Comcast

Here are a handful of additional thoughts from today’s TVNext Summit at Hill Holliday in downtown Boston. Specifically, one of the hosts, Mike Proulx asked about the mindset behind using social media tools as an adjunct to TV entertainment. This includes Facebook, Twitter and other tools.

Here’s how the panel responded...

Terry Ann Knopf reports on the Columbia Journalism Review site on the fallout from Nolan's decision to protest a local TV trade group giving an award to the Fox personality.

Via Dan Kennedy, who notes Knopf's story has an interesting background of its own - it was originally slated for the Boston Globe magazine.

Feh, mere pikers. Ladies and gentlemen, meet your new cable company (well, those of you who don't subscribe to RCN):

No, really. Stop it, I can hear you snorting all the way up here in the hills. Or as Gizmodo puts it:

Comcast Rebrands Itself as Xfinity. Seriously? That's... That's All You Got?

Comcast thinks that its customers won't notice if it increases their monthly service charge by $2, if they call it an "equipment charge" increase rather than a service charge increase. They're increasing their revenue by $358 million per year without taking on any additional costs or providing any additional services. Consumers, fight back!

Please visit http://digg.com/tech_news/Comcast_sneaks_in_rate_increase_as_equipment_charge to read more and help me publicize Comcast's most recent attempt to cheat its customers.