Upcoming Roulette Events | Memorial for David Gamper I'll be performing in the concert tomorrow.  If you're in NYC, please come.

On YouTube, Amateur Is the New Pro - NYTimes.com. " A history of the entertainment  business could be framed as a series of experts asking, “Who the hell wants to watch that?” When the answer is “more people than you think.” What you call TV on the internet?  "TV." There is the kernel of another story in this article and that is the one about how the approach to making videos for YouTube changes as their creators become more popular.  They are inclined to increase productio

There are so many posts out now about the potential trend of "cutting the cord." In other words, dropping cable and satellite service and relying on free to air television and internet streaming. Well, I've gone even further that that - I've even cut the cord to the rooftop aerial and am getting all my media via the internet - radio and TV. I've already covered the radio bit. That was about convienence and functionality. The TV part is a bit different. It was driven by interi

This is coming from a scholarly publication perspective, but the problems the author describes are almost identical to what we're facing in broadcasting. In a nutshell, we are generating data at a rate faster than Moore's Law can keep up with. Unless that rate changes, it's just going to keep getting more expensive to store our media no matter how much the price of the hardware goes down. So the question is - do we just just accept that as the price of doing business, or do

This is a talk I gave last year at Culture Hack Scotland on the topic, "Is coding an art?"

There's a lot of focus on "big data" these days after the recent Facebook IPO. The term is becoming as ubiquitous at "the cloud." There's a great line in Michael Wolff's article, "The Facebook Fallacy," at the MIT Technical Review. "The company knows so much about so many people that its executives are sure that the knowledge must have value." That sums it up in a nutshell - "We have so much of this stuff, it MUST be valuable. We just don't know what that value is yet." This

In the 121 years since the invention of the motion picture camera, the worlds of production and post production have operated as two connected, but completely discrete units. The production side, an optical/chemical/mechanical process, essentially unchanged from the Victorian era until the widespread adoption of the portable video camera (until recently, almost all feature films still used Victorian technology, now only most of them do.) The portable video camera, although r

There is intense focus at the moment on the potential of IP delivery of media. A slew of acronyms like VOD, OTT, and IPTV are being joined by terms such as, “second screen,” “orchestrated media,” “lean back,” and “lean forward,” viewing with more to come. To date, the majority of effort in this area has managed to recreate the experience of watching television, but with a much less friendly user interface. VOD and catch up TV have eliminated the walk to the video store and t

I gave my wife a portable radio for Christmas. It has FM, DAB, Internet, WiFi, UPnP and network folder sharing. Essentially it does nothing that the computers in the house can't do, but for some reason it's opened the world of audio programmes in a way that our computers have not. We spent the holiday listening to WFMU, resonance FM, Drone Zone on SOMA FM, Radio 4 Listen Again, and strangely enough whenever we tuned toWNYC and WGBH we seemed to always get the BBC World Servic