John Stauber, Center for Media & Democracy, debates with Robert Zelnick, Boston University on PBS NewsHour April 24 2008, New York Times report ‘Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand’ by David Barstow 20 April 2008. Major networks refuse to appear in PBS story.
NYT, following 2 year investigation, reports Pentagon’s use [...]
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Frank S Foster on Project Canoe, via MediaPost’s TV Board blog 28 April 2008
Project Canoe has tremendous potential. Imagine a single sales entity that might allow cable to compete in the national spot market with a variety of new television advertising vehicles. Perhaps Madison Avenue might be interested in on-demand and addressable advertising [...]
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Story in New York Times 28 April about US broadcasters opening up their archives and making old shows available online. All that is old is new again… did someone say that already?
Of course none of this is available to us here in Australia. On NBC.com, Hulu and Joost a notice appears to say the clip [...]
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Below is the article from the Australian referred to by Guy Gadney..
Search and consume way of the future
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ipt> Lara Sinclair | April 17, 2008
AUSTRALIA’S media executives are predicting a channel-less media environment that can be searched and consumed on the go, on demand and on a single device, a survey by Media on the [...]
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Submission
Creative Australia
By Mark Scott
The ABC in the Digital Age – Towards 2020
The ABC and Australia’s Future
By reaching all Australians, with a presence on all major delivery platforms, and a comprehensive range of news and quality, trusted programming, the ABC ensures all Australians can participate in the national debate, and is integral to the development of [...]
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Towards a creative Australia: the future of the arts, film and design
Creativity is increasingly recognised and celebrated for its contribution to cultural development, economic growth and social harmony; but it’s also intrinsically good. We value our artists, film-makers, designers, authors, playwrights and performers because they entertain us, challenge us and inspire us.
Australian cultural endeavour feeds [...]
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One of Google’s advantages in looking into the future is that it owns the server capacity and search systems to allow it to do so far more easily than any of its competitors. Google also actively encourages its own staff to innovate. This article from Business Week, December 13th 2007 recounts [...]
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Just came across a conference paper (available as a pdf file here) by Deakin University academic Dr Nina Weerakkody given at the 2007 Computer Science and IT Education Conference in Mauritius in November 2007. The abstract:
Australia adopted digital TV (DTV) on January 1, 2001 but due to slow adoption by end users, the deadline [...]
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How do you convert a popular service built largely on the appeal of illicit file sharing into a legitimate business? Great article from Wired last October, introducing a new CEO and a new business model.
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Digital technology is seriously threatening the business model of daily and weekly newspapers. Press response is to cut costs and in time that means cutting the breadth of quality journalism which has fed our society so richly. What is most at risk is the volume of comment which encourages us not [...]
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