tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87732752011-07-09T01:46:42.297+10:00Television, Video, New Media, Gaming, a bit of Basketball, general points of view. What more could a random visitor ask for?Leonard Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17641347646825195537noreply@blogger.comBlogger6241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8773275.post-73479873777094918572011-06-14T12:04:00.002+10:002011-06-14T12:07:05.774+10:00

With Dallas finally getting the Miami monkey off its back, it's time to play "2010/2011 NBA Season Pros & Cons!"Pro: Blake Griffin finally busts out and makes people wonder if LA is now a Clipper's town.Con: The Clippers give up an unprotected draft pick to Cleveland which turns out to be number 1.Pro: Rumours abound Iguodala may be traded for Kaman. Imagine that front court!Con: It's the

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I have to admit, before I started on this project I had no idea at all what a Fromelles was.A village in France? OK, if you say so.First combat seen by Australian forces on the Western Front in WWI? Makes sense I guess.A complete cock up that saw the death and injury of over 5500 Aussie troops, at a time when Australia only had a population of 5 million? Oh, really? Hmm. That's not good.So as

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What follows is what I've signed up to at this year's GenCon Oz.As some of my friends and compatriots have mentioned, GenCon Oz is the type of event where you need a little flexibility in your schedule, so I probably haven't gone as tightly scheduled as I might otherwise. I've also not joined up for as many LARP events as I did last year, mainly due to the costuming and time required.Don't worry

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A whole bunch has been said about The Chaser and "that sketch".The show has been put on hiatus for two weeks, the show's creators have publicly apologised and a number of high ranking positions at the ABC are looking increasingly shaky. The Prime Minister even weighed in when he should have been discussing Fitzgibbon.Without wishing to belittle the issue or fail to take the whole thing seriously,

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Let's talk Clare.By now anyone invloved with the media in Australia should be aware of Clare “chk chk BOOM” Werbeloff and the Nine News raw video that shot her meme to super Internet stardom. Here it is for those who missed it.Classy.I've been following the whole thing for a while now, when a colleague alerted me to the video as "best vox-pop ever". Since then we've seen claims of conspiracy, a

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1) The ending.2) Remembering how good Joss Whedon is at writing tragicomic musicals.3) Being so long from the Whedon narrative loop that I totally didn't see the twist in the final act. I should have, I really should have, but I didn't until it was too late.4) At which point I gasped, watched through to the end, then went "[Sigh] Yeah!"5) Neil Patrick Harris. We knew how good a comic actor he was

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I have a tendency to automatically expect that I don't understand things. It seems to be my default position that other people really understand the underlying value of what's coming down the road at us, while I'm just picking up the pieces.For instance, two Christmases ago my lovely wife gave me a copy of Douglas Rushkoff's "Get Back in the Box", a great book about the real value of being

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Confirming the stuff we kind of already knew.On the Internet and Media consumption;For users the internet is now their most important source of information. Just under seven in ten users described the internet as ‘important’ or ‘very important’ compared to a third for television and less than a half for newspapers or radio.Internet users spend less time watching television, listening to radio and

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Can you legitimately call the U.S. Olympic basketball team the world's best at this point?I was looking at this report on the site and took umbrage at the first par."Team USA showed their strength as the world's top basketball team (my emphasis) powered past European champion Russia 89-68 before an energised crowd in Shanghai in an Olympic Games warm-up match."So the question came up; can you

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Today is a special day.Nothing can bring me down today.There could be the promise of global calamity and economic downturn, but today I don't care.Mountains could rise, seas could fall, and today it all means nothing.Today my son took his first unaided steps.He plodded, warily and shakily, a whole two steps from the safety of the toybox...straight into my arms.These are the moments there are no

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Hulu and iView in the one sentence?"The fledgling News Corp-NBC Universal online hub for television shows and movies, Hulu.com, is meeting Australian broadcasters this week to discuss an all-broadcaster video portal underwritten by in-program advertising, a move which could stymie talks about ABC's new iView technology being used for a similar venture."I'm not sure I would have seen iView in that

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I didn't break radio silence for a lot of things over the last few months.I didn't mention my four days at GenCon Oz, which was just incredibly awesome, and I didn't stop and mention the ABC's launch of iView (although I probably should have - check it out).But I am stopping to say something about this.One of the problems with working flat out through the day and being responsible for an 11 month

