… I love my Apple TV—I love that I can unplug it in 1.5 seconds from my hunk of shit and bring it to my grandma’s house and plug it into her hunk of shit and we can watch movies.
Adam Lisagor, summing up rather nicely the difference between Apple and the typical state of consumer electronics in the home
Source: apple.com
Digital Revolution from the BBC
digital revolution is a four part series for BBC Two about how the web is changing the world. Due in 2010, it’s in production now, and we’re offering a range of ways to interact with the programme team and the content we produce. get involvedNobody does documentaries like the BBC.
Source: BBC
The social future of television
Ethan Zuckerman:
Herkko [Hietanen of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology] sees a near-fatal embrace between content providers and cable companies. They’re co-dependent, and scared of alienating one another. But this dependency can limit innovation in services. We’ve seen less development around on-demand video, the ability to watch on demand than we might expect than we might expect. Instead, we’ve seen “enhancements” like DRM and the broadcast flag, and heavy litigation against anyone entering the markets. Basically, we see a lot of intelligence added at the center of a network, with dumb, constrained edges that are prevented from innovating.
This is the most succinct analysis of the state of television that I’ve seen in some time, and describes precisely why I no longer participate as a TV “viewer.” Those exceptional few shows that I simply love I’ll acquire via iTunes or, failing that, BitTorrent, with no ads, no hassles and relatively good portability, so long as I can connect the display to my laptop.
In short, I’ll pay you for good content if you get out of my way and let me. For the rest, I just don’t bother any more.
Facebook killed TV. That is wildly oversimplified, of course, but probably as close to the truth as you can get in three words.
Paul Graham, “Why TV Lost”
Source: paulgraham.com
Peter Gabriel's "Hub"
Witness, the non-profit led by Peter Gabriel has launched “The Hub”, an online platform allowing anyone to use camcorders, cell phones and cameras to upload, share, and discuss human rights-related footage, as well as organize advocacy campaigns.
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