February 2008
1 post
TED | TEDBlog: TED's Miro player launches today →
TED and Miro announce the TED Miro player — a free, downloadable, open-source media player that comes pre-loaded with TED’s channels and content guide. Download the TED Miro player here, for Mac and for Windows. Using the channels, you can browse TEDTalks by Theme — “A Greener Future,” “Africa: The Next Chapter,” and many more. And you have access to...
January 2008
14 posts
The History of Visual Communication →
This website attempts to walk you through the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication…
Production 2.0 Conference - January 30th in UK... →
NEW POSSIBILITIES FROM CAMERA TO POST
Smart Mobs: Middle-class smartmobbing in China
Washington Post reports (video available on Washington Post site) on protests, organized among primarily middle-class citizens, using text messaging, blogs, and BBSs to organize and spread the word: Thousands of Shanghai homeowners protest against a proposed extension of the high-speed magnetic levitation train on Jan. 12. The proposed extension has angered thousands of residents who fear noise,...
The Penguin Blog: Why User-generated Content...
The Penguin Blog: Special Guest Post - Why User-generated Content Mostly Isn’t “The people posting messages to one another, on social networking services and weblogs and media sharing sites, are creating a different kind of material, and doing a different kind of communicating, than the publishers of newspapers and magazines are.” As I used to ask back in 2002: “what...
Learning Your Craft In The New Media World (Kent...
Learning Your Craft In The New Media World (Kent Nichols) “Learning how to survive the system [of old media] is only valuable inside the system. Too often the mentorship you find in the system is not about becoming a better craftsperson, but it’s about how to work the system better. The system also doesn’t reward failure. With each success comes higher stakes for the next one to be a...
Why Is The Hollywood Tail Wagging The Dog Of...
Hollywood’s admission last week that its campus piracy stats were bogus raises an interesting question: why have colleges been so quick to roll over and accede to Hollywood’s demands? Greg Sandoval points out that universities could have done their own studies a long time ago and had hard numbers to dispute the industry’s accusations. If, as now appears to be the case, colleges...
Newsvine Acquired By MSNBC - Leading Citizen...
Leading Citizen Journalism Site Snapped Up by MSM - ReadWriteWeb Today Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson contacted Read/WriteWeb to announce that his citizen journalism startup Newsvine has been acquired by MSNBC, the Microsoft/NBC joint venture.
Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts --...
Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting “The ultimate irony of Watts’s research is that, if you really buy it, the most effective way to pitch your idea is … mass marketing. And that is precisely what the wizards of Madison Avenue, presiding over our zillion-channel microniche market, have rejected as obsolete. “But that’s the thing...
ZineWiki - the history and culture of zines,...
ZineWiki is an open-source encyclopedia devoted to zines and independent media. It covers the history, production, distribution and culture of the small press.