Rich Media Archives
Print and Video Get Hitched
Newspapers and magazines the world over are trying to figure out how to make their content relevant amid challenges from new online and mobile media. For a good example of how one specialty publisher is complementing its print articles with effective video at its website, peruse this recent article in AOPA Pilot, one of the publications of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
Digital Signage
The trend toward out-of-home media channels reaching specific audiences continues with the evolution of digital signage. For an example of top-notch content matched with targeted ad sales, attractive displays, and well-chosen locations, stop and look at The Wall Street Journal Office Network.
Exploring The US Army's Web Strategy
For an inside look into how the United States Army develops and implements its internet strategy, watch this interview from blogger and Forrester Researcher Jeremiah Owyang.
Ephemeral Networking
One under-reported (in my opinion) aspect of broadband video has been how the internet enables ad-hoc networks to spring up around time- or location-specific events. An entire channel devoted to G8 summit coverage is exactly the sort of promise (from a programming perspective) internet video is meant to fulfill and is a fantastic way for a micro-broadcaster to excel where the traditional networks and even cable news organizations fall short.
Is The Internet Outdated?
Recent exponential growth in broadband video, social networking tools, and IP telephony have relied on the ability of the Internet to support such huge data traffic. Now early Internet pioneers are pointing out that the web of webs was never designed to support such bandwidth. Luckily, being pioneers, they're hard at work on the next generation of technical underpinnings for the web. Read about it here (.pdf file).
Shameless Plug V
What is literacy these days? It used to be that being able to read and write made one literate. But since the advent of electronic media that's been redefined. For a contemporary examination of literacy in the digital age, follow The Literacy Post, the latest offering from writer and educator Colleen Carroll.
Radio of the Future
Ever wonder what the radio station of tomorrow will sound (or look) like? Edison Research's Tom Webster has a notion, based on - of all things - a new browser release.