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Archive for July, 2010

Media Focus: Truth vs. Propaganda

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Great segment on NPR last night about what’s news and what isn’t. Shirley Sherrod loses her job over a botched video and thousands and thousands of documents are leaked to Wikileaks: these are a couple of recent “news” items that were talked about in the segment.
As I sit here typing away on this corporate blog [...]

Point 360 West Animates Emmy Nominated Alien Earths On Nat Geo

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Very cool…
“Nation Geographic Channels Alien Earths, created by director/producer Dana Berry of Skyworks Digital, has been nominated for an Emmy in the category of Outstanding Animated Program. Point 360 West and animation director Jason Hearne, as well as animation director Dave Jerrard of Radical 3D, worked with Berry creating stunning [...]

Summertime And The Cable Is Boring

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Last night NPR aired a story – “Summertime And The Cable Is Boring” – and while I was listening on my ride home from work, I thought to myself, is this guy in my brain or what? I couldn’t agree more. Don’t get me wrong, I like to be outside in the summertime just [...]

Signiant tops the HubSpot All Stars for July, 2010

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Each month, HubSpot publishes a list of 100 customers enjoying the most success using their software. Signiant is in this month’s group of customers who earned this honor.In fact, we’re at the top of the list.
If you have no idea who Hubspot is or what they do, take a look at the list and peruse [...]

Sports still lead the pack in online video

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

This post is a steal, literally, from Will Richmond’s VideoNuze newsletter today. Everyone loves statistics and as I’ve mentioned before, people are always asking us for numbers to compare one online event to another, here’s what Will had to say…
FIFA World Cup: ESPN3.com (7.4 million unique viewers, 15.7 million hours viewed), UnivisionFutbol.com (10 million hours [...]

Lohan Sentencing Sets Streaming Record on TMZ.com

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

According to Broadcasting & Cable, “more than two million people watched [the] live feed of [the] starlet’s day in court”. I don’t know if you’ve seen it or not, I might have taken a peak on People.com, but if she had known THAT many people would be watching it live (not to mention on [...]

34 % said Facebook comes before brushing their teeth

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

There’s an article today on paidContent.org called… Oxygen: Women Are Addicted To Facebook, But Unsure Where To Draw The Lines and it lists out some surprising statistics about my gender and its love of Facebook. I suppose that more than 400 million active FB users can’t be wrong about Facebook but seriously, checking updates [...]

IBC, here we come again!

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

For those of us in the US, it’s the Friday before our 4th of July long weekend so things are a little quiet. So I thought I’d take this opportunity to remind you all that plans are already underway for our participation in IBC. Each year, IBC hosts 1,300+ exhibitors, 1,000+ journalists and 45,000+ attendees from around [...]

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