Posted by: RFM on: June 29, 2009
Publish your own magazine. Looks good. About 20 cents per page, apparently. What they call a “vanity” publishing service. Actually, what it means is that if you have an idea, you can realise it. Everything that happens after that depends on how good your idea is.
MagCloud.
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 5, 2009
Young music fans deaf to iPod’s limitations – Times Online .
It’s interesting, and something I’ve been wondering about for a while. It’s generally true that people will opt for convenience and cheap/free over quality. People will put up with a pretty fuzzy picture if it’s something they want to watch, and MP3 is an [...]
Posted by: RFM on: March 4, 2009
How this ignoramus managed to get a job writing about education and ICT for ZDNET is beyond me, but his reason for not buying Macs is stunningly brilliant: the software is too good. Snip:
However, even iLife has its drawbacks in an educational setting. It simply hands so much to the students that they struggle with software [...]
Posted by: RFM on: March 3, 2009
Via BoingBoing, the latest in a long line of predictions of the death of TV, this one from Paul Graham: Why TV Lost.
When I was a student, I worked as an iMac demonstrator in PC World for a while, and the manager would bore me with his opinions about the future of computers: convergence, he [...]
Posted by: RFM on: February 10, 2009
This perfect piece of (very sweary) of satire from The Onion says everything that ever needed to be said about how Sony lost their way. From being “those nice people at Sony” in the John Cleese advert days (before your time, other words), to being the company that produces over-engineered gadgets with terrible user interfaces [...]
Posted by: RFM on: January 22, 2009
So said John Major, as chancellor of the Exchequer, when he was talking about the harsh effects of Conservative economic policies in the late 80s/early 90s. Those words popped into my head today as I was reading some of the technology news related to new media companies. First of all, that long-term technology success story, [...]
Posted by: RFM on: January 5, 2009
After all the speculation, on the technology and financial pages, Steve Jobs has confirmed the poor state of his health. Actually, this is not new news, I’ve read before that he’s been having problems with his digestion. Personally, I wouldn’t mind a 6-month dose of the “hormone imbalance” that ails him. Cheaper than WeightWatchers.
Posted by: RFM on: November 23, 2008
I’ve noted in the press of late that there seems to be a bit of a downer for Pro Tools. This would be puzzling if it wasn’t obvious that the phrase “Pro Tools” is used in the media to stand for a certain amount of inauthentic or dishonest tinkering with original recorded material. I first [...]
