Archive for June 2008
The Long Tail, HBR-Style
Posted by: kegill on: 30 June 2008
Chris Anderson posts a rebuttal, of sorts, to this July-August HBR article entitled Should You Invest In The Long Tail? Both the book, and the seemingly flawed HBR analysis (using percentages, not raw data), are on my summer quarter class reading list. More at the class blog.
UGA To Buy Local TV Station
Posted by: kegill on: 27 June 2008
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My alma mater is buying a local CBS affiliate, WNEG-TV (Toccoa, GA), which will become part of The Center for Advanced Media operated by The Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The University of Georgia Research Foundation is buying the local station, channel 32, from its current owner, Media General, Inc., pending FCC [...]
RNC Lifts Flickr Photo?
Posted by: kegill on: 26 June 2008
- In: Blogs| Legal| Media
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Political Newsline has spotted a probable copyright violation on the Republican National Committee blog, in a post made by online communications manager James Richardson. (tip)
The photo in question has a watermark (which is how PN was able to track it down) and is clearly marked “All rights reserved” on its Flickr home.
Who’s going to extract [...]
Podcasting 101
Posted by: kegill on: 21 June 2008
Notes for Podcamp Seattle, Saturday 20 June.
Student Focus: One Bottle At A Time
Posted by: kegill on: 17 June 2008
- In: Education| Podcasting
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This is a plug for a new podcast, One Bottle At A Time, which is a Washington wine show launched by one of my students after taking my inaugural podcasting class. I realize now (oops) that I did not specifically explain to students how to get listed in iTunes or how to create an RSS [...]
Vanity Fair On The Blogosphere
Posted by: kegill on: 17 June 2008
- In: Blogs
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The current edition of Vanity Fair contains a map of popular “blogs” showing relative “news v opinion” content and “scurrilous” v “earnest” tone. Many of these “blogs” are media properties that have blogs (such as Salon or Slate) or are simply media properties (Pitchfork Media) or organizations that rest on blogging software (Blogcritics, Huffington Post). [...]
Links for Monday
Posted by: kegill on: 16 June 2008
Paging George Jetson! (Or Bladerunner fans.) The Mundus Group has a “Flying Car” that it will now sell as a kit vehicle “under the experimental kit aircraft protocol.” The website describes vehicles for police and emergency crews that use Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) technology. You know, [...]
Phototampering Throughout History
Posted by: kegill on: 15 June 2008
Scientific American has a feature on digital forensics and “doctored” images as well as a slideshow of 10 political images (nine are pre-digital) that illustrate the craft. Although digital technologies may make it easier to falsify images, the SI article demonstrates that the 180-year history of photography is punctuated with manipulation. For example, photo that [...]
Interface Hall of Shame
Posted by: kegill on: 13 June 2008
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I think that this is what I’ll call all of these examples … it just makes life simple. The example this week comes from Ziff Davis Media publication PC Week:
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