Posted by: RFM on: March 20, 2009
One of the most interesting things about Media Studies, for me, is the link between new technologies and new media forms. Sales of consumer technology are driven by content, and the content is driven by new technologies, in an endlessly fascinating self-stoking cycle.
As recently as 2005, the BBC were not broadcasting HD pictures and were [...]
Posted by: RFM on: March 6, 2009
It seems that FaceBook has finally admitted that its new interface design, launched in July last year and reviled by many users, is no good.
This comes under “forms and conventions” which is another term for “media language”. The side menu, such a fixture on early web sites, and still a feature on popular sites [...]
Posted by: RFM on: February 9, 2009
Again and again, in the history of media technologies, it has been the content that drove the success of the hardware platform. The Victor Talking Machine company were the ones who realised that customers wanted to buy discs of famous musicians playing famous music – which is why the Victrola succeeded and Edison’s Phonograph did [...]
Posted by: RFM on: January 1, 2009
4600+ views for this early Slideshare about the best film ever made.* Scroll down on the site to see another 8 of the most popular slideshows on Slideshare. See link in the sidebar for the full collection of 30+ presentations, many of which are now available for download.
*Give or take Trust.
Posted by: RFM on: January 1, 2009
Viewed 11500+ times on Slideshare.
Posted by: RFM on: January 1, 2009
Viewed 5800 times on Slideshare.
Posted by: RFM on: January 1, 2009
This one has been viewed over 4000 times on Slideshare. My new year’s resolution is to make these files available for download.
Posted by: RFM on: October 16, 2008
Which would you trust more? A flashy web site written by a 14-year-old, or a book written by someone with a PhD, checked by someone else with a PhD, and published by a publisher whose logo says they were founded in 1793? How about this: a high-tech library, full of brand-new computers, everything squeaky clean, [...]
