November 28th, 2007 at 5:53 pm by Ari Shohat
Here comes a report with rumors of a fall of about 10%, so far, for AOL and Yahoo!’s online radio services as they stop various internal promotions to drive more users to them. What a ’surprise’, huh?
I’ve said this all along, a crazy webcasting royalty rate begets:
Legitimate companies getting out of this space
A huge brain drain [...]
November 28th, 2007 at 1:22 pm by Ari Shohat
Because I could use a few clones of myself here right about now…
November 26th, 2007 at 2:12 pm by Ari Shohat
It is often that I get email pitches asking me to look at one service or another, I suppose the other party wants some kind of cross-linking or colloboration. Some of these good folks want to back their pitch up with numbers, and this is where things go wrong. They mention how many hits their [...]
November 23rd, 2007 at 10:42 am by Ari Shohat
From the department of absurd comes this article with examples of women who make themselves sterile and ”save the planet” by not having babies. Being asked to eat kangaroos for a similar cause is nothing compared to this:
At the age of 27 this young woman at the height of her reproductive years was sterilised to “protect the planet”. [...]
November 20th, 2007 at 5:54 pm by Ari Shohat
From the lyrics of “Its A Rainy Day” by Ice MC back in the 90s:
Yes da bad times in life is like a telephone
You never know when it ago ring
But when it ring
Just pick it up an receive
When you finish
Put down the receiver and carry on
‘Cause the sun will always shine
Not that I am going through [...]
November 20th, 2007 at 10:59 am by Ari Shohat
So I received this last night from some new bandwidth pusher…
> To: Ari Shohat
> Subject: ShoutCast Server Special!
>
> To whom it may Concern,
>
> As we see, your stream is listed with viastreaming. We know you may
> be paying a fortune for that stream server. How would you like to cut
> that price in half? We are [...]
November 16th, 2007 at 12:17 pm by Ari Shohat
Note: I have promised to republish this when things die down, so it’s not thought of to be special media pressure. Though it’s ought to be. This is my opinion, and from here if the media wants to run with it so be it, I am not sending this story out to anyone nor is there a call [...]
November 11th, 2007 at 12:09 pm by Ari Shohat
Apologies for not blogging in the past few days, but there’s a great reason for it. My wife Anna delivered our second son into the world on late Wednesday afternoon, Nov 7th. So the Shohat family just got bigger, with the addition of the little Jonathan Gabriel Shohat.
Needless to say we’re busy welcoming him, so [...]