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Via C|NetHandipointsThe Web site lets parents set a list of tasks for their children--like washing the dishes or filling the dog's bowl--and kids can rack up points for completing the list.Sounds suspiciously like my DoLE project of a few years ago.It actually sounds like a great project. Nice to see it put into action, particularly given that all the people I explained my idea to basically

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O.K., here's the main reason I decided to resurrect this blog.Websites win right to show Games clips | Australian ITINTERNET sites in Australia will be allowed to show short video clips of Olympic events for the first time during the Beijing Games, following a historic agreement announced yesterday between the Seven Network and the International Olympic Committee.Basically it's Channel 7's

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Greetings gentle reader!Much has happened since my sign off late September last year.The Broadband unit concluded its move to Sydney to become the "CNC" unit and has since received media coverage following the MD's announcement of a 24 hour continuous news service.I moved from being an Adobe Community Expert for Premiere Pro to the newly created Video on the Web.I'm enjoying my new role in the

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The new GetUp! viral ad parodying the government's climate change campaign. It's being pushed to hit $250K to get it on the teev for the AFL GF this Saturday.While I understand that television is where the people are, especially during a grand final (it's always been understood that TV's greatest strength in an on-demand media world is live sport), I'm a little disappointed that more emphasis

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Between fatherhood and ongoing work changes there's just no time to give this blog the updating it needs. For the time being consider this a deadzone. I may resurrect it in the future, but until then feel free to check the archives.No one visits anyway so I doubt there's going to be much of a furore, a whimper, even a peep.Pax.

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Tinic Uro from Adobe runs through some of the new features of the newly released Flash Player Beta.Let's put together some thought up scenarios I would imagine are important:You created a pod cast for iTunes and happily distribute over this channel. Now you want to add value to it and easily make it accessible over the web without special plug-ins, reaching an audience which does not have

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It's a boy!Alexander Ronald King, born 9lb at 20:30, 09 August. Mother, son and father all doing well.[Pics deleted - It's a weird paternal instinct I get when I realise people are googling these pictures.]

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I had intended to break radio silence with a long post on all the shit's that's been happening over the last few weeks, but I had to link to this for later reference.Mission Stencil Story - a photoset on FlickrThe mission stencil story is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure story that takes place on the sidewalks of the Mission district in San Francisco. It is told in a new medium of

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Via ReelPop.All kinds of wrong, yet oh so right.YouTube - BOOGIE NIGHTS- STAR WARS EDITION

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I hate jumping on this stuff so long after everyone else, but it's a post worth pointing to."I’d like you to ignore, for a while, anything that smacks of Web 3.0, or even Web 2.0, or any of the other dumb ideas that distract from production of actual content on the web. Instead, consider these simple things:* The hurdle to credible publishing on the web, now, is the nine dollars it costs to buy a

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Here it is. My second story for Newswriting, this time as a video/TV item. There's nothing amazing or innovative in all this. It's just a standard TV style which is definitely one I'm used to.Thanks to Harry for putting up with me shooting video of his computer in his bedroom, Ray Shaw for taking time to guide an inexperienced student through the interview when most people aren't even interested

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My new favourite web series.Superficial Friends | Heavy.comOn Forbes.com, Rupert Murdoch weighs into the modern media debate."Traditional companies are feeling threatened. I say, bring on the changes."Mixed Media - Forbes.comChris Anderson with an interesting thought."Web 2.0 is such a phenomena because we're underused elsewhere. Bored at work, bored at home. We've got spare cycles and they're

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First up, let's step back to David Foster Wallace and his comments on television."TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests."With this in

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With an election coming up it kind of makes sense to take our current love of all things UGC and work it for a good cause."This is a chance to show us your Australia by making a 30 second political ad, which we will air on national prime time television during the lead up to the federal election."Nice idea. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes out of it.GetUp | Oz in 30 seconds[Edit] Just

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What follows is my first story researched and written for my Newswriting subject. It's not perfect, but it's mine.And as my tutor mentions, it's my intellectual property, so I can do whatever I want with it. Including posting it here.______________________________________________Busway compensation deal not so sweet. Frustrated shopkeepers in Coorparoo could be forced to wait up to 10 months

