November 30, 2006
Retired
sLop (the blog you are reading) is retiring..
The archives should stay up indefinitely though so feel free to continue linking in if you like..
In the coming weeks, I should have something new up. Please stay tuned.
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May 16, 2006
Quick Beyond Broadcast write-up in Wired
Wired News: Brave New World for Public Media
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April 09, 2006
Media 3.0
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer
A new show to air on NYC TV. I scheduled the recording of the first one which is to air Monday at 11PM. I will give a better report after watching but it sounds interesting:
Media 3.0 is a weekly half-hour news/talk show about the media & technology business hosted by award-winning inventor, technologist, composer, author and producer, Shelly Palmer. The business and technology of media industry are changing at an ever increasing rate. As chairman of the Advanced Media Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences NY, Palmer is one of the experts leading the industry’s rapid evolution.
From PVRs to PDAs, from IP Video to VOD ... Technology changes everyday, but business rules and our legal system don’t always keep up. Is it a parlor trick or a paradigm shift? Shelly Palmer, along with lead analyst Lydia Loizides, and subject matter experts focus on the issues that dominate the front pages of today’s business journals.
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer is a show for consumers, media execs, investors and just about anyone interested in this exciting arena where the business of media meets technology. Fast-paced and combative, Media 3.0 doesn’t pull any punches. Interviews with senior management, opinions from respected business leaders and smart people who will make even the most complicated issues seem simple ... It’s Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer.
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April 07, 2006
Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture
Beyond Broadcast, May 12-13 2006 — Beyond Broadcast 2006: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture Archive
Beyond Broadcast, a conference being put on at the Berkman Center is coming up in a bit more than a month. The conference second day will be a second convening of the Open Media Developers Summit and is shaping up nicely.
Please feel free to visit the blog and wiki, attend and participate.
From the blog:
You are invited to an open convening at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. We will explore the thesis that traditional public media — public broadcasting, cable access television, etc — face a unique opportunity to embrace new participatory web-based media models — podcasting, video blogs, social software, etc — and create a stronger and more vital public service.
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March 26, 2006
Techdirt: Why Aren't The Telcos Paying Google For Making Their Network Valuable?
Techdirt: Why Aren't The Telcos Paying Google For Making Their Network Valuable?
It is true, cable franchises pay the networks for the privilege of carrying them. This is on a per-subscriber basis and allows the television networks to double dip in a sense, get per-subscriber fees as well as ad revenue.
The argument that Google makes the broadband networks valuable is true although there are a plethora of such services, no lack of content which is why the cable co.'s started to pay the networks in the first place.
There is NO WAY the telcos would fall for this (Verizon/CBS stupidity aside) on broadband lines unless they truly still envision the internet as 1,000,000 channels of TV.
Now, don't get me wrong, I don't think that Google should pay either. We (the consumers here) are already paying. Unless Google wants to be on the providers home page or portal there is no reason for them to pay.
I hope they do light up all of that fiber they have been buying and route around the telecos and allow me a WiFi Mesh or WiMax connection.
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February 28, 2006
Television Disrupted
Television Disrupted - The Transition from Network to Networked TV by
Shelly Palmer
Looks to be an interesting read. Guess we will find out in the near future.
From the site:
Television Disrupted The Transition from Network to Networked Television, follows the money and the technology that enables it. The book also looks at the business rules and legal issues that are having a huge impact on the future. File sharing, copyright laws, geographical form factors, temporal windows and much more. During the next few years, everything we know about the business of television is going to change - Television Disrupted The Transition from Network to Networked Television will serve as a guidebook and roadmap for the foreseeable future.
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January 19, 2006
NY Times Video
New York Times Video
So the Times has a good amount of video online. Too bad they don't have a feed with enclosures (also too bad that it is Flash and therefore has no chance of being portable).
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January 17, 2006
Television News Archive
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Very nice archive, too bad it isn't streaming or downloadable yet. I suppose that will take a lot of effort.
From the site:
The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.
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Reinventing TV
Release 1.0 / Publication / Reinventing TV: Network TV Signs Off. Networked TV Logs On.
Scott Kirsner write in an older Release 1.0 about Networked TV. It is a good article, too bad it costs so much.
