At 12 years old. A documentary look at a future NHL player drafted in the first round by the Capitals. Very instructive and open and real.
Click here to watch. Thank you.
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Sharks and More Sharks
We got ‘em too.
Sharks. Free sharks. Real time sharks.
At your fingertips.
Did I say sharks?
Click here if you dare.
Shark Encounters. Thanks National Geographic. On SnagFilms.com.
Specialists Seem to Win
Sports programming has emerged as key content for networks. It is real time – drives big audiences and great viewer passion.
ESPN is king. All sports. All the time on television and the web. They own rights to broadcast NFL, NBA and MLB games! They have video galore. They have scale.
Comcast SportsNet is focused. Drives lots of attention locally because they own the rights to broadcast the Capitals and Wizards games. They leverage our programming and viewer habits to then cover all sports deeply and locally. They are good at what they do. Comcast now owns NBC and the local DC NBC affiliate. I don’t understand why they don’t give the Caps and Wizards extra ordinary attention and drive creatively as a way to create a deeper sports networking operation. They own our rights.
The blogosphere specializes in passionate coverage. All the time in real time. It is booming.
Our teams themselves have become content factories. Pumping out stories and videos and using our own means of distribution.
Twitter users update scores and talk about what is happening- live and in real time.
Local television news gives short shrift to local sports. 2 minutes per broadcast. A super market approach to info shopping. It is appointment oriented- at 6PM, 6:30PM or 11PM. But we live in a real time world. That is all taking its toll on local news and their business model.
See this set of articles. It fore shadows even more changes in the info and content industries in local markets.
NBC is changing, WUSA channel 9 is changing.
What is next?
Agnes Varis
The world lost a great woman over the weekend; Agnes Varis.
She was my great aunt. She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and then moved to Brooklyn, NY. She was called “Saint Agnes” for all of her charitable work to support woman’s rights, the arts and animal rights. She was also quite active in politics and filmmaking and music.
She was one of the first generation of female entrepreneurs. First generation Greeks. She founded several successful companies, including Agvar Chemicals Inc. and Aegis Pharmaceuticals. She was fiery, passionate, other worldly, intelligent and quite caring.
She provided a great role model for many people and she was respected and loved by many communities.
I last saw her just two weeks ago. I traveled up to NYC and her great apartment on Central Park and we talked about our families. My dad who was close to her and our business pursuits and philanthropy. She was so much fun to be around; she will be terribly missed. It was raining and as I arrived and afterwards, as I was leaving a beautiful rainbow was seen over Central Park. I gave her a kiss as I left and sang to her the opening of “Somewhere over the Rainbow”. She held my hand tight and nodded and smiled. She was resolute and strong and tough til the end.
She passed on peacefully. She lived a full life. She was self-actualized and happy. I was proud to be in her family.
See this Wikipedia entry on some of her life and times and more after the jump. Thank you.
Real Time Sharks
Click here. We got sharks too.
Teeth.
On demand. Courtesy of National Geographic.
Chomp.
Scary fun. “Great White Shark-Truth Behind The Legend”.
In real time for free on SnagFilms.com. And thank you, too!
THIS Isn’t Surprising
Media eats its own.
The money is gone.
The careers, if you want to call it that – all gone.
Image and reputation – the monster was fed. All gone.
MTV soldiers on; “next”, they say.
Read this one. A sad truthful tale; reality sucks.