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Let's just step past the rather inane definition of "Media RSS";My definition of a mixed media RSS feed is this: it's a feed created for the delivery of video, photos, audio files and other media items all together by RSS.and consider the implications;Today, we're the only company that provides a way for you publish a channel of mixed media content (video, photos, audio and more) that's

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Via Steve Bryant's Reel Pop, who lays down the background of the story and production."The story: Vigilantes in a failed Pacific Rim state search for the indestructible but hidden remains of Krai, a superbeing who can manipulate DNA and, hopefully, return order to the ruined port city of Lhek."Worth watching on the official site with better res and bit rate...CODEHUNTERS.TV...but for now here's

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A great topic to put to the Federal Opposition Leader should he drop by for the Newswriting Press conference assignment in a couple of weeks time. Isn't it great when this sort of stuff, which is right up your alley, just pops up at the right time?Via Joshua Gans' excellent Core Economics blog.A great piece of investigative journalism by the Canberra Times' Peter Martin. On his blog no less."The

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For what it's worth, I do think some of the comments are a little panic-stricken and overblown creating a Media Watch level of ignorance of the medium. Still, rampant, illogical panic is still a sign of the end times.ABC considers charging for the web | The Australian

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I'm not even gong to touch the practical upshot of the Virginia Shootings. Enough people doing that already.Instead, the video player announcements at NAB!Streamingmedia.com: NAB 2007: Major Announcements from Microsoft and Adobe Shake Up the World of Online VideoStreamingmedia.com: Microsoft Unveils Silverlight To Deliver Rich-Media ExperiencesStreamingmedia.com: Adobe Unveils Next-Generation

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"Brings a whole new meaning to 'logging on'."My brother-in-law's response to Google's April Fools day prank, Google TiSP.On leave this week so no reading for me. I intend to shut down and take it easy before the big push on the lead up to the birth of the cub. If I don't get to rest now I probably never will, so you're on your own.

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Via WarrenEllis.com (who has apparently given his holy blessing by saying "fuck me, that’s actually pretty good").Not enough that Nine Inch Nails are marketing their new album with a kick-ass ARG, you can listen to the tracks online at the official site. All that's required is a mail address to sign up.I wish I'd found this earlier today because I have to head to Uni now.NIN Year Zero

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A great Flash presentation that combines video and interactivity to explain the background to what's going on in Iraq right now. A perfect vehicle to give context to a place that we only get a minute a night about on the evening news.This is what internet video content should be.Fighting for Iraq: A regional powerplay - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.comOnly problem I can think of is that you can't

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Teh Funny - 2.0Via Boing Boingglumbert.com - Supermarket 2.0

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Heh heh. Teh funny.What We Call the News | Send To Friends | Funny Animations at JibJab

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Let's see if it marks a flurry of takeovers and conglomerations, or, more likely, nothing much at all.Coonan clears the way for media revolution | The Australian[EDIT] It seems I'm alone in my statement.Media stocks surge ahead of new ownership laws | ABC News OnlineThe changes are expected to spark a rash of takeovers in the media landscape but Senator Coonan says that is not a bad thing."There

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Via Lost RemoteNice to see not only the content of this story, but the quality of a non-traditional video maker producing interesting and well produced content that fits the medium.

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Great ARG concept.Pay phone murder mystery| We Make Money Not Art

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GoogTube v Viacom? Yeah, put that on hold for the moment. This is the one I'm finding really interesting this morning."The ABC is an obvious candidate to outsource some of its broadcasting services to Red Bee, which began life as the production arm of the BBC and last week got its foot in the door of Australian public broadcasting by being named as SBS's preferred supplier of key production and

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Ellen and I went to game 1 of the NBL Grand Final series on Friday night. What a spectacular game, full of drama, controversy and emotion. For the team to come back from that deficit and win it in the last minute to keep the streak alive in the middle of that huge crowd was great to be part of.One thing I noticed during the game has cemented in my mind just how good a player Sam McKinnon is this

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And yet I don't have time to say anything.You know I finally read Chris Anderson's "The Long Tail" last weekend? So much I wanted to say as I went, but nothing. Not a peep. Nothing on the baby, nothing on ideas I've had, not even anything on our new location at Channel 10 or an intriguing rumour I heard at an all staff BBQ Thursday night.Too bad. No time. Bat on.

