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For anyone looking to get up to speed on TV Everywhere, the only place to be today was at Mission Bay in San Francisco for NewTeeVee Live, streamed live at  http://www.justin.tv/richreader and tweeted out on #NTVL. Here’s the gist of it with video to boot:

Marc Whitten, Xbox
- Launched Sky in UK with cool friends feature
- Magical experiences when friends watch together
- Desperate Housewives has an audience, Halo has a community
- Move from audience to community with a shared quest
- Three seats on the sofa
1. seat back – passive participant relaxing, serendipitous discovery
2. seat middle – social experience around viewer, competition reality
3. seat forward – active engagement
- games on demand pay with VISA, credits to be phased out
- although it’s been around awhile, the box is a super powerful conduit
- it’s really all about software
- on the horizon are social mashups we can hardly imagine today
- living room, the most social space in the house
- photos most underserved form of entertainment
- visualize party where friends take pics and remix in game onscreen
- 11/17 FB, Twitter, Last.fm, Zune video marketplace released
- 11/19 Next season of 1 v 100 debuts

Ryan Higa, YouTube Star/The Ryan Higa Show
- YouTube allowing channel partners to upload videos 10+ minutes
- Making more long form videos using a Flip
- Had a series of spoof virals, Carls’ Jr sponsored one
- Not a big check but better than a PT job, mom can’t quit her day job yet
- Most subscribed teen vlogger, more popular than Fred but no rivalry
- When brands dictate what to do, doesn’t resonate with audience
- Got hired off of MySpace as actor for a movie, did ok on iTunes
- A UNLV film Student
- Main goal is to stay on YouTube and keep fans happy
- Likes working on The Station – a comedy collective of YouTube stars
- Meaning of success – to be rich and famous – what everyone wants
- Here’s the NewTeeVee article

Avner Ronen, Boxee
- The Boxee Box is coming!!!
- 12/7 7pm Boxee Beta Unveiling at Music Hall of Williamsburg, NYC
- 2010 focusing on signing up more CE and content partners
- soon people will pay $4 to subscribe to favorite shows
- 2015 Apple will have more subscribers than Comcast
- more will watch video and more will pay for it
http://blog.boxee.tv/2009/11/12/a-boxee-box-is-coming/
http://snipurl.com/t7h2y

Rick Feldman, NATPE & Erik Flannigan, MTVN Comedy Central
- Ratings and traffic go up together, there is no cannibalization
- Would be great to be living in Avne’s glorious world of 2015
- Til then, sogging through the muck
- With regards to windowing, not all shows are created equal
- Daily Show and Colbert produce 160 episodes a year
- They’re perishable, no second windows in syndication, DVDs
- But there is a zeitgeist around the content
- More young men watch these shows than any other
- Several million a night
- Echo effect the day after
- Got 500,000 views off a HuffPo embed
- Like the Mad Men effect where Wall Street and Mad Ave love the show
- With South Park, all shows has been syndicated
- Actually the value of syndication is up across the board
- Shows are worth more now going into syndication
- Don’t underestimate the MASSIVE PASSIVE
- Secret Girlfriend, it’s about finding fan one
- Jeff Dunham, its about 100,000s fans finding him on Comedy Central
- Meaningful second windows, second moments from cloud
- Want it fulfilled from tv, from the biggest screen we have
- Consumers are one search term away from finding everything
- 20% will always steal – have more time than money
- 20% will never steal, more money than time
- 60% want what they want, need to win them over, make it easy
- value exchange, offering choice – want it now vs seven days
- more willing to pay for what you do w content then when you see it
- don’t like Apple’s uniform presentation of content
- waiting for more visual medium, maybe its Boxee’s beta

Amy Banse, Comcast Interactive Media
- Comcast expression of TV Everywhere:  On Demand Online
- watch what we want, when we want
- Authentic 3 devices logging into Fancast with comcast.net credentials
- For in home and out of home use
- That’s breaking news:  you can travel with cable shows
- Consumers will have choice: Netflix, iTunes, Cable Package
- Online consumption will grow
- cord cutting concern, not seeing it yet but mindful of phenomenon
- diff programmers will play with diff ad loads, shape with reaction
- programmers need to get credit, Nielsen needs to count it all

