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Ya Gotta Kill One: Internet or TV. Which Is It? (CHART by age)

I found a pretty interesting chart (via Nick Parish) this afternoon. It breaks down (by age) the choice people would make if they had to eliminate either the Internet or TV from their life.  If you look at the stats though, it clearly seems as though TV’s “days are numbered” (should people ever actually have to make such a sadistic decision) as the majority of people under 44 would choose to eliminate their TV.

As I thought through the survey I started to wonder if the main question itself isn’t a touch flawed.  It’s really not about choosing between TV and the Internet, is it?  It will ultimately be about choosing between the Internet and Cable/Satellite providers.  Just this week I set up my Netflix account to stream video through my PS3 (if you haven’t done this yet, I can’t recommend it enough.  It’s life changing).  That means I’m watching content from the Internet on my big, beautiful HDTV.  In essence, my TV is now the most expensive computer monitor I own.  Granted, the vast majority of people aren’t doing this… yet.  And maybe that’s why the survey below is relevant today, but I think in the future survey’s like this won’t be a “TV or The Internet?” question.  It will be a “Internet or Cable/Satellite” question.  At the end of the day, the TV is just a box that displays the content…

So, that’s enough out of me, I’d love to know what you think…

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Gavin Newsom Announces His Candidacy For Governor Via Twitter

Remember in the old days when politicians used to use TV to announce their candidacy?  Or something called a newspaper???  Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, used Twitter a little over an hour ago to announce his candidacy for Governor of California.  Twitter is everywhere these days, but let’s not get caught up in the CNN vs Ashton Kutcher high school popularity contests.  Social media applications are potentially way more powerful that that (as President Obama and his team famously showed us).  I’m intrigued to see how Mr. Newsom continues to use these tools…

The Dexter iPhone Game…Sgt. Doakes Would Approve

This isn’t breaking news but I did want to pass along the significance of the Dexter iPhone game along with the latest screens (courtesy of Joystiq).

First off, Dexter is one of the best written shows on television. A lot of people were initially turned off to Dexter because of the premise – a serial killer that works for the Miami Police and only hunts “bad guys”? Really? For any film geeks out there, this is a similar premise to Suspect Zero and what the eventual film should have been. Anybody who has worked in script development during the last 10 years knows that Zak Penn’s Suspect Zero draft was often cited as a pure work of art. For film geeks at least, Dexter became their (our!) version of that impeccable Suspect Zero script.

Anyway, this is the first game based off a major brand that is being released specifically as a native iPhone application. Usually most games developed for PC, Xbox, PS3, Nintendo, etc. have modified versions or ‘ports’ of those games that graphically and feature set challenged when conforming to mobile gameplay. There’s Rolando, Monopoly, soon to be Madden and the list goes on. The Dexter game though is originally designed for the iPhone first and will use some of its unique capabilities like the accelerometer. I can definitely say that I’m interested to see if they can pull this off as it would only help to have another quality ‘branded’ game on the iPhone platform – even if it’s app number 30,001.

Now if they could only throw in Location Based Servicing or Google Maps integration to hunt your friends, then you could really call this a Killer App for the iPhone – bah rump bump. Thank you everybody I’m here all week!