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The Media Defender Story...
Posted in Internet, News on September 28th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Media Defender is a company that “has been contracted by every major record label and every major movie studio, video game publishers, software publishers and anime publishers”. Their mission is to fight Internet piracy using what they call a “technological approach”. For different reasons, they’ve been on the news since last July. The following is summary of who they are and what they’ve been up to until today. (more…)
Links of the Week...
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Publishing, Music, Internet, News on September 28th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Yahoo! for Yahoo?
Newspaper publishers who partnered with Yahoo are seeing such significant online sales increases that they could start producing positive over-all revenue gains as early as 2009, says one Wall Street analyst.
Cult of the Amateur Look (Video)...
Posted in Visual, Video on September 28th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Frame detail of a “LonelyGirl15” episode]
Video has very varied forms in the Internet, normally depending on why the video was created, depending on how the video was meant to be consumed. (more…)
The Future of News(papers)...
Posted in Publishing, News, Pro Am Journalism, Hyperlocal Journalism on September 21st, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
The first stage is denial, the second is anger, the third is bargaining, the forth is depression, the fifth is acceptance…then you die. Steve Boriss of The Future of News reminds us of the 5 stages terminal patients go through as they accept their death, using this pattern to illustrate how newspaper’s are either dying of going through the same path as terminal ill patients do. (more…)
Free as the Price Tag and the Inadequacy of Today’s Metrics...
Posted in Advertising, News on September 21st, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
We’ve been advocating for some time now the need of a paradigm shift in media, a fundamental change in approach and underlying assumptions. Our theory is that we’ll only find a successful business model for online media by thinking under such radical a change of assumptions. (more…)
Links of the Week...
Posted in Music, Internet, Mobile, Advertising, News on September 21st, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Record Labels Use Piracy Data to Please Fans (Via Digg)
It turns out that P2P is not only an enemy for the major record labels, it’s also an excellent marketing research tool. In fact, MediaDefender is using piracy to help labels increase profitability. (more…)
Pattern Extravaganza (Design)...
Posted in Visual, Design, Illustration on September 21st, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of “Imperial Fans” by Amy Butler]
We see patterns while we eat, while we stare at the ocean or even while we walk the sidewalks of our town. Our eyes are used to graphic patterns, to that indefinite and continuous repetition of shapes and color combinations. (more…)
Still Looking for a Business Model for Internet Video...
Posted in IPTV, Television, Internet, Mobile, News on September 13th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Despite the huge growth of video on the net, a clear business model has yet to be found. At MCH we advocate that to find a working business model a complete paradigm shift is required: The industry is not only in front of a simple platform shift, it’s facing a whole social transformation where scarcity doesn’t exist…among other important changes. (more…)
Newspaper’s Executioner and Savior...
Posted in IPTV, Publishing, News on September 13th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Just last week we explained how the recent AP-Google alliance was basically one more source of competition for newspapers, coming from a front they didn’t expect. Steve Boriss of The Future of News believes that traditional newspapers face a bleak future. Last week’s news might just be not the beginning but the first step beyond “the tipping point in the great fall of newspapers.” (more…)
Playful Objects (Photography)...
Posted in Visual, Art, Photography on September 13th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of “Petit Coup de Pouce” by Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle]
Taking pictures of playful objects can turn in a photo-stock picture style, if the final image has nothing new to say about how the picture was taken. (more…)