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Breaking radio silence of the last week to make this little announcement.Ellen is pregnant. 14 weeks and counting.Baby is due 7 August.No, we don't know if it's a girl or a boy, nor do we intend to find out until the big moment.I am frickin' stoked.And terrified.But mainly overjoyed.More later.

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My colleagues in Sydney are hosting us while things get shifted up the hill. I find myself responding to a last minute call to come down to cover the team with tech/production support over the weekend. That leaves a small enclave of us sitting in an empty office (these guys are Mon-Fri only it seems) publishing bulletins and quaffing beverages.Heh heh we're in ur base drinking ur tea!!1!Hmm,

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This is it! Our last night of production out of the Toowong Broadband studio. The updates are done, the equipment's being shut down and I'm busy mirroring our Unity partition so we can get back up and running as soon as possible once things are laced up in the new facility up the hill.I know there's been a lot of problems with this site, not just the most recent one that's finally forced us to

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Been busy. Here's what's attracted my attention during the brief moments I've been able to lift my head above water.First, some articles on news and Internet video.The new urgency for local TV - Lost Remote TV Blog"This is just the beginning of the local push. But surprisingly, local television is standing flat-footed while key local niches and their corresponding revenue pools are captured by

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Ignore the article, watch the video. In particular, listen to David Carr (and ignore Andy Plesser who feels a need to answer his own questions and sounds too much like Wallace Shawn to be taken seriously as a host - yes, I am aware of the irony in my condemnation given my agreement on what Carr says) (See Update). Now here's a guy who knows where things are headed and has already jumped on board

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The 1960's avant-garde precursor to what's now mainstream. Thanks, Uncle Bill.U B U W E B : William S. Burroughs Films

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Some great advice from Chuck Fadely for journos trying to get into video. Explains some of the basic rules that cameramen have developed for decades, and even takes the time to explain why. Best of all is this line."SOUND is the most important thing in video."Amen, brother!Video Survival Guide | NewspaperVideo

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And still no hard and fast decision I can hold onto as to where we're going now. Work has been stressful, frustrating and damned annoying. Things do seem to be heading somewhere, so maybe things are due for an improvement.Luckily, I've had opportunity to discover a few fun links worth reading over the last week, so I'm taking the chance to get these up now.______________________________First up

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Otherwise known as "hedging your bets."Michael Urlocker Examines Disruption and Disruptive Processes - Classic Disruption: Why Wal-Mart's Movie Plan Will Fail"Cramming seldom works for disruptive innovation because it compromises on what consumers want and it restricts the growth potential of the new innovation. Whenever you see an incumbent supplier adopt a new innovation but in a way that

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"Staff at the ABC studios in Brisbane will be moved off site within days after a report found serious concerns about the incidence of breast cancer."All hands on deck trying to get ourselves out of here and operational in our mystery new location as soon as possible. For a place I'm supposed to be leaving I have no idea when I'm getting home tonight.Breast cancer scare forces ABC to relocate. 21

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Part of the fun that comes with the end of year drop in production is the chance to have time to do something a little different. At the moment we're out and about shooting links for our Australia Wide bulletin in the field, just to get out of the studio and have some fun. Now, this isn't really going to work due to the ethereal nature of television, but I just wanted to point out the

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I understand the sentiment, but I'm furious at the shortsightedness and implications."A court ruling has given the recording industry the green light to go after individuals who link to material from their websites, blogs or MySpace pages that is protected by copyright. A full bench of the Federal Court yesterday upheld an earlier ruling that Stephen Cooper, the operator of mp3s4free.net, as well

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First there was yesterday's questions on the nature of the Sports Racer community's relationship with him..."Running through syrup"...followed by today's episode talking about the changing nature of community to navigate an increasingly confusing world, using the playground as a metaphor..."p2p"[Sings] "Any individual entity that pretends to understand the rules that guide this space is under an

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"Reading the Pew study, it becomes clear that we're entering a new era, the post-Internet age, a world in which the Net will be everywhere, like the air we breathe, and we'll take it for granted. It will be neither the glossy nirvana of technophilic dreams nor the dystopia of traditionalist nightmares. It will look a lot like today – but with higher contrast, sharper focus, and a wide-angle lens.

