Techcrush Rushed Towards Silence
Techcrush is an interesting idea in these overhyped Web 2.0 times. Take stuff that has been through the techcrunch mill and review it six months and 12 months down the line.
Yesterday they laid down their pens quoting legal issues. Wish they would say more.
This Conversation is About How We Might Use Video on the Web
It’s now so cheap to create video content for the internet that anyone can do it. And, oh, how we are! The problem is this: one of the points made repeatedly in this debate is that some people may feel more comfortable with video rather than the written word. Written words can [...]
Film Director Launches VJ Event at Cross-media Week
Peter Greenaway, the alternative movie director behind movies such as “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover”, will deliver a multimedia performance at the PICNIC ‘06 venue. Known as a “real-time image conductor”, Greenaway will combine avantgarde cinematographic imagery with audio remixes.
PICNIC ‘06 :: Cross Media Week :: PICNIC ‘06 Special Activities
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What’s Wrong with News and Is Jay Rosen Fixing It?
Continuing a recently established tradition of being at least a day late with a story I want to reflect on Jay Rosen’s efforts to get Reuters investing in New Assignment.net and sad to say I want to criticise his initiative.
“The money from Reuters will underwrite the costs of hiring our first editor, who will start [...]
Google Ads is About Dissatisfying Your Readers.
There’s an unspoken rule that says the point of the page that hosts the Adsense ads is not to satisfy the visitor. In fact, dissatisfaction is probably a key driver for successful adclicks, i.e. I looked for something, didn’t find it on your page and so tried one of links.
The Idea Dude
I picked this up [...]
Media Companies Will Dismantle Says Hollywood Mag
I Want Media, one of my resources for regular media news updates, quotes the Hollywood Reporter yesterday saying media giants will dismantle over the coming years as the underlying business model for media companies changes.
“Rupert Murdoch’s willingness to relinquish control of DirecTV is indicative of a new industry mind-set that will result in the [...]
VCs Should Back the Entrepreneur Seeking A Bettter Lifestyle
It’s a commonplace of Web 2.0 philosophy that entrepreneurs seeking a better lifestyle rather than arduously ramping up a business to stellar status shouldn’t get VC backing.
I want to question the financial and cultural logic. It’s a mainstay of Michael Arrington’s commentary and clearly needs a challenge.
If you put together a network of entrepreneurs [...]
BBC Shows Its Slip
Falling standards at the major broadcasters are giving impetus to new media. Last night the BBC in the UK broadcast an investigation into corruption in the national sport - soccer - and it was a baddy.
The investigation was embarassing and flimsy. A year long investigation nailed not one piece of obvious corruption and probably had [...]
The Good Blogs
I got this from Vernon Lun at TheGoodBlogs after I asked him to write a few words about ther aims and progress. I really wish these guys well - their objectives are exactly what the web needs right now.
We’re two Canadian software veterans (30+ years of software development between the two of us). After many [...]
Grazr
Grazr, you know for feeds…
Of course Grazr is getting attention today. What interests me about Grazr is the philosophy of the company or rather their outlook on where content is going: “when we started this company back in June, 2006 we committed ourselves to creating tools to satisfy our growing thirst for feeds. We’re not
just [...]