Drama in Blog Time.

I loved the first series of 24, yet after a determined attempt to watch series 2 felt I’d already got it. 24 and me haven’t connected since. Similarly with Desperate Housewives, we, my wife and me who never make an appointment with the TV, were there every Tuesday evening. Having just seen the first two […]

Is Web Flow a New Emotion?

James Corbett has an interesting post about programmes like Lost somehow echoing the kind of mindset we get into when blogging and surfing. A couple of times here on mediangler I’ve tried addressing the recent failures of TV drama particularly the reduction of drama to dilemma.
I’m biased of course but I think this is the […]

The Sorry State of TV Feeds

I’ve been trying for some weeks now to patch together a number of feeds from TV programming on the web. Stations like Roo, Brightcove, Akimbo, Rawflow, LX-TV. Well they sometimes have feeds and sometimes not and sometimes the feed is about the TV/web business rather than about the actual programming that a station or service […]

One of the Best Content Sites on the Web - A Little Secret

One of the best content sites on the web is also one of the least well known. Its owner is not to keen on publicity and he may well hate me for bringing it up.
Showstudio is operated by fashion photographer Nick Knight. I interviewed Nick about four months ago not long after his success […]

What’s Happening on Mediangler?

I thought it would be a worthwhile post to see what people are reading on mediangler.
First the numbers are going up fast, having tripled (unique vistors) in the past week or so.
Two things stand out though. I initiated a round up of European Web 2.0 and Web 2.0 pipelines projects during this period.
But the most […]

Are New “News” Sites Really Conformity Engines?

When Netscape appeared, or re-appeared, but became an online user-generated news-site, the question blogged interminably at first was: is this just a copy of Digg?
There are many questions left to ask about Netscape’s UCG news-site but any doubt about it being a replica should be now closed off - it ain’t. And the dangers […]

Prison Break

This is a Fox Mobile mobisode series where the stars drive a Yaris and viewers get to see a quick ad for the Toyota car before each mobisode.
The ad is unobtrusive - in fact in the Netherlands all programmes used to have a joke inserted between sections and the Yaris ads reminded me of […]

The Edge

Talking about the edge becoming the mainstream I perused a few sites today that look like proper magazines making real money. Vice magazine for example has been hard at it for about eight years now.
Urban 75 began as an off-shoot (pun intended) of a soccer suporters club. Their magazine site is now very accomplished […]

Ooh TV

OOH TV! Beta ViewChannel

Well, I think it will do a lot more. Ooh has stuff that will appeal to kids who want to watch car-crash TV and indulge in the damage collateral side of life.
On the other hand not many channels are pumping stuff out to kids on art, art movies, museums and exhibits. […]

BBC Watch

The world's most powerful broadcaster was at it again last night, confusing the role of news reporter, priest, advocate and self-publicist. On its main evening news Read More…

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