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Last stream for allothercountries.fm (including Italy)

Likely you scrobbler or even occasional Last.fm listener have already heard the bad news: on the 15th of January 2013 Last.fm stops streaming to a large number of countries, including mine – Italy. The announcement came to me first as an … Continue reading

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Digital TV, audience, users and people

Having been invited to give a talk about “challenges and opportunities” of digital terrestrial TV — this month in Italy many regions will start the switch-over — I tried to draw some reflections on expressions like “audience”, “users” and “people”. … Continue reading

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He can’t circle his programs in red pen [on the EPG]

Picture by LexnGer CC license retrieved on Flickr on 14-2-2010 My Dad stopped getting his major city daily when they shitcanned the TV guide. He’s 87. I tried to explain the guide on TV. But he can’t circle his programs … Continue reading

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Audiobooks questions

Amazon.com Books Bestsellers: The most popular items in Audiobooks. Updated hourly How many audiobooks are commercially available? What is the percentage of the total book counting? What about the difference between sales of single titles and sales tied to subscriptions? … Continue reading

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“Television is really broken”

Via Putting People First, I found out the Ethan Zuckerman’s blog report of a speech given by Herkko Hietanen (his Copyfraud blog here) at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Isn’t the piece below a remarkable synthesis? ;) The … Continue reading

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