Internet TV impressions

So I was trying to find Josh Holloway’s adam’s apple the other night, on abc’s HD streaming site, just admiring those crazies who figured out how to heighten our attention at the critical point of each commercial (‘click to continue’ shows up 3 seconds before the end of the 30-second commercial–magnificent thinking), when I started to think back to my days clucking through data at Kodak. When looking at (of course anonymized) data about users, the outliers always stand out: 14457 albums shared to ‘friends’; or the same photo uploaded 666 times. So I started to wonder what the standard deviation is for ‘number of times user clicks replay on the commercial’. So I started playing around, much to Lormot’s irritation. We watched one commercial three times. Then I started clicking through to the links that accompany the commercials. An odd thing happened. None of the click-through links worked. On top of that, once I had clicked ‘replay’ on one commercial, I found that, in between episode segments, no other commercials were played. Which made me wonder, is it really that uncommon an occurrence for a user to replay a commercial? I’m waiting for the ABC vans to show up outside the house this morning. Either that, or I’m going to get a call from a Chevy dealer telling me he’s got my purple Escalade in stock.