TV Sucks

April 9, 2003

From TV Sucks, by Michael Rosenblum: Television, up until now, has been a group activity. Why? Mostly because it has been so difficult and expensive to make. After all, if Picasso had to pay $1500 a day to hire a paintbrush, and then had to deal with union canvass setters, union paint mixers and union paintbrush dippers — and then had to be an employee of the Sherman Williams company to paint, he probably would have sold life insurance instead. (Not to mention having to focus group Guerinca. “No, put the eyes back in the heads. The audience finds this …

Radio-of-Me

April 7, 2003

Lean-back media brings content to the user, rather than the user having to actively engange with complex systems and delayed gratification. Some thoughts on the experience of ‘traditional’ lean-back media, and how collaborative filtering and DRM could bring the power of p2p to that expereince in a way that the music industry could actually support and encourage.

uniqueliveevents.com

March 22, 2003

Last night, care of Helen, we blagged our way to a viewing of The Barber of Seville at the Royal Opera House, organised as a promotional evening by uniqueliveevents.com, a newish consortium formed by BT Broadcast Services and Shooting Partners. The opera was broadcast live from France, and displayed projected via JVC’s QX1 projector (“the highest quality image currently available in the world using DILA technology”). Where we were seated, there was a lot of fan noise from the projector, but the image and sound quality was very good, and the whole uniqueliveevents.com proposition is an interesting one. Their pitch …

Intelligent Media Sharing Gets Its Lean-Back Back

March 12, 2003

Intelligent Video-On-Demand and music file sharing can offer a very lean-back experience, compared to the lean-forward effort required to deal with most tools for p2p file sharing, or multi-channel TV.

New Phones Link to Wifi and Cellular Networks

February 19, 2003

According to the Wall Street Journal, ‘A new line of wireless handsets designed to work on Wi-Fi networks will be available in the next 12 months’

Wireless Interventions

February 19, 2003

We’ve been playing with the idea of ‘air drop’ technology for instant tactical collaboration in found spaces for a few years. I’m wondering if the new ‘PacketPC’ hardware really offers anything new and useful.

Graffiti

July 2, 2002

Using the graffiti writing system on a succession of palms and ipaqs has really fucked up my handwriting.

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