From the abstract:
Television, because of its high production and distribution costs and FCC regulation, has always been the most massive of all the mass media. It seeks the middle ground, and usually finds it. The ads that accompany today's shows are made with a similar shotgun mentality: There's no such thing as one-to-one marketing on the tube. Any niche-oriented programming that does exist tends to be available only to small audiences, on obscure satellite channels or community cable access stations.
That will change over the next decade, as a growing number of television sets, PCs and mobile devices are connected to what Jeremy Allaire, the founder of Brightcove, has dubbed "the Internet of video." Plugging TV into IP rather than into a terrestrial cable system or a fleet of geosynchronous satellites, could redeem - or at least reinvigorate - the medium. The hermetically sealed world of television is about to be cracked open and rewired, transformed into an open publishing platform as a variety of new devices and services emerge to make independent video content easier - and perhaps even profitable - to produce and distribute to smaller subsets of the population.
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The Future of Independent Media
GBN: The Future of Independent Media
I thought I linked to this a while ago but I couldn't find it recently when recommending it to a student.
Andrew Blau writes a great essay contemplating Independent Media in the face of the quickly changing technological landscape. A very good read:
From the text:
The technologies that enable us to make and consume motion media are becoming better, cheaper, and more widely available—and with blistering speed. As a consequence, patterns of media production and consumption are changing just as rapidly. The Internet continues to create new opportunities to connect with audiences. Video games are becoming a platform for critique and education. A new generation of media makers and viewers is emerging, which only increases the likelihood of profound change. Images, ideas, news, and points of view are traveling along countless new routes to an ever-growing number of places where they can be seen and absorbed. It is no understatement to say that the way we make and experience motion media will be transformed as thoroughly in the next decade as the world of print was reshaped in the last.
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January 16, 2006
Massive Media, distilled
Future Of Television Is Self-Service, P2P Distributed Media Consumption - Robin Good's Latest News
Robin Good edits and re-presents Dan Melinger's Massive Media thesis.
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January 15, 2006
NYC Grassroots Media Coalition Conference - February 11
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December 09, 2005
Future of Television Conference
Beyond TV: TVSpy.com Next Generation TV
So, I went to the Future of Television conference a couple of weeks ago and was somewhat suprised. Last year, I poked my head in to see what was being discussed and it was a big snooze. After checking out the website, I figured it was worth my time this year so I went.
Wow.. I was surprised. You wouldn't know it but there are people in TV who really "get it"... Larry Kramer from CBS most notably get's it.
Here is what I had to say on the day of:
I am writing from Future of Television Conference at NYU's Stern School of Business today. I am here for several reasons, first of all I would like to know what the networks and traditional media concerns think of the scrappy interactive folks. Second, I am here doing recon. Specifically, I would like to know how long video bloggers and other decentralized media creators have before traditional media begins to offer enough of what they are doing to satiate "consumers". (Perhaps that is not exactly my fear but close enough for now.)
First of all, I have to say that Larry Kramer gets it. He really does. He is open to experimentation. At CBS he has launched many interactive initiatives from a broadband news channel to podcasts of daytime soaps to fantasy sports sites to deep entertainment content add-ons to viewer/user photo posting to writer and producer blogs to actual audience participation through SMS. Phew..
CBS isn't the only media company doing this type of experimentation. The other networks, cable and broadcast are doing the same or similar. Notable is ABC News Now, ESPN, Playboy and the like.
The question is, whether or not this is enough. Will this engage and empower viewers enough to keep them despite the ever growing number of alternative content channels. The networks certainly know how to deliver programming to a passive audience. They are just beginning to support a more engaged and digitally connected viewer.
A later speaker in the day, IBM's Saul Berman described the audience by categorizing them in 3 camps. "Massive passives", the folks that CBS has always served, lean back, over 35, want to be entertained but don't feel compelled to buy the latest gadget or create their own media.
The next camp, arguably the focus of most of these efforts he described as "Gadgetiers". He describes this group as heavily involved in content, they are fans, will seek out other individuals who are interested in the same content they are. They will purchase the latest devices, use time shifting (TiVo) and will space shift (TiVo To Go). They are also the heavy buyers, the early adopters, in short, the people that the advertizers (and therefore the networks) covet.
