December 2009
49 posts
“That’s right, Seed is a horrible awful mad robot brain that comes up with...”
– Poetry in the Machine: ‘Mismatched Plates’ - Seed - Gawker
And yet your poem gets you a smooth $25. Not bad.
(via interweber) (via mikehudack)
Pepsi abandons the Super Bowl for digital media →
(via ericmortensen)
“Feeling a bit under the weather? Soon you’ll be able to cough into your mobile...”
– Mobile Application to Diagnose Disease by Hearing you Cough (via interestingsnippets)
I was just thinking of this idea…wow, you have to be quick these days to be innovative!
You Can't Make Word of Mouth Viral →
aweissman:
“Virality is something that has to be engineered from the beginning…and it’s harder to create virality than it is to create a good product. That’s why we often see good products with poor …
Comcast Goes Online: Watch HBO and Cinemax on the... →
via @mashable
Ashton Kutcher Looks to Make a Major Splash in... →
“On Wednesday, they’re planning to try a new format for Katalyst HQ: 30-minute, live, unscripted programming featuring Kutcher and some of his to-be-named celebrity friends (though we hear “one of the Kardashians” and the cast of “Jersey Shore” will make an appearance).”
How long will it take to get to slow food content?
I love to compare trends across different disparate topics. The particular article about fast food content seems to have lingered in the back of my brain throughout the day and crossed wires with all my (ridiculously detailed) knowledge about the slow food movement.
Here’s the thing: 70ish years ago when McDonalds made fast-food new and exciting and a reality across the US and then the...
“The ultimate prize for Mayer is intuitive search. She wants Google to be capable...”
– Marissa Mayer: An omnivorous Google is coming - Telegraph
“1,025 UK Media, Entertainment Companies Folded In Last Two Years”
– paidContent
“So what really scares me? It’s the rise of fast food content that will surely,...”
– via the-end-of-hand-crafted-content (via tootwo) (via mikehudack)
“Channel Seven and Yahoo! will launch a new Catch-Up TV service, commencing in...”
– Seven to beef up online TV (Australia)
8 Companies That Are Reinventing TV Online →
Snoop Dogg's Album Launch to Become Reality TV on... →
Paramount to Spend $1M Annually on Microbudget... →
mikehudack:
evangotlib:
asonnenberg:
ronenreblogs:
Variety says that Paramount is launching an initiative that will spend $1 million annually to develop and produce microbudget films following the success of Paranormal Activity, which cost only $15,000 to make and has earned over $100 million domestically. The plan is designed to place between 10 and 20 projects in development by the end...
C4 Planning Come Dine With Me Facebook App |... →
Le Web: YouTube to create sport hub - Telegraph →
“An average American ‘consumed’ nearly 34 gigabytes (GB) of data and...”
– Study: An average American ‘consumes’ 34GB of data per day! | TopNews United States
Diwanee becomes Brightcove referral partner for... →
“Industry preservation” like this is akin to medieval monks transcribing even...”
– Media. Power. Panic. Monopoly.
“It occurred to me today that we’re all just fussing over what type of wire...”
“He is also heavily critical of websites that derive their content from other...”
– Murdoch: ‘the ad model is dead’ - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic
I just love that I live in a time where I can happily (and easily) be a “wholesaler” of a “wholesaler” of newspaper quotes. Thanks Brand Rupublic via TWSJ via Mr Murdoch.
“According to CLT, psychological distance affects the way we mentally represent...”
– An Easy Way to Increase Creativity: Scientific American (via @Adambarnum)
I’m no scientist, but I think they may have missed an important point: Patterns. That’s why distance helps.
Nielsen: Viewers watching video content all over... →
rafimama:
According to the report, which looks at content viewing on television, the Web, and several other platforms, online-video viewing was up a whopping 34.9 percent in the third quarter.
As Magazines Go Digital When Do They Stop Becoming...
infoneernet:
nerdology:
In the past 2 weeks the internets have been shown how Sports Illustrated and Wired magazines can make the jump from paper products to digital products viewed on tablet devices. But if you’re going to be reading magazines on a screen (tablet or not) aren’t you going to want more than just text and pictures? I would.
I really have a hard time getting excited for digital...
Boxee's Beta Unveiling to Add an Interactive Twist →
Can’t wait to view tonight!
“The US’s largest cable MSO, Comcast, and home shopping network, HSN, on...”
– Comcast Announces Nationwide Roll-Out of HSN’s “Shop by Remote” Interactive TV Application | InteractiveTV Today
YouTube Lands Five’s Shows, A Win For Its VOD... →
“And the deal is sweet, too, for YouTube. An arms race is breaking out for UK TV content amongst VOD operators - but Hulu still has nothing, SeeSaw has only a smidgen of BBCWW shows, BBC has been barred from sharing iPlayer and MSN is quietly winning producers rather than networks…”
“Project Canvas, the on-demand TV partnership between BBC, ITV, Channel Five and...”
– Project Canvas launches website | Media | guardian.co.uk
“We are taking a lesson from Facebook and going for scale,” says Ben Ayers,...”
– The media mix: how to make money from paid-for media content | Digital tribes | guardian.co.uk
“ComScore and Dynamic Logic both offer proprietary methods for tracking and...”
– IRI Unveils Platform to Gauge Ad Effectiveness
Merging Online and Broadcast Cultures to Reinvent... →
An interesting behind-the-scenes column series about PBS merging offline and online worlds.
“The real question is how much demand there is for library programmes, beyond...”
– BBC on SeeSaw while others watch and wait
An intelligent system needs to understand more... →
chrbutler:
So says computer scientist Ben Taskar in reference to a new system he’s experimenting with that learns to answer the “five Ws: Who? What? When? Where? Why?” by watching video.
“Judging by the popularity of the YouTube videos, it seems Microsoft has managed...”
– Microsoft releases Windows 7 Family Guy clips to widespread ridicule | Technology | News & Comment | The First Post
TV, Film Changes Ahead in Pending Comcast-NBC... →
Comcast could select the best of NBC TV and Telemundo and integrate it into NBCU’s combined cable networks or create new cable networks rather than sell them. It also could sell off the TV stations to major NBC-affiliated groups owners such as Hearst, Gannett and Belo. Comcast could radically alter the business model and function of the local TV stations by using them to advance hyper-local ...