Have you been watching? The Olympics I mean (not your neighbor…!) I love the drama; the stories; the unexpected winners; the gracious losers; the hype; the tears…in short I’m a sucker.
Posts Tagged ‘content’
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Guitars and Vision
What’s hot? What’s not? I spent a few days at the legendary Annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to find out.
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
TV Dinners
TV. Television. Do you watch it? Or are you embarrassed to say you do? Instead, do you talk about streaming, PVR and DVR, time shifting, downloading and only then get to the rehashing of the latest “Idol”— in whatever country/language/format you happen to watch it.
- But at the end of the day -- Im still watching Pirates of the Caribbean -- for the umpteenth time -- on my computer; on my flat screen at home; through DVD's; time shifting and MOD. Bottom line __ its still Captain Jack...
- Two distinct forms of television, "mechanical" and "electronic," existed through most of the medium's first 70-or-so years. In 1884 German Paul Nipkow developed a rotating-disc technology, named the Nipkow disk, which transmitted pictures through wired connections. This was the very first electromechanical TV scanning system. Nipkow's "mechanical" system was soon abandoned in favor of later technologies. In the early 1940's ...
- The question of questionable info on the web as content is worthy of a full discussion -- we have been trained to belive media sources -- despite cynacism -- yet the web, in and of itself, is not about the third party endorsement of trusted entity -- schools are wrestling with this too in terms of papers and such. So all ...
