Archive for the ‘Television’ Category

The death of Public Service Broadcast

Sunday, December 24th, 2006 Regulator presses on with plan for new digital operator Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards yesterday vowed to press ahead with plans for a "public service publisher" - a new digital operator - to compete with the BBC and ...

Experience, media and engagement in the networked economy

Friday, December 8th, 2006 The Financial Times reports that BSkyB and Google have agreed an advertising alliance. Well documented in the press The partnership will at first see Google provide its user-generated video, e-mail, search and targeted advertising tools to customers of BSkyB?s ...

The revolution of the connectedness of all media

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 [caption id="attachment_3249" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="French Revolution - Delecroix"][/caption] The day before his James Murdoch's Barcelona trip, he warned the Interactive Advertising Bureau that advertisers were not grasping the opportunity of new technology by treating the Internet as a separate marketplace. "This ...

The tagged, described, organised, discovered, linked economy

Friday, November 24th, 2006 Every day we collect 10,000 gestures for videos outside Dabble and 10,000 within Dabble. Let's say 5 percent of the videos we are getting every day have some gestures associated with them. [ed's note: each video can have ...

Opening Pandora’s Box

Monday, November 20th, 2006 [caption id="attachment_3150" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Pandora's Box"][/caption] New Media likely to play a crucial role in French poll Financial Times 18 November 2006 A furious row that erupted this week over the posting of an unauthorised video of Ségolene Royal on ...

Is British Television at a tipping point?

Sunday, November 12th, 2006 Powerful comment from Will Hutton... British TV must be saved for the nation British television is at a tipping point. Every night, our screens are filled with programmes that represent two conflicting traditions. On the one hand, we see ...

An archive moment – Tomorrow’s World

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 I was sorting out the office today and throwing away a load of papers. And I came across an article from 2001 - entitled Tomorrow's World. What will television schedules look like 10 years from now? Will we all be ...

Video online and networked

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 Light hearted, insightful, useful Forcing media to change I love change. It's sometimes frustrating, but it's a fact of life in business - change or die. With lots of young, talented, caffeine-filled programmers cranking out daily updates, the landscape has changed ...

The future of the networked mobile Internet

Thursday, October 26th, 2006 In a few years Social Networking on mobile will be bigger than such traditional media industries as Hollywood or music. Get your money into it now, be part of the winners in this. This is not a hyped industry ...

Mammothism – the FCC and greed

Saturday, October 21st, 2006 Whats the news for? Good question. Well in the US apparently its to drive profits for the big media companies vs. reporting anything worth listening too. In Studies Note Media Consolidation As Debate On The Issue Intensifies (Thursday, October 19) ...