Ads and ESPN Streaming: How Early It Still Is

For the streamed product, ESPN could apparently find two major advertisers: Samsung and the U.S. Army. Worse, the same ads (actually slight variations of two) ran over and over and over, often back to back. Incredibly, they were more repetitive than Joe Morgan, the long-maligned partner of Miller's.

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Nine Questions: On Tablet Dreams, Schemes and Screens of Hope

How does the tablet blur own notion of what's a book, what's a magazine and what's a newspaper? The web atomized everything, and the tablet is one form of reordering. Each device though -- a Sony Reader, a Kindle, a Nook, a JooJoo, an Adam, an Ultra, whatever -- will have a singular interface, ...

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