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The Case Against the SEC

This is quite straight-forward: after years of getting away with soft schedules and centrality preserving strategies (the November cupcake)…

2 min readDec 3, 2023

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The Case Against the SEC

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The Pac12 Innovation

The 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…

2 min readAug 1, 2023

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The Pac12 Innovation

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Disassembly

Or why there is no next Twitter.

4 min readJul 30, 2023

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Disassembly

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The end of the runway for Disney

When I talk to sports fans, I am often left questioning the numeracy of the public. Dollar values for college sports rights seem to be…

6 min readJul 20, 2023

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The end of the runway for Disney

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The Sunset of Social Media

It is not the long dark night yet, but the sun is setting and the winds of change are blowing.

3 min readMay 13, 2023

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The Sunset of Social Media

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Why does a simulated public sphere need view counts?

Because the event horizon of the spectacle must include the entire world, of course.

6 min readDec 31, 2022

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Why does a simulated public sphere need view counts?

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Temporal networks are bad, it is fine for Twitter to go away

Social networks are generally organized by mapping one of a handful of communication phenomena. Affinity networks became Facebook and to…

3 min readDec 20, 2022

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You get to sell rotten tomatoes at your theater once

Without belaboring the point, the early United States was not a free speech fantasy. 1A didn’t even apply to the states until 1925. Public…

3 min readNov 2, 2022

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You get to sell rotten tomatoes at your theater once

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Breaking the College Sports Duopoly

If you have been subjected to my blogging over the years, you have read my various rants about the Longhorn network and college sports TV…

4 min readJul 3, 2022

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Breaking the College Sports Duopoly

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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…

4 min readApr 26, 2022

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Dan Faltesek

Dan Faltesek

Associate Professor of Social Media, Oregon State: These are my opinions, not theirs. Read my book: Selling Social Media (Bloomsbury Academic), 2018.

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