It remains to be seen whether what the networks are starting to do will appeal to this group in the long run. In the short term, it is clear, if you put it out there they will come. How long they stay is another matter.
The last camp, the "Kool kids", the ones really getting all of the attention, are the hardest to understand. He suggests that this is the group that rejects DRM and "walled gardens", in short, the group that wants media on their own terms. This is the group that uses P2P software and is heavily social. They have dream devices that aren't out in the market as of yet.
I know that the kks (short for "Kool kids") are what have network executives up at night. They are the hackers and inventors who are really driving the internet. TV and media in general will fit into their game or be disregarded.
Ok.. So the big question at the end of the day? Will the cable and TV networks run scared and do everything possible to protect their business models or will they embrace the new like they must. My feeling after this conference is that they have learned something from the music industry and will try to embrace but there will still be a major shakeup and Yahoo! and Google just might become the "new" networks. Good or bad.
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MyBBCPlayer
Technorati Tag: MyBBCPlayer
So, the BBC is launching a P2P media delivery platform. The link above will tell you to what the blogger's have to say.
I can't wait to try it! Will I be able to in the US?
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December 08, 2005
EPIC is about to arrive, powered by Googlezon
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November 13, 2005
Community Radio Toolkit (book with discussion forum)
Radio Regen, Community FM Toolkit for Community Radio
From the site:
What you will find here by the end of 2005, is a complete web version of the 212 pages of the book, complete with active discussion forums for readers. We will also have staff deployed to follow up information requests and extract the usable information from these discussions. So there’ll be information digests and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s) too.
In the meanwhile, following the enthusiastic response from delegates at our Community FM conference, we’re posting samples of the book and launching an experimental forum for you to discuss what you think of the book. If this resource is to become truly comprehensive, and stay up to date, we need you to join in with the discussion on the forum to tell us what you think of what you’ve read and to share your experiences.
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October 19, 2005
Fighting FCC closed door decision making
Hear Us Now:
I like the animation ;-)
Resist the Tower! Fight Media Power!
Don't let the FCC regulate your media behind closed doors. Turn up your speakers and tune in! And sign our petition calling for the FCC to hold at least 10 public hearings across the country.
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October 10, 2005
TV to Go.. (I feel like I am repeating myself)
Sling Media :: Welcome
From the site:
The Slingbox enables you to watch your TV programming from wherever you are by turning virtually any Internet-connected PC into your personal TV. Whether you’re in another room or in another country, you’ll always have access to your television.
Just what the world needs, more access to broadcast television. ;-)
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October 09, 2005
Closed Caption Text from Blog RSS feeds..
META[CC] -Main
From the site:
META[CC] seeks to create an open forum for real time discussion, commentary, and cross-refrencing of electronic news and televised media. By combining strategies employed in web-based discussion forums, blogs , tele-text subtitling, on-demand video streaming, and search engines, the open captioning format employed by META[CC] will allow users to gain multiple perspectives and resources engaging current events. The system we are developing is adaptable for use with any cable news or television network.
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September 27, 2005
"reality-based broadcasting"
About Evolvetv | evolvetv.tv
An internet only news show..
From the about page:
EvolveTV is born out of a frustration with the media landscape. When CNN is more painful to watch than Fox (after all - Fox is entertainment, not news), there quite simply must be a market for an alternative. Our mission statement is pretty simple:
We don’t care about missing blonde women or Hollywood lifestyles. We think sharks are mostly harmless and we have no interest in watching sporting events. We believe solutions emerge from our judicious study of discernible reality.
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The Broadcast Flag rises again..
EFF: DeepLinks
Read how the MPAA and RIAA are attempting to sneak the Broadcast Flag through Congress.
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September 26, 2005
Google Video, thoughts..
Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates The Pilot - Google Video
Google video has the full premeire episode of Everybody Hates Chris for a limited time. I would love to see the stats for this one.
