So if we finished all our Christmas shopping two weeks ago does that mean our spending won’t be counted in the annual hand-wringing over retail sales figures? Probably not, but it should be. That’s just one small reason why the news is broken, because all these breathless stories over the state of the economy don’t look beyond the press releases that are distributed by various parties with skin in the game.
Regardless of where we might differ on the Hagar/Roth debate, I think we can all agree that Steve much better than Joe on “Blue’s Clues.”
So yes, I’m disappointed “Dollhouse” is being canceled. Not surprised, but disappointed.
Considering this is a show that was demonstrably kept along for as long as it was through the support it received on non-TV channels – Hulu, iTunes – it would have been great if Fox had picked this as a test case for new distribution thinking. Put it on at 2AM Wednesday morning for people to record to their DVRs and continue to distribute it through multiple channels online. See if there’s enough support for it to keep doing *that* and let the show live another season.
I’ve been making this case since “Arrested Development” and continue to think it’s an idea worth trying if there was a network brave enough.
At least the remainder of the current season has been guaranteed to run so Whedon can close it out as he sees fit. Besides, what I really want is to know what comes after the events of the DVD-only “Epitaph One.”
One of the reasons FeedBurner has always been among my favorite companies – even post Google purchase – is that the people who work there are obviously insane. Log into FeedBurner and check out what appears after the “My Feeds…” and you’ll know what I mean.
So in addition to being thrilled that Google Analytics will soon be displaying feed stats – a huge point of integration that’s incredibly useful to publishers – I just have to stand up and applaud the headline of the post announcing that integration.
