Archive for September, 2008
Broadband viewership has doubled! Well, at least in the States. And a large number of people want to see companies on social networking sites… or so it may seem. Social networking is a very broad term. Personally, I’d be happy to stop receiving ads for celebrity dieting techniques while I’m on Facebook. I have tried to cancel [ READ MORE ]
Just because: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qQKdHxeMkk Turns out YouTube is shutting down all copies of this pageant. Seems suspicious. Anyone know why? [ READ MORE ]
DRM backlash has been happening for years. It prompted some music distributors to shed the DRM restrictions off their music on iTunes. But it continues to cause issues and frustration for consumers. Many feel they are buying the movies, music and TV episodes, but their devices actually own it. The latest snafu is with Sony. In [ READ MORE ]
I currently work in the educational gaming world for kids. I like to argue that all games are educational, but there’s this little ‘curriculum’ issue. We’re sometimes told to create “math” games or “literacy” games… but how can you make learning fun? This argument makes a lot of sense. It says there’s this great divide between educational [ READ MORE ]
It’s not big news that viewers are heading online more lately. Recent research shows online viewership has doubled in two years. What’s more remarkable about this study is 65% of people head to a broadcaster’s website over 41%, who log into YouTube. 43% of those surveyed go online to watch news, and 15% for user-generated content. [ READ MORE ]
Telefilm’s $14million fund to help support Canadian digital content creation might not exist after March 2009. Canada’s current government is rumoured to be pulling out of the initiative, clearly in an effort to reduce this country’s ability to compete internationally on a burgeoning business. Sadly, this current government sees digital media as frivolous art rather [ READ MORE ]
I do write an awful lot about Google. I’d stop writing about them if they wouldn’t keep coming up with cool new things that are bound to shake things up on the internets (sic.) The first is the announcement its new web browser of Google Chrome. Just like its Google Docs application, Chrome is easy to use. [ READ MORE ]