#media

DOCTOR WHO is gone. STAR TREK has reached the end of its cycle. The STARGATE reboot was cancelled. The new STAR WARS film did not do well, and I believe they only have one more film in the pipeline. The MCU is not in a great place and the shape of its future will balance on the two new AVENGERS films. SUPERMAN’s takings were soft and SUPERGIRL is tracking at less than half of SUPERMAN’s opening. And the two biggest films of the last month were made for less than a million each by directors in their twenties. One or two swallows don’t make a summer, but right now it looks like old science fiction inflected IP is reaching a hiatus point.

LunaSea is a fully featured, open source self-hosted controller focused on giving you a seamless experience between all of your self-hosted media software remotely on your devices.

But this screenshot right here of the Financial Times site posting a Cory Doctorow article about enshittification is a work of art. Yes, we’ve proven that quality news needs to be paid. Yes, subscriptions are a good way to do that. And yes, cookies do often keep your computer secure. But putting an article on enshittification behind both a paywall and a giant cookie management dialog asking you to accept cookies from FT and their 27 technology partners? Chef’s kiss right there.

No, Among Us doesn’t turn someone into an assassin

Highlight:A recent update to the Apple podcast app also included a tweak to how podcast downloads work. As a podcast user you’re free to shrug and move on. But for podcast creators this could be a big deal. According to data from Podtrac, overall downloads across the industry were down 15 percent as of February.  This American Life lost 20 percent of their downloads. Some shows at NPR saw a 30 percent dip. In this week's midweek podcast, OTM producer Molly Rosen looks at how Apple has shaped the podcast industry. A recent update to the Apple podcast app also included a tweak to how podcast downloads work. As a podcast user you’re free to shrug and move on. But for podcast creators this could b...

Real time camera effects in JavaScript

Stealth Nighthawk F-117A is an easy to use XBMC device, with the same soc as the Raspberry PI, that makes it easy for you to run Open Source software that are supported by Raspberry PI, but with a nice, small and fancy design not bigger than your car keys.

This is an admittedly very simple example of a green screen but you can use this little template to manipulate your webcam’s live video stream and build all kinds of fancy demos with it.

This is an admittedly very simple example of a green screen but you can use this little template to manipulate your webcam’s live video stream and build all kinds of fancy demos with it.

Stations haven't been playing "Mrs. Robinson" for 32 years just because everyone likes Simon & Garfunkel (although I really do love them!). It's because 80% of stations' playlists match all across the country. So much for thinking that media exposes us to new and different ideas, eh?

It is far past due that the copyright industry is stripped of its nobility benefits, every part of its governmental weekly allowance, and gets kicked out of its comfy chair to get a damn job and learn to compete on a free and honest market.

Sharing and recommendation shouldn't be passive. It should be conscious, thoughtful, and amusing--we are tickled by a story, picture, or video and we choose to share it, and if a startling number of Internet users also find that thing amusing, we, together, consciously create a tidal wave of meme that elevates that piece of media to viral status. We choose these gems from the noise. Open Graph will fill our feeds with noise, burying the gems.

A new Pew study finds news outlets using Twitter almost exclusively for one-way distribution — of their own content. And this is why I only follow live human beings on Twitter, for the most part. That, and funny bots.

Bezos runs through the features that will soon set the tech world ablaze—the $199 price tag, the easy-to-hold size, the seamless access to Amazon’s rich and growing collection of digital media. When the Fire is introduced, analysts will declare it the strongest competitor yet to the iPad. Yet the Fire is not just a rival gadget, but something essentially different. The iPad is the flagship of the post-PC era—in which the desktop is replaced by lean, portable, gesture-driven tablets. As people will learn when Amazon ships it today, November 14, the Fire is an emblem of a post-web world, in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someone’s data center.

In a Monday court filing, Warner Brothers admitted that it has issued takedown notices for files without looking at them first. The studio also acknowledged that it issued takedown notices for a number of URLs that its adversary, the locker site Hotfile, says were obviously not Warner Brothers' content.

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@mozmrz: Now testing #airmozilla with webm/ogg @ http://t.co/TQ9zHblq (the capture encoder keeps falling over & h.264 isn't working).

If all they do is make a really nice TV set like everyone else’s, it’ll probably be as interesting as the Airport Extreme: a nice product in its category, but not exciting or scaring the crap out of anyone. But if they’ve managed to pull off something more interesting, I’d hate to be in the TV business when it’s released.

"The Echo Nest is a music intelligence company founded by Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman, who met at the MIT Media Lab while they were both getting their PhDs in music understanding and synthesis research. The company has since grown to a small but insane team of developers, designers, musicians and business people all housed in a cozy office in Davis Square, Somerville, MA, USA. We grow an intelligence platform that automatically reads about and listens to the entire world of music for developers to build search, personalization and interactive music applications. "

"This week­end, I did some­thing really cool (for me). I got to watch a March Mad­ness game on my TV that CBS wasn’t show­ing in my local mar­ket on my TV, with­out pay­ing the cable com­pany. Life is full of short vic­to­ries, and this is one of mine. More impor­tantly, I real­ized I’m liv­ing in the heav­enly juke­box I used to talk about in my pre­sen­ta­tions years ago."

