mediahipster: Archive

Nor-wii-gian Cruise Lines! →

Mar 30th

How Apple TV Can Change the Economics of TV →

Mar 30th

How to Import All Your Archive Email Into Gmail →

Mar 27th

The Multi-Touch Screen →

Mar 27th

Sick is the new dead →

Mar 26th

Sick is the new dead →

Declaring live stuff dead was old long before techies picked up on the practice. It’s always been the fashion thing to do. I’ve done it myself. I believe I’ve declared PR and advertising dead. Marketing too. Also brands. I’m not sure, but it hardly matters because all the above are still alive and will probably continue thriving long after I’m dead. Currently awake...

Mar 26th

Does Microsoft add value to open source tools? →

David Starr takes Microsoft to task in an open letter to Scott Guthrie. Starr contends that Microsoft takes a cue from trends in the open-source community, put doesn’t return to that community - that it does not add value

Mar 25th

Democracy Meets Open Standards in Texas →

Open standards — for most a very technical and opaque matter — will be the subject of a political hearing in Texas. State lawmakers will debate adoption of a technology policy for Texas in which open standards will have a central role …

Mar 25th

Newspapers Aren’t Dead, Selling News is Dead →

Dave Winer, Robert Scoble, Scott Karp, Mathew Ingram, and a ton of others have been writing about Robert’s blog post, Newspapers are dead. I’ll take it a step further… selling news is dead. There. I said it. Having worked for over a decade in the newspaper industry, I mean it. The fact is that newspapers don’t sell news anymore in as much as they sell advertising. The news has been secondary...

Mar 25th

The Apple TV versus the Sony PSP: lessons learnt? →

I bought a Sony PSP when they first came out (and recently replaced it after breaking it). I was excited about the possibilities of a portable machine with excellent video capabilities, gaming, music, and wifi. This is a device that could have, with the right software, allowed me to carry around TV shows, music, podcasts, and more. With the wifi, anything was possible. The hacking community...

Mar 25th

BBC response to Ofcom on digital dividend review... →

The BBC responded to Ofcom on the DDR earlier this week. Click here (go to the bottom of the page) for a copy from the BBC’s website — as of today, Ofcom had not posted a copy on its website. Not including the associated Indepen report, the beeb’s response is 75 pages, so maybe Ofcom’s scanning machine could not handle it! The BBC’s response is well-written and well-argued. It’s so large, it’s...

Mar 24th

Prognosis for the newspaper business: Gloomy! →

The most authoritative newsletter covering the newspaper industry issued a gloomy prognosis for the business and then, tellingly, went out of business.

Mar 23rd

Ole: BRTC: iTS Sweden #98 / Rock: #9 (via Twitter / Ole)

Mar 22nd

Ole: BRTC: iTunes Store Norway: ROCK; #23 ALL; #100 (via Twitter / Ole)

Mar 22nd

Ole: Norway that is (via Twitter / Ole)

Mar 22nd

Ole: BRTC: Black Lab and ‘Mine Again’ in at #100 on iTunes Store (via Twitter / Ole)

Mar 22nd

Ole: Listening to TWiT http://tinyurl.com/2aduwy (via Twitter / Ole)

Mar 18th

Ole: L:Bergen, Norway (via Twitter / Ole)