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Influenced in some degree by the cover to the Talking Heads’ 1980 album Remain in Light:
Getting Paid
Of course not more than a week after I praise Hulu on this very blog, the overlords of Hulu at News Corp have forced me to eat my words. According to News Corp’s Chase Carey: It’s time to start getting … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Technology
Tagged digital media, Eric Garland, Greg Sandoval, Hulu, piracy
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The Customer is Always Wrong
Greg Sandoval of CNET has an interesting blog today about how Hollywood is on the verge of collapse. The reason: digital piracy. Sigh. We already went through this with the music industry, do we really need to go through this … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Technology
Tagged digital media, Greg Sandoval, Hollywood, Hulu, movies, Surfthechannel, television
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Localnewsavore
There was an interesting project brought up on the most recent episode of This Week in Google (one of the more headier technology podcasts that I listen to) – it’s called Picture the Impossible, an alternate reality game (ARG) developed … Continue reading
Dirty bits
I was up last night at some ungodly hour and managed to catch Nabil Elderkin’s video for the Kanye West song “Welcome to Heartbreak”: Maybe it was the sleep deprivation, but I was absolutely stunned. The effect used is called … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Technology
Tagged data moshing, David O'Reilly, digital media, Kanye West, music videos, Nabil Elderkin
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Anachronisma
A bit of expansion of my comments on a recent post at St8ED. I’ve been doing a bit of pondering on the value of traditional media, particularly with the recent shutdown of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the release of Amazon’s … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Technology
Tagged Books, Kindle, Media, newspapers, Sven Birkerts, The Long Tail, vinyl
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Drunk with power
The USF billboard that I critiqued in a post last month has been changed. Coincidence? Or evidence of the incredible influence that I have?
Posted in Media, USF
Tagged advertising, billboards, silliness, University of South Florida, USF
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Podcasts will (save/replace) us all!
This is a bit of a follow up to the paper I wrote last semester that I posted a few weeks ago. I’m going to go off on a bit of a rant (like I didn’t vent enough in the … Continue reading
Pimping the institution
That’s a billboard I must pass a dozen or more times a month, but I only recently noticed it. Clearly in these hard economic times, the U is really trying to push distance learning… but this attempt feels more like … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Tampa, USF
Tagged advertising, billboards, commercials, Kaplan University, Tampa, University of South Florida, USF
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Fear of Art
As of late, the local news media has been running a number of “holy crap, it’s a recession! Why is [insert public agency] spending your tax dollars on [insert derogatory adjective] art while they’re facing a [insert random number] million … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Media, Tampa
Tagged Lights On Tampa, public art, public projects, Tampa, USF
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