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My How TV Ratings Have Changed

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

I’m a big fan of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on FOX. I didn’t start watching the show terminator-the-sarah-connor-chronicles until earlier this year. But I then bought both seasons one and two from Amazon’s on-demand service to catch up. I also bought the first season on DVD and preordered the second season. I like the show.

So I was dismayed last night when reading that it’s unlikely to return for a third season. Which got me curious about the show’s ratings.

I used to be fairly informed about the entertainment business. Well television, movies, and music at any rate. I’ve never known much about the theater. A long time ago I had this idea I wanted to buy a television network (a story for another day). So I set about educating myself on the business.

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Tags: dvr, nielsen, ratings, television
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UN World Digital Library

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

I saw a story on Slashdot yesterday that linked to BBC coverage of the United Nations’ World Digital Library project. I checked it out and it looks pretty cool. In my brief browsing of the site I didn’t find anything that jumped out as “must look at” but I would have loved to have resources like this when I was in school taking world history classes and having to write papers.

The Internet is a great platform for commerce, entertainment, and communications but I’m glad that we haven’t lost the early intent to make scholarly resources available to anyone in the world. I’m a huge fan of online library projects and while I don’t spend a lot of time browsing online libraries I love that so many primary source documents from the world’s great libraries have been made available, often for free, to any interested party.

That’s a wonderful democratization of information.

Tags: primary sources, united nations, world digital library
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Created My Google Profile

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

I had an unofficial New Years resolution for myself to update this site more often. So far I’m not off to a great start in 2009. I have created a Google profile for myself, as Google now includes profiles in their search results.

It’s funny; I don’t have a particularly common name and yet results about me never come up at the top of searches on my name. I blame the Canadian librarian who I apparently share my name with. He seems to be interviewed a lot. One of these years I’ll have to work on pushing up my PageRank. But it doesn’t look like it’s going to be this year.

Tags: google, profile, reputation
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