Random Articles

• The New Phonebooks are Here, Please Recycle  Growing up, I always looked forward to the new phonebooks. Visiting my grandparents, I spent hours exploring the big city via their encyclopedic yellow pages. Steve Martin’s classic Jerk only amplified my enthusiasm and provided a chorus. “The new phonebooks are here! The new phonebooks are here!” Today, unexpected as always, a new phone book lay
• What Dial-Up Doesn’t Mean Calling up your sister with DSL and asking her check something online for you.
• Until Audio Hijack Pro for Video, Videoblogging Won’t Take Off Before I made my first videoblog, I assumed there were 2 challenges video-blogging had to overcome before it could be as be as hot as podcasting File size for video are a magnitude larger than audio, so bandwidth is that much more precious. Without something like BitTorrent, each additional download is money out of the producer’s
• A Quick Reminder on Equivalent Power Since finally listening to Dave Slusher’s the Human Touch presentation from the Podcast and Portable Media Expo, I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘equivalent power’. The notion that if you want to rebut anything I write on any of my blogs, you can do so on your own blog or podcast. This is different than
• More and Less, More or Less Overheard in a meeting today: “You’re going to be less recipient and more participant.” Seems like a pretty good description of how this media landscape is changing.