One has never had to dodge hordes of happy, carefree families proudly carrying their new TiVo boxes out of Telecom stores. So, nobody should be shocked to discover that TiVo is becoming, rather than the best thing since sliced bread, more the Betamax to Freeview's VHS.
Is the NBN playing truculent with Conroy? Surely not, given Telstra's history of conflict. But government smarties are dancing with technical experts to create both political capital and a decent service, while 4G waits to undercut the whole lot. According to some smarties who may be technical experts...
Wendy Levy, facilitator of the weekend's Doc Lab, ran a long Monday afternoon session reporting on the Lab and discussing the challenges and opportunities of “new media”. She invited the audience to interrupt with questions, but spoke so fast and authoritatively that for 45 minutes nobody dared – not even the other panelists.
In Sydney at the Media 2010 ‘elite international debrief’ on Friday 19th February, some of the smartest 'digirati' and media’s most influential powerbrokers from around the world came together to discuss the new decade’s ‘rules’ for attracting audiences and running profitable media businesses.
Already inspired by one International Digital Emmy, Hoodlum Entertainment is quietly admitting it is up for another one, this time for Primeval Evolved
On March 2nd, ACMI opened an exhibition about the creative and technical processes behind the acclaimed Australian animation by showing a selection from the thousands of items created for the film alongside imagery from the finished product.
Just when you thought you might have finally gotten your head around the idea of Web 2.0, suddenly they’re talking Web 3.0. In a session called “Beyond Social Media: Documentary and the Intelligent Web”, delegates got a taste of some of the latest web-oriented thinking.
The full title of this session was It’s All Media With New Money Using Heritage Principals. It was about how Marcus’ company approaches development, financing and production of their award-winning all-media projects such as Storm Surfers, which is about to go into a second incarnation.
Wendy Levy, facilitator of the weekend's Doc Lab, ran a long Monday afternoon session reporting on the Lab and discussing the challenges and opportunities of “new media”. She invited the audience to interrupt with questions, but spoke so fast and authoritatively that for 45 minutes nobody dared – not even the other panelists.
A vigilant technology reporter has caught Senator Stephen Conroy filtering his own website. The filter removes any reference to the words "ISP filter" from the tag cloud. Maybe he is getting the message after all...
An Italian court has convicted four Google executives for the crime of not taking down a video. 'None of these four people had anything to do with the video. They didn't film it, they didn't upload it, they didn't review it. Nonetheless they were held criminally responsible.'
Kirsty Hunter, Head of Interactive at Lion Television in the UK, Australian Jennifer Wilson, Director of The Project Factory, and Canadians Michael McMahon, Executive Producer, Primitive Entertainment and Silva Basmajian, Executive Producer at the National Film Board of Canada, dazzled all with their powerpoint presentations.
Chief Executive of APN News & Media, Brendan Hopkins, believes that the ABC Open project will result in competition with regional news providers and that the ABC is hiding behind the tax payer's purse strings. The ABC denies that it will threaten the advertising revenues of the regional media companies.
Tomorrow is decision day for the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft. It will be back in court with iiNet arguing that it shouldn't have to pay the costs of the action it brought and lost. Tomorrow is also the final day on which the group can lodge an appeal against the judgement.
Colin Lyons, who placed a key role in the development of the NCN for the DBCDE will be retiring at the end of February, replaced by the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.