The Future is Mobile
The future in the palm of your hand Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel used to say “listen to the technology. The technology will tell you what to do”. Today, the technology to listen to is mobile. As of...
Read moreThe Importance of Narrative
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNa1xQE7ccc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Eva Solberger, Lost in Vermont Yesterday I got a posting on my Newspapervideo newsgroup on Yahoo (NewspaperVideo@yahoogroups.com) from Eva Solberger, a very talented VJ who works for Seven Days in Vermont. She posted the video above and asked...
Read morePicasso and Video
Picasso’s The Dream: It features his mistress Marie-Therese Walter and is estimated to be worth £70m This afternoon we went to see the Picasso exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show admittedly had problems from a lack...
Read moreWhat Hath God Wrought
It was the Internet of its day…. On May 23, 1843, Samuel FB Morse flashed the message “what hath God wrought” along a wire strung from the US Supreme Court Chambers in Washington DC to the Mount Clare railway...
Read moreBP Disaster – Has TV Wrecked Our Brains?
If this doesn’t work, we’re going to fire up the Bat Signal…. Every civilization becomes the product of it’s central event. For the ancient Greeks, it was the Agora, the marketplace, the Acropolis. A place of constant public discourse....
Read moreCalling All “Moral Journalists”
Self-appointed Arbiter of Morality… (thank God it’s not fashion or hairstyles). Michigan State Senator Bruce Patterson (above) has introduced legislation to register journalists in Michigan to make sure they’re of ‘good moral character’. Patterson’s bill, if enacted, would allow...
Read moreWhy Video On The Web Is Different
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX3q2eFfunQ[/youtube] Cisco CEO John Chambers on Healthcare Did you look at the video above? It’s John Chambers, CEO of Cisco. He is no dope. And what he has to say is both intelligent and important. Did you watch the...
Read moreWhat iPads Can Do For Print
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/10207926[/vimeo] games.. with content Pretty much everyone says iPads will prove the salvation of newspapers and magazines. Well, maybe. When the web first came along, newspapers saw the web as a place to distribute their newspapers, but online. What...
Read moreCisco CEO says All Video
Cisco CEO John Chambers John T Chambers is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Cisco Systems, one of the largest and most powerful technology companies in the world. Last year’s revenues topped $40 billion. Yesterday,in a rather...
Read moreArrested: Driving While Black
Don’t move! This is Bradley Nesbitt. Great guy. Good friend. Talented filmmaker. He has been working for us for the past four years – as a VJ in our Fios1 station in DC, reporting and producing; and as a...
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