In any case, this is the first time I have really checked out Google Video since it launched. I am not so sure about the Flash based video, I find the playback performance a bit weak compared to QuickTime and Real on my Powerbook. I am impressed by the random feature but not really by the content. I find enough standard TV fare on TV, I don't need it on the internet as well. It is for this reason, that unless I need to look something up, I will turn to Ourmedia.org, Yahoo Video, Current.TV and MeFeedia for my online video watching pleasure.
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August 09, 2005
Darknet: J.D.'s New Book is out
Darknet
From the site:
Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation is a new book that offers first-person accounts of how the personal media revolution will impact movies, music, computing, television and games
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July 11, 2005
Why "Long Tail Content" doesn't appeal to big media
Emmy Advanced Media - Television Business News: The Big Hump
or Why citizen created media will still have a place after Big Media figures out what the internet is really about.
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April 09, 2005
Great Segment on All Things Considered
NPR : An Impending Period of Transitional Chaos for Media
Regarding Advertising, TV, Radio, Podcast, Video Blogging and Unmediated.org
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March 31, 2005
The Media Center
The Media Center - The Media Center @ API
From the site:
The Media Center is a nonprofit think tank committed to building a better-informed society in a connected world.
The Media Center Matrix - Designed to evaluate, implement and map media strategies
Make Way for The Mobiles - Mobility becomes a cultural imperative
We Media - Audiences shape the future of news and information
Convergence Tracker - Monitor who's doing what in local cross-media partnerships
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March 20, 2005
When everyone is media, no one is
Scripting News: 2/2/2005
Dave writes:
When everyone is media, no one is 
1. Everything these days is media.
2. All media is technology and vice versa. The convergence everyone was buzzing about in the early 90s has happened. It's behind us. There is no separation between media and technology.
...
I disagree:
The telephone company isn't media now and people who call each other aren't producing media (although an argument can be made). Perhaps he is just arguing an extreme.
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March 19, 2005
BBC to do local interactive TV news..
informitv - Interactive TV - News - BBC to pilot local interactive television news service
From the site:
The aim is to create a new model of local television, based on news and information, in partnership with the community, working with the public, private and voluntary sectors to build and sustain the service.
Can't wait to see what they do...
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March 04, 2005
Say it ain't true...
NY Times' Circuits Section Kaput? : Gizmodo
The times won't even get my Thursday dollars any more if this happens..
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March 01, 2005
ZeD - Open Source Television
ZeD - Open Source Television
A very interesting television project being done by the CBC. Damn, I wish television in the US was as risk taking as it is in Canada and the UK.
From the site:
CBC Television's late-night TV project, ZeD. ZeD is a launch pad for ideas, individuals and creative expression. It's a blend of short films, micro-cinema, experimental works, performances by bands, poets, comics and choreographers, and - always - contributions from the audience.
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February 20, 2005
Dept of Ed vs. Buster the Bunny
Ryanne's Video Blog
Ryanne's Video Blog has an interesting interview piece regarding the recent issues that have come up between the show and the Department of Education over an episode that included a segment with a that has same sex parents. This could perhaps be the pivitol piece that kicks citizen journalism via video blogs into high gear.
Check it out: Dept of Ed vs. Buster the Bunny
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February 16, 2005
Stay Free! now has a blog
Stay Free! Daily
The tag line:
Periodic ramblings from Stay Free!, a Brooklyn magazine focused on American media and culture
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February 10, 2005
NBC, starting to get it...?
NBC Career Opportunities - Job Opportunities
An interesting listing for a "Product Development Leader, Broadband Video" at NBC.
What interests me the most about this ad is the line:
* Build key capabilities for broadband video: (eg. video archive, searchable video, free video/ad supported (stream/download), paid video, PVR-like functionality/personalization ... personalized storage area, wireless component ... feeding/cashing video to portable devices from online "docking station", video blogging and chat capability, allow for hosting/posting/archiving/search of video submitted by consumers)
although the "consumer" word bugs me out.
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January 10, 2005
On the Media Podcasting.. Perfect
Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.: 'On the Media" to be Podcast
On the Media is the perfect NPR program for Podcasting (although all of the programs are worthy). Wonderful..
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Dan G.'s New Blog
Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.
Since Dan has left the San Jose Mercury News, he has created a new blog. Can't wait to hear more about his new venture.
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December 19, 2004
Jay has it going on...!
Momentshowing: VIDEO: Videobloggers invade the TV box
Video bloggers from around the country live on TV using iChat AV.. Nice job Jay. Really illustrates the possibilities.
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December 10, 2004
Ooooh, What's he going to do?!?!
Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - A Transition
Dan Gillmor is leaving his job as a writer for the San Jose Mercury News to "work on a citizen-journalism project". Others have said it is a venture with seed money. Interesting.. Can't wait for the details!
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December 06, 2004
Hillary support's The INDUCE Act
I was dismayed to learn that Senator Hillary Clinton has come out and in fact co-sponsored Senator Hatch's Induce Act. What follows is a draft of a letter that I am writing to Sen. Clinton to express my concern. I hope that others will do the same.
Here is some background material:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.2560:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64315,00.html
http://techlawadvisor.com/induce/
http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/004563.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20040618-3906.html
http://www.futureofmusic.org/articles/INDUCEanalysis.cfm
http://action.eff.org/site/pp.asp?c=esJNJ5OWF&b=164928
Like your iPod, read this:
http://www.eff.org/IP/Apple_Complaint.php
Please comment on the letter as you see fit.
Dear Senator Clinton,
I was dismayed to learn that you have come out in support of Senator Hatch's Induce Act. I hope that on further consideration of the issues that this bill covers that you change your stance to better reflect the opinions of your constituents and for the betterment of our society.
The Induce act as it currently is written does much to stifle free-speech, artistic and fair uses of media. Imposing legal responsibility on the makers of devices and software for illegal use such device or software will create a burden so great on manufacturers and creators of such programs that they will not develop or offer products that have potential for misuse.
I fear that by trying to curb the theft of copyrighted material you will instead be curbing the ability for individuals and groups with legitimate uses for the technology that enables such to use it. Being thoroughly immersed in an academic and artistic atmosphere, I am witness every day to fair uses of technology that would not exist today were such a law in existence. In fact I feel that the software that I am using to write this letter would not have been developed simply because it includes the ability to cut and paste text from any source into the document.
I believe that should this Bill become law that it will undo much of the progress of free-speech and alternative media creation that has been enabled by the internet, personal electronic devices, computers, tape recorders and so on. Furthermore it will be a giant step backwards and lead to increased power by the media and further relegate citizens to the role of consumer without a voice.
I hope that you will reconsider your position on this matter.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Shawn Van Every
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December 05, 2004
Make your own media
New York Community Access Television Links
If you don't know about Public Access, you should.
Here is a good article about Public Access from the Museum of Broadcast Communication
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Draft Chapters (with comments, blog style) of Dan Gillmor's We the Media (Making the News)
Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - Making the News: Draft of Chapter 1
I have had this link sitting around for a while now, it is certainly less relevant now that the book is out but I think it is valuable to see how the book progressed. Dan of course must agree, hence the posting of the chapters in the first place and the fact that he has left them up.
Oh yeah, the book has a Creative Commons license (Kenyatta should be glad to note that an audio version is up at Archive.org). In fact the whole thing can be downloaded at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/index.csp and the book website is available online at: http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/.
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October 15, 2004
SMS/iTV .. Almost
Interspot :: SMS/iTV Applications
So a couple of thoughts here, first, targetted ads on the internet work as I found this site by clicking on an ad. Second, I loathe flash sites. Third, SMS for text commenting on shows is pretty cool but not really that engaging unless there is a reason to do so other than see your name on TV .. How about some participation folks!
Last, I am going to implement this (well not this commercial system, rather my not so commercial system) into ITJ.
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October 14, 2004
Bill Gates: Broadcast Faces Irrelevancy
Yahoo! News - Gates: Broadcast TV Model Faces Irrelevancy
From the article:
Bill Gates predicts a future for the entertainment industry in which traditional broadcast television is rendered irrelevant. It's a positive vision, however, because new and better business models made possible by technology are emerging.
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October 10, 2004
Gore's Network
INdTV - Home
Don't think I have said anything about this in the past. Maybe I have.. Well, I figured I would put something up because I just got a mass recruiting email from them.
I spent about 5 minutes with them a couple weeks ago and didn't really come away with anything interesting but what they say they are trying to do on their site is interesting.
