Archive for April 2006
BBC Expands Website Interactivity
Posted by: kegill on: 26 April 2006
The BBC has announced plans to engage in the Web 2.0 community of consumer-generated content, which he calls a second digital wave.
I believe that this second digital wave will turn out to
be far more disruptive than the first, that it will be fundamentally
disruptive, and that the foundations on which much of traditional media
is [...]
Net Neutrality Markup Set Wednesday
Posted by: kegill on: 26 April 2006
The House Energy and Commerce Committee takes up the issue of network neutrality at 10 am Wednesday as part of an overhaul of the Telecommunications Act.
The bone of contention: will current internet neutrality go by the
wayside or does it need to be codified? Net neutrality means that
Internet service providers and network owners concern themselves only
with [...]
How I Spent My Weekend
Posted by: kegill on: 25 April 2006
Just got back from a quick trip to Georgia for annual family weekend. Mike and I played landscapers/gardeners and prepared a rose garden in memory of my mother, who died in January.
Supremes Pass on Domain Name Case
Posted by: kegill on: 19 April 2006
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The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case involving Rev. Jerry Falwell’s attempt to shut down a website, Fallwell.com, run by a New York man opposed to Falwell’s stance on homosexuals. A three-member federal appeals court ruled last year that Fallwell.com "did not create any likelihood of confusion about whether Falwell sponsored it."
Microsoft Launches Academic Search
Posted by: kegill on: 12 April 2006
Windows Live Academic (WLA) search (beta) is scheduled to go live after midnight, focusing on (not surprisingly) computer science, physics and engineering subjects. The Microsoft tool provides abstract previews via a preview pane, sort
and group by capability, and citation export, according to the website.
WLA contains both freely available and access-restricted content, just [...]
Drive-Through Remote Call Centers
Posted by: kegill on: 11 April 2006
The NY Times (via cNet) has an update on the novel concept being tested by some McDonalds restaurants: using a remote call center to take drive-through orders. The VoIP-based business surfaced in mid-2004 (BrandAutopsy), with followups in early (CommWeb, MSNBC) and mid-2005.
An early headquarters contract with Oak Brook, IL SEI Information Technology (relationship to Verety?) [...]
BBC On Podcast Adoption
Posted by: kegill on: 10 April 2006
Courtesy of one of my COM300 students -> The BBC reports aForrester assertion that the podcast audience is primarily "tech savvy, young males" … "despite the hype surrounding [podcasts]."
Harrumph. We are in still in the early adoption stage of this technology! I’m certain that I could examine popular press reports less than two years [...]
“News” — Via Unpaid Ads (AKA VNRs)
Posted by: kegill on: 10 April 2006
The Center for Media and Democracy just released results of a 10-month study of 77 local television stations and their use of 36 video news releases (VNRs). Sinclair-owned FOX affiliate KOHK-25 in Oklahoma City took "top honors" — it showed six of the VNRs, five of them in their entirety. None cited the source. Read [...]
Color Me A Minority Vote. Again.
Posted by: kegill on: 6 April 2006
I don’t like it … "it" being the "new" New York Times. I am NOT a Windows person. I’m not accustomed to nor do I want anything taking up 100% of my screen unless I say so. The NYT has taken that option away, at least on this Windows machine, where my (not very old [...]
They Have Been Assimilated
Posted by: kegill on: 4 April 2006
It’s a logical step from pay-per-view …. Monsters&Critics reports that five studios are now allowing movie downloads — some on the same schedule as "home video" (DVD/VHS) release. Check out Movielink and CinemaNow. Cost is comparable to full-price DVD (but at what quality?). More on DRM, etc. later. (Tip: one of my COM300 students [...]
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