The Media Guardian is reporting, "This October, the BBC is overseeing the launch of a new copyright license. It is a small but necessary step towards realizing one of the most visionary projects that the corporation has announced in decades - the Creative Archive. Although it may not seem obvious at first mention, the copyright license, and the man behind it, show just how groundbreaking the archive promises to be."

What's more important, that Voices of Iraq has a low production quality or that it was made at all? I think the more compelling the content, the more likely people are to accept a lower quality of content. When you're trying to fill 30 minutes with news at 5,6, and 10, you have to have a high production value because quite frankly, the content is often such fluff.

Q. How much news would local stations produce if there was no time constraint?

News.com is reporting that "America's love affair with all things big has moved from supersize french fries and sport utility vehicles to large flat-panel, wide-screen, HDTV-compatible televisions--the kind that can hang on a wall."

Tube sets still sell in huge numbers. In 2003, 21 million of the 31 million sets that sold were analog direct-view models, with an average selling price of $231, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.

"But by 2007, sales of conventional sets will dwindle to less than half that, analysts say. Such sets will be attacked on the high end by digital flat-panel TVs and on the lower end by digital rear-projection sets.

"TV will come to resemble a magazine, where consumers no longer just 'watch' TV, but 'consume' TV through the choices of programming that they will decide to make." - Jen Soch, VP at Publicis Groupe's MediaVest

Commercial skipping is not the primary impetus for DVR users. About 30 percent said they never used the device to avoid commercials. TV is still passive. People don't want to work too hard when they're watching; speeding up and slowing down is considered work." - Artie Bulgrin, senior VP for research sales and development at ESPN

"The 30-second spot is not dead; it may be wounded among the DVR set, but it's not dead. For the majority, they do not want to sit with a remote. Plus, people will still want to watch a program live--or at least the night it airs--so that they can talk about it in the morning." - Rachel Mueller-Lust, VP for sales research at ABC Television Network

MediaPost reports, "For all the incursions of new digital media, television remains the "greatest" overall media experience among consumers by a margin of nearly two-to-one over the next most dominant medium, the Internet. But asked, which medium they "prefer" the most, more consumers would choose the Internet."

The research also found that while TV still is the first medium Americans "turn to" and the one they consider "easiest to use," they consider the Internet to be the one that is most "informative," and perhaps more importantly, the one that offers the "greatest control."

C|NET reports, "Mercora's software also automatically streams music from an individual's hard drive, making each member of the network a broadcaster."

"..the services could one day turn into something akin to free, on-demand request radio."

"During the dot-com boom, companies such as Launch Media and Musicmatch (both now owned by Yahoo) and MTVi all vied to create interactive radio services. These provided substantial listener control, which ultimately lead to legal fights with the record industry."

Dave tried to discount the impact bloggers are having on journalism because bloggers have an agenda. They aren't impartial. Dave added Ed agrees with him... which makes me even more convinced I'm right.

I countered with bloggers don't try to appear impartial and the primary reason they do so much research for free is they are trying to prove or defend their point of view. CBS has to do enough research each week to fill an hour of television and the research has to be compelling enough to sell an hour's worth of ads.

Which is worse?

When someone challenges my point of view, I will try to find a flaw in their logic or and check their numbers. If the facts hold up and work against my view, you probably won't hear about it on my blog. If the facts don't hold, I'll be sure to post something about it.

Google brought the world the 1 Gig inbox in large part because the disk space was a by product of the CPU farms they've been building. With their stock having doubled and lacking a serious search competitor, they will only continue growing their farms. What will do with the additional drive space?

Sergey Brin is playing with TV.

Slashdot is discussing this Yahoo India article

According to the WSJ.com ($$$ req.), compared to 2000, NBC dropped 17%, ABC fell 11% and CBS lost 27% of its viewers. Meanwhile, Fox News tripled its ratings. Fox was launched in 1996. In 2000, Fox had 1.7 million viewers. Trippling it is great, but Fox's 5.1 million was still less than NBC (10), ABC (9.1), and CBS (6.9).

[Via LostRemote]