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The man who brought us the original ARG's speaks up."I consider the first ARG The Beatles’ “Sergeant Pepper” album. An alternate reality game is anything that takes your life and converts it into an entertainment space. If you look at a typical video game, it’s really about turning you into a hero; a super hero, a secret agent. It’s your ability to step outside your life and be someone else. An

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Let me start by saying that I seriously enjoy reading Lost Remote. Around this time last year I posted a link to Lost Remote Managing Editor Steve Safran's "Stuff I Got Seriously Wrong in 2005"."BIGGEST MISTAKE OF THE YEAR: The video iPod. In my six years at LR, I don't think I've made as bad a prediction as guessing it would be a minor blip."Despite the slightly defensive comment I received

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Clay Shirky from Valleywag suggests we don't get quite so excited about the idea of virtual life as we have been."Unlike ordinary network communications tools, which require a degree of subtlety in thinking about them... Second Life's metaphor is simplicity itself: you are a person, in a space. It's like real life. (Only, you know, more second.) As Philip Rosedale explained it to Business Week "[

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I like to check out Digg just to keep an eye on what's bouncing through the Internet's collective radar. Today I found this little beauty linking to this Kotaku article (check out that "UGC video" - frickin' morons).digg - Sony apparently hurting for PSP sales. Makes stupid lame website."Some marketing genius for Sony has made some lame website that is apparently written by a couple of hipsters

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...but I think this is beyond me.The hottest chilli pepper in The Guinness Book of Records is a Red Savina habañero with a rating of 570,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). Mrs Michaud was stunned when the Dorset Naga (pepper) gave a reading of nearly 900,000SHU. A fresh sample was sent to a lab in New York used by the American Spice Trade Association and recorded a mouth-numbing 923,000SHUs. Mrs

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I'm the third person I've seen who's linked to this, but it's just so spot on."Pre-roll ads are going the way of popups and other intrusive ads. They won't be around in a couple years. And the online video services that use them to monetize their audience won't be around either.Because the thing you have to understand about digital media is its pervasive and abundant. There is always somewhere

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Someone posted a comment on my Lycos Cinema post, thereby resetting the Comment Challenge. It's just a shame the comment was anonymous because I always like to know who's dropping by, especially if they take the time to post a comment.Here's the visitor details from SiteMeter.Domain Name comcast.net ? (Network)IP Address 24.23.199.# (Comcast Cable)ISP Comcast CableLocation Continent : North

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Scott Kirsner from CinemaTech (I'm still waiting for my copy of "The Future of Web Video" to arrive) gives solace to the future of media creation by looking at the past."From its very start, the movie industry in America has been tilted against the independent filmmaker, and designed to exclude the entrepreneur. Yet almost every important cinematic innovation of the past century – from sound to

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So I jump to the new Lycos Cinema page from a link on HowardOwens.com Media Blog and this is what I find.Lycos Cinema - Viewing RequirementsNo love for Firefox, insistence on running Win Media Player. And I'm a PC user. Imagine the Mac-heads getting no joy.The other day I linked to an article by Steve Bryant called "If I can't reuse your media, then your media is useless". To crawl before we

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Now with added allegory..."Computers were evident in other rooms of the homes, and people sat typing and drawing and reading and watching. There was only a scattering of antennas on the chimneys of the homes. A bone shivering chill swept over Ebenezer's body as he considered the scene before him, and he felt a want that was unfamiliar. "What's happened to my business?" he inquired of the Spirit.

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"MobZombies explores a new dimension of handheld gaming by adding motion awareness to classic arcade style gameplay. Using a handheld device, and a custom motion sensor, players enter a virtual world infested with pixel-art zombies (a homage to vintage 8-bit console games). The goal of the game is to stay alive, running away from or planting bombs to destroy the ever-encroaching zombies. The

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OMFG!!!11!!!"Multiverse, maker of a free MMO-creation platform, plans to announce Friday morning that it's struck a deal with Fox Licensing to turn the show into an MMORPG..."Wired News: Firefly Reborn as Online UniverseThis has the potential to be unbelievably wonderful, or horrificly bad.

