Pneumonia: Inflammation of one or both lungs with consolidation. Pneumonia is frequently but not always due to infection. The infection may be bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic. Symptoms may include fever, chills, cough with sputum production, chest pain, and shortness of breath. So the “severe cold” I reported here last Wednesday turned out to be […]
Wrapping up swing through LA
I just finished a second interview in the offices of Warren Lieberfarb, the father of the DVD. He had some fascinating and provocative things to say about the culture of the big media entertainment conglomerates, and about the future of the hard-copy DVD vs. online on-demand media. Also had a terific interview with Benjamin Feingold, […]
Blogging from LA’s Coral Tree
I just got out of a two-hour interview with Warren Lieberfarb, the departed Warner Home Video president who, by all accounts, is the father of the DVD. A remarkable (and remarkably nice) man, who now is a consultant for Microsoft (contractual and legal issues prevent him from being an executive there, at least for now). […]
Valenti to step down in January?
Just finished a lengthy interview with Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. An interesting, eloquent and extremely likable man. Valenti mentioned the bill introduced by Dianne Feinstein yesterday to make camcording in movie theaters a felony and subject to five years in prison. I hadn’t heard about that, but SFGate has […]
A business model for citizen journalism?
Steve Outing writes in E-Media Tidbits today: The concept of “citizen journalism” is getting a lot of people excited. Proponents of it, such as Advance.net’s Jeff Jarvis, have suggested that citizen journalism is a huge business poised to take off. One of the first companies to try to make a buck from this is GetLocalNews.com, […]