Long time without writing, but for two very good reasons:
- on the personal side, my wife and I recently had a cute little baby boy and we are learning the ropes of being first time parents
- on the professional side, I recently joined NBC Universal as VP of Strategy and I have been making the [...]

Last night we had a dinner party at home, and a Brazilian friend was telling me about this great cover of Damien Rice’s “The Blower’s Daughter” that Seu Jorge and Ana Carolina had done.
As you all probably know, I have become a true convert to music subscription services, and listen to Rhapsody non-stop at [...]

Joel Martinsen at Danwei has an interesting post on a new on-demand publishing service in China called Inker.
With the rise of digital self-expression and low-cost printing, it is exciting to see the emergence of overseas equivalents to Lulu, Xlibris or PublishAmerica .
Still, this being China there are obviously still many restrictions when it comes [...]

» Donna Bogatin at ZDNet.com has an exclusive first peek at the Google plans for radio advertising. The initial stats on Google’s radio footprint are impressive:

Google needs to diversify beyond its online ads and is trying its hand at radio, TV and print advertising. The recent opening of an office in NYC was a [...]

The New York Times hypes the next big thing threatening the TV business: The Slingbox, now in mobile format:
Last year, a strange-looking gadget called the Slingbox ($250) began offering that possibility. It’s designed to let you, a traveler on the road, watch what’s on TV back at your house, or what’s been recorded by a [...]

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In yet another desperate attempt to hype the role of print magazines in our digital age, the Magazines Publishers Association (MPA) recently commissioned a new study on consumer behavior.
The results are clear: TV dominates media usage, whereas magazines dominates engagement. In order words, we watch more hours of TV per day than any other media, [...]

In anticipation of Telecom’05, the major telecom conference that just took place in Las Vegas, Light Reading has a great overview called
Networking the Telecom Industry that looks at the major telco technologies and distinguishes high-potential trends from hype, for example:
WiMax
The Hype: WiMax will provide large quantities of bandwidth as far as 30 miles. [...]