Day: March 1, 2013

Name Change!

I started my blog back in the days when I was in rehab for a crushed leg, then it was titled, “Studies and Observations”.  I have long been a political animal, mainly in political thought and not so much into the day to day activity of a party….although I have from time to time bitched and moaned like most of the others bloggers on certain topics and issues.

In the beginning it was mostly a spot for me to comment on the war between Lebanon and Israel……and cut and paste of accounts of that war……and then I started injecting my political thoughts into to content and it began to morph….it was at this point that I decided to re-name the blog, Info Ink, in honor of a company I started back in the early 90’s…….after awhile I changed the name again because I figured that if it was Googled most of the pings would be for ink prices and such….the new name was Opus Libertas or Liberty’s Work.

Today I have to decided to try again to find that perfect title for my blog……Opus Libertas is just not doing it for me.  But what to change it to was the gnawing question….and over coffee I was thinking about my past…..the days when I was an anti-war activist, a union organizer and political writer I was attending a conference presenting a paper on the shortcomings in theory of non-violence and was introduced as a proven agitator and a working class warrior…….after about a pot of coffee my decision was simple and clear…….

Since I am a deep blue political person and I live in a deep red state the choice of a name was all too obvious…………why not return to my days of agitation?  My blog from this point forward will be titled………Blue Nation Agitations!

The Future Of Cable

As Monty Python use to say, “and now for something completely different”…….

We know that newspapers and magazines, well all print, is a dying breed and they are trying desperately trying to save it…..and now to me, it looks like cable may be sliding into oblivion…….you can watch TV, movies, music, etc on your pad or phone or even your TV in the living room…….so is cable capable of surviving?

Cable TV is “on the fast train to oblivion,” but you won’t hear that from its executives. The latest financial results from Time Warner and News Corp are upbeat, and Comcast has decided to snap up the rest of NBCUniversal ahead of schedule. But the disastrous future for these companies is “emperor’s-no-clothes obvious,” writes Michael Wolff at USA Today. The bigwigs pretend that people aren’t “cord-cutting,” but the reality is that “virtually everybody has cut it or is flirting with the possibility of cutting it or being harangued by their children to do so.” At the heart of the problem is “modern business myopia.” Cable TV is deeply entrenched across the US, and for the moment, is still raking in cash—even as viewing habits have fundamentally changed. “My large television is a fully connected but dead presence in the house where a river of video, legal and not, flows over my laptop,” Wolff notes. All that’s left is for people to finally get around to dropping their cable service. Until then, expect the executives to remain in denial, following in the footsteps of Detroit, the music industry, and the newspaper business. Click to read Wolff’s full piece.

It looks like broadband is getting more and more popular and could in the near future replace the need for a cable subscription……look for cable companies to begin scrambling for government support as their popularity wanes………any thoughts?