My hat’s off to a production crew in India that recently wrapped an entire feature film in just two hours and fourteen minutes.
“Wrap” means to totally complete the production phase of making a movie. Normally feature films take …
Let it snow
It’s snowing in Tivoli right now which makes me think about a great DVD I just got.
It’s called BBS: The Documentary and I highly recommend it.
It chronicles the wild and wooly age of computer bulletin boards (BBS), the …
It’s still a horse race
Flash… Apple…Windows Media… Real Media
Every format has enthusiastic fans who claim their way is THE way to encode video for the Internet.
If only it were that simple.
Flash and Apple have made impressive strides, but according to Jan …
TV commericals for sale
Some users actually use TiVo to request commercials from specific companies (see my Feb 22 post)
Google’s cranking it up a notch.
They’re offering commercials for sale.
As always, there’s a lot to learn from Google watching.
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Throw out the catalogs?
Media and merchandising giant Disney has just announced they’re discontinuing their print catalog business and going 100% e-Commerce to “save money.”
Meanwhile, Amazon is going into the print catalog business with offerings in home improvement, kitchen, and electronics.
Who’s right?…
To be or not to be – a commercial
TiVo is a device that makes it easy for people to record what’s broadcasted on TV and play it back later.
Most of the discussion around TiVo and advertising is about how consumers are using the service to evade commercials. …