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Monday, March 8, 2004
Sunday redux 
Really Simple Syndication. It's not just for blogs anymore.
| | At some point, everything on the Web with a need to be known will send out an RSS notification when something new goes up or something old changes. |
Keeping the b in pubic broadcasting
| | The station manager's defense of the action speaks volumes about the speech-restrictive climate that's freezing down broadcasting right now: |
| | "It is the equivalent of the Janet Jackson performance piece and there is not a radio or TV programmer today who does not understand the seriousness involved to the station," Seymour said, referring to the now infamous breast-baring halftime show for the Feb. 1 Super Bowl. |
| | There's also this from later in the same piece: |
| | "We don't see any reason why we would change our relationship with (Loh) because it wasn't on our air," Marketplace Executive Producer J.J. Yore said. "This is really an unfortunate situation and that it happened at a time of such heightened sensitivity." |
| | Looks like Clear isn't the only Fear Channel. |
The weatherman
| | Getting just enough signal from Howard this morning to hear a bit of his show while I get ready to go downstairs for breakfast. He's saying he has sources inside the FCC ("about three of them"), and that the FCC is holding off fining his show (for "notices of apparent liability") until the opportune political moment for the Bush administration. Something like that. |
| | [Later...] Now he's saying Chairman Powell is afraid he'll give the election to Kerry if he lays down fines on Howard (and others). |
| | Cards on the table: I trust what Howard says about what's going on more than anybody else out there. Even when he exaggerates, throws out red herrings and otherwise wrings entertainment value out of everything he does. Why? Not just because he's honest (that's part of his rap, as well as his rep), but because he knows, better than anybody else in the business, both how it works and what he's talking about. How else could he play the whole industry like an instrument for the past 25 years, getting advertisers their money's worth through a show that runs (sometimes as long as an epic movie), every day? |
| | Also, his sense of the prevailing political winds, especially as they blow through the broadcast regulatory regime, is extraordinarily acute. We've been watching those winds blow through other regimes — on trade, on the environment, and so on. And now we're about to see them blow through broadcasting. Whether you like or hate the man, listen to what he's saying about the politics around broadcasting today. The deeper subject is what you're not supposed to be hearing. And not just on the Stern show, either. |
Replaying TiVo
| | Reading it again, I still feel the same way. |
Quote du jour
| | ...why is the Microsoft Office suite so pathetic at timelines and other structures involving time? Excel in particular just sucks at charting timelines. (If you've found a way to do it, send me some hints.) Do they think adding time smarts will kill sales of Project? They can't actually believe that. |
Extreme deadline fever
Riding Arbus
| | I said yesterday that the best feature on CBS' Sunday Morning program was about the photographer Diane Arbus. I first saw Arbus work in New York, back in the 1960s, and it blew my mind. Still does. So I looked her up on the Web this morning and found the most useful link was (surprise!) a blog: Martin Taylor's Potoblogography. He has a review of Diane Arbus Revelations at SFMOMA that made me kick myself for missing it, until I saw, at the end, the rest of the show's tour, through October 2006. It will be here (or, 90 miles east of here) at the L.A. County Museum of Art through the end of May. A good excuse to get down there soon. |
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