Tag: media

N95 Sousveillance

I suspect the N95 will revolutionize reporting in countries with draconian restrictions on the media.

Structured News

makes the point that news organizations could add a lot of value by marking news up properly with location, main actors, etc. they would do so out of SEO interest, but also do a huge favor for historians and knowledge representation.

Clown Co

News Corp, Microsoft, NBC, AOL, MSN and Yahoo. I’m picturing the meetings. The posturing. The bandwidth provisioning. The advertising meetings. The legal reviews. The pr reviews. The plans. The emails. The cross-functional , inter corporate steering committees. Who pays for what with what? Who is in charge? Who picks the content? Does anyone pick the content? Who can upload? What can they upload? When can they upload? How long will it take to transcode? Can a video be downloaded to iPod? Archos? Zune? Who will monitor the uploads?

Time to go, limbo

Goodbye limbo, it was fun while it lasted. And it lasted a while – since the Middle Ages. The concept of limbo – the place where dead children go if they die without being baptised – has been abolished by Pope Benedict XVI.

i wish more publications spoke out against religious nonsense. it is 2007, after all.

Nature Network

a social network for scientists. i am quite intrigued by nature’s willingness to try out these new media forms.

Micropayments Pipe Dream

I think that Google needs to nurture the paid information ecology and find a way to support the creators in what they do. They don’t need to abandon the free ecology or even favor the paid over the free. But the world will be a richer place if more people are given several ways to fund the shoe leather it takes to create content.

oy, micropayments as a solution for the death of newspapers? what is this, the 90s?

Newspaper Software

It is sad when you realize that the average MySpace page is better designed than your average newspaper site

when will these people realize that their survival rests on their printer-friendly page?

Economist fortune tellers

my favorite paper is trying to reinvent itself. very smart, as i would expect from them.

East vs West Coast Google

Google now has a major outpost in New York geared almost entirely toward working with Big Media and Madison Avenue.

wow. talk about clueless.

Yearlong chat ends

Although the show generally ran only 3 minutes long, it could be hard to digest. It used foul language. Frank posted it at different times each day. It was full of inside jokes that discouraged new viewers from jumping in midway through the year; for those who wanted to try to catch up, his website offered an archive, which will stay available. Ze Frank preferred to play for what he calls the proletariati.