In an interview with Brian Williams (also see the first part of the interview) on NBC’s Rock Center this past December, Apple, Inc. CEO Tim Cook was asked what his company could do for television watching. Cook responded, “It is a market that we see that has been left behind. It’s an area of intense ...
I recently bought Silicon Dust’s HDHomeRun. This nifty little device has two television tuners in it and streams the live content over a computer network, allowing one to watch live television programming on their computer. It’s awesome. The fact that the unit features two tuners means that two computers on the network can stream shows ...
Since I began attending college in southern Minnesota, I have witnessed first hand that the issues facing big cities are sometimes different than the issues facing smaller towns. When I was up in Northern Minnesota last week, I saw a story on WDIO-TV about how the U.S. Postal Service will be conducting a study to ...
I didn’t mean to turn tomlany.net into a video blog overnight, but I found a great piece about the way great leaders think that I thought others might enjoy. The video, produced by TED, talks about how there are three questions “What?”, “How?”, and “Why?” involved when you are deciding what direction to take as ...
A friend sent me a link to a video about a homeless guy in Columbus, OH who wants a job doing voice work for radio/TV today. Originally produced by the Columbus Dispatch, I thought the video captured a face of homelessness that many people do not see. The guy clearly has a great voice, is ...
I have always been fascinated by radio towers. While some people hardly pay attention to them, I like radio, and it is interesting to me to see where the signals are coming from. The FCC maintains an extensive database of records relating to what radio towers do. The amount of data available is amazing. The ...
The media has always served a purpose in our democratic society. It is entity that checks up on established society, and keeps this establishment responsible for their actions. In the past twenty years, media outlets have shifted from being primarily privately owned, to being large commercial enterprises. Initially, large media groups might look like a ...
Tom Lany is a creative journalist, marketer, web developer, and a recent graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College in southern Minnesota. More »
