Peter Kafka

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Sarah Palin, Please Come Back! Hulu Traffic Drops in November

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 12, 2008 at 12:43 pm PT

Online Ad Buys: On Hold for the Holidays

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 12, 2008 at 4:38 am PT

CBS Interactive/CNET Re-Org: The Complete Memo

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 11, 2008 at 4:37 pm PT

Lady Blog Network BlogHer Gives Bloggers a Pay Cut

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 11, 2008 at 10:03 am PT

Confirmed: CBS Interactive Restructuring After CNET Deal, Cutting Staff

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 11, 2008 at 7:46 am PT

Who Said Web 2.0 Was R.I.P.? Microblog Tumblr Raises $4.5 Million, Expectations.

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 11, 2008 at 3:00 am PT

Newest Media Cuts: Newsweek

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 10, 2008 at 10:51 pm PT

FTC to Sony: Hey, Record Label, Leave Those Kids Alone

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 10, 2008 at 9:49 pm PT

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

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 10, 2008 at 1:55 pm PT

More Not-Bad News From Time Inc.: People.com Booming

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 10, 2008 at 12:39 pm PT

Advice for Fired Yahoos: How to Build Your Own Business That Doesn’t Suck

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 10, 2008 at 5:30 am PT

Holiday Cheer From Time Inc.: Layoffs (Nearly) Done

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 9, 2008 at 1:48 pm PT

New York Times: Our Digital Ads “Could Be Under Great Stress”

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 9, 2008 at 1:20 pm PT

New York Times: November Terrible, but Our Debt Problems Are Under Control. Anyone Want to Lend Us Money?

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 9, 2008 at 6:52 am PT

Sony Layoffs Version 2.0: Another 8,000 (Or 16,000) Jobs

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 9, 2008 at 6:10 am PT

CBS Interactive Exec Patrick Keane Out, Replaced by CNET Counterpart

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 9, 2008 at 3:00 am PT

Tribune Files for Chapter 11; Who’s on the Hook?

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 8, 2008 at 12:07 pm PT

Google Makes Its First Real Stab at Mobile Marketing: AdWords on iPhones

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 8, 2008 at 9:08 am PT

Is Google Ready to Make (Unpleasant) History?

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 8, 2008 at 8:43 am PT

Want More Ad Gloom? Interpublic Obliges: U.S. Ads Down 4.5 Percent Next Year

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 8, 2008 at 5:15 am PT

Your Daily Dose of Dour: WPP, Publicis Cut Ad Predictions

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 8, 2008 at 3:00 am PT

Cash-Strapped New York Times Wants to Borrow Against Its HQ: Anyone Want to Lend It $225 Million?

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 8, 2008 at 2:00 am PT

Tribune Co. Headed for Chapter 11?

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 7, 2008 at 5:14 pm PT

Peggy Noonan, Lesley Stahl and Friends Raise More Money: Wowowow.com Gets Another $1.5 Million

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 7, 2008 at 4:40 pm PT

Warner Music: That “Music Tax for Colleges” Proposal Isn’t Ours (Sort Of). But It Should Be

Posted by Peter Kafka in Media, December 7, 2008 at 10:14 am PT

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The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer