One of the problems with conferences is that they’re usually held in business hotels which often aren’t too close to anything but crappy chain restaurants. And the restaurants in the hotels are overpriced and mediocre, at best. Streaming Media West is at the San Jose Convetion Center, which at least is downtown, so there are […]
Archive | November, 2005
Streaming Media West: Mobile Media
This morning sessions were focused on mobile content, podcasting and video blogging. There weren’t any revelations to be had, though it’s interesting to know what the “industry†guys are thinking. Here’s my impressions about the first session: Mobile Media, Portable Media & Personal Broadcasting Refreshingly, none of the panelists fed a lot of hype, and […]
Live At Streaming Media West
I don’t talk too much about my day job here, but some of you may have gleaned that I work in media production at the University of Illinois. I’d say my specialty is digital production and streaming. I’m lucky enough to have my bosses send me to the Streaming Media West conference in San Jose, […]
Hear the rest of my interview with FMU’s Ken Freeman
As a new experiment, I decided to post the rest of the interview with Ken Freeman of WFMU that aired on today’s radioshow. We get into radio geeky stuff like programming philosophy which I think is pretty interesting, but there wasn’t really time for in the regular program. Check it out at the radioshow page.
Welcome to the new mediageek
I’ve taken the big plunge and moved from Moveable Type to WordPress. I did so on the advice of other bloggers I respect (and who are more software savvy than I), and because WordPress is a free open source project. Moveable Type was unfortunately also getting a little creaky for me in terms of problems […]