Monthly Archives: December 2009

Radio [Ratings] Waves

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

Two years ago, Arbitron – the bull-goose radio ratings service – started replacing its paper diaries to track radio listening with Portable People Meters, a pagerlike device carried around all day by roughly 57,000 Arbitron-niks. Yesterday, the People Meter story … Continue reading →

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Jiltin’ Joe

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-I Control You) is currently off the reservation on the Obamacare front. Headline from Tuesday New York Times piece:  “Lieberman Rules Out Voting for Health Bill.” Lede: In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. … Continue reading →

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Smart smartphone marketing

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

Let the wild smartphone rumpus begin. Google has just jumped into the pool, launching its own branded cellphone, Nexus One, after leasing its Android smartphone technology to no less than 32 wireless carriers – Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile among them. … Continue reading →

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The New Totalitarianism

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

Meet the new boss. Same as the underlings of the old boss. So it seems that French politics is tangled up in the Web. Via the New York Times: [T]he Internet has proved to be an exasperating source of embarrassment … Continue reading →

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Recording the Act of De-record-ing

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

Don’t miss Jeremy Eichler’s excellent piece in the Sunday Boston Globe about digitizing his music collection. The premise: I’ve been thinking not only about the virtues of high-tech listening but also about what’s been lost in our headlong sprint into … Continue reading →

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Format o’ the Day™

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

New look. Questions? Comments? Bitter recriminations?

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Steve Payliuca

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

On Saturday – three full days after the special-election primary to fill Ted Kennedy’s vacant U.S. Senate seat – the Missus received a mailer from former Senate hopeful and current merely Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca. The headline on the … Continue reading →

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Pixellure

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

Even I – a certified pulp guy in a pixel world – find the new Sports Illustrated tablet-friendly digital magazine wicked pissah. From Marketing Vox: The Sports Illustrated tablet offering will feature the magazine’s content, other selected material from its … Continue reading →

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Crazy Like Fox

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

So there’s this big dustup between Time Warner Cable (a.k.a. the pipeline) and Fox Broadcasting (a.k.a. the content) about renegotiating their cablecast contract. Seems that Fox wants a big bump to allow Time Warner to cable the network into untold … Continue reading →

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New York (Times) Confidential

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

From the Grey Lady’s Friday edition: “Annie Leibovitz Tries to Regain Financial Footing” The piece detailed the phamous photographer’s scrambling efforts to retain “the rights to her photos and her real estate.” Seems Leibovitz pawned both to Art Capital Group, … Continue reading →

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