"But what is NPR doing differently that’s causing their listener numbers to swell? They basically have a three-pronged strategy that is helping them not only grow now, but also prepare for the future media landscape where traditional methods of consumption (TV, radio, print) could be greatly marginalized in favor of digital distribution."

"This is it folks. If McCain takes power we fade and become Australia in the seventies: a backwoods country with occasional flashes of relevance. Except we've got a way bigger military and we're angrier. People will get hurt and we'll pay the bill for the bullets. I'm telling you, unless we wake up, we're gonna lose this frickin' thing."

"Netflix subscribers, if you've got an Xbox 360 and a Windows Vista PC, you don't have to shell out $99 for Roku's Netflix Player box to get your Watch Instantly library on your TV screen—you already have everything you need."

"Companies that control various DRM schemes, as well as the content providers themselves, can yank your ability to play the content which you lawfully purchased (and now, videos) at any moment—no matter what your expectation was when you bought it."

"If the news is that important, it will find me"

"The Yahoo! Media Player enhances your web site or blog by creating an embedded player for each audio link. All the links can be played with one click, turning the page into a playlist."

"I am just, I guess, well and truly tired of being told what "Middle America" wants, when Middle America is my age and lives in a goddam city, just like I have for my entire life."

"A network engineer going by the hacker handle 'Deviant Ollam' has taken it upon himself to send care packages of a different sort to troops serving overseas, with him ditching the usual goods in favor of hard drives filled with movies, music and other co

"Well, the week is over -- and still no apology, no retraction, no correction of your glaring mistakes."

"There is not a single fact that is "fudged" in the film. No one has proven a single fact in the film wrong. We expect CNN to correct their mistakes on the air and to apologize to their viewers."

"The Lancet isn't just any medical journal ... It is not noted for publishing random speculation, agitprop, and crank letters — it's the top journal of record in its field."

'Digg is a great site and a great service, and someday it may be worth a big pile of actual dollars, and many of those dollars may end up in Kevin Rose's pocket. But until then he has simply not "made" millions of dollars.'

"Consuming bad media degrades our ability to perceive."

"And if we must have an umbrella term to describe the whole shebang, I have a suggestion. Try this on for size: Authentic Media."

"Google is pleased to announce an alpha release of RSS feeds on Google Video."

"Users can purchase a Multi-Pass to either show for US$9.99 and receive the next 16 episodes just as if they had purchased them individually, but at a substantial discount off the $31.84 they would cost if purchased one at a time. "

I think it's critical for publishers to think about ways to enable their users to utilize content in more ways.

"The Internet has undercut the businesses of newspapers, book publishers and magazines for years and now these media are looking for ways to fight back." ...and in so doing, will cut their own throats.

"Advertisers and media and technology companies, mindful that young consumers have migrated away from the traditional carriers of their messages, have begun to find new ways to reach them."

"To create snowballs, we need to unbundle our mass media products and send the pieces on their merry way."

"Big media, if you want to catch up to your audience, you have to let go."

"Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans."

"Had it not been for the media cameras filming the initial scene, I doubt Cheney’s goons would have just let Marble go after 20 minutes."

"WCBS in New York may have just hit on the final solution to the Doppler Wars, inventing an utterly unbeatable, unstoppable, and unmatchable Doppler Radar technology:"

"Both have issued apologies Fox in a one-line statement to the Los Angeles Times and Loftus in an e-mail to the family after being contacted by the newspaper. The Voricks say they have yet to see or hear a correction."

"I am your most difficult target audience to reach. I not only proactively chose my content, I actively avoid your advertising and have the technology and mind-set to do so."

"Will it have typical time history, or might it get picked up by popular blogs and given a new lease of life? Nature will monitor its fate and reveal the results in a week's time. Watch this space."

"What happens if the old advertising model collapses before the brave new world is fully prepared? Bob Garfield's answer: Chaos."

"One Canadian's Wireless Neighborhood Network Could Someday Serve Us All" The exploding PC splatters all over the neighborhood.

"Ever play a game of chess and your opponent makes a move and you realize the game is over?" I've definitely been outside the Microsoft Media ecology.

If someone thinks CNN or Al-Jazeera is doing a bad job, they should say it.

Sensationalist morons. Headline should be updated to 'State education website accidentally linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to pornography.'

"By randomly choosing a story a week to fact-check after it's published, the paper wants to simultaneously dissuade potential corner-cutters while proving to readers its commitment to honesty."

"Even if 2003 was not The Year That Big Media Broke, it was certainly the year that its grip slipped."

"The Human Connectedness research group explores the topic of human relationships and how they are mediated by technology."