I’ve been super-busy so haven’t given the launch of Current TV as much attention as it deserves. The Al Gore-led network has exceeded my expectations so far. Current TV is to the current youth generation what MTV was to the ’80s generation. It may not ultimately have the same impact, but I think it will […]
Television
An instant Akimbo fan
You may have heard of Akimbo by now. The San Mateo, Calif., startup has been quietly making programming alliances over the past year and fine-tuning its Internet television service. I hadn’t planned on getting an Akimbo box to add to my TiVo and DVD recorder setup, chiefly because I didn’t want to have to call […]
The television will be revolutionized
I’m quoted in this article the other day by Farhad Manjoo in Salon (subscription required): The television will be revolutionized. Al Gore promises that Current TV will be as interactive and democratic as the Internet. But already his restless young audience is wondering whether the network will be another rerun. Excerpt: Viewers might wish it […]
TV stations must embrace personal media tools
Before I finished reading the first paragraph of this latest entry on the American Press Institute Media Center’s morph blog, I knew who’d penned it: Nashville blogger Terry Heaton, who’s trying to drag TV stations into the 21st century. Terry writes: J.D. Lasica, author of Darknet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation, calls the citizens […]
Edge TV
The other day on the Darknet blog I commented about Steve Levy’s piece in Newsweek about the future of television, something I go into in great deal in Darknet. I call it Edge TV rather than IPTV (which refers to the distribution mechanism), on-demand TV (which refers to consumers’ behavior) or file-serve television (the techie […]