“Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue,” said Werner Herzog, in one of his famous dictums. So would he see 1st Framework’s Of Walking in Ice day-long event, themed round his book of the same name, as a mixed blessing? Our group of around twenty met at 8.30 at Kings Cross station on a […]
Month: October 2004
RadioSHARK (post postscript)
In the interests of comprehensiveness — as well as a little bit of banging on that “I’m right, you know” — I risk being boring by adding one more new development to my list of gadgets that pre-figure a future of martini (ubiquitous, on-demand) media. This follows an original article on this subject, and a […]
Towards a taxonomy of ‘making of’ features
I’m reading Ashley Kahn’s A Love Supreme: the Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album, and finding it fascinating. Kahn provides pictures of his sources, from the handwritten covers of the session tapes to the records of which musicians got paid how much for each session. The album was conceived in ’64 and released in ’65, […]
Handheld satellite radio: one more harbinger
A short postscript to my recent posting on harbingers of martini media: a US announcement of a handheld satellite radio that can receive 130 digital stations and record up to five hours of music, which you can schedule when you want. Here’s the official page and specs for the Delphi XM MyFi™, and here’s an […]
Thanks for more than a lifetime contribution
Outside the tube station I saw people stop and point with open mouths at the Evening Standard news boards that read ‘DJ John Peel Dies’. The last time I heard John Peel’s voice on the radio — I don’t know if it was the last time he was broadcast before he died — was two […]
Forced Entertainment: Indoor Fireworks festival
I’m just back from seeing Instructions for Forgetting, the opening piece of Forced Entertainment‘s two-week Indoor Fireworks festival, which made me realise I should have plugged the festival before now, and I’ve been neglecting the Cultural Calendar section of this site. As well as six performances of their new work, Bloody Mess, next week — […]
Podcasting: another harbinger of martini media
Podcasting enables you to subscribe to regularly updated audio material, and then take it with you on your MP3 player and listen to it when it suits you (the term podcasting is clearly derived from iPods, but the practice is not limited to them). As such, it’s a combination and application of technologies that gives […]
Pressure building for access to BBC radio archives
A month after Ofcom’s mutterings about enforced licensing of the BBC’s radio archive, a new report commissioned by DCMS concludes “The BBC should examine how it can enter into joint ventures with the commercial sector when considering future archive-based services.” The message seems to be that if the BBC isn’t making active use of its […]
Ecademy networking meeting for media sector
Speaking of social software (see previous posting), if you’re in striking distance of London and interested in meeting people working in the design, new media, Internet, television, film, computer entertainment, music, press/publishing, radio and advertising sectors, you’re invited to a meeting I’ve organised through the Ecademy online and offline network. Here are the details of […]
Article on the evolution of social software
Christopher Allan’s Life with Alacrity blog has an amazing article Tracing the Evolution of Social Software, which manages to be both comprehensive and concise in covering almost fifty years of people using software for organising themselves collaboratively. Allan covers all the key visionary figures, including Doug Englebart and the Johnson-Lenz’s. I saw the latter give […]