The present and future of post production business and technology

Day: March 21, 2010

  • Is HTML 5 worth your time?

    Is HTML 5 worth your time? http://oreil.ly/bkBf0m – HTML5+CSS+Javascript = yes but Flash has headstart on development environments. HTML5 itself and Flash are vastly different. They have different things that they’re trying to do. But the HTML5 plus CSS plus JavaScript package is more. I think that’s an easier comparison to make to Flash because…

  • Publisher Experiments With ‘Free’ – Sales go up 20x!!

    Publisher Experiments With ‘Free’ And Sees Book Sales Increase 20x http://bit.ly/aQXBLy Obscurity is a bigger problem than ‘piracy’. Much of the talk by the big 6 publishers has been stress over cannibalization of print sales, or the idea of replacement sales, by ebooks. For midlist publishers such as ourselves, I believe we fight against substitution.…

  • Television’s Next Business Model

    Television’s Next Business Model? http://bit.ly/aDBAFB “maybe we should begin to look at each TV show as a stand-alone “Web property.”” I like the idea of TV shows as “web properties” that wrap up a community around a show rather than attempt to force the community around a channel. Channels are dead – I don’t even…

  • What exactly is Piracy?

    What exactly is Piracy? http://bit.ly/93zbrv Technical copyright breaches that aren’t morally wrong. Of course there is no such thing as “piracy” or “theft” – it’s a civil dispute over unauthorized distribution. The referenced post asks where the lines are reasonably drawn. It’s not as clear as some would want you to believe.

  • Darpa wants storytelling camera!

    Darpa wants storytelling cameras! http://bit.ly/bdIpWq Recognize objects and tell stories. This is exactly the type of automatic metadata acquisition that is really going to radically change pre-post: what happens before we get to the editor to finish and put the heart and soul into the edit. How soon can we get it to our First Cuts?…

  • 15 Lessons Old Media Must Learn

    15 Lessons Old Media Must Learn from SxSW http://bit.ly/b86yWj An eclectic collection. Second time today I’ve read about how gaming/games will be part of the future of work and play.