10 posts tagged “media”
UPDATE: Britrock:
ooVoo is a Windows and Mac-based free video conferencing tool currently in beta test.After June 13th only ooVoo Super users will be able to initiate video chats with 3 or more. Anyone can take part in more than 3way.
I've confirmed
I'm on my third update of ooVoo, so I guess they're still working out the kinks. The 5-way call eventually choked up... I was recording it at the time.
I hope to achieve 6-way video conferencing with this free tool... It looks promising!
evidently one can ask support to participate...
It's here!
- echo-cancellation and loopback BAD (don't use speakers)
- hot input levels GOOD ambient noise BAD
- auto-input-level-adjust + ambient noise BAD (Skype)
- built-in mics BAD when low input levels + silence is boosted to NOISE
Possibly the most well-known name in independent tech broadcasting, Leo Laporte is launching a low-key and yet bold move into internet television.
The TWiT.tv family of shows is going to go video, and Leo recently said he was planning to start with 25 hours a week of video programming. You tell me if that's a promise or a threat. He's been exploring tech options and I've watched some video via twitlive.tv Saturday and Sunday from 11AM onward. Leo is building out his office into a small studio, purchasing cameras and lights and talking about it during the process, as he did recently on episode 140 of TWiT.
Leo has a long history in broadcasting and his close pals from the defunct Tech TV include John Dvorak, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose and D. L. Prager. Amber Macarthur, Steve Gibson, Paul Thurrott, Merlin Mann and Andy Ihnatko all do shows on the TWiT network, and the Buzz crew Molly Wood and Tom Merritt are frequent guests, as are Veronica Belmont, Jason Calacanis and Robert Scoble. Leo has had some great "gets" over the years, including such internet-famous persons as The Woz.
Leo runs a small empire which isn't swimming in debt and seems to make enough money that talent and rent are paid by donations, appropriate advertisers, and well-done interstitials. In stark contrast to the standard raising of a butt-load of money from VCs and having a burn-rate that isn't necessarily sustainable, Leo has a more pragmatic and less risky approach.
Leo is the underdog mogul. He's got the numbers, the experience, the personal brand, the industry contacts, and the good will of a huge audience. He's nobody's fool and a genuine nice guy whose likely success no-one will begrudge. I admit, I'll be watching with some fascination how Leo's foray into TV plays out over the next months.
Video podcaster Dave Mora did this interview with me after the KGO Live event last weekend.
He recorded it with a Flip camera. Thanks, Dave!
Matt Mason began his career as a pirate radio and club DJ in London, going on to become founding Editor-in-Chief of the seminal magazine RWD. In 2004, he was selected as one of the faces of Gordon Brown’s Start Talking Ideas campaign, and was presented the Prince’s Trust London Business of the Year Award by HRH Prince Charles.
He has written and produced TV series, comic strips, viral videos and records, and his journalism has appeared in The Observer Music Monthly, VICE, Complex and other publications in more than 12 countries around the world. He recently founded the non-profit media company Wedia with his wife Emily. He lives in New York City.
Article by Matt Mason on TorrentFreak
Pirates are innovators, they signal market problems and lead the way to new business models. Nevertheless, they are tagged as thieves by many. We invited Matt Mason to write an article on the pirate’s dilemma for TorrentFreak.
Mason discusses why piracy can be an opportunity as well as a threat, how pirates
innovate outside of the marketplace and how legitimate businesses can respond.
Current TV just put up an interview I did a few months back with Brooklyn producers John Carluccio and Mark Kotlinkski - They dug up some cool slides I haven’t seen before. Mark also has a production outfit called 88 Hip Hop which does some great stuff - look for his film The Mural Kings about legendary graffiti artists TATS CRU - which is well worth checking out.
Broadcast on public radio stations weekly on Friday-ish.
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CounterSpin is FAIR's weekly radio show, hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall and Peter Hart. It's heard on more than 125 noncommercial stations across the United States and Canada.
The audio for the Leap Year Show is here.
at 8:00 I am reminded that William F. Buckley is not the best example of the sort of Conservative chap "one wants to keep around to have a good argument with."
anywhere near the cable car turn-around & Westfield Center (Powell & Market)
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Geek Entertainment TV is an emerging global media empire, reporting from deep inside the bubble as it re-inflates. GETV covers buzzword compliant topics such as web 2.0, tagging, AJAX, social software and the bubble juice known as VCs. We like robots, so you'll hear about that too.
Anonymous is a nebulous and faceless group that normally lives comfortably on the Internet but has chosen to step into meatspace on this particular day to face off with the Church of Scientology, an organization which it considers to be illegal and immorally coercive. Scientology labels Anonymous a ‘cyber terrorist’ group. Protests against Scientology were organized simultaneously in cities all around the world. Irina pays a visit to the Church’s San Francisco headquarters to get a sense of what all the fuss is about.
photo credit: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
Elián González affair on Wikipedia
Elián González on Google
I remember this story as a disgusting incident in which the poor kid's extended family in Miami refused to let him go back to his father in Cuba. These pictures and all the stories you can still dig up are appalling examples of media manipulation by a bunch of right-wing nutjobs who will do anything to what... Take back Cuba?
Maybe it's really a plot by the blog-o-cube to get you to TURN OFF YOUR TELEVISION.
Let's not forget that some politician's curious policies on Cuba have everything to do with campaign cash and Florida votes. If you've just emerged from Cryogenic sleep, Fidel has stepped aside.
Daisy covers digital media and online video regularly for TelevisionWeek at tvweek.com and also writes for Media, OMMA, Cynthia Turner's Cynopsis and other TV industry publications.Daisy Whitney has written for a number of publications including Advertising Age, Shape, Business 2.0 and The Denver Post.
She is currently TelevisionWeek’s new media reporter, extensively covering broadband video, iTunes, online television, consumer-generated media, interactive television, video-on-demand and mobile programming. In particular she has examined the impact of new and emerging technology on the advertising industry.
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Media Matters features host Bob McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests. Listeners may call with comments or questions.
Bob McChesney is a research professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Information and Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
“The media are central to all our lives,” he says. “Yet the media are the most frequently misunderstood parts of our lives. We want to help people understand the role of media in society.”
On the twelfth day of Schiavo my true love gave to me:
- twelve preachers preaching
- eleven Christians crying
- ten rabbles rousing
- nine pundits lying
- eight ladies moaning
- seven children praying
- six ghouls a-grinning
- five network feeds
- four tins of ham
- three rolls of film
- two handy cams
- and a feeding tube of solid gold
