Bias at the Majors
“The BBCWATCH reports demonstrate how the BBC consistently fails to adhere to its legal obligations to produce impartial and accurate reporting.”
My impression has always been that the broadcast majors have for a long time seen their role as helping us believe we live in jolly nice societies, ones with a bit of grimble around the […]
Branded Competitions Online
UpYourBudget Treasure Hunt 2006
This is quite a way to use video! From Budget Car Hire.
New Media Business
Below is the weirdest form of business. It can hardly be true. Set up a few domains on the web (say 200,000) of them, attach a weather forecast and enable Google's Ad sense…. a $120 million business!
"Demand Media is building the next-generation of web media companies. Today, our collection of websites and domain names receive […]
Fluckiest
Flukiest is a fast growing interactive community for sharing and managing digital media by artists, photographers, designers, musicians, writers, directors, producers, and technologists. Flukiest provides a platform for members to share their work and ideas by enabling mobile and web technologies to seamlessly integrate. The Flukiest community combines the best features of an online social […]
Blip TV
Mike Hudack, the CEO of Blip.tv, is on a mission to rescue videobloggers from video hosting sites and services that "aren't about individual empowerment." He feels that most of the video sites snag all the digital rights they can and make money on the backs of other people's work. Which sites? You(tube) know which ones.
Blip.tv, […]
Cross Platform
The Standard (the London evening paper) is trialing a broadband TV portal service, which will allow users access to on-demand video footage of news stories and user-generated content, on the Cube TV platform. Video classifieds would be broken down into sections like property and entertainment.
UK: Standard to launch broadband TV portal - Editors Weblog
An interesting […]
Newspapers
News that Robert DeNiro is thinking of buying the New York Observer is a high profile example but some commentators are saying newspapers' response to the internet will be: go back into private hands.
"Between analysts delivering ominous forecasts about the future of print media and the chaos of messy media group breakups, the American newspaper […]
Aesthetic IT
Because so many of us look at screens all day the aesthetics of information technology need a little more attention. I've been trying to convince people of that for a while.
Right now I'm trying to convince Microsoft. That logo, the font, that butterfly…. well people's expectations of how things should look and the aesthetic values […]
It’s Personal
I write a lot on food and health issues these days, as well as doing the digital culture stuff. I wonder for example what all the new media, IT and gizmo stuff is worth if you're not feeling well.
My wife went back into hospital yesterday with a heart complaint - which is savage at 45.
Like they always […]
Newspaper Decline
This comes from a New York media investment firm and the negatives for newspapers are backed also by the World Editors Forum, a think tank for newspaper editors. First the banker.
“The decline of the newspaper business is a crime we’re all witnessing, though it seems few CEOs are being called to account. With few […]