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Or at least to create media by..."These days, people who've grown up with digital media are beginning to expect more than linking. As we've seen with YouTube, they want to appropriate the content. And as we've seen with mashups, they want to reuse and repurpose the content. Everybody wants to be part of the content creation life cycle, whether they were the ones to do the original creation or not

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"On Monday Night NBC Nightly News aired just one minute and thirty seconds of commercials for the entire newscast, sponsored solely by Philips. The rest of the time: Extra coverage.What's this have to do with online video? Muchas muchas. As advertisers flock to online, their chosen destinations are sites like YouTube, videobloggers like Ze Frank and Galacticast, and news shows like Rocketboom.

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Head of TV News for the BBC, Peter Horrocks, has his say on where the Beeb should be looking in the future.BBC NEWS | The Editors | The future of news?And, because I love a controversy, Jeff Jarvis' response.BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The fate of the BBC’s impartiality

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MercuryNews.com | Scott Kirsner | As online viewing booms, the amateurs give way to big mediaTerry Heaton's responseIs web video shifting to professional? » Terry Heaton’s PoMo BlogFor later reading.

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Toy Story remixed with Requiem for a DreamToy Story RequiemMary Poppins remixed as a Horror movieScary MaryI do promise to do something other than link to YouTube videos, but these were too cool not to mention.

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I have an ongoing interest in memetics, so I found this article worth a read. It seems that there's some memes that just can't be killed."In the end, Kaufman's experiment might prove less about how any particular meme moves through the web, and more about the attention span of the internet. Just two years after a nearly identical experiment, enough bloggers believed the experiment to be new and

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Well, actually there is.ITN701 Networks & Systems - 7Overall GPA - 6.714One subject left, a Journalism subject, KJP401 Newswriting, or as I call it, "Studying the Enemy", then I'm finished my Grad Dip.

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Wanted to get this out of my system. It's funny the things that come to you in dreams.___________________________________Left and Right sat at the bar, trading rounds as they got to know each other."I mean, do I look like a terrorist?" asked Left, annoyed at having been picked for a random search earlier that day. "I mean, I'm no Arab. I don't even have a tan.""I know exactly what you mean"

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I will freely admit that I've been a skeptic when it's come to Flash video. However, the fact is that Flash has some things going for it that the other three big formats just can't match in the same way.Ubiquity, simplicity and interactivity/interoperability for starters.As my reservations slowly begin to crumble and I begin to view FLV's with new eyes, fellow Adobe Community Expert Tom Green

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First up, congratulations to my colleagues who walked away with Walkley Awards.Walkley Awards 2006 WinnersIn particular, our own Jess Daly for co-winning "Sports Feature Journalism" for the episode "One Perfect Day".Congrats also to the Sydney Morning Herald guys for winning "Best Use of the Medium", the category we nominated for.Of course, by now most people with an interest in media in this

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Just in time to save Christmas!Last year noted vlogger Chuck Olsen gave his site Minnesota Stories over to Santa Claus to answer some of the more pointed and poignant questions that have been asked about the Jolly Old Red Guy over the years.Well, it seems like the bugger's got himself a little production support and decided to go it alone, setting up his own site for this year's edition of Vlog

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Come back and spend some time looking over this site. It's an interesting premise.Passively Multiplayer is a system for turning user data into ongoing play. Using computer and mobile phone surveillance, a user and their unique history. These resulting avatars can be viewed online, and they interact with other avatars online.Passively Multiplayer Online GamesWhile I'm here, the article on

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Counting down to broadcast armageddon."THE ABC's director of television, Kim Dalton, has stopped production of the network's only new children's program fornext year because he does not want to spend the money internally.ABC staff who worked on the pilot said there was a chance the concept, in which three animal puppets look after real farm animals, would be an international hit like Bananas in

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The birth of an internet phenomenon."(LonelyGirl15 Co-Creator, Miles) Beckett is clearly frustrated. "The Web isn't just a support system for hit TV shows," he says. "It's a new medium. It requires new storytelling techniques. The way the networks look at the Internet now is like the early days of TV, when announcers would just read radio scripts on camera. It was boring in the same way all this

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It's been a month. Still no end to the Comment Challenge in sight.What do I have to do to get a response? Maybe it's because I haven't offered anything in payment.No one wants to bother if there's nothing in it for them. Perhaps I need to offer to go vegetarian for a week, or do someone's laundry for a month, or offer money! Would that do it?Note to potential sponsors - look elsewhere. No one

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Avid may have gone off the boil somewhat with their products in recent years, but someone in their marketing department has been listening to what's happening out there.So, you've got a series of products aimed at creating video content, with a creative and skilled user base who tend to be more than a little devoted to the brand. What better than to cash in a little of your user devotion and get

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So here's what's so cool. Blinkx is a video search engine. They've come up with this very nifty means of displaying search results, a "video wall" of relevant videos built into a Flash interface. Best of all, the wall can be embedded in a separate site (such as I've done here - give it time to load), and the results are constantly updated using RSS so what's here now isn't what's going to be

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It's true: The Zune is incompatible with Vista | ZDNet.comWho runs these companies?

