communications industry structure, including mass media, advertising, and telephone companies
While recent estimates of the share of U.S. adults who have used a public library in the past year range from 47% to 68%, the most credible statistics, in my judgment, are at the bottom of that range. A relatively large survey that the U.S. Census Bureau administered as part of the Current Population Survey … Continue reading what share of U.S. adults have used a public library in the past year?
Photography rapidly became a major commercial business in the mid-1800s. Commercial photographers gave ordinary persons, for the first time, the opportunity to acquire images of their loved ones. Persons today, sharing photographs on Flickr, Facebook, and elsewhere, probably do not love less than persons in the mid-1800s. But making photographs today is much cheaper than … Continue reading value a photograph by its wrapping
Consider by publication year the normalized frequency of “FCC” (U.S. Federal Communications Commission) in the text of a large corpus of books published in the U.S. from 1934 to 2008.[1] While you might think that the communications industry keeps getting more complicated and more contentious, the normalized frequency of FCC references is lower in the … Continue reading challenges to mass media generate interest in FCC
In April, 2008, Burlington Telecom looked like a case study of a successful municipal fiber network. Burlington Telecom has subsequently become a financial and political disaster. It may soon become an operational disaster as well. Some developments: Since 2009, and perhaps beginning earlier, Burlington Telecom (BT) has encountered acute financial difficulties. A Blue Ribbon Committee … Continue reading Burlington Telecom disaster
The well-established movie business has high movie production costs, high movie promotion costs, and close relationships between movie studios and movie theaters. Online services such as Amazon Studios suggest possibilities for much lower movie production costs. The growth of social media and online advertising, as well as services such as Amazon’s Withoutabox, creates powerful means … Continue reading the new movie business