Hey in the great tradition of my readers helping me make everything I do better, I thought I’d let you know ahead of time that I’m working on a lecture for this Thursday and I would really love some input from Facebook users about what they feel is most important to them about it.
Or, if you’re a Facebook user that isn’t particularly impressed, that’s important too.
I’m going to focus on my own experiences in the lecture, but it’s always nice to counter them with input from others – especially when others may feel very differently than I do about something. I like to let the students know about as many sides of everything as I can about the topics that I discuss. (Especially if I feel really strongly about something, but everyone disagrees with me. I still get to say my piece cause it’s my lecture 🙂 but then, more than ever, I need to make it clear to the students that, well, everyone else disagrees with me…
well you get the picture…. long story short: chime in! 🙂 send me email…or friend me on facebook and send data that way 🙂
Category Archives: Media Research
Dabble Blog Launches
So I mentioned earlier that my new job is being the person the XML Geek in charge of Content Partnerships for Mary Hodder‘s new: Dabble.
We just launched the Dabble Blog yesterday, and there’s some interesting stuff over there about the user generated video market, among other goodies.
danah boyd On The Oreilly Factor
Danah was on Oreilly Factor and Bill actually wasn’t a complete dick. Go figure 🙂
Wow. They call her a cultural anthropologist. Looks pretty cool on the screen. That’s fer sure.
Nice job Danah.
(Hey I wanna be a cultural anthropologist! Maybe I can call myself that when I finish my masters…)
Update! Hey I’m not trying to be a smartass! I’m just jealous 🙂
Sure, Danah looks like an ordinary anthropologist in this clip. But the few times I’ve met her, not long ago, she always had an extra sparkley dress or stripey pants or a huge floppy hat or something far from ordinary. It’s like she’s gone undercover.
Pulling Together References For My Final Graduate Paper
Hi gang,
So I’m pulling together as many resources as I can on Music Distribution (traditional) and Digital Distribution (itunes, napster, bittorrent, free mp3s etc.).
Please email me at lisa@lisarein.com with any you can recommend.
I’m looking for background stuff as well as current/recent articles on trends.
more on this soon!
lisa
Feedback Welcome On Experimental Wide Hive Media Player
For those of you who are interested in such things…
Here’s a link to a prototype of a
Wide Hive Media Player
(Thanks Nacho!)
So far, I was just planning on making all of our samples available via the media player, so that cover art and purchase info could be displayed while the songs played. We’re also going to make it so you can just start at one song and have the player keep going through our entire sample library.
Love to hear your other suggestions for this.
thanks,
lisa
Me On BBC Radio From April 2003
I was interviewed by BBC’s Maggie Shiels in April 2003 about being a peace blogger, amidst all of the “War Bloggers.” She had no way of telling me at the time when the piece was going to air, but she did give me a clip that I could play for my parents — but I couldn’t publish it on my blog or anything.
Well, now that so much time has passed, I wrote to see if it was OK, and she said it was.
Here it is. (Real File)
(Here’s a link to its directory if you need that for some reason.)
Also interviewed are UC Berkeley School of Journalism Professor Paul Grabowitz and blogger Chris Perillo. (Will somebody let them know about this for me? I don’t have their emails.)
That’s me reading from Salam Pax’s weblog too.
The story is about bloggers taking over as reliable sources of news.
Contribute To My Online Music Distribution Guide
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The other project that’s taking a lot of my time lately (besides all the cool stuff I’ve been working on at Wide Hive) is my Masters Thesis for SFSU’s BECA Department:
A Guide To Online Music Distribution.
So if you know of a good service, assume I know nothing about it, and send me the scoop!
If you are personally affiliated with a particular system, so much the better. (Then I can get the inside scoop:) I won’t get mad at you for trying to sell me something. I’m starting from scratch here, and I really want to create a comprehensive directory.
Let me know what systems you don’t like too. That’s just as helpful.
In a few months, I’ll need a group of testers to implement my tutorials on the subject. Now would be a good time to sign up for that too, if you’re interested.
Thanks in advance for all the great leads and info guys. You’re the best.
lisa
Fox Nearly Sued Itself Over ‘Simpsons’ Parody
Fox Nearly Sued Itself Over ‘Simpsons’ Parody
By Agence France Presse.
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel threatened to sue the makers of “The Simpsons” over a parody of the channel’s right-wing political stance, the creator of the hit US television show has claimed.
In an interview this week with National Public Radio, Matt Groening recalled how the news channel had considered legal action, despite the fact that “The Simpsons” is broadcast on sister network, Fox Entertainment.
According to Groening, Fox took exception took a Simpsons’ version of the Fox News rolling news ticker which parodied the channel’s anti-Democrat stance, with headlines like “Do Democrats Cause Cancer?”
“Fox fought against it and said they would sue the show,” Groening said.
“We called their bluff because we didn’t think Rupert Murdoch would pay for Fox to sue itself. So, we got away with it.”
Other satirical Fox news bulletins featured in the show included: “Study: 92 per cent of Democrats are gay… JFK posthumously joins Republican Party… Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple…”
While the lawsuit never materialized, Groening said some action was taken.
“Now Fox has a new rule that we can’t do those little fake news crawls on the bottom of the screen in a cartoon because it might confuse the viewers into thinking it’s real news,” he said.
“The Simpsons,” featuring the dysfunctional family of patriarch Homer Simpson and his rowdy brood, is now in its 14th year and is expected to become the longest-running situation comedy in US history in 2005.
International Readers: Please Participate In My Fellow Grad Student’s Research Study
A fellow grad student buddy of mine, Whitney, has asked me to ask my international readers to participate in one of her assignments for her International Broadcasting class.
She needs you to cut and paste this questionnaire into an email, enter in your answers, and email it back to her at : Whitneykennett@aol.com. .
Thanks in advance to those of you choose to participate!
Daily Show On Kobe Bryant Media Frenzy
This is from the August 6, 2003 program.
Daily Show On Media Covering Itself Covering Kobe’s Case (Small – 2 MB)
The Daily Show (The best news on television.)