Category: Earthlink

Wanted – A Better Gillmor Gang

Post author By Garrick van Buren
Post date February 6, 2006
Categories In Advertising, Attention, Earthlink, Gillmor Gang, Podcasting
4 Comments on Wanted – A Better Gillmor Gang

I’m the first to admit I frequently listen podcasts for the guest not the host – TechNation, PodTech, Larry’s World, and more recently – Gillmor Gang. For the latter, it wasn’t the ads that bugged me, or the hub-bub around them. I’ll fast-forward past them until a new podcast-appropriate ad format is introduced. I completely […]

A Proposal for a TiVo, iTunes, Podcast Ad Formats

Post author By Garrick van Buren
Post date January 17, 2006
Categories In Advertising, Earthlink, iTunes, Podcasting, Television

30 seconds is way too long. On the TiVo, we’re fast-forwarding through the commercials and other boring bits. We’re still watching as we fast-forward (we get the brand-impression, just more quickly and without sound). Same with podcasts. As I’ve mentioned earlier, we’re not skipping the ads, just getting through them more quickly. I know one […]

Exactly the Same Thing as a Treo from Earthlink

Post author By Garrick van Buren
Post date June 19, 2005
Categories In Earthlink, Technology Reviews, Treo, Wisconsin
1 Comment on Exactly the Same Thing as a Treo from Earthlink

The reception on my T610 has been awful lately. A month or so back the signal was so clear people could hear the birds in my backyard. Last week, I’d be lucky to make out words under the tidal waves of static. On road trips, the T610 lost it’s signal the moment the “Wisconsin Welcomes […]