07.23.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:32 pm by Rick Ellis
When my former employer Internet Broadcasting quietly launched their Slantly platform into Beta a few months ago, I experimented with using it here at AllYourTV.com. While I liked the overall idea of Slantly, there were a few usability issues that I worried about. One concern was that there weren’t as many ways to customize their widgets as I would have liked.
I ultimately pulled Slantly and when I left Internet Broadcasting, let’s just say that I felt as if I needed a bit of psychic distance from the company and its products.
But someone back at world headquarters suggested that I give Slantly another shot, especially their distributed commenting system.
So I’m rolling out Slantly on some of the AllYourTV web site, and we’ll see how it works for us this time around. I certainly am open to a new commenting system, since the current setup is the ultimate in barebones.
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07.22.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:59 am by Rick Ellis
EWeek’s John Hazard warns that if you are dreaming of being your own boss, you should probably keep it between the sheets. Tight credit and high inflation make it a poor time to leave your employer to start up your own shop.
The startup rate among unemployed managers and executives fell to 4.3 percent in the second quarter, compared to 7.2 percent in the first quarter. Last year, 6 percent of job seekers abandoned the traditional job market for entrepreneurship in the second quarter, according to Challenger report… The second quarter figure was the lowest since the fourth quarter of 2000, when only 3.5 percent of job seekers started their own firms.
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07.21.08
Posted in From The Editors at 12:24 am by Rick Ellis
Those of us laboring away here at AllYourTV’s world office complex labored without high-speed Internet access for three days. It’s amazing the problems one construction worker can cuse with a slight snip of the wires.
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07.18.08
Posted in From The Editors at 4:18 pm by Rick Ellis
The Minnesota State Fair is a huge event, especially if you love fried foods on a stick.
Chowhound has a preliminary rundown of the foods that will be available, and it’s a lovely artery-clogging colection of old favorites and new choices.
Among the new treats: a foot-long pizza on a stick — and the “walking taco,” taco meat, cheese salsa and sour cream served in a Dorito bag of tortilla chips.
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06.06.08
Posted in From The Editors at 5:47 pm by Rick Ellis
I like the idea of running my own site, of controlling my own destiny. I enjoy the fact that if I see a piece of software I want to roll out, I can do it at my own pace, without working the request through a maze of corporate bosses.
And yet, doing it on your own has its risks. Your site is much more exposed than if it were part of a larger whole. You worry more about traffic spikes, more about technology problems. And if you’re not careful, those challenges can severely impact your web site and your business.
I’ve had one of those challenges this week, and it’s instructive to note how a small problem can have a huge impact on the bottom line.
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04.26.08
Posted in CW, From The Editors at 2:48 am by Rick Ellis
We moved our offices this past week, and with all of the confusion, I’m waaaay on reviewing things. I generally try and knock out stuff within a couple of days of receiving a screener, but I find myself looking at watching eight or nine things in the next 24 hours.
Yikes….First up…the new CW reality series “Farmer Wants A Wife.’
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04.10.08
Posted in From The Editors at 8:40 pm by Rick Ellis
I’ll be honest, I don’t read the “Idolator” blog on a regular basis. Primarily because while I enjoy attitude over facts as much as the next person, reading it in post after post wears me out. And “The Idolator” is like Dorothy Parker on meth. Lots of snarkiness and way too little interesting conversation.
So given that, I suppose I’m both flattered and annoyed that they’ve taken aim at AllYourTV with this post.
Every music site out there is a-twitter over a sentence that appeared in a TheRockRadio.com item about the possibility of Axl Rose entering the reality-TV game: “Sources at Rose’s label, Geffen Records, said that a finished version of Chinese Democracy has been delivered to the company.” What? A finished version of the years-in-the-making album? As in ready to ship and promote and make very expensive videos for? This is the stuff that slapped-together blog posts and excited NME items are made of!
At first, I’m feeling good, because I think “Hey, they’re actually supporting the little guy by pointing out that RockRadio.com just lifted the entire article, although they at least credited us at the top of the post.
One wonders why would this news be delivered to the world via a Web site run by a couple of guys in Cyprus—sure, they have a weekly GNR-themed hour, but something tells me that won’t suddenly result in Axl trusting them with his secrets. And then one notices that TheRockRadio’s speculation was directly lifted from an item about Axl’s reality show from AllYourTV.com. You know, AllYourTV.com! Why a Web site that
“focus[es] on just one subject—primetime and daytime television” is suddenly an authority on Axl Rose’s messenger habits is beyond me; the fact that they ran with the NME’s “Amy Winehouse on Dr. Who” April Fool’s item on April 3 makes me even less inclined to go popping open those Dr. Pepper cans just yet.
Sigh. Okay, I’ll go through this slowly so the folks at Idolator can keep up.
I don’t claim to be an Axl Rose expert. But this is a reality TV show we’re talking about. And that’s something I do have some experience reporting about. As a matter of fact, everything in the article came from sources I either knew from my TV reporting, or from label sources that I was pointed to as a way of verifying the story.
I can write about an Axl Rose TV show and not actually be a Guns N’ Roses expert. In the same way I could write about “Dancing With The Stars” and not have a clue about how to do the Fox Trot.
As for the Amy Winehouse piece. Yeah, I got that it was fake. But it was a funny piece, and I thought the disclaimer at the bottom was obvious. Especially the part about us having to do the story two days late due to budgetary issues. But lots of people missed that, so I can’t really complain.
Regardless, we’re happy to be noticed by a member of the dark forces of blogging. Oops, sorry, they don’t actually own GawkerMedia.com. Let’s try this link instead.
Cheers!
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04.09.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:25 pm by Rick Ellis
It’s interesting to me to see how a piece of news filters its way up the internet food chain.
When I posted the Axl Rose reality TV show piece yesterday, it was picked up pretty quickly by the hardcore GNR fan sites. And it then worked its way up through the web site pecking order, and today showed up on sites like these:
Rolling Stone’s Rock And Roll Daily
Starpulse (by way of the Entertainment News Network)
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03.30.08
Posted in From The Editors at 8:44 pm by Rick Ellis
We’re moving our offices on April 11th, so update your info. Otherwise, we’ll never get our required quota of real estate ads and pitches for TV shows.
The new address is:
15558 Eagle Ridge Road
Apple Valley, MN 55124
The main number stays the same, at 651-212-0149
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