Jon Stewart’s Mount Rushmore

Jon Stewart and the crew of The Daily Show, arriving in Minnesota for the Republican National Convention took time out to pause for photos outside the Minneapolis St Paul airport bathroom where former Senator Larry Craig had his famous moment in the spotlight:

Above: Stewart outside the MSP Bathroom where Larry Craig was arrested

You gotta love [...]

Comcast Officially Caps Data Usage

It’s official. DSL Reports has confirmed that Comcast will officially implement a 250 GB cap on bandwidth for broadband subscribers beginning October 1.

This has been a long time coming, after the spotlight was shone on Comcast for their unorthadox network practices, and the FCC ruled against their policy of throttling P2P applications on their network, [...]

CCTV.com Traffic Blows Out NBCOlympics.com

A press release from WebTrends highlights the massive traffic Chinese state broadcaster CCTV experienced during their coverage of the olympic games. While we hear the CCTV online video coverage was delivered at lower quality than NBC due to the current state and capacity of Chinese networks, CCTV.com managed to average more than 6 million unique [...]

Court Holds Up DMCA for Veoh

Too much legalese to get in to. Bottom line: Court says that Veoh – and presumably other video sharing sites – are protected under the DMCA provided they make a reasonable attempt to remove copyrighted content.

Peter Kafka at Alley Insider has the deets and the full court doc.

Interesting to Peter, and to me [...]

Microsoft Buys Into Move; Tries to Exit Avenue A

On the same day rumors circulated that Microsoft is seeking to offload Agency Avenue A Razorfish to WPP, they  announced a strategic investment with Move Networks. Both of these are very good moves.

Say you’re Microsoft, the former king of the software biz which is trying to stay relevant as digital invades and transforms media. Old [...]