Ours is an interesting house, if for no other reason that we read the newspaper -- everyday. Lately, my 5-and-a-half-year-old has become obsessed with hockey (making his Canadian mother proud) and as a result, our breakfast time is spent eating, spilling and reading over the hockey standings. As part of the fun, he cuts the pictures and articles out and sets them on his desk for after-school analysis. This past Tuesday, as we were about to start cutting, he came across a picture of a clown fish on the front page of the New York Times science section. Wanting to …

With Hulu only out of the gate formally for a matter of weeks, it's way too early to call the play on the NBC and News Corp. online video joint venture.

Recently I had a conversation with a gentleman who runs a branded entertainment agency. We were meeting to discuss working together, but the conversation quickly spiraled into a lively discussion about the perceived inequality that creative and media buying agencies have vis a vis talent agencies when it come to representing brands as clients.

According to the behavioral, attitudinal, aspirational OTX LMX Study: "The 24 hour day has given way to 31 hours of daily activity, as consumers multi-task everywhere (home, work, on the go) at any time, while diverting their attentions across multiple media platforms to communicate, gather information and be entertained."

My DVR is a shadow of its former self. In the halcyon days before the writers' strike, it was fat and happy -- overflowing with a wealth of our favorite programs just oozing with promise and ready to deliver on the cherished mantra of "what you want, when you want it." Now, alas, it sits emaciated and nearly empty -- the hard drive like nothing so much as a luxury goods store with stocks now depleted after post-war rationing. It holds a fine line of echoes and substitute content, but the glory days when it held my personal who's who …