Archive for the ‘Film’ Category

store wars join the organic rebellion

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 a wonderful take on why we should be eating organic May the organic farm be with you! :-) Use the farm and stretch out your peelings..... Even my son of 8 years old and my daughter of 17 watched this and thought it ...

YouTube hits 100m video views per day

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 Internet video site YouTube has said its users are now watching more than 100 million videos per day. YouTube is the leading net video download site in the US, with 29% of the country's multimedia market, according to traffic monitor ...

Media and identity in Japan

Thursday, July 13th, 2006 The first Gran Cyber Café opened in 1999. Today there are 10, serving some 5,000 people a day. Each has a slightly different orientation - some are geared to teenagers, some to salarymen - but the atmosphere is the same ...

Google video goes international

Thursday, July 13th, 2006 Via the BBC Google has signed up a series of partners who will provide clips for its fledgling video service. The deals mean that visitors will be able to watch Wimbledon matches, documentaries and sitcoms via the Google video ...

The elephant’s dream

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 Elephant's Dream is the world?s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license The short film was created ...

The young disengage with politics

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 A study co-produced by the study co-produced by the Hansard Society on e-democracy and OfCom investigates why young people are not engaging with the political process However it is important to be realistic about the obstacles facing young ...

Fast-food giants feeling heat from the film of the book.

Friday, June 2nd, 2006 With the premiere of the anti-junk food film Fast Food Nation in Cannes last Friday, America is about to find itself in an intense, potentially messy, summer-long food fight. Reported the Observer Ohhhhh did someone say ...

Hollywood – The silent movies of the 21st Century

Monday, May 15th, 2006 Cliché: A leopard never changes its spots. And in today's world this means that companies born in the industrial revolution, and, reared in the industrial revolution's mighty afterglow, struggle with the economics, and, culture of today's world. Rupert Murdoch famously ...

When push comes to pull: the new economy & culture of the networked society

Thursday, March 30th, 2006 I have been reading the Aspen Institutes latest ouvre, entitled When push comes to pull. The new economy & culture of networking technology Which resonates deeply with Communities Dominate Brands. David Bollier the author states If the world seems a confusing ...

The economics of Group forming Network theory

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 I came across David Reed recently, who has done some very interesting work around networks and their economic value. Here are some highlights from Reeds paper on Reeds Law In networks like the Internet, Group Forming Networks (GFNs) are an ...