Monday, May 06, 2002

3:10:44 PM   Great & Powerful Ozzy  //   This is just beyond all imagination.

2:06:35 PM   NYT.  Brian Roberts runs Comcast, the largest cable network in the US at 22 m homes (larger than John Malone at his peak).  Here is his plan for video on demand (VOD) to hold off the onslaught of personal video recorders (PVRs): >>>Let's break V.O.D. into three categories, all of which we will make available to all digital customers. Level one is movies and impulse events on demand. You push the button, you get a product, you pay for the individual transaction. Level two is subscription video on demand. The best example of that is HBO. You buy HBO with the S.V.O.D. feature, and you get any episode of "Sex and the City" or "The Sopranos" anytime you want. You get to pull up HBO movies anytime you want them. But the newest idea, and the one that I'm most excited about, is a third level of free video on demand. Why don't we go to CBS or ABC or NBC, and say, "Would you like your local or national newscast to be available anytime the consumer wants it after the original broadcast — and leave the commercials in. Why not give it a shelf life for the rest of the day? If I'm "60 Minutes" or "NBC Nightly News," why don't I want people to have more access to the show? I've already made it. All my costs are fixed. This way I get more people to watch the ads.<<< There is also a method called multiplexing a channel, which from what I understand is merely a reshuffling of programming to make a channel appeal to different audiences. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]   //  I'm in favor of all of the above, where do I sign up ?

1:31:29 AM   Google! in 1998 [via Phil Ackley's Radio Thingumabob]

1:05:53 AM   Crazy, but that's how it goes.  Millions of people living as foes. Maybe, it's not too late, to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

12:59:25 AM   Another Ozzy thought, first solo record came out ? hmmm....I believe I was in high school.  This was long ago.  Never new all the words to first verse of Crazy Train until they Sinatraized it.

12:57:32 AM     Go Ozzy, go Ozzy.

12:47:16 AM   Imagine if one year ago I had I'd have offered you a hundred to one odds that Dubbya and the Ozman would cross paths in the same city ?  or 10,000 to one they'd spend the evening at the same dinner ? and 1,000,000 to one that Ozzy would stand up on his chair and wave to the crowd after Dubbya actually acknowledges him at the same dinner ?   Bush's Headbanger's Ball.

12:32:03 AM      "Where's the 11th commandment ? Keep your hands off kids, you fuckin' jerks." - Dennis Miller Live [via HBO]