A report released Monday shows that more people are using online to watch television broadcasts. According to The Conference Board and TNS, viewership is up to 16%, six points higher than a year ago.
Seems that “personal convenience” and “avoiding commercials” are the primary reasons…duh.
Consumer Internet Barometer
So, what are they watching? Well, more of us will […]

Hate telemarketing calls at dinner? Mailbox full of junk mail? Spam…not the mystery meat, but the email kind? And most of all, everybody and their brother accessing your credit bureau info?
Yeah, me too. Makes me long for the days when we’d actually run to the mailbox, HOPING to find the Sears Christmas catalog. (As we […]

For years, there’s been talk about the death of newspapers. OK, ain’t gonna happen in our lifetime. To boomers, there’s just something too comforting about a cup of coffee and a real NY Times, inky fingers and all.
That said, I find myself relying on the internet side of of the equation more and more. […]

Got a kid headed to college? Here’s a site that will help on a variety of levels. Admish.com is like a mash-up of social networking and wiki, providing connections to everyone involved from students to admissions representatives.
Take a look at the site as well as the full review done by PCmag.com. You might learn something.
Oh, […]

The farther we move forward in life (AKA get older) the more we look back. We suddenly feel the need to take all those photos out of boxes and put them in albums, or edit the 400 hours of video we have piled in the closet, or actually organize our family history into something more […]

Remember when we could call 411 for free? Right, pretty much went away with rotary dials. But it’s back, thanks to the great and powerful Google.
Just dial 1-800-GOOG411…1-800-466-4411. Any phone, anywhere.
Google Voice Local Search is based on voice recognition, offers to place your call and/or send you a text message (which on my iPhone was […]

So, here’s the Saturday Night Live video all the news guys are talking about.

We’re the Television Generation, among other handles. We grew up arranging our lives around things like “Thursday night at 8/7 Central.” If we wanted to see our favorite shows, we plopped ourselves down at the appointed time and channel, or we missed out.
No longer. There are now DVRs to record shows for viewing whenever we […]

Yeah, yeah…my memory ain’t what it used to be. I prefer to think that after 50+ years, my brain is now so-o-o-o full of brilliant insights, there just isn’t room for trivial things like “pick up the Dora cake for your granddaughter’s birthday party before they close at 5.” But now there’s help.
A new site […]