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The personal professional blog of Pamela Parker -- musings on marketing, advertising, media and technology.

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Blogs on TV

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B.L. Ochman reports that Nightline will air a segment called “The Beast of Blogging” tonight. Always interesting to see the “MSM” view of blogging.

My husband, Michael, saw one segment on CNN about blogging that was pretty frightening. He told me if he’d seen it with his family, who are not “in the know” about blogging, he thinks they’d have forced him to leave me, considering I’m one of the evil blogging ones. Never mind that one of my first blogging efforts was keeping distant family updated on our wedding plans. On CNN blogging = evil.

Meanwhile, The Daily Show has done some really great blogging-related segments lately.

  • $ecret$ of New Journalism
  • “Fact” Obsessed Bloggers

    • I Want My Rewind Button

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    I’m with Watson…. My itchy trigger finger belies my deep desire for TiVo for my radio. We’ve had ReplayTV since May of 2002 (nearly 3 years). It’s been with us at 3 different residences, through 3 different cable companies and 1 satellite TV provider. It may not be TiVo, but I honestly have no complaints. In fact, because we have an early ReplayTV, we still have the auto-commercial-skipping the company abandoned in 2003.

    When we have to use our cable system (Comcast) menu for choosing programming (rarely), it drives us crazy — the interface is so slow to respond. When we can’t pause or rewind — when traveling or with radio — it’s extremely frustrating. We’re spoiled, but it just feels so right. Needless to say, we’re not alone.

    This is why I desperately want one for my radio. Podcasting really won’t do. I don’t want to be totally timeshifted away from the rest of the listening public. I like my NPR in the car on the way home, and I like knowing everyone else is out there listening to the same thing at the same time. I just want to rewind it a bit if I miss something… or pause if I’m hitting some gnarly traffic. Then, of course, I want to skip ahead (through the pledge breaks?) and catch back up to the rest of the world. Is that too much to ask?