Category Archives: work

Election Night

Posted on February 20, 2009 by jetrotz

So much has been said about the 2008 Election already – I don’t have much to add. Let’s just say that Sam is very happy that ‘Mr Obama’ as he calls him came out on top. I had the pleasure … Continue reading →

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The Mail of the Beast

Posted on November 2, 2007 by jetrotz

So I keep a lot of messages in my inbox. Mail.app on the Mac rolls that way – with lightning-fast searching by keyword in any field, I have a system where I flag messages for follow-up (or now, with Leopard, … Continue reading →

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Trick or Treat on Turner Street

Posted on October 30, 2007 by jetrotz

One of the best-loved perks for the children of Turner Broadcasting employees has to be the annual Trick or Treat on Turner Street when the Techwood campus is transformed into a Halloween festival for all the kiddies. There were hundreds … Continue reading →

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the great southwest

Posted on August 25, 2007 by jetrotz

This year’s Admonsters excursion (to conference #17 to be exact) took me out to the environs of Albequerque and Santa Fe at the Hyatt Tamaya resort in Bernalillo, New Mexico. We decided to make this a family affair since very … Continue reading →

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admonsters xvii

Posted on August 25, 2007 by jetrotz

The conference was great. Kicked off with a keynote by Tarik Sedky, Chief Digital Officer at Young & Rubicam. He spoke quite earnestly about the truck coming down the highway, headed straight for the operational and technical aspects of all … Continue reading →

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CNN 2.0

Posted on June 1, 2007 by jetrotz

It’s been a busy few days for us at Turner Broadcasting. Today, CNN.com took the wraps off a beta preview of their new design coming on July 1st (as reported earlier). Full disclosure – I work for Turner Broadcasting, and … Continue reading →

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Gametap Reborn

Posted on June 1, 2007 by jetrotz

Yesterday marked a major milestone for everyone’s favorite broadband gaming service. Launched back in 2005, Gametap was born out of the concept of doing what Turner Broadcasting has done for other businesses – acquiring rights to libraries of content, then … Continue reading →

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A buried lede?

Posted on May 22, 2007 by jetrotz

A colleague has pointed out that our hometown Atlanta Journal Constitution (free registration required) has a more in-depth story on Pipeline moving to a free product. Read ‘CNN’s Pipeline will Stream for Free.‘ In a story in today’s Wall Street … Continue reading →

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aQuantive acQuired (by M$FT)

Posted on May 18, 2007 by jetrotz

To add further fuel to the fire of M&A around the online marketing business, Microsoft announced today that they were acquiring aQuantive, a wide ranging company whose divisions include ad networks (Drive PM), agency-focused adserving (Atlas) publisher focused adserving (Accipiter) … Continue reading →

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More Consolidation

Posted on May 16, 2007 by jetrotz

While everyone waits to see what move Microsoft is going to make in the red-hot display advertising M&A frenzy of the last several weeks, AOL (sister company of my employer, comments herein are mine only and do not represent any … Continue reading →

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