Murali Nemani, Cisco
- Choice reigns supreme but fragmentation sets in
- MediaNets will accelerate transition to all IP networks

Reed Hastings, Netflix
- WiFi is a $10 part, going into everything
- Netflix will be on all connected devices
- That said, Netflix will be on toasters before the Wii
- (Om pushed and Reed wouldn’t budge – no Wii, get an Xbox or PS3)
- Comcast is winning customers due to increase demand for broadband
- DSL is not fast enough for video
- Online video expands cable’s relevance
- Netflix halo effect on Comcast, Netflix is the iPod of broadband
- As for the studios, they want good distribution and good profits
- They love it when we write big checks
- DVD is stable, postal system not that expensive
- Spent $600 mm on postage this year, will spend $700mm next year
- Bandwidth costs falling thanks to competition be Limelight, Akamai…
- Amazon rate card: a nickel a gig, a nickel to stream a movie, cheap!
- see a hybrid model for Netflix in the future
- eventhough 41% of subs now stream, a year ago it was only 22%
- sometimes you might still need a DVD, like for the car
- DVD business is still growing for Netflix, that’s for the rest of the US
- DVDs will be with us til 2030
- looking to expand internationally with streaming only

Kevin Lynch, Adobe
- Adobe seeks to help cotnent creators get content to all screens viewed
- partnering w 19 of the 20 handsets mfrs for flash apps (sans Apple)
- 2010 flash-enabled tvs will debut
- HTML5 will have many flash-like features like video tagging

Michael Gregory, YouTube Star/Auto-Tune The News
- VJ remix culture is rising in popularity
- Getting sued would be the best thing to happen to me as an artist
- How do people interact with my music, by dancing
- Sony is a great sponsor, said we like your take on things, do it your way
- People always want to slice the hen that lays the golden eggs
- I’m just a man fighting for the future
- If I was in the history books, that would be an insult to the human race
- Auto-tune is a novelty which will reach fad overdrive then settle into equilibrium

Quincy Smith, CBS Interactive
- CBS went from #140 monthly uniques to #10, leading all media
- Zander & Gang are great to run this $600mm rev/$100mm profit co
- Can help CBS more from outside
- Moving on to become a new media banker
- not hating on Hulu, was an early success, first time a JV ever worked
- Future of TV=Video, doesn’t matter what screen, but that you watched it
- 120B is how big the pie is, need to make it work
- the more you distribute, the more valuable the root but embeds kill C3s
- core content needs to be seen, counted and get paid for

Brian Fuhrer, Nielsen
- In a Mac commercial, I’m a PC
- More TVs in the US than people
- In the past 8 months, TV Everywhere coming fast
- Just finished test of 400 homes
- Single currency C3 rating-qualifying programs same tv/web content
- Tracking for cross-platform measurement of extended screen
- National Television Panel of 20,000 US HH, 50% to measure tv/web

Hunter Walk, YouTube
- Remember when the future was 500 channels with the advent of cable
- Now the future isn’t 500,000 channels online
- Rather the future is the channel of one, the channel of you
- Your content follows you
- discover by what you like, friends like and what you don’t know you like
- YouTube top priority is discovery of the 20hrs of uploads every minute
- YouTube is moving to 1080p for a lush unique experience
- noone should worry about YouTube’s bandwidth costs, scale gracefully and enthusiastically
- first build traffic, then monetize
- mobile is exploding, everyone has a camera in their pocket at all times
- YouTube is a media catalyst, a platform, connecting content creators to their audience, YouTube is about video – period

Matthew McRae, VIZIO
- went from zero to hero in 3-4 years
- took advantage of transition from CRT to flat screen
- more nimble, didn’t have the baggage of past investments
- brought price down as fast as possible
- run it like a SV start up with product sprints, short product cycles
- work hard, fast, leverage partners, lifespan of avg tv is 7y, Vizio 5y
- moving to smart tv with yahoo widget engine and flash
- remote with QWERTY keyboard and game controls to write any app
- allowing any device to be remote incl iPhone and Droid
- open platforms for developer community
- come along way in connected ome but network still fails a lot
- have auto-frequency switching to deal with it
- browser is part of webkit API but right now prefer small native apps
- TV shouldn’t look like computer
- Walmart sold more HD than Best Buy, training themselves to do better
- scale will matter most in next transition

Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook & Andy Mitchell, CNN
- Served 20mm live streams for Obama inauguration
- iReport doing well, only video of Minn bridge collapse was iReport
- Friends already on FB, no need to make appointment
- Looking into asynch watching with friends to avoid spoilers
- Will be announcing more CNN/FB events in 2010

Jeremy Reed, Demand Media, Angela Gyetvan, 3ality, Brent Friedman, Electric Farm…
– EF – Sony was a great partner to Electric Farm on Afterworld
- EF – New immersive sites will resemble VW not static mag hubs
- EF – Encourage intuitive exploration, devotion will replace attention
- Ooyala – mobile best way to authenticate the user, will be biggest driver
- DM – create content at scale and at a cost that could be monetized
- don’t greenlight content without ROI
- DM freelance community health insurance, biweekly paycheck
- DM produced 170,000 videos, 5000 articles
- DM – look to searches not being filled
- DM – brands want useful actionable filtered content

Chuck Seiber, Roku
– 400,000 Roku boxes sold give or take a few hundred thousand
- heavy users watch 16 hrs a day like retirement homes
- any given night one third are using the boxes, avg time 2.5 hrs per view
- AVOD uptick in March, more content leads to more boxes
- Channel Store SDK dev community, anyone can develop a channel
- No adult content, Roku has QC process so apps can’t crash player
- BD deals with Netflix, AVOD, Rev3, blip.tv, MLB…
- eventually will turn on USB feature
- worrying about broadband caps is like worrying about earthquakes
- may not happen, may not be big deal, for net neutrality but not metering
- like MLB live programming
- Roku to get Xbox Netflix programming feature soon
- Roku is now a legitimate member of the stack, simple and cheap
- Boxee and TiVo licensing UI and programming to other CE
- Roku will stay focused on its HW roots for now, sales are strong

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/07/28/bliptv-partners-with-youtube-roku
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/28/scitech/pcanswer/main5429582.shtml
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/10/roku-sporting-new-hardware-channel-store-coming-soon.ars
http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2009/10/roku-announces-roku-channel-store-roku-sd-roku-xr-models.html

Jason Sieken, PBS
– PBS is going sick, nasty, rad, cool with flashy new site, video.pbs.org
- Avg engagement time is 26 minutes per stream vs Hulu’s 6 minutes
- most trusted brand in US, classic innovators dilemma
- change is upon us but don’t want to mess with what’s working
- Avg viewer age is approaching 60
- key constituents are local PBS affiliates
- New site has backend allowing locals to share content

Gary Cohen, Redbox
– 20600 US kiosks, lawsuits have increased awareness
- SF strong Netflix town, 200 in SF
- vs 400 Denver vs. SLC 1 Kiosk for every 3000 people
- rented half a billion DVDs since launch
- rent DVDs $1 a day at convenient locations: 20 of the 25 supermarket chains, Walmarts, Walgreens, 7-Elevens, indoors/outdoors
- Redbox doesn’t cannibalize EST, adding efficiency, tiny footprint
- know customers, have data, talk via email, promote movies for studios
- Movie on light box gets 200mm impressions by foot traffic in stores
- Jennifer Anniston’s Management did better on Redbox than theatrical
- New releases with star power, box has limited capacity
- Testing digital for long tail
- DVDs have legs for a long time, DVDs and digital to coexist a long time
- testing price points, all business should know price elasticity of products
- but $1 makes math easy
- 25% rent at one place, return at another
- you can reserve online, swipe card and out pops movie

VC Panel:  Bill Gurley, Benchmark Capital…

Clicker Cocktails
- 1st issue of TV Guide in 1953 with baby Desi on cover
- It was a grid with 3 channels and 48 time slots
- Today we’re sifting through billions of videos, thousands of sites
- Clicker aims to be the complete programming guide to internet tv
- 400,000 TV episodes, 30,000 movies, 50,000 music videos
- launched 58 days ago, $8mm venture backed by Benchmark…
- Out of Beta today, check it out, www.clicker.com
- Competitor Yidio has 300,000 TV episodes, 30,000 movies
- 4mm monthly uniques, $500,000 angel backed
- Compare at www.yidio.com
- Yidio’s PR hustled the bloggers table for this post, they’re good:
www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/11/12/yidio-gets-angel-funding-online-video-index

