Debunking “Net Neutrality” fears

Here is an article (thank you Slashdot) where the “boys from down under” – the OZZY ISPs – argue that the concerns surrounding Net Neutrality (or lack of it), are a result of a problematic American Business model regarding access to the internet. They argue there is no shortage of bandwidth now or in the [...]

Scuttling Regional Television Content

We have frequently discussed the potential for Australian commercial television broadcasters to seek to reduce their Public Service content responsibilities in the face of new media incursions.    This is exactly what is now happening in the UK.
“ITV should be allowed to drop some regional news bulletins, reduce regional programming by 50% and cut back on [...]

Keeping the Content Alive

We’ve often spoken of a “remix” culture emerging in the content spheres of future program making. Here is a Radio National transcript discussing an interesting pioneering company in OZ, MOD Films,  that very much sees their Internet participators as co-producers of feature films.
Discussing the MOD project, ‘Sanctuary’, Michela Ledwidge says,
The idea is that it’s a [...]

Television was not about technology

An interesting episode on the “Future of the Internet” on this weeks, “By Design” on Radio National.
Featuring a discussion with Genevieve Bell, whom we met last year at the AFTRS Consumer Forum.
Bell contends that technologies that end up being the most successful are those that have “been the most transparent to local content”.
With Television it [...]

The Dark Side

“A wave of bittersweet melancholy has descended on the thousands of phishers, hackers and credit card swindlers inhabiting the computer crime supersite DarkMarket.ws. On Tuesday the site’s operator, known as Master Splyntr, announced that he was shuttering the forum, which has hummed along for nearly three years as a premier vehicle of criminal commerce.”
That’s [...]

Live road shows – the future of television, or only for the petrolheads?

Top Gear’s big guns to take live show on £20m world tour | Media | The Guardian
This story from The Guardian takes further an idea that has cropped up a couple of times, that of ‘live presence’ and live performance.
Top Gear is described as the first of BBC Worldwide’s ’superbrands’, and a template for [...]

End of the American Internet?

Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. – NYTimes.com
Article by John Markoff in The New York Times 29 August noting that due substantially to concerns about surveillance by the US government, internet traffic is increasingly being routed around rather than through the US.
“Since passage of the Patriot Act, many companies based outside of the United [...]