Tag Archives: iPad
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 […]
Wk21: iPod Classic – the whiz kid, now the black sheep
Apple was a fancy niche computer brand until they struck gold, somewhat accidentally, with the iPod. Released in 2001, it really broke through when Apple released a Windows-capable version of iTunes in 2003. The iPod hit mainstream. The white headphones. Those TV ads. Then other models came along – nanos and shuffles. Finally, the iPhone […]
Wk19: Wrapped Up in eBooks – the Australian side.
This column is all about trying to write about new ideas. So much writing about digital online, and trying to say something that no one else has said is tough. But this week is an easy one. One big gaping hole that I have seen under-reported, and for Australia, unreported. Why is the Apple iBookstore […]
Wk15: Rip It Up – Time to become paperless
Most people I know are generally caring for the environment. They don’t litter, they make some effort to recycle, they care about the planet (Liberal voters aside). But we are nibbling away at the edges when we should have swallowed the problem whole in some areas. The biggest one is paper – and what is […]
Wk 12: I’m So Tired – Digital fatigue and retirement
When I was young, I would program the VCR for my family home. I don’t think this was a rare occurrence. Most kids I know were better than their parents at it. They were old and didn’t understand how these new machines work. Years later, I realised that I didn’t know how to tune a […]
Wk11: Close To You – the open and closed debate, and do we care?
Open source, open platforms, closed ecosystems – seems these terms have been bandied about A LOT of late. They are very technical terms, and very important causes, with plenty of pros and cons on both sides. But what about outside of the technical world? For the music fan, the movie fan, the culturalist – where […]
