Journalism without journalists
Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 05:55 PM - Media
On the Internet, everybody is a millenarian. Internet journalism, according to those who produce manifestos on its behalf, represents a world-historical development -not so much because of the expressive power of the new medium as because of its accessibility to producers and consumers. That permits it to break the long-standing choke hold on public information and discussion that the traditional media -usually known, when this argument is made, as "gatekeepers" or "the priesthood"- have supposedly been able to maintain up to now. "Millions of Americans who were once in awe of the punditocracy now realize that anyone can do this stuff -and that many unknowns can do it better than the lords of the profession," Glenn Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor who operates one of the leading blogs, Instapundit, writes, typically, in his new book, "An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government and Other Goliaths."
keep reading Amateur Journalism in the Newyorker.
6 comments Hollywood to Google (on video over IP): don't take it away from me!
Saturday, January 21, 2006, 06:21 PM - Copyfight, Media
Major article from the consultant office i2 Partners War of the Worlds: Hollywood Opts Out of the 'Google Economy':
Hollywood believes large-scale broadband video distribution would only destroy proven value, fail to provide alternative value, and alter a business model that is still far from being in decline. With near-total control of the most valuable program libraries and the business models governing their distribution, a shift towards broadband media will come largely on Hollywood’s terms and at an incremental pace.
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the apple fairytale of the twice-as-fast Intel chip
Saturday, January 21, 2006, 03:30 PM - Media
DesScorp writes "In Tom Yager's Enterprise Mac column at InfoWorld, he says that "Apple has bought itself another controversy, and once again, needlessly". In a nutshell, he says Apple used multi-processor benchmarks to skew performance comparisons between the new Intel Macs and the PowerPC versions.
Apple uses SPEC*_rate2000 tests as a foundation for claims that Intel-based Macs outperform PowerPC G4 and G5 by a factor of 2 to 5. Well, yeah. A dual-core anything outperforms a single-core anything else by a factor of 2 to 5 in benchmark tests that make use of multiple threads or processes, tests crafted specifically for the purpose of stressing SMP-based systems.
Now please, all at once: dooooodgy...
STATE OF PLAY - MMORPG public space design competition
Saturday, September 10, 2005, 03:28 PM - Robots, Media
Do you enjoy building things in a virtual world? Ever built a virtual house or terraformed a virtual landscape? How about designing public space for your metaverse? Maybe this public architecture resembles the public spaces of old like town squares, markets, transportation hubs or town halls. Maybe not. This competition invites designers and architects to submit examples of the best public, democratic or civic architecture in a virtual world.
Architects from virtual worlds across the universe are invited to submit their designs for public spaces and structures to the State of Play Virtual Public Space Design Competition by September, 28 2005. The State of Play is the annual conference on Law, Videogames and Virtual Worlds (http://www.nyls.edu/stateofplay) co-sponsored by New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law & Policy, Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Yale Law School’s Information Society Project.
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