Published inSportsRaidThe Case Against the SECThis is quite straight-forward: after years of getting away with soft schedules and centrality preserving strategies (the November cupcake)…Dec 3, 20231Dec 3, 20231
The Pac12 InnovationThe Pac-12 deal is out and as I have been arguing for some time, it is a Silicon Valley driven split-rights deal. For those of you playing…Aug 1, 2023Aug 1, 2023
The end of the runway for DisneyWhen I talk to sports fans, I am often left questioning the numeracy of the public. Dollar values for college sports rights seem to be…Jul 20, 2023Jul 20, 2023
The Sunset of Social MediaIt is not the long dark night yet, but the sun is setting and the winds of change are blowing.May 13, 2023May 13, 2023
Why does a simulated public sphere need view counts?Because the event horizon of the spectacle must include the entire world, of course.Dec 31, 2022Dec 31, 2022
Temporal networks are bad, it is fine for Twitter to go awaySocial networks are generally organized by mapping one of a handful of communication phenomena. Affinity networks became Facebook and to…Dec 20, 2022Dec 20, 2022
You get to sell rotten tomatoes at your theater onceWithout belaboring the point, the early United States was not a free speech fantasy. 1A didn’t even apply to the states until 1925. Public…Nov 2, 2022Nov 2, 2022
Breaking the College Sports DuopolyIf you have been subjected to my blogging over the years, you have read my various rants about the Longhorn network and college sports TV…Jul 3, 2022Jul 3, 2022
What is twitter without bots?The most perplexing thing about Elon Musk buying Twitter are his plans for it, which seem to be organized by “free speech” as a concept…Apr 26, 2022Apr 26, 2022