Web Advertising vs Print Advertising

Web advertising is starting to outplay print advertising. Newpapers and magazines are now published on the Web and a person can even watch movies and television shows on some websites and youtube that contain commercial ads which are shorter than the ones on regular television.
The print advertisements cost way more and are not as high quality as the ones on the Web. The Web also allows advertisements to be animated and contain more graphics and color than print advertisements. They can also reach a wide audience and can be viewed more than once.
How are print advertisements going to outplay Web advertisements?
How are they going to maintain the interest of an audience?
How will they reach a larger audience?
Will the Web completely take over the advertising business?
How will the Web advertisements prosper in the future?

Cell Phones

I think it is interesting that cell phones are used in the polls as a system of voting. There are a lot of people who have cell phones that can connect to the Internet. This is a clever way to vote, however; it may not be safe for the people voting. Not if they can track the number of the cell phone owned by the person voting. I myself, do not want to vote using my cell phone. I would much rather go to the court house or go online, on the computer to vote.

Reality Television

Reality television has been around for several years. Some reality television is fun to watch such as the Real World Road Rules Challenges and a new show they had on MTV, called From G's to Gents and the reality show I Love Money on VH1. Next and Parental Control are usually pretty interesting because in Next the daters sometimes get rejected right away and it is always fun to watch either a male or female dump their significant other after their parents set them up on blind dates on the show Parental Control. The fact that the children let their parents pick dates for them in the first place is hilarious all by itself.
Some shows, however; are just pointless. The Cho Show, I Love New York, Flavor of Love, Rock of Love and Tila Tequila are just publicity shows to get people noticed or dating shows. Who wants to find a date on television? Now there is even a new show for Paris Hilton, called My New BFF. No one wants to watch that show. No one cared about the Simple Life so why care about this show?
The same goes for Brooke Hogan Knows Best. Why watch Brooke Hogan's life on television? I really don't want to see Hulk Hogan's daughter and her friends go out and party or shopping or whatever it is that they do.
Here's a question for you: do you dig or diss reality shows and why?

Comcast Is Taking Over Cable

Comcast is taking over cable on February 17, 2009. The consumers that have digital cable are going to have to either switch to Comcast or go without cable. Some channels on digital will turn dark and be hard to watch. The Comcast cable network is limiting the consumers' choices. How is this going to effect the cable networks, the consumers and the economy?

Interactive Media Blog: 1980s Media

Interactive media usage became more advanced in the 1980s. In 1980, the Domestic Camcorders and Fax Machines became available in Japan. The arcade game Pac-Man was released. CNN became the first 24 hour news station. Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet. In 1981, IBM in US launches it's first PC which uses Microsoft Software MS DOS. The term Internet was first mentioned. MS-DOS was released by Microsoft. http://www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/_english/bs-msdos.htm In 1982, The Weather Channel aired on cable television for the first time. Times man of the year is claimed to be the computer. In 1983, ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating Internet. Lotus 1-2-3 is released. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/123/ IBM released the IBM PC XT. Microsoft Word is first released. In 1984, AT&T was broken up. The first Apple Macintosh went on sale. Sony makes the first 3 1/2" computer disk. In 1985, The first .Com domain name, symbolics.com, is registered by the Symbolics corporation. However, .edu domains, for educational institutions, still predominate over the commercial .com domains. Microsoft Corporation released the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0. In 1986, IBM unveiled the PC Convertible, the first laptop computer. Internet Mail Access Protocol defined for e-mail transfer. The 386 series of microprocessor was introduced by Intel. In 1987, Clive Sinclair launched the Z88 Portable Computer that weighed under 2 pounds. http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/175 In 1988, The first transatlantic fibre optic cable was able to carry 40,000 telephone calls simultaneously. The first major computer virus infects computers connected to the Internet. In 1989, Nintendo began selling the Game Boy in Japan. The 486 series of microprocessor is introduced by Intel. Microsoft Office was first released. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office