended to be comprehensive, it ( Read more... )

I spent part of the day installing programmable thermostats, in hopes of getting ahead of the higher prices for natural gas. One of the things I've learned is that though the periods are labeled Morning, Day, Evening and Night; You must map them from a 24-hour perspective because the less expensive models don't like it, if you set an AM time for ( Read more... )

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting (reg req) that CNN Pipeline will come out of beta on Monday and will reportedly become available for a $25 annual subscription. If you are not familiar with the concept, it is a broadband service that will be available in widescreen format. Most of the content will be live, uncut, uncommentated video ( Read more... )

I've lived in New Mexico for more than three years. Prior to this, I've also lived in the Denver metro and northern Arizona. I can honestly say that I have lived in three of the four corners and all of these locations are within the Mountain Time Zone ( Read more... )

I really don't hate Google. Not only do I use it as a verb, but I also use their website on an hourly basis. I do caution about their rising power, especially during this administration which not only has put antitrust investigations onto the back burner, but possibly sold the end to the one of Microsoft in exchange for campaign contributions and ( Read more... )

A gem of a vlogging concept is starting to get a little press, not bad considering that it only recently started, but I thought I'd throw a head-up to anyone with a broadband connection and several minutes to kill.

Commuter Ravi Jain has put together a website, where he links a video talk show, he films with a dashboard camera on his commute into ( Read more... )

I've posted in the past about Rupert Murdoch and his media plans. The man, himself has fascinated me for years, ever since he first came to my attention when Teddy Kennedy intervened to change the media ownership rules, so he could own a newspaper and television station in the same town. I also got my first internet connection from Mr Murdoch. ( Read more... )

Off and on and during several incarnations, I've flirted with the idea of going into the movie or television business. It started way back and right after college, when I decided to generate a script from an old classic. I bought a couple of books about script structure and how to pitch a movie, but I got kind of bored tried to adapt someone else's ( Read more... )

I'm still formulating my thoughts beyond the obvious, but two media stories have come together to perfectly illustrate a known point and I feel compelled to comment. This morning I ran a few errands and was letting crap play in the background. When I focused on the words, I was hearing a radio show from FAIR.org and Peter Hart was doing a terrible ( Read more... )