Category Archives: Digital
The Problem With Numbers – Vevo’s 23%
On the 17th April, Vevo put out a press release that was picked up by various media. The story was about the state of Vevo’s service, and video services in general, in Australia. The claim: Vevo’s reach is 23% bigger than all the catch-up TV properties online. The digital world is full of numbers. You […]
What we do is secret: Usernames and passwords part 1.
Usernames and passwords. It’s the price of being online. It’s our key into many websites. We have been using them or decades. Or maybe we’ve been a slave to them. Having to come up with new passwords all the time is a pain. Usernames are a shit fight too. And it’s not getting easier. In […]
Wk32: I predict a riot – technology in the age of protest.
I make lists of topics for this blog, and more for months I have been sitting on the idea of writing about technology’s use in events of social unrest. Well, looks like the events in London will bring this one forward. Although this might get a tad polotical, it’s political about the technology and how […]
Wk31: Wait A Minute Mr Postman – The Problem With Email
Have you ever sat in a corporate seminar that taught you how to email? I have. Many times. One time, the instructor told us this: that emails are legally binding documents, like mail. And should be treated like mail. Like legal documents. This is, of course, bullshit. Email is like language itself. We, the people, […]
Wk30: Live Forever – Sequels, Reunions, Franchises and the never ending story.
Disturbing numbers coming out of Hollywood. There will be a record for sequels this year – a whopping 28. It’s a figure that has rising steadily in the past few years. More disturbingly, things like Harry Potter 7b (essentially an 8), Fast Five, X-Men First Class (essentially another 5), etc makes the average sequel number […]
Wk28: Here’s To the Future: Extreme Computing Today
Computers are becoming part of our every day lives. What seemed unachievable and high sci fi, we now carry around in our pockets. Be it video chatting like the Jetsons or a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in an iPad, it seems like the future is here. But there is more future to find. So […]
Wk27: DC Comics and Doing Digital Right
Looking back, as an industry, the music industry made awful decisions when the digital revolution came along and have been catching up ever since. It happened, and there’s only one reason to dwell on it – to learn from those mistakes. Looking at the film and TV industry, one wonders if they are learning those […]
Wk26: I’m Looking Thru You: Movies vs TV vs more
Trent Reznor said something wonderful once about the changes of music in the last couple of decades. Since the invention of the CD, all musicians have just been creating software*. And now it’s the visual mediums turn to face the same freedom/dilemma. The lines between TV, Movies, Webisodes, Vodcasts, Streams and more are blurring. Is […]
Wk25: Pay Your Money Down – the fear of the Scam App Store.
I am scared to buy Apps. For one really simple reason. In-App purchases. Perhaps I’m being overly paranoid. But so many Apps on the App-Store tell horror stories of fraud and swindle, it’s hard to not be scared. Take the Smurfs. A quite high profile case. It is nothing but a swindle. Bright colours for […]
VIVID Sydney podcast: The Money Shot
The talk I did a few weeks ago is now up. Along with Emily Copeland, Ben Briand and Kate Hurst, we discussed the issues of being creative and financially savvy. I learnt a lot myself from the other panelists. Emily Copeland has an excellent blog that really discussed this stuff in detail. You can find […]
