Just a terrific graphic from VentureBeat.com’s MediaBeat on the evolution of TV Technology/Entertainment, that’s further pushing content to both ends of the Curve.                

Lisa de Moraes’ is the television columnist for the Washington Post. I don’t think she’s a very good writer. I actually think she’s a terrific writer. That said, yesterday she wrote a column, “Conan tells Fortune: NBC like an ‘Indiana Jones’ Nazi” about some of the stuff that Conan O’Brien had said to me, which seems to me to have been after reading only the Fortune press release and not the full article, and strikes me more than a little off-base, and I’ve written as much in the comments on the Washington Post page where her column lives.

Last week I was asked by a media friend in Israel if I would contribute to a paper about where media will be in five years. My answer was that five years is a long way off, and way too distant a horizon to be thinking about media. (But it’s still a hellova a measuring [...]

NBC’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Games clearly sits at the very far right-hand side of The Curve: it’s high-end production by the best producers, directors and announcers (especially Al Trautwig) in television. Now, I’ve been reading a lot of interesting articles about NBC’s ratings success with these Olympic Games (including this terrific piece in [...]

This will (probably) be my last post about what David Pogue has labeled their “MobileMess,” i.e. Apple’s disastrous rollout of MobileMe. Since I’m not a techie, rather than focus on the product side of the company’s recent stumble, I’ve been focusing on aspects of Apple’s marketing that I think have been previously overlooked. (See Apple [...]