312 Media/clickfo.me

08/09/2024

It’s with regrets, with a challenging social/economic situation, the headwinds of New Hampshire Media, 312 Media is closing down ALL operations at the end of September 15th, 2024. Thanks for the support in the last 5 years

21/05/2024

ENG is Cheaper, so why are you choosing to be in cinema?
Why we don't "film"

WE ARE NOT FILMMAKERS! WE DON’T FILM! With the advent of digital media creation, this blurred a near 20 something year boundary of video and film. Like VHS vs. Beta, or DVCAM vs DVCPRO, if you want a cinema, dramatic productions in Southern New Hampshire, we are not the proper fit. If you want a ....

12/07/2023

Due to wild rhetoric by Minifig Newsguy - all of our hosting services is down until further notice. Too many hits on MNG’s website has taken everyone down

02/02/2022

We have issued SSL certs for the following sites, and your browsers shouldn't be squawking, as TMOT has also been relocated within the clickford-dot-net domain, not as a subdomain... though redirects are being attempted to preserve permalinks that had been shared since early 2020.

01/12/2021

It's that time of year again where all of our certificates for Secure Web hosting is needs to be redone.
This means our platform (at clickfo-dot-me), Techie Crafts, The Museum of Telephony may give you an error message about an expired certificate. Please dismiss them as they shouldn't harm your experience until we renew them all with our provider. Thanks!

01/11/2021

Our Blowup Frankenstien in a form of a live shot was a killer success today for the trickertreaters.

26/10/2021

At this point... who knows, maybe WordPress should consider a SSH version where you manage your posts like writing copy similar to the 1980s... yea terminals?

The Defense of Graphical User Interfaces in 2020 October 30, 2020clickfo This may be a moot point to many, but to some like to carry their command line interface skillset card and shove it down your throats. Those people are probably as creepy as Mark Zuckerberg. I also think a Graphical User Interf...

26/10/2021

TBH... it seems like WordPress' newer UI is full of "gluten", code bloat CPU intensive, fire hazard for smartphones, etc. Also this minimalism of the and younger Millennials... NEEDS TO STOP! Not defending "clutter" per se, but you need some bold and some bland, but being 220% bland is not productive. See my post on The Case for Graphical User Interfaces. At this point I am looking at alternatives

Movable type was about books, but it wasn’t just about books. Ideas spread. Literacy spiked. The elite monopoly on education and government started to crack. Luther’s 95 Theses were printed on a pr…

16/10/2021

I recently came across this article, you have to applaud Ray (aka "Clack" IIRC) for keeping the show in reruns and in the syndicated columns for many years after Tom's passing with Car Talk. It was very eerie to read the columns or listen to the show with just Ray's dialog to the callers.. since it was basically the Car Talk episodes with Tom taken out for probably reasons that wasn't considered when he got sick and passed.

(TBH I haven't listened to the Best Of, so I can't speak with full authority if the show was totally not the same or it felt missing.)

"Car Talk" launched as a local show on WBUR in 1977, with brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi behind the microphones. Now, the show will be released twice a week as a podcast, starting on Oct. 1. WBUR's Cityspace also will host an event on Nov. 4 celebrating the show's broadcast success.

12/10/2021

I came across this reck about 24 hours to the minute. One looked pretty smashed on the SB lane of NH31. SB access was limited on the 101 side just as I went by. Anyone who wants this can contact me for rights of this photos

07/10/2021

And if you disagree with me, then you lack empathy, you lack diversity, and you must be a little creepy perv to spy on underage girls' PII.

Unsolicited Advice: How Can Facebook Prevent the Latest Screwup October 7, 2021October 7, 2021clickfo In the last 5 days, Facebook has been under pressure, the whistleblower who broke the stories to The Wall Street Journal of specifically Instagram monitoring and adjusting knowingly content with the...

09/09/2021

On an emergent episode on June 30th on The Weekly Zoo, you see on my whiteboard a logo that resembles NY1, the long time quasi proprietary regional news channel on the ol Time Warner Cable systems. 29 years ago they disrupted the production of local media with the "One Man Band" approach where people out in the field looked weird having a camera pointed at them unmanned.

NY1 was featured in a number of publications from Wired, to the NYT to the blogsphere, and whether you like it or not, it's the new business model for Clickford Media and in a June concept meeting, I drew the logo on the whiteboard as a source idea.

We cannot afford additional staffing for production services and with COVID not going away, maybe this 30something year old concept may not be bad idea afterall.

09/09/2021

Personal Responsibility starts and ends with you. If team-based social workflows push "we" it means they can use "you" when SHTF. We do not tolerate gaslighting in my industry. You want do throw someone under the bus after a crisis and blame "YOU!" - then go work for tech. We are not a tech company.

