the Newseum tries Elvis
The Newseum, a $450 million dollar monument to news industry leadership, currently features an Elvis exhibit: “Elvis! His Groundbreaking, Hip-Shaking, Newsmaking Story.” In the business crisis facing the news industry today, something has to be done to raise revenue and support quality journalism. Maybe Elvises (a good investigative journalist could find a lot of them) [...]
Tagged: news
dis-economies in communications networks
In the late 19′th and early 20′th centuries, local investment in telephone networks drove the spread of telephone service in the U.S. Decentralized network investment made the U.S. a world leader in telephone coverage. U.S. telephone development was especially successful in rural areas. Dis-economies of scale in telephone networks help to account for the success [...]
Tagged: infrastructure
print distribution boxes still prevalent
Over the past two years, the number of print distribution boxes outside an Arlington metro entrance has increased slightly. In July, 2008, 30 print distribution boxes stood outside the Courthouse/Clarendon St. metro entrance. The number of print distribution boxes there is now 32. At least six of those boxes have been abandoned. One of [...]
Tagged: newspapers
user access to billing-relevant use data
Customers often lack a decision-relevant understanding of service bills. How much and in what ways a customer uses a service usually affects the size of the customer’s bill. In such circumstances, customers’ access to data on their own use of a service is an important aspect of market structure. Customers choices of wireless calling plans [...]
Tagged: price information
a summit of viewer engagement
Tagged: content
if it's not fun, why do it?
Hey Jerry, some reasons why: Because I promised to do it. Because it will help them. Because it will make me stronger and smarter. Because it’s the right thing to do. Because it will make for a better future. Because I gotta earn a living somehow. Because it’s gotta get done, and somebody’s got to [...]
social constraints on communication technology use
Variations in average telephone use have been relatively small across more than a century of telephone use. From 1893 to 1913, the number of telephones in many countries around the world increased by more than a factor of ten. The average number of intra-urban telephone conversations per subscriber telephone changed little. For example, [...]
Tagged: telephones