walrus
msg:355353 | 5:15 pm on Sep 2, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I've been really impressed with PBS online, especially TVO. great stuff, Looking forward to this new feature, thanks for the heads up.
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night707
msg:355354 | 6:56 pm on Sep 2, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Fascinating point are, that old school Television will be missing more and more audience and that more formats, stations and creators of videos will emerge.
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Craven de Kere
msg:355355 | 10:38 pm on Sep 2, 2005 (gmt 0) |
One of my projects is a web-based reality show that starts filiming next week. Naturally, I too hope that this kicks off the next level of web-based video. Web video needs to move beyond porn.
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ratherbeboating
msg:355356 | 11:54 pm on Sep 2, 2005 (gmt 0) |
There was a Nerdtv that was started, almost made it and then failed before this Nerdtv started. They let their domain expire because it was the best thing to do from a business point of view, and then this new group came along, coincidentally applying the same URL to the same concepts.
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Chris_D
msg:355357 | 3:08 am on Sep 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I still have my original copy of "Accidental Empires" from the early 1990's. I worked in the PC industry from the mid 1980's until 2001 - the book was a fabulous industry insight - so much so that I actually bought several copies and sent them to colleagues at the time.
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reli
msg:355358 | 4:05 am on Sep 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Lower the barriers to entry and it will be good and bad. With my neighbors making professional-quality DVDs of their vacations, I think PBS will have to consider that they are opening the door to the ultimate medium for "public broadcasting". I know people who make essentially 'hidden' documentaries that would never see the light of day on PBS... but these will all be online somewhere in the near future: the home movies and the hidden gems. And, I thought the BBC was going to put their entire library online over time?. And given the Hurricane Katrina/New Orleans scope vs. available tv coverage, I hope there are many more basement DVD authors pumping out their stories and experiences to share with the world, via online delivery. Anyone up for an hour of my Aunt Edna and her thoughts on this danged tacknology?!
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ronin
msg:355359 | 10:45 am on Sep 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
| As we went through the internet revolution, those of us alert and present in the micro computer revolution of the 80's were astounded and infuriated at the brazen attempt by the winners at rewriting computer history. Cringelys work on Triumph of the Nerds put a finger in the dam to at least slow down those playing fast and loose with the truth. Without "Nerds", our historical backdrop of the late 70's and early 80's would look entirely different today. |
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I am intrigued by this, Brett. In a nutshell what was the history as Cringely told it in "Nerds" and what was the revisionist version being put out at the time by the winners?
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dataguy
msg:355360 | 12:42 pm on Sep 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
It's been years, but as I remember it, Bill Gates stole the Graphical User Interface from Steve Jobs, and Steve Jobs stole the concept of the mouse from Xerox. Instead of Corporate espionage between Microsoft and Apple, it was more like zit-faced college kids trying to one-up each other. IBM and Xerox were just big corporations that didn't know what they had, so it was taken from them by people who knew what to do with it. I do remember the mantra that Steve Jobs kept repeating: "A good artist copies, a great artist steals.", which apparently is a quote from the great artist Picasso himself. And they say that history repeats itself. Hmmmmm. I think the spin has been that Microsoft and Apple have come up with good ideas on their own, which many people accept as fact. Truth is that if you dig a little, most of the new ideas you see from both camps were either bought or stolen from someone else. (or in Microsoft's case, bought, copied, and returned for a full refund.)
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blaze
msg:355361 | 5:25 pm on Sep 3, 2005 (gmt 0) |
RCX has impressed me as well. The question is though - can he keep up that kind of quality? I think a lot of his better stuff has come from hard work and careful thought. I'm not sure he can turn out that sort of material on a consistent basis, at least not without long periods in between shows.
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IanTurner
msg:355362 | 8:41 pm on Sep 5, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I thought that Jobs stole the entire GUI idea from Xerox's Palo Alto research centre and then had it stolen again by Microsoft. I can certainly remember working on Windows based systems in the mid 80s - Xerox Star and Daybreak workstations both ran Windows GUIs. [en.wikipedia.org...]
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seofan
msg:355363 | 5:20 am on Sep 6, 2005 (gmt 0) |
The concept is good and is being done on [scwebtv.com...] and [rtptv.com...] - those have been around a while.
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