‘As live’ comments while streaming

In which I suggest that timestamps of live comments during TV shows could be used to replay them when you catch up with a live event
A few days ago I started to be wary reading blog posts and tweets. I’ve been following the modern version of Battlestar Galactica. I may have not seen every episode, [...]

The last link for digital media: DIY exhibition?

In which I suggest that making it easy for everyone to show movies and TV shows to various-sized audiences would revolutionise media.
In these days of democratic production and distribution through digital technology, it’s about time we had a look at the exhibition side of things.
In the UK there has been some support for indie [...]

Social media advertising: Trust the copy writer

In which I use the social media element of a UK advertising campaign to demonstrate how clients and agencies will need to learn how to trust unsupervised copyrighters with their brands.
If you’re interested in the future of advertising, maybe you should follow Aleksandr Orlov on Twitter or Facebook.
To anyone who’s ever been in interminable edits [...]

Encode copyrights into the file format

15 years ago I wrote an essay called “What if Media was Media?” It was based around an idea that might interest others, but I wasn’t sure what to do about it. As I wasn’t on the internet back then, all I could do was print it out and give it to a few people [...]

Overlay your content on anything

Matt Davis suggested…
An open source subtitle plugin that allows in-sync tweet-style text on ANY non-text media.
Of course I can’t just link to this idea, I’m supposed to add value…

Back in the sixties writers Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell were first known for the prank when they defaced books from their local public library.
In the [...]

The next step to the Holophoner, the smFrontczak

Either Microsoft is terrible at creating videos, or they have a good sense of an ironically bad video. Check out this submission. I think they know what they’re doing:

Their newly announced product available from Microsoft Research automatically generates accompanying music to any words you sing into your computer. You can choose key and musical style. [...]

Playlists of the future 3 – Combination podcasts

On the BBC iPlayer, as well as watching TV from recent days or weeks, you can also listen the output of national and local radio stations. Most music shows can only be heard for seven days. The podcast versions cannot include any commercial music. For example, I can listen to the Adam and Joe show [...]

Playlists of the future 2 – TV singles and albums

What if my visual feed was similar to my audio feed – the way music is played on radio. What if media organisations had playlists that I subscribed to?
Maybe the visual channel that I will tune into will be made up of four to five minute vignettes. Longer than traditional previews, they’d be excerpts from [...]

Playlists of the future 1 – Radio

Some radio stations are different from others. They can be divided into two groups: entertaining and stimulating. On the entertaining stations, the vast majority of the tracks I hear, I like. On the stimulating stations, things are less certain. DJs who care about music more than the musicians. People who are still DJs (instead of [...]

Live blogging at Media Camp London – part 1

Here is a post with the my first set of notes posted via http://twitter.com/alex4d – I’ve made a very few changes (enclosed in brackets):
Session 1: Networks and not-works. A taxonomy of social media platforms and how they help and hinder communication.
Benjamin Ellis of http://redcatco.com/blog/
The way Social Media Platforms (SMPs) are constructed is important
SMPs are [...]