La La Land: a sort-of review
I watched La La Land just over a week ago, and have gone through a sort of evolution in my thinking about it: During the movie, i was fully in love with...
Disrupt TV
We recently at home installed "Shaw Gateway", to replace the previous PVR we had - mostly because we have 2 TVs, and remembering where I'd recorded what...
Over-thinking Star Wars
I remember first watching Star Wars. The sense of excitement of watching a scrappy band of rebels try to overcome the infinitely more powerful Empire, led...
How to improve the Oscars
Like (based on the evidence of my Twitter feed) a lot of people, I watched some of the Oscars on Sunday night. It was a pretty horrible telecast, as is...
The power of Twitter & the "Ellen Effect"
So, on Thursday, one of my clients, the Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association (VOKRA) was linked to from the Ellen DeGeneres Show's Blog, after being...
My PVR and my vision for my TV-viewing future
I've been thinking lately around the business model for Cable/TelCos & PVRs, and it seems to me that the current model is likely to be short-lived,...
Obama's media image
Having seen an awful lot of images of President Obama in the media these past few days - both video and still, I've noticed a striking contrast between...
Thinking about DRM & the subscription pricing model
It seems clear to me that companies, Apple (with Apple TV) and Microsoft (with the XBox) in particular, are pushing to eliminate the need for physical...
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