Virtual Immortality
Posted on July 29, 2011
One-hundred-and-fifty years ago this month, the first major battle of the American Civil War was fought about 25 miles west of Washington, D.C. The armies clashed along a slow-moving country stream known as Bull Run. A bridge across the brook is pictured at the left in a photo taken shortly after the fight.
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A recent New York Times article explains the battle, and the ensuing war, was the first to be extensively documented with photography which was an emerging technology at the time. A dozen years earlier a few photos had been taken of the Mexican War. A few years after that, a British photographer took over three hundred of the Crimean War. Among them was a bogus picture of the “Valley of the Shadow of Death” made famous in the 19th century by Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade” and in the 20th by Errol Flynn. Read more…
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eBook Implications for Hollywood
Posted on April 26, 2011
Years from now February of 2011 will be considered a media turning point.
It was the first month when e-books outsold all other categories including paperbacks. According to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), domestic e-book sales tripled from the year-earlier month to over $90 million. Unfortunately for the established industry the news is probably worse than reported because AAP only records e-book sales for sixteen traditional publishers. Yet activity at Amazon.com confirms an enthusiastic surge of self-published titles not included in AAP numbers.
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Even more significant, self-published authors are discovering that low price is a viable path to popularity. As the chart below illustrates, the statistical distribution of e-book sales at Amazon.com last Wednesday was bimodal. Over half of the top fifty titles sold at two price points. Sixteen sold for $12.99 and were provided by traditional publishers. But twelve sold for only $0.99 and were presumably self-published. Read more…
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TV Viewers Fall for Evil Plot
Posted on August 3, 2009
Phil Leigh
If you would like to learn the latest research about the audience for online video, this audio program is for you.
Last week the Pew Internet and American Life Project released new research concluding that online video is growing at a rapid rate and that a leading edge of users are migrating Internet viewing to the TV screens. The data is actually about four months olds, so we presume that market penetration has advanced even further. Among the findings are the following: Read more…
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The Future of Internet Video
Posted on July 22, 2008
If you would like to learn what a prominent television producer thinks is the future of Internet video, this interview is for you.
Our guest today is Steve Rosenbaum who is the Founder of Magnify.net. Earlier he was the creator of MTV News: Unfiltered. He has also produced prime time television for A&E, Animal Planet, Court TV, The History Channel, BBC, TLC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. His current company provides a platform that empowers groups of people who share common interests to gather, filter, organize, discuss and share video in a community context on the Internet. Read more…
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