For the man who will stride to midfield for the coin toss before the Super Bowl next weekend, it will be something of a homecoming.
Bart Starr, one of football’s greatest quarterbacks and the most important player of the Green Bay Packers dynasty in the 1960s, stepped away from the game and the public eye in 1988 after a family tragedy. Kickoff of Super Bowl XL will see his public reunion with the National Football League. And after the game he’ll be presenting the Lombardi Trophy, named after his old coach, the man with whom he won five NFL championships and two Super Bowls.
Monthly Archives: January 2006
Glosoli in HD
Sigur Ros; Glosoli from Takk in HD (gorgeous photography).
IBM on the Future of Television
Our analysis indicates that market evolution hinges on two key market drivers: openness of access channels and levels of consumer involvement with media. For the next 5-7 years, there will be change on both fronts — but not uniformly. The industry instead will be stamped by consumer bimodality, a coexistence of two types of users with disparate channel requirements. While one consumer segment remains passive in the living room, the other will force radical change in business models in a search for anytime, anywhere content through multiple channels.
Via Terry Heaton.
Interesting that IBM is chatting about this game. Large changes are underway….
Reshaping Broadcast TV Revenue
JPMorgan Chase analyst Spencer Wang says the earliest signs of this fundamental value shift is the sharp contrast between the languishing stock price of traditional media companies (representing an estimated loss of $31 billion in collective market capitalization) and the meteoric rise of so-called new-media stocks (reflecting an aggregate $69 billion gain in market cap).
More directly, evolving new business models are gradually redefining the value of content in the digital age: what distributors and consumers are willing to pay, what it costs to produce and how much revenue and profit is generated as compared to traditional ways of doing business.
State Electronic Surveillance Laws
National Conference of State Legislatures:
Electronic surveillance is also examined in a brief
that is part of NCSL’s series, “States
Respond to Terrorism,” which surveys states’ efforts to protect democracy
from future terrorist attacks.Electronic Surveillance involves the traditional laws on wiretapping–any
interception of a telephone transmission by accessing the telephone signal
itself–and eavesdropping–listening in on conversations without the consent
of the parties.Following the tragedies of September 11, there is growing
support to give law enforcement agencies more power to tap into private
communications to thwart further acts of terrorism by monitoring private
electronic communications. State and federal policymakers face the challenge
of balancing security needs via electronic surveillance against the potential
erosion of individual privacy.
Requiem for Core Weekly
Core Weekly, whose “only reason for existing was to make money” according to Bill Lueders, is gone. Local discussion roundup:
- Kristian Knutsen on the Life and Death of Core Weekly
- Jesse Russell: For Core, it’s the pits
Zawodny: Has Google Lost its Soul?
We all knew it was a matter of “when” not “if”, but it’s surprising to see that it had to happen this way. Over on Google Blogscoped, I see that Google Removes Its Help Entry on Censorship: The page which used to say: Google does not censor results for any search term. The order and content of our results are completely automated; we do not manipulate our search results by hand. We believe strongly in allowing the democracy of the web to determine the inclusion and ranking of sites in our search results.
Now simply 404s. It’s gone. Well, except for the cached copy in Google itself.
Rather than using that page to explain how and why they’ve compromised their corporate philosophy in China, they’ve removed it entirely with no e
Read the comments for a rather troubling look at Google’s censorship.
Ethanol Study
About one out of every 40 cars and trucks in the United States can now run on a commercial mix of gasoline and ethanol, mostly made from corn. And the federal government is backing the renewable fuel industry. But does ethanol really reduce dependence on fossil fuels?
Beautiful Photos from China
Man Behind the 747 Tells His Story
Sutter, white-haired and soon to be 85 but still razor-sharp, has finally told his life’s story, and that of the 747, in a book with aviation writer Jay Spenser.
“747: Creating the World’s First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation,” won’t hit book stores until May. But last week I received an advance copy from the publisher, Smithsonian Books.
via enplaned.