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Superman, der sich von einer Domina stillen lässt, während sie ihn auspeitscht – dies und noch viel mehr solcher Superhelden Bilder

von Fernando Reyes @ MOYA

und hier in meiner medianet Fotogalerie von der Vernissage

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Centenas de engenheiros. Ciclos de desenvolvimento de vários anos. Grupo de talento global. O desafio? Como pegar em algo extremamente bem-sucedido e subir a fasquia? Como proporcionar mais valor? Estamos a falar da família Cisco Integrated Services Router, que já vendeu mais de 7 milhões de unidades em menos de 5 anos, possivelmente o router de rede mais vendido de sempre.

A abordagem? Ouvir os nossos clientes. Analisar as tendências de mercado. Observar para onde vão evoluir as redes nos próximos 3-5 anos. Compreender o quadro geral. E construir uma plataforma que permite aos nossos clientes inovar e desenvolver o seu negócio. Aumentar a eficiência, a colaboração, a produtividade e a capacidade de resposta. Segura. Ininterrupta. Fiável. Ajudar os nossos clientes a oferecerem experiências mais ricas aos seus clientes e aumentar a fidelidade.

O resultado? A nova e fantástica família Cisco Integrated Services Router Generation 2 (ISR G2). Até 5 vezes mais performance do que o ISR original, a preços semelhantes. Permitindo novas experiências, algumas que soltam a imaginação. Preparar o futuro, agora.

O primeiro argumento para a  Cisco Borderless Network Architecture, ajudar a transformar a visão em realidade, um passo de cada vez.

O ISR G2 foi projectado para entrega de vídeo desde o início. Colaboração baseada em vídeo. Videovigilância, stream de vídeo, webex. Melhor colaboração. Maior produtividade. Redução dos custos de viagens. Um argumento para medianet.

Revoluciona a forma como os serviços são entregues nas filiais. Verdadeiramente. Acabaram-se os envios de módulos de hardware cada vez que um novo serviço tem que ser implementado noutro escritório. Envie o seu hardware uma vez. Instale qualquer software no novo Services Ready Engines para qualquer escritório filial, a qualquer hora. Perfeito.

Redução de custos? Sim. No seu ADN. Poupança de energia. Eficiência energética. A escolha de controlar inteligentemente o consumo de energia. Espaço para crescimento futuro. Protecção de investimento. Tudo afirmativo.

Os ISRs originais também não se vão embora.

Um grande obrigado a todos os nossos clientes e parceiros que foram parte do percurso do ISR até agora. Esperamos continuar a contar com a vossa parceria. Os parabéns às vendas, equipas, engenheiros da Cisco e para todos os meus antigos colegas nos vários grupos de marketing da Cisco pelo seu fantástico trabalho de equipa e colaboração para o lançamento do ISR G2.

Por isso, avance. Descubra. Envolva-se na experiência. Expanda os horizontes de negócio. Explore novas possibilidades. Seja bem-sucedido.

Tradução do post publicado por Shashi Kiran, Cisco Innovation Blog

Қордайға кетіп бара жатқандағы намазхана

1. Яndex.kz келді. “Салам” деді. Біздің нарыққа да сынамалап еніп жатыр. Енді mail.ru да келетін шығар. Бірақ ол баяғыда келіп қойды ғой.
2. WordPress.com блогтары не себепті Алматы қаласындағы кейбір мекемелерде ашылмайтынын түсінбей жүрмін. Бірте-бірте өшірмекші ме, әлде басқа ойлары бар ма?
3. Google.kz қазақша сөздерді іздегенде балама ұсынатын болыпты.
4. Дэвидтің бір семинарына қатыстым. Қатты ауырып қалыпты.
   

   Дэвид ауырып тұрғандықтан сұхбат бере алмады

   Түрі қызарып кеткен. Айтқан тақырыбы: әлеуметтік желілер, олардың маңызы еді. Аудитория жас журналистер болғандықтан осы тақырыпты таңдаған екен. