On a lark, I typed the URL Wikimedia into my browser. Did I find the multimedia equivalent of Wikipedia? No, nor did I expect to. But I did sort of hope to find at least a skeleton of that beast, awaiting some flesh. So what did I find? The […]
We all create for one another. And our creations assume a life of their own.
On a lark, I typed the URL Wikimedia into my browser. Did I find the multimedia equivalent of Wikipedia? No, nor did I expect to. But I did sort of hope to find at least a skeleton of that beast, awaiting some flesh. So what did I find? The […]
My brother has shared an interesting article in Wired with me. A crazy Wired reporter agrees to cancel his cable subscription. No, he doesn’t replace it with Satellite. He goes with the Internet — Broadband, baby. Take a look here.
The reporters treats the experience like a big social experiment. It’s […]
Drum roll, please . . . from the magazine which once considered Osama Bin Laden for Person of the Year honors . . . The Time Magazine 2006 Person of the Year is . . . You. Huh? Are they daft or just looking for an excuse to have an animated […]
CBS is reviving its record label. This is an interesting story. (Parenthetical: it’s funny I chose “reviving” as the word to contain the link to the story. Is there a correct grammatical usage for linking? Should I have used a noun?)
CBS will market the label purely as a digital distribution medium. […]
No video on ABCNews from Amanda Congdon??? Okay, this is annoying. Rocketboom has a new entry each and every weekday. When’s the next Amanda? It’s dumb enough to have to click around to play the video, rather than the simple elegance of Rockboom, which plays automatically.
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Another update for y’all. […]
She’s baaaack. Sorry, a cliche just felt right there. Amanda Congdon’s officially back in a Rocketboomsian yet mainstream ABCNews.com segment. It has the feel of Rocketboom . . . with some interesting differences.
There’s a 30 second pre-roll ad . . . and a post-roll ad and a looping post-roll Amanda blurb followed […]
If 2006 was all about Web 2.0 and the resurgence of the dot-com boom, 2007 should represent the payoff, with many of the 2006 start-ups going-to-market. Certainly, many of these products will focus on chasing online digital media revenue. So the question for the day is, who chases best?
The deck chairs are being […]
Have y’all checked out the TED site? Click on What Is TED -> About TED -> Highlights and go to town with all the great video. Don’t miss Levitt — even though I’d read the story he tells in “Freakonomics“, I still laughed heartily at his punchline. Dean Kamen provides a simple […]
For years now, the term ‘convergence’ has been bandied about as the ‘next big thing.’ The paradise envisioned has all media in digital format, and distributed from a central location to multiple devices throughout the home. The Web on your TV. TV on your PC. Music everywhere. Your refrigerator ordering […]
A video blogging celebrity, former host of super popular RocketBoom.com, Amanda Congdon has finished her cross-country video blog and among other projects has accepted a position as the sole ABC News Video Blog correspondent. Amanda Congdon certainly has a following, and has achieved a celebrity that may, ahem, rocket her into the media stratosphere. […]
It’s already old hat to dismiss mass produced TV, video, film, and music as 20th Century. Technology has ushered in a personalized and customized media experience. Yet it’s at best non-informative and at worst trite to call this New Media or Media 2.0 — this is truly a revolutionary new movement where we all create for one another. And our creations assume a life of their own.