From the BBC’s website this morning:
I was beginning to think Twitter - the micro-blogging service that’s all the rage amongst the technorati - was just another fad for people who want to share too much of their rather dull lives. Until this morning.
When I logged on to my desktop Twitter application (sad, I know) it [...]
Okay it’s not about wireless — yet — but Ted Schilowitz, leader of the Rebellion for Red Digital Cinema, talks to Camcorder info about their new handheld 3K Red Scarlet, which appears to be a done deal.
Red Scarlet features a 8x zoom with a 2/3″ CMOS sensor that records up to 100Mbs a second. Ted [...]
Reuters has teamed up with Canon and Sprint to develop a system that captures shuttle launch images from multiple remote cameras moments after they are taken, reducing the time it takes for wire transmission by 95 percent.
Historically, photographers were forced to wait for hours after lift-off before retrieving their cameras from the launch pad area. [...]
The CNN Election Express puts a news bureau in a bus, for CNN’s 2008 presidential campaign coverage, reports Broadcast Engineering.
The mobile unit combines the capabilities of a studio, editing room and production facility with those of a live satellite truck.
The Election Express got its first real road test during the network’s July YouTube debate in [...]
“If you’re going to do something like this, you have to be as good as the book” — Jeff Bezos
Amazon is debuting its much-delayed e-book reader, today for $399. It offers wireless access to more than 90,000 downloadable titles at a uniform price of $9.99.
Called The Kindle, it weighs less than a paperback book and [...]
The OLPC “Buy One, Give One” program just launched. For $399, you can buy yourself an innovative XO laptop and to give one to a kid in a developing nation. It’s valid for North Americans only and the offer only runs though November 26th.
You can also order one by dialing 1-877-70-LAPTOP.
The program also entitles [...]
Free Press says FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is trying to sneak through a massive giveaway to Big Media before the end of the year.
A single company could own the major daily newspaper, and as many as eight radio stations and three TV stations in a single city, says their affiliated website, StopBigMedia. That’s too [...]
Here’s the problem with most news: it isn’t. It’s olds. It happened hours ago, or last night, or yesterday, or last month, or before whenever the deadline was in the news organization’s current “news cycle”. It’s not now.
So sayeth Doc Searls inspired by Dave Winer’s news feed experiments.
Here are Winer’s New York Times keyword index [...]
Here’s a grab bag of miscellaneous media news:
The Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) is joining the Open Mobile Video Coalition, taking the group from 281 stations to 422 stations, the coalition said last month.
The association promotes the use of broadcaster’s ATSC system for mobile video. The new members join Belo, Fox Television Stations, Gannett [...]
USAToday’s Social Network Experiment May Not Be Paying Off, says TechCrunch.
When USAToday relaunched its site in March as a social network around news, I and others thought it was big news.
They integrated Pluck’s new Social Media Suite, a group of social networking products that a number of high profile news sites have adopted. Overnight, [...]
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