"To get programming out to as many consumers as possible, everyone from [new CEO Vivian] Schiller on down sees technology as the key. “We have to skate where the puck is going,” she says (in what may be the first use of a hockey metaphor by an NPR CEO)."
"This isn’t about the end of commerce or the end of marketing or news or entertainment. All of the above are finding new expressions online, and in time will flourish thanks to the very digital revolution that is now ravaging them. The future is bright. But the present is apocalyptic. Any hope for a seamless transition — or any transition at all — from mass media and marketing to micro media and marketing are absurd. The sky is falling, the frog in the pot has come to a boil and, oh yeah, we are, most of us, exquisitely, irretrievably fucked"
"The latest bailout came as AIG admitted to having just posted the largest quarterly loss in American corporate history — some $61.7 billion. In the final three months of last year, the company lost more than $27 million every hour. That’s $465,000 a minute, a yearly income for a median American household every six seconds, roughly $7,750 a second"
"Power swung so decisively to the supply side that “market” became a verb: something you do to customers"
"To get programming out to as many consumers as possible, everyone from [new CEO Vivian] Schiller on down sees technology as the key. “We have to skate where the puck is going,” she says (in what may be the first use of a hockey metaphor by an NPR CEO)."
"This isn’t about the end of commerce or the end of marketing or news or entertainment. All of the above are finding new expressions online, and in time will flourish thanks to the very digital revolution that is now ravaging them. The future is bright. But the present is apocalyptic. Any hope for a seamless transition — or any transition at all — from mass media and marketing to micro media and marketing are absurd. The sky is falling, the frog in the pot has come to a boil and, oh yeah, we are, most of us, exquisitely, irretrievably fucked"
"The latest bailout came as AIG admitted to having just posted the largest quarterly loss in American corporate history — some $61.7 billion. In the final three months of last year, the company lost more than $27 million every hour. That’s $465,000 a minute, a yearly income for a median American household every six seconds, roughly $7,750 a second"
"Power swung so decisively to the supply side that “market” became a verb: something you do to customers"