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You cannot begin to believe how hard I'm fighting simultaneous urges to scream, retch, laugh and point my finger in an accusing manner."AUSTRALIAN football rights holders Channel 7 and Channel10 are looking to community television stations in Sydney and Brisbane to meet their obligation to broadcast eight live AFL games a week and avoid a financial black hole on Friday and Sunday nights.It is

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The ABC's Australia Wide program is looking for new filmmakers for its weekly "Video Lives" segment. This is a great chance for people, young or old, with a story to tell to get their content out to a pretty big audience.General FAQWho can submit a video?Anyone resident in Australia. Please note that although you can get friends and colleagues to help you make the video, you must submit your

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Things to learn, stuff to do. Exam tomorrow. Finally got Blog-This extension to work with 2.0 thanks to a workaround shared on the extension's site's comment section. The power of community.More later.

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Mentioned this one around the news room. No doubt it's going to pop up in projects down the track.When a single-engine plane crashed into an Upper East Side apartment building on Wednesday, Fox News Channel delivered early live video to its viewers from the crash site using a handheld mobile phone souped up with streaming video. Scott Wilder, a cameraman for the network, had been about 20 blocks

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I'm out of town until Sunday so I've extended the Comment Challenge until then because the one week timeframe would have run out while I was away.Ignore at will. I know you will.

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Since it launched in August, I've been really enjoying Steve Bryant's ReelPop blog. In particular, I enjoyed this line from a recent post responding to a New York Times article about YouTube."T.S. Eliot once said that television was a device by which millions of people could share a joke alone. I guess that makes YouTube a device by which millions of people can share their loneliness together."

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This article by author Steven Johnson is, ostensibly, about the game Spore that I mentioned late last month, but is particularly interesting thanks to the lead-in paragraphs."Most eras have distinct “ways of seeing” that end up defining the period in retrospect: the fixed perspective of Renaissance art, the scattered collages of Cubism, the rapid-fire cuts introduced by MTV and the

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Thanks to The Fiend, my Comment Challenge I set on Sunday has been defeated already only three days in.I tend to think of this as an abnormality, not having had a previous comment in at least six months (in fact Simon mentions that the reason he'd dropped by was to see if I had anything to say about Google and YouTube - not an everyday occurrence), so I pose the same challenge now. Figuring I'm

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The first actual item I wrote for this blog, after a "Hi, I'm here", was about American cartoonist Gary Trudeau and his use of blogs, internet articles, even flash mobs in his syndicated Doonesbury cartoon. Mr Trudeau has done it again, extending his push into blogging as a means of extending free speech.[Introduced in cartoon by regular character Ray Hightower]"Hey folks! You may have heard how

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"Spending $100 million on production costs and another $100 million on P&A makes no sense, (Lucas) said. "For that same $200 million, I can make 50-60 two-hour movies. That's 120 hours as opposed to two hours. In the future market, that's where it's going to land, because it's going to be all pay-per-view and downloadable."Debate as to his directorial abilities remains alive to this day, but no

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While I'm in the groove and posting content that extends beyond being a simple link to something cool, can I ask why I'm hearing so many people getting excited about people doing "internet HD"?Jeff Jarvis seems to be the most recent culprit,"Then they set up in the den with lights, a decent mic, an HD camera set to focus on Amanda and me on the couch in front of the books that make me look smart,

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Right, back at work for today. The conference is over and I get to be thrown back into the hurly burly of everyday life. While I sit here, an hour after my proposed knock-off time, waiting for a promo DVD and some troublesome transcoding, I figured I'd get some of my ideas out.First up, what's with Melbourne?!? Chilly Wednesday morning, dry and hot Wednesday afternoon and evening, cold, windy

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