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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Now Not Showing at iTunes and Netflix: Some of Your Favorite Movies

Want to watch nerd-favorite “The Fifth Element” via Netflix’s awesome streaming service? OK, but hurry up–the movie will disappear from the service on New Year’s Day. Want to rent the excellent George Clooney corporate thriller “Michael Clayton” via iTunes? Too late! The movie was there, but now it’s not. Wait a minute: Hadn’t big media finally gotten religion and agreed to give us, the demanding consumers, everything we want, whenever we want it? Nope.

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Cyber Monday Web Traffic Up. What Does That Mean?

Web traffic to the top online shopping sites jumped 10 percent on Cyber Monday compared to last year, says Nielsen Online. So what does that mean? Nothing, really: Assuming the data are accurate, we still don’t know how much people actually spent, and what they spent it on. We’re likely get a few more pieces of the puzzle today, when/if comScore comes out with its online commerce numbers. But the most important data are still locked away in retailers’ databases, and that stuff won’t be public for some time.

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Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider. Read more »

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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