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Television Needs to Catch Up with the Internet

Media writers like using the term “game-changing” a lot.  I think what is meant by “game-changing” is that the introduction of some new technology will be so monumental it will force a change of rules. But we’re too late if we’re only now starting to think about this imminent “something new.” Ubiquitous, wireless broadband is [...]

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Why Comments are Creative — and Important

Note: This is a challenge to a post entitled, “Why comments are destructive,” by our friends over at the Lost Remote blog. Admittedly, this opening paragraph is self-righteous, but hey, we’re pretty sure we’re right. At CableU, we like hearing from subscribers. In-fact, we invite it. This is why CableU has been so well received [...]

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Baby Boomers, Agents of Change

I’m a baby boomer, although I’m at the younger end of the generation. We are the largest population boom in history and have been agents of change our whole lives. Our record is clear: The Civil Rights Movements of the 60’s and 70’s. Rock and Roll and the British invasion that changed popular music happened [...]

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Feed the Addiction: The Correlation Between Facebook and MTV’s The Hills

I’m on Facebook. (I mean really, who isn’t?) I admit it – I stalk those “friends” on my friend list that I haven’t talked to in 5 years plus. I enviously look through the photos of their wild partying, secretly judge the girls who’ve gained some post-college weight, silently accuse the ones who haven’t of [...]

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