Archive for the ‘Broadcast’ Category

television channels are history

Monday, July 27th, 2009says Time Berners LeeThe man credited with creating the web says that television channels will be history and that the internet should be able to offer a random access library of anything that has ever been broadcast. Twenty years after ...

Blyk sees the bigger picture

Thursday, May 14th, 2009NMA have published a misinformed view on what Blyk is up to. And some, have even gone a bit further, saying that Blyk is closing shop. So I thought that it might be a good idea to set the record ...

The communications revolution driven by technologies of cooperation

Friday, May 8th, 2009The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedBY GIL SCOTT-HERONYou will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and ...

Creating economic value in; content, social communication and Mobility

Friday, March 27th, 2009Was the guts of Gerd Leonhards presentation at the Nokia Siemens Transformation conference in Cologne this week.Fascinating stuff, and I was very glad that we got to shake hands and have a good chat too.Gerds argument is that the global ...

The holy grail of public service broadcasting

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008well some people might think so?Thompson described "the plan" as "potentially the holy grail of future public service broadcasting provision in the UK"The plan Stan is thisThe BBC said its proposals to share its online and digital technology would provide ...

The future not by TV but by broadband

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008Television cannot deliver a digital society, only broadband can do that. The move to digital broadcasting and to broadband means that media literacy depends on a willingness to embrace new technology. That may be a challenge for many people. Changes ...

TV dramas: a South Korean distribution case study

Monday, December 15th, 2008While 'windowing' as a vehicle for intertemporal price discrimination has been the traditional distribution strategy for TV programs, new digital technologies are calling for new distribution methods. In this study, we examine the changing distribution patterns for TV dramas in ...

The glittering allure of the mobile society

Thursday, December 4th, 2008[caption id="attachment_2644" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image: Scott Beale @ laughingsquid.com"][/caption]In February of this year I found myself on a cold and rainy day in Evian, at the behest of Microsoft at an international summit for CIO’s to give the final keynote ...

The Communication Ideal

Thursday, November 20th, 2008I met Jonathan MacDonald whilst working on the launch of Blyk last year. You might say it was love at first sight.I can remember on one occassion a particuarly charged group meeting, with J-Mac sitting on my shoulder egging me ...

DoubleClicks view of the future

Saturday, April 5th, 2008 An interesting and indeed an engaging set of videos which are well worth looking at how media is evolving, how TV and the web will converge, how we will go increasingly mobile, how search and discovery will transform advertising ...

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