From the Personal Anecdote Dept.: This isn’t a typical post here at the Lab. But below is six minutes of my somewhat rambling thoughts about how the future of newspapers can truly only be understood by watching bootleg college basketball on a laptop on a frozen Boston night while contemplating my cable bill. (More seriously, [...]

— CBS is planning to relaunch its TV.com as a “better Hulu” — meaning it’ll have Hulu’s streaming video and a community around it, discussing the shows. A reminder that good content is great, but people talking about your good content is better.
— William Falk, editor-in-chief of The Week, uses the language of “curation” — [...]

— An interview with Joi Ito that serves as a decent introduction to Creative Commons. “We are now shifting from what I call the ‘delivery problem’ to the ‘discovery problem.’ Whereas the difficulty use to lie in the mechanics of getting the product to the user, now the challenge is getting the attention of the [...]

Here’s an interesting report from a speech by Jason Kilar, the CEO of online video hub Hulu.
Hulu, for those who aren’t familiar, is a joint NBC-Fox project to create a place where the traditional creators of video entertainment — the networks — could present their wares online and sell ads against them. When it [...]