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10 Questions that Media Companies Should Know the Answer To

Kyle Austin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:46:42 -0400

Blackout Beginning for TBS: Could they have responded on the Web or via Mobile Devices?

Kyle Austin — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:31:00 -0400

Fans across the nation (especially Red Sox Nation), many whom had just sat through Turner Broadcasting System’s (TBS) pregame for Game 6 of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) American League Championship Series (ALCS), prepared for the fist pitch between the Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday night – only to be greeted by a sitcom, which stopped airing new shows more than six years ago.

Joe the Plumber Gets His Fifteen Minutes on the Tube and on the Web

Kyle Austin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:30:46 -0400

Peter Gabriel’s YouTube for Human Rights: The Hub

David Kushner — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:45:52 -0400

It was an ordinary day of skateboarding dog videos on YouTube last November when a harrowing clip appeared. The grainy shots from Egypt showed police officers beating and sodomizing a man with a nightstick. The clip had been distributed by Egyptian bloggers Wael Abbas and Hossam el-Hamalawy as a call to action against police brutality.

Can the Wisdom of the Crowds Help Us Through the Downturn?

Kyle Austin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:52:05 -0400

My Name is Kyle Austin and I'm an expert blogger for FastCompany.com (as of today). I can promise there won't be any ten step programs in our ensuing conversations. Unless, it is ten steps on how to survive the market meltdown and ad budget cuts, which surrounds us.