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New York Times Makes History Again With New Media

chantelle — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:24:31 +0000

Syndication, Widgets, Aggregation, Social Overlay and Personalization are the new buzzwords being put into play at the Times online. Monetizing these new-media techniques is a low priority as it is for most Silicon Valley start-ups in these early years of development.

Far beyond other old-media newspapers the Times has enough of a foothold online to give other social news aggregator sites like Readburner and Techmeme real competition.

Canada Fights! for the Right! of Sony, EMI, Universal…

chantelle — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:59:13 +0000

On Thursday June 12, Canada’s Digital Milliennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Bill C-61 was barfed out of generic politician Jim Prentice’s mouth. It was simultaneously vomit and the sputum of an industry that voraciously profited from inefficient music delivery systems to become the bloated, pussy mess it is today. Read more about it here

Wake-up Canada: Here Comes Copyright Legislation!

chantelle — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:26:30 +0000

Facebook users delayed the bill before and on Thursday morning it is time for protests to grow even louder. Minister of Industry Jim Prentice and the Minister of Canadian Heritage Josée Verner want to lock up all data and destroy the very soul of the internet – sharing and collaboration. They obviously need to read Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business and go back to their other oppressive activities:

The government is ready to introduce controversial new copyright legislation that experts believe will introduce harsh new restrictions on downloading, copying songs to CDs and music players, unlocking cellphones and time-shifting of television shows.

Minister of Industry Jim Prentice and the Minister of Canadian Heritage Josée Verner will unveil the bill to amend the Copyright Act on Thursday at 10:45 a.m. ET with brief statements, followed by a question-and-answer session with the media.

Hulu Gets Steward and Colbert: Wins Free TV Battle

chantelle — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:42:15 +0000

Online socialized broadcasting service Hulu just got a huge advantage over other online viewing services by scooping online favourites The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Viacom sued Youtube for illegally distributing the shows and in response, Youtube pulled them down.

Of course, like all the major American television networks, viewing is only available within the United States so Canadians and the rest of the world will have to spoof their ip address in order to watch.

New On Youtube Today: Encouraging Citizen Journalism

chantelle — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:02:39 +0000

The Youtube blog announced today the start of a new kind of channel: The Reporter Channel.

Touting the media revolution, the channels are for:

People who tote around their cameras offering “on-the-scene” coverage of local news and events
Students producing their own weekly newscasts
Active community members who conduct interviews with local leaders
Engaged citizens who love providing commentary and analysis on important issues affecting the world at large
Professional journalists using YouTube as an additional outlet for their work

Is this truly a revolution in democracy? Is it Youtube further monetizing it’s future? I think it has to be satisfy both cultural and economic orders in order to function within the metanarrative netizens use.

The Age of Print Media is Over

chantelle — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:48:53 +0000

Microsoft CEO Ballmer lets the Washington Post know how obsolete it is:

There will be no media consumption left in ten years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form.

He identifies not just a change in delivery, but even more devastating to old media, in content. Search is the only game in town. And no newspaper can even compete in that areana.

New York Times Knows the Future is Electronic

chantelle — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:05:30 +0000

The New York Times, the largest metropolitan print newspaper in the United States, is demonstrating the impact that digital markets have had on print journalism by developing technologies that cater to niche markets (like bloggers), a generation of people who prefer digital over paper and Google mash-ups. Specifically these include: (via Scobilizer)

A prototype newspaper rack that could print out a custom version of the newspaper.

Tons of gadgets, including a cool thin book reader following a discussion of metadata that the New York Times is collecting. They have these gadgets so they can develop new ways of delivering content to those devices. In this video they announced a Mac version of the Times Reader, coming “within days.”

New York Times articles showing up on Google Earth while in their digital living room.

Will these technologies reverse circulation declines for the paper? Is print media production destined to become obsolete? Developments at The New York Times are crucial for the future of old media.

Teen Texting Found To Be A Linguistic Improvement

chantelle — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:39:40 +0000

“I was able to gain access to a world that most middle-aged academics never get to,” University of Toronto researcher said after following thousands of teen texting conversations. Texting, according to research, is not a harbinger of linguistic decline but much more like the telegraph before it: Another facet in the constant evolution of language.According to the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, “(m)any people have this black-and-white view of language, that some things are always right and wrong,” she said. “That’s not how it works.” Instead of the end of the English language, teen texters of today are in fact innovators for the future.