“Someone Has to Pay for TV. But Who? And How?” is the title of a good column in the Sunday NYTimes by Randall Stross about the changing model of television programming and advertising in the age of digital-video recorders (DVRs) and viewer propensity to skip ads.… Read the rest
To celebrate (or condemn) the 100th entry on AttentionMax, please take my reader/participant survey! Does it suck? Or is it awesome?
Join the cool crowd and take the two-minute survey here, and don’t forget to enter this password: maxrocks
The deadline to take the survey is May 12, 2006 at 8PM EST.… Read the rest
(An Ad on MySpace)
Occasionally I check to see which phrases are drawing visitors from search engines into AttentionMax. Given my MySpace chronicles, I guess it’s not surprising that four of the top 50 search phrases this past week were related to MySpace.… Read the rest
Dread lights up like pain in your brain, the New Scientist reports:
… Read the restThe feeling of dread lights up the parts of the brain linked with pain, making the experience so uncomfortable that people choose to end the wait for an unpleasant experience sooner, even if it means incurring a penalty.
comScore Media Metrix, where I used to work, says that 694 million people use the Internet worldwide. My gut tells me that estimate is a bit low. But it’s awesome they’re producing the first ongoing estimates, which can be challenged and debated, as well as studied to reveal usage behaviors and trends.… Read the rest
