Archive for January, 2009
How long until cable and the dish are obsolete?
How long until cable and the dish are obsolete? While working for an online education company which served media to large universities, I quickly learned that keeping up with online video technologies was one of the biggest hurdles for these technology based businesses. As soon as you have spent all of your investment funds and [...]
Read moreMan + Machine = Cooperating System
Donald Norman’s essay on “Being Analog” was amazingly helpful in helping me to understand the complex relationship between man and his incredible machines. Just his well written differentiation between analog and digital cleared up a few major misunderstandings I had about digital (or analog) media. For sometime now I’ve thought of analog as being the [...]
Read moreabundance or overload?
In my life, I feel I can never be thankful enough for the amount of information that can be accessed by my 15″ box. I undoubtedly take it for granted most of the time, but can hardly comprehend what life would be like without it. When my parents bought their first Pentium computer I remember [...]
Read moreFeeding the News Hole
I went to the Seattle Times webpage to get an RSS feed. It took awhile to find because the only link is down at the very bottom of their page. They have quite a few different feeds, even one for the Huskys. My interest in RSS is mainly from a web developer standpoint and so [...]
Read moreDigital Media in my life….
I use digital media in my everyday life for work and to entertain myself. For two years I worked as a digital media production assistant for a small academic media hosting company. I am very interested in High-Def video and online video. When I was about 10 years old I started using the internet on [...]
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