television's moving into the toilet
Television screen have been installed in public restrooms above the sink. Within toilet stalls is likely to be a better position. … Read the post television's moving into the toilet
industry structure
communications industry structure, including mass media, advertising, and telephone companies
explaining the long tales of Madeleine de Scudéry & Samuel Richardson
Scudéry’s Artamène and Richardson’s Clarissa are the longest works with the Latin alphabet. Specific socio-economic circumstances help to explain them. … Read the post explaining the long tales of Madeleine de Scudéry & Samuel Richardson
demand for images
The magic lantern was the first device that could display at zero marginal cost many large images to large groups of persons. Magic lanterns were for sale in London as early as 1663. They projected an image on a glass slide through a lens to a distant screen. By the nineteenth century, magic lanterns had … Continue reading demand for images
debating the long tail
Getting a good, well-understood model often takes you three-quarters of the way toward solving a class of problems. Persons’ choices among a large number of symbolic items still lacks a good, well-understood model for business analysis. Among a set of similarly instantiated symbolic items in a given domain of choice, item popularity vs item rank … Continue reading debating the long tail
entertainment that scales well
In addition to big-screen public movie theaters, popular personal video display devices now range from mobile phones to personal computers to huge home television sets. Video first shown on a big screen to a silent crowd gathered in a darkened theater might come to be viewed on a small, mobile-phone screen by a single person … Continue reading entertainment that scales well