I watched an episode of the Gadget Show from Monday the 12th December.
In it, Suzy Perry performed a test, whether or not standalone technology was better than the iPhone 4S which contained all of the standalone tech's attributes.
She carried around the bag of tech in a rucksack and test each piece of tech then the iPhone version.
At the end of test, the iPhone won hands down.
Wednesday 14 December 2011
Tuesday 13 December 2011
A novel being adapted for film... Again
I started reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo last night so I can go to the cinema to watch it upon its release on the 26th of December.
It has already been adapted once before in Sweden.
This adaptation is the Hollywood version.
It has already been adapted once before in Sweden.
This adaptation is the Hollywood version.
Louis' Online Reading List
- Facebook: 350M People Using Messaging; More Than 4B Messages Sent Daily | TechCrunch
- BBC News - Facebook revamps messaging system
- A sign of Facebook's domination of the online instant messaging market
- BBC - Radio - Site Usage
- How many people are consuming BBC Radio and how?
- Email Evolution: Web-based Email Shows Signs of Decline in the U.S. While Mobile Email Usage on the Rise - comScore, Inc
- Email Shows Signs of Decline in the U.S. While Mobile Email Usage on the Rise
- Shareable: The Future of Peer Production [Event]
- More people than ever are using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn
- ABCs: National daily newspaper circulation September 2011 | Media | guardian.co.uk
- The declining circulation figures for UK national newspapers
- BBC - Podcasts - John Peel Lecture
- "Pete Townshend examines the current state of music media and asks the question: Can John Peelism survive the Internet? In an age of free downloads and a disposable attitude to music, can creative people earn a living, and without radio how can the "unpolished" music that John Peel championed find an audience?"
- Baird Lecture 2011: Digital Journalism Is In Golden Era, Says Sky News Boss John Ryley | Technology | Sky News
- A great piece about why digital journalism is thriving
- Why do children learn things much faster than adults do? - Sharecare
- A brief explanation of why children learn things faster than adults.
- BBC News - Third of adults 'use smartphone' says Ofcom report
- Social Media Marketing Stats
- If Facebook Were a Country…
- The amazing stats about Facebook's user popularity
- Clearing up those digital radio listening figures - James Cridland
- Is digital radio actually making a big impact?
- It's a matter of privacy
- Interesting article about what is private these days.
- Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web | Video on TED.com
- Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV."
- James Surowiecki: When social media became news | Video on TED.com
- James Surowiecki pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering
- Chris Anderson of WIRED on tech's Long Tail | Video on TED.com
- Chris Anderson, the editor of WIRED, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displacing an established technology and, finally, becoming ubiquitous.
- Average home broadband user downloads 17 gigabytes a month | Technology | guardian.co.uk
- Oregon Court Rules Blogging Isn’t Journalism | Techland | TIME.com
"The web is what you make of it"
Google's viral videos promoting Chrome are a great visual representation of how anybody can make use of so many media platforms that are now so readily accessible online.
Monday 12 December 2011
The Effect of Media Convergence on Creative Industry
Continually these days we're seeing media organisations making use of convergent media. From an academic perspective it sounds like industry is making real progress with targeting audiences on a large scale across multiple platforms.
However, whilst in theory, advances in technology and media platforms may appear to benefit media companies, Alistair and myself wanted to speak with an industry professional in the television sector about whether the future does in fact look bright.
Do the opportunities of convergent media outweigh the challenges, and what infact are the various implications (good or bad) of cross-media production.
This is Darren Hutchinson from DreamscopeTV who are actually based at MediaCityUK in The Greenhouse, a facility where small media companies can operate at the heart of the UK's most exciting Northern media development.
Darren gave an insightful account of what he believes to be the key opportunities and challenges of media convergence. Social media appears to be an advantageous resource for creative industry, however technology overload is proving to be difficult, with new equipment continually being produced.
Louis.
However, whilst in theory, advances in technology and media platforms may appear to benefit media companies, Alistair and myself wanted to speak with an industry professional in the television sector about whether the future does in fact look bright.
Do the opportunities of convergent media outweigh the challenges, and what infact are the various implications (good or bad) of cross-media production.
This is Darren Hutchinson from DreamscopeTV who are actually based at MediaCityUK in The Greenhouse, a facility where small media companies can operate at the heart of the UK's most exciting Northern media development.
Darren gave an insightful account of what he believes to be the key opportunities and challenges of media convergence. Social media appears to be an advantageous resource for creative industry, however technology overload is proving to be difficult, with new equipment continually being produced.
Louis.
Presentation
We have all been researching various aspects of media convergence - firstly, what is it? Then the opportunities and challenges it presents to society and creative industry and also the impact of convergence in this digital age.
We delivered a presentation in the primary lecture theatre at Salford University at MediaCityUK last Thursday that made up part of our assignment:
These are the slides that accompanied our presentation:
I feel the presentation really delves into the critical points and arguments surrounding media convergence.
Louis.
We delivered a presentation in the primary lecture theatre at Salford University at MediaCityUK last Thursday that made up part of our assignment:
These are the slides that accompanied our presentation:
I feel the presentation really delves into the critical points and arguments surrounding media convergence.
Louis.
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