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Author: Paul

  • SM East: Microsoft’s Bid To Beat Flash at the Plug-In Game

    This morning’s keynote was Microsoft’s Sean Alexander giving a peek under the hood of its new Silverlight platform which offers a bi-platform (MacOS & Windows) browser plug-in rich media player that looks an awful lot like Flash. He also showed off MS’s new production suite offering design and authoring tools that look a lot like…

  • Spring in New York: Streaming Media East

    I’m in NYC for the Streaming Media East conference. I’ve gone to the last two West coast conferences, so this is the first East I’m attending. One of my goals in attending is to speak with other educators in the streaming/online media field, but also make the educational sector more understandable to other sectors of…

  • Microcinema Pitfalls

    I’ve been a bit more tuned in to microcinema lately as a result of talking more with my old pal Jason Pankoke from Micro-Film magazine and reading his new Champaign local microcinema ‘zine, C-U Confidential. (Listen to Jason’s recent appearance on the radioshow.) However, my enthusiasm for radically independent film and video is still tempered…

  • Dispatch from Oaxaca: Breaking the Communication Blockade

    I received the following email from George Salzman yesterday: Oaxaca, 3 May 2007 Friends, I fully endorse this call for support of popular radio in Oaxaca from Tonee Mello, who initiated the Oaxaca Study-Action Group with me in December 2005. Here’s Tonee’s message: Subject: [oaxacastudyactiongroup] APPEAL From: Tonee Mello Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 17:02:55…

  • Cast off

    Ok, I have to be honest. The cast didn’t just come off, it’s been almost two weeks. But I’m just getting back up to speed and limbering my wrist back up so that I can get back into the blogging swing. I don’t remember it taking so long for my wrist to get back to…

  • Broken Wrist Blogging Blues

    It’s the perennial blogger apology and excuse: why I haven’t been blogging recently. Well, here’s mine: I broke my right wrist. Unfortunately, I’m also right handed. So my overall functionality as a cog in the machine has been compromise, as has my usage of the internets. I’ve got a cast on now, which makes things…

  • Arthur, on the Rocks, into the Drink

    I’ve only seen Arthur magazine a handful of times, picking it up in various record stores or bookstores in random cities and places — I think I found it once in my home base Champaign, IL. I always enjoyed this free publication because it seemed freewheeling, with truly interesting interviews and reviews, and not published…

  • “Until there’s a satellite channel dedicated to a lonely statistician in Tacoma…”

    The Onion has the most incisive analysis on the XM-Sirius satellite radio merger.

  • NYC Grassroots Media Conference

    For the 4th time independent media makers will be gathering in New York City this coming Saturday, Feb. 24, at the NYC Grassroots Media Conference. There’s workshops, film screenings and art galore. This year’s conference theme is, Media and Movements Beyond Borders: This year, the NYC Grassroots Media Conference seeks to ask: What are the…

  • When Competition Doesn’t Provide Much Competition

    The single biggest rationale behind fast-tracking AT&T and Verizon into offering cable TV services over the broadband lines is to provide more consumer choice and competition in television services. Sounds like a good idea on first blush, since most communities only have a single incumbent cable provider, with their only alternative being a direct broadcast…