Ann Arbor recently lost a great football coach, a great educator, a great man, and a great citizen of Ann Arbor.
Why not name Ann Arbor’s new high school in honor of Bo Schembechler?
Please sign the petition below, and add your thoughts on why Schembechler High School is a great name for Ann Arbor.
TO COMPLICATE MATTERS, no publicly traded media company today is in a position simply to dismiss, say, $100 million. Such a sum far exceeds what any single broadcast network can extract from the online world–and drops straight to the bottom line. But taking the dough fortifies an already threatening rival. One executive privy to the discussions says: “The reality is, if they are able to lock in major media [companies] for three years, then by default YouTube is the place to go” for Web video. Such fears may be what’s spurred several major media players to mull assembling a cross-company Web video destination–a YouTube killer of their very own.“The theory is that if you were to aggregate enough exclusive content in one place, you could actually change viewing patterns,” says an executive familiar with the cross-company talks. Perhaps anticipating my jumping all over the fallacy of “exclusive” in an open online ecosystem, he concedes “it’s really tough,” though not impossible.
I will not try to convince anyone that the choices media companies face are easy, but believing that 5 or 10 of them can grind through nightmarish cross-corporate decision-making and emerge with something as simple and compelling as YouTube is nuts. I don’t necessarily buy the notion that only outsiders concoct interesting next-generation plays like Google, YouTube, Friendster, and iTunes. But I do know that if I can’t spend a half-hour watching live Sex Pistols clips from 1977 on a NewTube–as I just did on YouTube–my interest in it falls off a cliff.
These NewTubes never work.
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