::Monday, April 16, 2007::
MEDIA MADNESS
.. No more excuse to be ill-informed these days. With the proliferation of media channels and distribution, you only need to find your niche. This is the essence of democracy, essentially the right to have a free-for-all coupled with choice. The market dictates the result in the end.
Labels: Democracy, Media, Technology
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::Thursday, January 25, 2007::
MUCH ADO ABOUT A FEW
.. I don't know about you but 25-32 million people, or roughly 18 percent of the US population found to have downloaded a movie illegally, is too much of a stretch compared to reality. Anyone who has attempted to download knows that it is not that easy technically, from issues regarding download speeds to where to download from in the first place. It takes time and effort, not to mention technical savvy, to be able to download a movie even from supposedly ubiquitous sources such as P2P software networks that are very hard to understand save for the truly geeky. If, indeed this is true, then I'm probably looking in the wrong places. Either they have miscounted repeat versus unique violators or this is all about carrying the cudgels for the movie industry by blowing out of proportion the threat to score policy points.
Labels: Issues, Media, Music, P2P, Technology
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::Saturday, November 25, 2006::
FALL CASUALTY
.. What happened to the show Six Degrees? It seems that ABC has decided to pull it off after a meager 4 episodes. Though the concept about interconnectedness was good and certainly interesting, it suffered from lack of punch and urgency as far as I'm concerned. Too bad for a story that one would think would appeal to the masses in the web2.0 era. All those great scenes in New York City put to waste even as the network promised for the remaining shows to be back next year.
Labels: Media, Pop culture, TV
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