12/07/2021

About 95% of the content on YouTube is mostly crap, cinema grade garbage, and people who believe it's OK to shoot and "edit stuff out" by literally cutting up clips without effects and graceful transitions.

Most of these people are literally kids who have not ever heard of the 3/4 tape, the Betacam, and never saw analog broadcast TV.

I grew up in a town that was the most richest in the area per capita (from perception) and many of the Millennials aren't around here because the goddamned school district insisted that at Londonderry High School, the lessons should be pre-university.

If there was less LHSes of the world, perhaps a course on media literacy and media production from say a Vlogger level, _and_ it being a required lesson, maybe it would interest the interested into making *better* content.

02/07/2021

Clickford Media will be open today and Monday as the July 4th Holiday falls on a weekend

28/06/2021

we are hiring! for hire jobs... please click on clickfo.me for more information!

19/05/2021

Imagine Scummy Mike Rowe pimping his scumminess on CNN, TruTV?

If approved by regulators, the deal effectively reverses AT&T's years-long plan to combine content and distribution in a vertically integrated company.

19/05/2021

At Clicko-me, we do not advocate . What does that mean? It means to have a narrow, laser focus mindset on a single platform, technology, etc. It's extremely important to understand a multi spectrum of computer systems, applications, etc to be a well rounded creative professional.

03/05/2021

We are currently closed for business till about 1:00 pm ET as we upgrade our internet connection...

29/04/2021

Due to some delays in installing - we are closed all day and won’t reopen till tomorrow

22/04/2021

We will be closed tomorrow into Wednesday April 28th for our media services rebuild!

04/04/2021

We are closed today... “Hoppy Easter” to those who celebrate and observe this holy day!

26/03/2021

Despite the Clear Channel/ I

NEW YORK (AP) — The replacement for Rush Limbaugh is... Rush Limbaugh, at least in part. Premiere Networks, the company that syndicated Limbaugh's afternoon program to some 600 radio...

26/03/2021

Will the Fox News family of networks finally wake up when a core asset to their content creation died from the 'rona? If you're at Fox News right now, it's pretty skim across the personnel and it has nothing to do with covid - it has to do with financing the few full time/compensated pundits in the evening.

Eric Spinato, a top producer for Fox News and the Fox Business Network, died of the coronavirus over the weekend.

26/03/2021

Viacom's management is performing "insanity" (repeating the same billion dollar mistakes thinking it will have a different result.)

(Ironically, I was getting targeted ads for CBS All Access, after the infamous, and over-repeated Para+ Super Bowl campaign on Facebook even as that brand was going to be obsoleted.)

ViacomCBS is looking to beef up its streaming investment in Paramount+ by raising $3 billion in stock offerings.

26/03/2021

CNN and the other cable news channels are having multi digit decline in ratings... while I prefer to be impartial... I think it's extremely important to underscore the business model that is of CNN specifically.

Over a decade ago, CNN had multiple outlets including Headline News, CNN Radio, CNN International; their online platforms, etc. Before Jeff Zucker took over the show, the division of TimeWarner was making over a half a billion annually. CNN is considered to some markets to be a critical infrastructure because the newsroom for Headline News also acts a co-op satellite newsgathering service. This infrastructure was also making money.

From 1980 to 1995, CNN was struggling to make money to just cover expenses like any startup today. When CNN outgrew the infamous "Techwood Drive" facility in the summer of 1987, CNN the relocation (moving services, install of new equipment, lost time to training, etc.) to Downtown Atlanta cost over $20 million dollars. Not only in 1987 dollars was that a lot of money, but *anything* that was million for a company was a lot of money. Not to mention recently CNN announced they'd sell their land, lease it back for a few years and probably by 2025, they'll relocated to NYC or DC full time. It's kinda sad.

It wasn't until the mid 90s did CNN try to experiment outside of HN and CNN, because they were in the black at this point where they could spend some frugal cash for a couple ventures.

Today, CNN is loosing money more and more, and unfortunately CNN's primary source of revenue early on was subscriber fees, and the incremental costs that lead to cord-cutting. Don't blame your cable provider for the costs, it was mostly going to the cable networks.

24/03/2021

An oxymoron. No one is ready for automated closed captioning.

24/03/2021

Pretty standard cookie-cuttered engineering workflow. The New NBC News DC Bureau looks much like the New England flagship station; and the LA station, the Dallas station, and yeah... it doesn't look network-y anymore....thank you IT!

To get a view of the core technologies behind the new studio, we spoke with Jay Hurt, Vice President of Engineering and Operations for NBC News Washington Bureau.

04/03/2021

This is a mixer i need replaced like immediately

10-channel Mixer with 5 x Mic Preamps, 1 x Stereo Channel, 3-band EQ, Battery-powered Capability, and 1 Pre-fader/1 Post-fader Auxiliary Send Per Channel