Archives for October 2008
Has David Brooks lost his mind?
Check out this line of nonsense from David Brooks’ latest New York Times column: Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive. But no American politician plays the class-warfare card as constantly as Palin. Nobody so relentlessly divides the world between the “normal Joe Sixpack American” and the [...]
Coda: Tina Fey and Sarah Palin
This just in– according to a press release by IMMI today, more people saw the Tina Fey impressions of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live either via their DVR (which would be Saturday Night Dead, I guess) or online (at places like NBC.com, Hulu.com or this blog). And the times, they keep a-changing…
Links for October 7th through October 9th
Things I’m tracking for October 7th through October 9th: The beginning of the end of free? | Media | guardian.co.uk – Credit Card, Mortgage Marketers Cut TV Ad Spending – Advertising Age – MediaWorks – Thoughts on Netflix's Expanding OTT Streaming Video Service, Part 2 – – Part 2 of this series… interesting Thoughts on [...]
IAB numbers released… already out of date
[Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blog.] The Interactive Advertising Bureau released its first half of 2008 numbers this morning, and the subject line of the email was, “IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report Shows First Half of ’08 Up 15.2% From Same Period ’07.” The numbers look great– a 15.2% increase over the first half of [...]
In case you missed the SNL “Biden v. Palin” opening…
Don’t. It’s right here:
