Every Sunday, Daniel Frankel and David Bloom ruminate on the state of technology/media/telecom in this space. You can also catch up with their weekly "Next Text" column on LinkedIn. And starting October 6, you can read it every Sunday on our new "Next TMT" platform.
DANIEL FRANKEL: Well, David, we failed to meet the, er, bar, on one of your Next TV Summit declarations this past week: to find a real “Manhattan” in Manhattan. As you explained it, the legitimacy rests in the Maraschino, which wasn’t up to snuff at our Madison Avenue establishment of choice. We still managed to get them down. And it was a surprisingly spry conference, given that it was being hosted by a bunch of sad folks about to be put out on the street by robots. As I’ve mentioned before, I don't think our conference producer has ever read this column ... or the digital publication we built together that will house it for these next few last weeks ... as Next TV gets set to be reformatted and "focused on high-impact initiatives," sans original content. And when it came to finding someone to interview our morning keynote session with esteemed Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter, our producer chose to go outside of our news organization. (Maybe he'll like the robots better?)
