Breaking: CBS to acquire CNET for $1.8 Billion
May 15, 2008CBS has announced plans to acquire CNET for $1.8 Billion. CNET would become part of CBS Interactive.
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New Media Musings
May 12, 2008Originally posted on the MWM Blog, Here
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Milwaukee, WI - What is the best way to reach the widest audience as fast as possible? The web. Does that mean that other forms of communication aren’t worthwhile. No way, Jose. New and Old Media are BOTH here to stay.
Print. Proven since the time of Gutenberg, however waning in it’s importance as new media such as broadcast, internet, and mobile networks come on-line. Magazines are still a quality source to showcase high quality photography & newspapers are sure to get the word out there regarding your product and service. Dailies/Weeklies are everywhere and really inexpensive to advertise with.
Radio. Strange bird- a hybrid of TV and new media - yet most stations still broadcast in in analogue format over FM transmitters designed in the middle of the last century. It can still be a fantastic way to generate buzz for an event, or of course, the station itself.
Television. or T.V. is too undergoing a transformation from the 2008 analogue world into the the 2009 mandated digital world. And let’s face it, most of it is cable or dish these days. Both digital formats that can connect your tv, stereo, movie player, lights, anything really, broadband uses some of these same wires and as infrastructure. TV is here to stay and even seeing a rise with home video/youtube.com web based programs now coming to your television. i.e. vudu, apple tv, dvr capabilities.
The Web. The future. plain and simple, however it is the idea of inter-net’s that is the future. Grand Piano’s connected to play songs of the radio, save, record, and cloud computing - this stuff. To think that we’d be tied down to a 13.3 laptop and bet the future on business on it is moronic to say the least. While screen size might grow, project, go 3d, or whatever - that fact that the web is the highway for the world’s collective thought and business in-roads. It is what makes the web sticky, alluring, and so promising.
The World. To repeat everything I said for the web as it is our future, isn’t quite right, but yes the web will be moving the world. Yet information needs to be understood to be valuable - a system has to be in place. So what if our eco-system can’t hold the web? What then? We do need to shoot for carbon -neutral internet, alternative means of transporation, more food, resources and so on. Hopefully we can bring each other together with all types of media, new and old in order to do so, for without a sustainable world - what use is the web?
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Popular Blog? Thunk Different hits: 350,000 Visitors!
May 11, 2008350,000 Visitors is not bad for a blog barely a year old. iSuppose we have style and grace or something like that, anyways - thanks for reading & check out some links!
STATS ( as of 5/11/08 ) 
THIS WEEK =14,840
LAST MONTH= 68,121
ALL TIME= 350,380
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Undercover: An Actual Story of Mac Laptop Theft Recovery
May 11, 2008Mac owners are aware of Undercover and what it’s supposed to do, protect your laptop if it’s stolen. Finally, here’s an actual story of how the software did exactly that. This story even comes complete with the software taken PHOTO OF THIEF using the laptop while sitting on HIS TOLIET.
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It’s Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay
May 9, 2008Timothy’s email went on for about two weeks, so we’ve tried to edit it for length.
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Microsoft Withdraws Its Bid for Yahoo
May 4, 2008Microsoft said Saturday that it was abandoning its blockbuster bid to acquire Yahoo after the two companies could not agree on a price.
The breakdown followed a meeting in Seattle on Saturday morning between Microsoft C.E.O. Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, and Yahoo C.E.O. Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s co-founder and chief executive.
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‘Who woulda thunk?
May 2, 2008Who would Thunk that Thunk Different was allegedly worth over $31,000.00. Well, accounting to the algorithm constructed by the folks on the right hand side of this site, it is worth exactly, $31,049.70 as of 5/01/08.
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Should I buy a new iMac?
May 2, 2008Conclusions
One question I’m always asked after publishing benchmarks like this is whether it’s worth getting the high-end model or not. Usually the answer comes down to personal preference and budget; in other words, the answer is “it depends”. To help answer that answer this time around I thought I’d try something new; I divided the cost of each iMac by its Geekbench score, coming up with a “Cost Per Point” metric. Below is a chart that lists the Cost Per Point (in cents) for each model, including the base model with a 2GB RAM upgrade.
If you’re looking for the best value in terms of raw processing power, the best iMac to get is the base model. Even after upgrading the RAM in the base model it’s still more cost-effective than the mid-range 20-inch iMac.
That said, this analysis only takes processor and memory performance into account. It doesn’t take into account the extra features you get with each model, like larger hard drives and better video cards. Personally, I’d recommend the 2.66 GHz 20-inch iMac; the extra hard drive space and video memory offset the slight disadvantage it has against the 2.4 GHz 20-inch iMac in terms of value.
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Digital Vacuum.
May 1, 2008iRecently met with a web media strategist for a position i hold. iWas quite interested to meet him, but out the gate I sound his coyness to be quite condescending. He kept pushing ideas such as social networking, mobile communication, and all these eventual norms in the present day. Clearly they are useful to marketers, iHave had success using myspace, facebook, jaiku, whatever - but this man was insinuating us to drop our business model - I could feel his seething contempt for our 20th century ways. It was as if he wasn’t interested in anything we were doing and what made us a national powerhouse, it was as what he could do better than us, like… right now.
So can a DeVry graduate with a good head on his shoulders. So big whoop. Fact is: hard work, homework, and seeing right through people will get you further along in business the latest greatest destination of the digital bandwagon. Sure, we are all going social/mobile, but what then? Where is the advantage if everyone is doing it… I ask you this.
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7 Confessions Of An Apple Macintosh Specialist
April 29, 2008I glanced down and spotted something on the ground. As I knelt down to pick it up I saw it was a tattered white envelope bearing the words, “7 Confessions of an Apple Mac Specialist.” Its contents, inside…
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