ChapmanLogic

June 14, 2005

What is a media company?

Staci Kramer from PaidContent.org asks "What is a media company?" I say, "A media company is a business that uses creativity and technology to profit from audience attention."...

June 3, 2004

Esther Dyson on Participatory Media

"...the rise of user-generated content marks a huge shift in the media business. The inclination to represent ourselves in word and image may have existed practically forever, but the tools for creating and distributing those words and images are new......

November 18, 2003

broadcastaway

Only once television broadcasting gets narrow and local and relevant will the TV hold any significance in our lives. Until that box shows us the kind of detailed portraits and individual expression found on the street and on the web,...

November 17, 2003

Text-based News biz dealing w/ Video and Blogging

Blogging and video dominated the fourth annual Online News Association (ONA) Conference. (More info available at the ONA conference blog.) From Video Killed the Text-News Star, by Mark Fitzgerald, via Editor and Publisher: Leonard Apcar, editor in chief of The...

October 25, 2003

Vendor POV of Camera Phone Impact

From TWICE, Digital Imaging’s Impact Tackled At InfoTrends, by Greg Scoblete, October 24, 2003: It has been an epochal year in the photo industry — the year when digital cameras finally outsold film cameras. It also will be the year...

October 20, 2003

Net shifting to high speed

From dailycamera, by Dennis K. Berman, Associated Press, October 19, 2003: Broadband benefits consumers, sellers, investors By the end of this year, about 22.5 million households in the U.S. will have high-speed Internet access, or 21 percent of all households...

Beyond Photoplay: an MMS Revolution

Interesting article from TelephonyOnline, by Dan O'Shea : Still, the real exploitation of MMS network capabilities, devices and services in the U.S. market is yet to come, as companies continue to innovate in the areas of video and audio content,...

Video Acquisition Format Survey Results

From SCRI (via DMN): According to the SCRI/DMN Digital Media Facility Trends Report, over half of all digital media facilities polled (53.7%) reported supporting Mini DV for video acquisition in 2002. DV/DV Cam ranked a close second with almost half...

October 13, 2003

BBC Understands The Future of Entertainment

The BBC is paying serious attention to Research and Development, and is becoming a powerful force in media technology- both internally and at the wholly owned commercial subsidiary BBC Technology. One example is the recent speech given by Ashley Highfield,...

July 21, 2003

Technology for Film Marketing

Fox Searchlight is using a blog to aggregate and monitor news and info regarding the release and success of Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later". In addition, this Friday the ending of "28 Days Later" will be updated (from NYTimes): The...

July 2, 2003

Will Tivo Become Obsolete?

Time Warner Launches DVR in NYC, July 2, 2003, TVPredictions.com: The service, which is available only to TW digital cable subscribers, will enable viewers to rewind, fast-forward and pause live TV as well as record up to 35 hours. Time...

Media and Media Technology News Clips

A slew of related news items clogging up my desktop: Electronics makers rally around Linux, July 2, 2003, ZDNet: Matsushita Electric, Sony, Hitachi, NEC, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung, Sharp and Toshiba on Tuesday announced the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum, or...

Freedom is Participation

From Professor John W. Higgins' 1997 paper, Community Television as Process: A Study of Media Literacy, Social Action, and Empowerment ...participation in the creation of television programs enables persons to become more discriminating viewers, encourages awareness of and reflection upon...

June 24, 2003

Decentralized Film and Cinema

I'm glad to see that Robert Kramer (through Newsreel) is connected to a search for "decentralized film" (less than 10 results total)....

Decentralized Television

Amazingly, there are only a handful of search results for "decentralized television" and "decentralized TV." Very interesting results nonetheless....

June 9, 2003

The Convergence of Production and Consumption

As media and entertainment businesses adopt IT-based production processes at each step of the content value chain, it becomes possible to manage, visualize, and shape the production of knowledge within the organization. While this moment-by-moment diary and dialogue of inventory,...

Does Microsoft Know How to Entertain?

Microsoft, while owning the primary interface between humans and PC, has yet to create any product that is essential to the future of television, film, music, and entertainment. Some would argue that Windows Media is that product. I would argue...

Apple Understands Entertainment

In continuing the argument that technology companies are the media and entertainment companies of the future, Apple pushes forward with a strategy of facilitating digital distribution. Apple understands its strengths and weaknesses: unlike the existing global media conglomorates, Apple doesn't...

May 13, 2003

Why Technology Companies are the Media Companies of the Future

If information/knowledge is the currency of the future, then technology companies are the future of the media and entertainment industry. Audience fragmentation and personal digital media devices have transformed media consumers into media customers. Direct-to-consumer digital distribution is the doorway...

April 1, 2003

more on google

If they play their cards right, Google will be the future of media and entertainment. Think about how much time you spend each day on and because of Google. Compare it to a 11 year old who listens to the...

March 27, 2003

Slow move to digital

Data from TrendWatch ; found on NewsAlert Some interesting data regarding U.S. Television Broadcasters: -- The top two investment categories in 2003 are workstations (44% plan to buy) and video editing software (34% plan to buy). -- 70% of all...