From the site:
We are an independent media company led by former Vice President Al Gore, entrepreneur Joel Hyatt and a growing team of industry professionals and young creatives. We are coming together around a common mission: to share the world's most dominant media platform - television - with people who want an outlet for their creativity, their voices heard and their perspectives valued.
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October 09, 2004
A traditional broadcaster embraces podcasting
komo 4 news | KOMO 1000 News Podcast
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July 26, 2004
Here is the reason I started looking for an RSS feed reader that will integrate with MT
NPR : RSS Feeds
Yippee!
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April 28, 2004
The internet will kill television news?
Internet will kill of Television News - an essay
Very interesting essay. For my views on this topic checkout Interactive Tele-Journalism.
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April 25, 2004
Does Television have a future..
The Future of Television
Of course it does... Dave Lennie has an interesting blog: "television will be very different in just 5 years"
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A snippet of what is to come for Forbes readers..
Yahoo! News - Is TV Next?
They say that the internet is a "problem" for TV.. Hmmn, I would welcome a bit of a shake up, perhaps only those companies willing to embrace the technology and social power of the internet will survive. Wouldn't that be nice..
From the article:
The problem is, the Internet is one big dumb pipe. It doesn't know or care whether it is carrying a Web page, a phone call or a sitcom. It's a pipe, in other words, perfectly designed for whacking established industries over the head.
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Air America really streams
RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter
Air America broke a couple of records for concurrent streams on it's first day out of the gate. The article mentions some interesting metrics for internet radio.
RealNetworks said that it delivered 50,000 concurrent streams on the network's first day of broadcasting (March 31), which the company says makes it the highest-ever usage of the Real Broadcast Network for a "non-breaking news service."
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April 14, 2004
Cell phones supporting interactive FM radio
Nokia, HP 'Visualize' Mobile Radio
Nokia is apparently making a couple of handsets that are capable of receiving FM broadcasts and synchronizing visuals and other media elements. Very interesting...
From the article:
"The FM radio capabilities are based on standard tuners embedded in the handset. The Visual Radio service picks up a user's location over GPRS and is able to pinpoint which radio stations are in the area," Reidar Wasenius, Nokia senior project manager told internetnews.com.
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April 07, 2004
Tracking the tools that decentralize the media.
unmediated
It's a group blog that I am particpiating in.. Turning out to be a great resource for tracking the next generation media tools and technology.
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March 27, 2004
Fighting for LPFM (Low Power FM) in the Cities
About the Prometheus Radio Project!
What is Prometheus all about:
To serve as a microradio resource center offering legal, technical, and organizational support for the non-commercial community broadcasters
To research and develop technical resources in anticipation of legalized micro-radio. Upon legalization, we will offer technical services to non-commercial micro-stations- equipment testing, frequency searching, submitting FCC applications, studio advice and so on
To sponsor and produce educational tours, conferences, events and literature on microradio and democratic media issues.
To serve as a public interest advocate on microradio issues, and to help facilitate public participation in the FCC rulemaking and legislative process.
To help start a regional micropower association, which could eventually serve as a self-regulating association for low power fm analagous to the ARRL for HAM radio. Until this is formed, we will perform some of its future functions, primarily performing a coordinating and secretarial role to facilitate communications among existing stations.
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March 17, 2004
How News Travels on the Internet (really the blogosphere)
Stephen VanDyke » How News Travels on the Internet
Stephen visualizes how news and information travel the Internet. Interesting that he is really really referring to the blogosphere not the internet proper. If it was the internet proper he would be paying much more attention to the "Dark Matter".
From Stephen's page:
Here's how I see news travel, I think it's a pretty self-explanatory graphic, plus I'm too lazy to do a proper write up. Infer as you wish, maybe I will become the "source" one of these days.
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March 11, 2004
Radio and the Internet
RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter
Surprisingly I have never linked to this off of sLop. In any case, Kurt Hanson has been providing news to folks interested in the intersection of radio and the internet for quite some time. Check it out...
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March 10, 2004
I hear Al Franken, literally.
Air America Radio
From the site:
On March 31, 2004 Air America Radio begins airlifting entertaining, progressive talk radio to millions of Americans who for far too long have been and are being neglected by talk radio broadcasters today.
