Archive for the ‘Media’ Category

what’s on telly? Oh, I’ll tell you what’s on telly…

Unfounded statement: Cop shows are not good for anyone.
Not even people training to become cops, I’d hazard a guess.
There – I said it. I don’t even have proof. Bite me.

Music + Science

Having siphoned energy away from a lot of my usual pursuits (okay, admittedly as part of a money-saving exercise after I spent too much on something silly), I have been channeling that energy toward music. As in, digital music composition… and it really is not good for my health… it entails even MORE hours in [...]

In which ‘the tinuum’ may have been confused with a well-researched source…

Imagine my surprise when I logged in to my admin console to today, only to find a pingback from evidencematters.org*, in which some government-backed(?) pdf about futuristic jobs supposedly (for I can find no proof of this in the pdf) points at my own tongue-in-cheek spoutings about ‘Jobs for Futurists’. Certainly would explain the mild [...]

Running scared of ‘Precious’?

I don’t know why I’m writing this now, having seen this movie yonks ago… but I was recently thinking about it so I might as well post my thoughts.
The trailer for Precious hides little, and I find that more than a few people have been put off seeing it at all, possibly because of:
1) fear [...]

The corp and the customer (a clueful resistance)

I came across this old cluetrain manifesto today and it got me thinking.  Reading through their (read-only, therefore never-updated?) page, I came to the conclusion that while I could certainly get behind what they were saying, the article assumed that corporations (along with their marketing and sales departments) should /could evolve better ways of communicating [...]

“Animals, on the other hand, must be treated as well rounded, complex characters”

Every once in a while I bump into a certain article (How to Write About Africa), and I recently got pinged with the url to yet another reincarnation of it… I’m taking this as a sign that I should finally blog about this topic…
Now I could get squished by the sheer weight of the entire [...]

District9 vs the ‘America under attack’ meme

I haven’t seen district 9, [update: saw it, loved it, a bit gappy in backstory but no matter]… but just the fact that it’s NOT set in america is going to be a breath of fresh air…

Goodbye, visual design.

A prediction: the next big leap in design will be to make the transition from the visual to the aural and kinesthetic realms. Why do I say that? because of the evolution of human-computer interfaces to include motion and gesture recognition.
As interfaces shift into 3D / 4D as well as involving other senses, design will [...]

Media channel schmedia channel

Check out this site: virtual paper allows you to just throw up those ole pdfs and flyers and whatever else you’ve got lying around onto a website. Then, it lets you collect web analytics as well as understand user interaction with your content.
The first instance I came across was a mag for toronto rentals that [...]

Top 10 annoyances with TV News broadcasts

I’m finding it harder and harder to watch the news on TV. Is it just me or are a lot of the programs devolving into a half-hour or more of deeply unsatisfying reportage? Here’s my personal top 10 list of bugbears…

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