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COM546 Project – Music’s past, present and future

For my COM546 project I’d like to study the history of music and follow it through its early days of the gramophone, the record player, the 8-track, cassette and compact disc on to its modern digital format. As a combined study, I’d … Continue reading

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Evolution and Trends in Digital Media – #COM546

As I kick off the quarter this Spring, I’m looking forward to jumping into this class on the evolution of digital media. I’m particularly interested in being challenged to look at key times in history where there’s been a tipping … Continue reading

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Class Reflections 12/9

We talked a little tonight about “Social Media Control Rooms.” I had heard about this earlier in the week but our guest speaker mentioned that Bing was working on one of these. The premise is that you design a room to … Continue reading

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Why didn’t MTV’s distribution strategy work?

I suspect that it could have but it wanted to take full control of its digital assets within the confine of their own website. You see, allowing other websites to embed your content inevitably means you have to pay them … Continue reading

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What does the next generation web look like?

This interview of Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt is a bold look at what it could like 5 years from now. Will he be right though on all accounts? Watch his interview first, then I’ll give my rebuttal in an interview … Continue reading

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11/18 Class

I streamed the most of the class through to about 9pm. At that time the hotel bandwidth kept getting worse and worse due to a college soccer team that was staying there who were undoubtedly sucking it all on their … Continue reading

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What content must Hulu retain to stay viable?

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Class Reflection – 11/4/10

There was almost too much information to absorb tonight in class. The standout statistics from our professor: 25% of search today online comes from people looking for video content on YouTube. That is just crazy! You know, I love video … Continue reading

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The Future of Mainstream Media

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10/28 Class Thoughts.

Editor’s Note: I’m so exhausted by the time I get home on Thursday that there’s just no way I can get to my thoughts until the following day. =( Rick Shankmen may have done a number on my head with … Continue reading

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