Our on-air personalities and guests represent today's top political and popular humorists, commentators, activists and analysts.
Our irreverent, informative programming sparks the kind of challenging political and social dialogue that has been absent from AM radio for years.
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March 04, 2004
WiFi changing consumer behavior
USATODAY.com - Wi-Fi changes virtually everything
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Go Larry! Hope the book makes people THINK.
Wired 12.03: Some Like It Hot
From the excerpt:
If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission, then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of big media today - film, music, radio, and cable TV - was born of a kind of piracy. The consistent story is how each generation welcomes the pirates from the last. Each generation - until now.
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March 03, 2004
Looky here, we aren't all consumers after all.
Internet News Article | Reuters.com
The article states the 44% of internet users post or upload information to the web. Look out Big Media...
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March 02, 2004
Why not to trust ratings and other interesting things..
Streamingmedia.com: Measuring the Audience
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February 29, 2004
Public Access TV Related Sites
The Alliance for Community Media
Global Village CAT
The Buske Group
Study of US PEG Access Center
Policy and Media Activism Sites:
National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Media Reform Network
Center for Creative Voices in the Media
Independent Media Centers
Prometheus Radio Project
Media Access Project
Spectrum Policy, New America Foundation
The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
NY State Legislation:
New York State Public Service Commission
New York City Public Access Centers:
Brooklyn Community Access TV
BronxNet
MNN
Queens Public Television
Staten Island Community Television
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1968 was messed, maybe more so than now, maybe.
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February 24, 2004
Covering TV and technology
Lost Remote | About Us
From the site:
Lost Remote takes issue with the status quo of television. Technology is changing fast, and new generations of TV viewers are demanding more.
We do our best to keep you ahead of the curve. Every day, Lost Remote's bloggers scour the planet for the latest trends in TV and new media. Every Thursday, we send out an email newsletter with the week's highlights. And nearly 300 TV web producers swap tips and rants in Lost Remote's email discussion list.
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Center for Communication
Center for Communication
From the site:
The Center for Communication is an independent media forum, launched in 1980 by former CBS president Dr. Frank Stanton and Museum of Television & Radio president, the late Dr. Robert Batscha, to bridge the gap between the communications industry and the schools. The Center, supported by the industry, is nonprofit and nonpartisan.
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February 12, 2004
Shady (online, social software) marketing tactics..?
New Media Strategies and us
From the post:
But "Dixie" 's posts about "All My Children" got me curious. I looked up her IP address. Why am I not surprised it's registered to a company called New Media Strategies and that New Media Strategies offers:
Highly effective online Word-of-Mouth marketing (that) drives buzz about your brands and products. NMS harnesses the power of the online communities and opinion leaders to raise awareness of your brands and, ultimately, produce sales that bolsters your bottom line.
So, just in case Google indexes this page: New Media Strategies sucks. Let me repeat, "New Media Strategies sucks."
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February 09, 2004
Not MORE reality television
Reality Central
From the site:
Until now there has been no dedicated broadcast source for information and entertainment dealing exclusively with reality television. REALITY CENTRAL is the destination for fans to visit everyday and connect with their favorite programs and personalities. REALITY CENTRAL is the place for the latest in news, entertainment, and information covering the world of reality television. Reality TV fans will be transported behind-the-scenes of their favorite shows and find in depth coverage with never before seen footage. REALITY CENTRAL will promote the wildly popular reality programs of major broadcast and cable networks, serving as a catalyst for their promotional efforts. In addition to featuring rebroadcasts of network reality series and premiering international hits, REALITY CENTRAL will produce its own original talk, call-in and interview shows, many featuring the most prominent reality TV stars
They say they will feature ITV from the get-go, let's see what they mean by that...
Posted by vanevery at 09:48 PM
January 31, 2004
Watch the MoveOn ad on CNN during the Superbowl
MoveOn.org Voter Fund
From the page:
Join the One-Minute Boycott of CBS
The CBS network still refuses to run our winning ad in the Bush in 30 Seconds ad contest during the Super Bowl. This Sunday, during the Super Bowl half time show, join us in changing channels on CBS. At 8:10pm and 8:35pm EST, switch over to CNN to watch "Child's Pay" on a channel which doesn't censor its ads. We'd like to keep a tally of the number of people who participate -- just fill out the form below:
Posted by vanevery at 12:40 PM
January 27, 2004
Move On's Ad that isn't being showed during the Superbowl due to CBS' censorship
Posted by vanevery at 03:31 PM
January 11, 2004
NPR's Science Friday from Talk of the Nation
Science Friday: Making Science Radioactive
Posted by vanevery at 04:43 PM
WE HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE
We, the undersigned, are troubled by the way information flows and the way meaning is produced in our society.
WE HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE in what we are seeing, hearing and reading: too much infotainment and not enough news; too many outlets telling the same stories; too much commercialism and too much hype. Every day, this commercial information system distorts our view of the world.
WE HAVE LOST FAITH ...
Posted by vanevery at 02:04 PM
January 10, 2004
Commercialism and American culture, they are the same, right?
Stay Free! is a print magazine focused on issues surrounding commercialism and American culture
Posted by vanevery at 09:09 PM
January 07, 2004
Digital Radio Broadcasts begin
Wired News: Radio Ready to Go Digital
Not much about this in the media or anywhere else for that matter. Read about iBiquity some time ago, seems interesting but I don't quite understand why the FCC choose a product from a single vendor instead of an open standard for this. Can someone fill me in?
From the article:
Digital radio has been used for several years in Canada, Israel and parts of Europe. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission voted in October 2002 to adopt iBiquity's technology as the standard for digital broadcasts, and allowed radio stations to begin broadcasting digital signals in addition to traditional analog signals.
Stations eventually will be able to broadcast two separate FM programs on one channel simultaneously, thereby offering customers more programming options. Listeners also will be able to save their favorite tunes and programs and replay them when they want.
Posted by vanevery at 04:35 PM
January 03, 2004
Today's Front Pages
Thanks Olivier.
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December 18, 2003
I might have to get cable for this..
CSN: Cable Science Network
Posted by vanevery at 10:22 PM
November 29, 2003
Alliance for Community Media
From the site:
The Alliance for Community Media is committed to assuring everyone's access to electronic media. The Alliance advances this goal through public education, a progressive legislative and regulatory agenda, coalition building and grassroots organizing.
Posted by vanevery at 12:11 AM
November 04, 2003
A satellite truck in your pocket: BBC videomoblogs
Smart Mobs -
Amazing.. Right along the lines of my interactive telejournalism project:
A satellite truck in your pocket: BBC videomoblogs
Posted by vanevery at 01:28 AM
October 24, 2003
Interesting Blog/Writings from Jay Rosen of NYU's Journalism Department
PressThink: PressThink: An Introduction
From the Intro
The subatomic force that holds the pack of reporters together as they swarm around a story, there's an example of pressthink. Without it there could be no pack%u2014the pieces would come flying apart. There is a strange energy there, holding smart people to dumb practices.
Posted by vanevery at 07:30 PM
October 16, 2003
BBC to give the public full access to all it's program archives.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Dyke to open up BBC archive
I have more respect for the BBC every day. The US media is just lame in comparison (yes, NPR and PBS too).
Posted by vanevery at 02:01 AM
October 15, 2003
Wired News
News and articles concerning just about everything I care about.. Hard to imagine the world without Wired.
Posted by vanevery at 12:40 PM
October 10, 2003
Right-wing resorts to phone pranks
Salon.com News | Right-wing crank yankers
"Texas bug-man Tom DeLay and the New York Post's Bob McManus are harassing MoveOn.org with silly phone tricks."
Posted by vanevery at 01:25 AM
October 07, 2003
Interesting Blog regarding Microradio and Journalism
DIYmedia.net - Microradio, Media Collage and more.
Posted by vanevery at 03:28 PM
Underground P2P
CNN.com - Song swappers flock to invitation-only Internet - Oct. 6, 2003
These high-tech Cotton Clubs usually require users to be trusted or at least know someone inside. The files being traded, instead of out in the open, are encrypted -- the 21st century equivalent of hiding bathtub gin under a fake floorboard.
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