The wonderful and wise Simson Garfinkel (whom I met at PopTech) devotes his latest column in MIT’s Technology Review to: Losing Control of Your TV. The latest anti-piracy move will prevent you from making high-quality copies of broadcast TV programs. And the new “broadcast flag” technology enables all manner of other restrictions. Here’s the lead: […]
Consumers creating content
Two blog entries at Poynter Online point to the new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project reporting that 44 percent of Internet users have created content online. It’s one of the themes of my forthcoming book, so I’ll quote them extensively here. In Convergence Chaser, a friend, Howard Finberg, cites the OJR […]
Looking for feedback on book chapters
One of the questions I tossed out at the blogger dinner last night was this: How much of my book about darknets and the personal media revolution should I post in the blogosphere before publication? I obtained a rough consenses that the most useful feedback loop would be created this way: By posting the entire […]
Blog dinner: A night to remember
At one point last night, someone remarked, “This may be one of the largest gatherings of bloggers who’ve gotten together outside of a conference.” That sounds about right. Two dozen bloggers, high tech folks and media people came together and stormed the Bastille last night for an evening of dining and socializing in San Francisco. […]
BBC’s new media director on television’s future
This morning I interviewed Ashley Highfield, the BBC’s director of new media, for my book about the digital media revolution. Wonderful, and terribly bright, fellow. (He delivered a brilliant speech last fall to the Royal Television Society titled “TV’s Tipping Point: Why The Digital Revolution Is Only Just Beginning.” I’ve decided to do something with […]