Category: mainstream media

  • Amazing Things From This Year’s NAB Show

    Topics at NAB 2009 ranged from when the Web Will Kill TV to How To Blog In 140 Characters to Alternative Reality Gaming, Second Chances in Second Life and the nature of Web 3.0. Oh and YouTube 3D.

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  • Web 3.0 Train Now Boarding, Don’t Be Late

    Just in case you are still wondering whether you should check out this whole “Social Networking Thing” – too late. It’s way tired. The tides are tiring of Facebook. MySpace has been declared dead. We are now halfway through the Web 2.5 paradigm; there are already so many books at Amazon.com about how to conduct…

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  • The Guild is the Next Generation’s Answer to Mary Tyler Moore

    Felicia Day’s eight-minute webisodic-turned-cultural-phenomenon The Guild revolves around the character Codex, a single woman in her late-twenties, early thirties who is not widowed or divorced or seeking a man to support her, but who holds a position of great importance in her online guild – that of the Healer. The show can similarly assert itself…

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  • On February 17th, 2009 Your TV Will No Longer Work

    The government was set to issue $40 vouchers for every household towards the cost of the new digital set top converter that would replace the old analog antenna that we have seen in so many John Hughes films. The campaign for awareness of this fundamental transition did alright, but penetration hasn’t been nearly as high…

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  • 2009 Oscar Nominees – Complete List + SAG drops Strike Vote?

    After all the haranguing and rhetoric, the ad campaigns and endless comment threads, stories surfaced that SAG has decided to forget the whole vote to authorize a strike thing altogether, citing they didn’t feel they could get the 75% majority they would need to move forward. *Eyebrow raised up into the hairline* WTF? Meanwhile, the…

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  • Watch and discuss the Presidential Inauguration on TheCulturepin.com

    Up to four million people are expected to attend the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama in Washington DC on January 20th, with 25,000 law enforcement officials on the scene. Cellular networks have been pleading with their customers to minimize the use of cell phones during the event, claiming they have already stretched their resources to…

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