August 5, 2008 – 01:08 pm
From Slate’s Is your Netflix queue destroying the environment?: “Renting a DVD by mail is probably a greener choice than going to your local video store. To understand why, let’s chart the journey a DVD takes before it arrives in your living room.”
November 2, 2007 – 03:42 pm
From CNET’s Tech Blog post, Say goodbye to Blockbuster: “It looks like the bottom has finally fallen out of Blockbuster. After numerous failed attempts at attracting new customers, the company is finally spiraling out of control. Sad as it is, the end is near for Blockbuster, and all that pressure it has been placing on [...]
December 14, 2006 – 11:35 am
From Judging your friends by their Netflix lists: “There’s something magical about spying via Netflix. Unlike the fantasy worlds of MySpace and the blogs, it’s less a social platform than a practical tool, so the data is exceptionally pure. Netflix allows our tastes to flourish in their full, omnivorous, complex human glory, free of shameful [...]
August 18, 2006 – 03:31 pm
According to iPodNN, “In a recently held Lions Gate quarterly conference call, company executives revealed a digital licensing deal, indicating Apple is prepping the launch of an iTunes movie store.” Now announcement of exactly when Apple will launch the movie store, but Lions Gate did say that they expect it to be running by the [...]
February 15, 2006 – 03:57 pm
I’ve been a vocal supporter of NetFlix for the last year or so. I can name at least three people who have ended up subscribing to NetFlix only after I helped persuade them of the benefits (especially in this small town, where the nearest video rental place is 25 minutes away). I gave gift subscriptions [...]
February 14, 2006 – 01:57 am
Sorry about Gobbledygook being a few days late. I usually write it up on Friday afternoons, but I started recording a college radio show last Friday (with editing continuing all through the weekend), and so Gobbledygook had to go on the back burner for a little bit. But now I’m relatively caught up. Well, to [...]
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