That Internet Sucks Argument
Mathew Ingram and Mark Evans have kept alive a debate that I seem to remember first started kicking off, in a previous incarnation, a couple of weeks back. It got a workout too at Techdirt. The gist of the debate is that an article published in the Canadian mag Macleans, which concluded that the Internet […]
Flurl and My Space
When I read yesterday that a MySpace founder, Brad Greenspan, had bought into Flurl, the video search engine, I thought I’d, you know…. check it out.
Flurl is actually quite depressing, a mon avis, and steeped in Internet savvy. Based in Liege in Belgium the lads have devised a way to piggyback video uploading sites. It […]
Heretics at the Modem
I generally like heretical thinkers so I want to spare a thought for he guy who is risking 24 hours of abuse across the informed blogosphere for saying that the internet sucks and then saying why, in detail.
He even quotes Andrew Keen who’s also had to duck the brickbats recently. I don’t agree with them […]
What Won’t Save Newspapers?
Techdirt’s carrying a short piece on newspapers’ continuing inability to get the Internet right (OK the Guardian looks good but it’s costing them $25 million a year in losses).
I’d already been thinking earlier in the day about how I write one way for the blog and another way for papers and mags. Pinning down that […]
And the Effect of the Internet Is….
I’m a big fan of Henry Jenkins, the MIT professor who writes about convergence culture but today addresses what happens in a participatory culture with skills like media literacy (picked up here also at Terra Nova).
Henry gave me a quote some months back even when he couldn’t be sure was I writing for a paper […]
This is one of those blogs are dead posts, coupled with metrics
This is a great post. bringing up all those hoary how big’s your audience issues.
Why I think it matters is: well ZDNet already pays some writers according to their traffic. Business Week Online is just starting to do it. And the future lies in trying to farm a variety of incomes from your writing, […]
BBC Goes CJ in USA
Not sure I agree with this kind of stuff - if it were a real citizen journalism project you’d get some sense of disruption but truly the BBC does not need to go into this turf. No doubt it’ll be a success but those pioneers who laboured in the BBC’s desperately underfunded communities department were […]
YouTube and Copyright Woes
I was on the comments section of Mathew Ingrams blog just now - nerdy or what? - and found what I think is fascinating information for many of us on YouTube and Copyright but it matters not just to YouTube.
YouTube’s apparent defence against writs for copyright infringement is the US safe harbour clause that […]
The Proliferation of Video Contests
There’s something tacky about competing to get a video made or shown. Film festivals, which are all about competition, are part of the old fashioned business of exposing new talent. Not healthy to my mind. But still competition seems to be the chosen way for TV companies on the web.
Itsyourtvshow is a case in point. […]
Wising up to the TV
This is an interesting compilation of stuff going on around the TV set, most of the products cover make the TV a multimedia centre and obviously they introduce a lot of computing power.
It’s a ZDNet article so maybe it’ll spread the word. When I watch my kids working with the TV it goes like this. […]