Who Is Going To Cover The News?
Wikileaks breaks a story on Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) censorship. NYU prof Clay Shirky does not blog often, but when he does it is required reading. Shirky makes the point that the Gutenberg analogy is easy. It’s...
Read moreA Word For National Geographic
Hey Steve, get that camera out of my face… I’m trying to watch American Idol…. SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN:Â OK. We are now somewhere between Madagascar and India, somewhat closer to Madagascar. Because of the...
Read moreHere Comes Facebook – Video
What’s on? Facebook, the killer online social networking site announced yesterday that they were now the number 3 video streaming site on the web, with no signs of turning back. While Youtube is still the giant online source, with...
Read moreMurdoch vs. Galileo
And that’s the way it is….. On August 25, 1609, four hundred years ago, Galileo Galilei demonstrated his telescope to Venetian lawmakers.  A few months later he would publish Siderius Nuncias, his support for the Copernican heliocentric theory –...
Read moreNewspapers: gone. Next: TV Networks.
with fine cabinetry design… End round one. The newspaper business is finished. Now, comes round two. Â TV Networks. If they don’t make some really major changes really fast they are going to end up just like their old...
Read moreToo Little…. Too Late…..
hmmm…..well what about helium? Our old friend up in Albany, Mike Sechrist sent us a link to a great speech by John Temple, former editor and President of the now defunct Rocky Mountain News. The Rocky Mountain News, which...
Read moreBillions Served
Watch this space… US Internet viewers watched a staggering 8.9 billion videos last month. Last month! 99% of these were on Youtube. So reports 247wallst.com. This number is simply astonishing. On Youtube, the average number of videos watched per...
Read moreiPhone Future
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvCo6-KhZT4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2F2009%2F06%2F14%2Fiphone-os-macbook-pro-24-multitouch-screen%2F&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Sweden on the cutting edge again… The Swedish site Dremfeld.se has posted a video pushing an iPhone through a Mac with a touchscreen. The idea is intriguing and it opens a door to what the next generation of...
Read moreI Am Mister Ed
You never heard of a talking horse? I used to teach a course at NYU called “Television and the Information Explosion”. I didn’t invent the name of the course, I just inherited it. It was a stupid name, and...
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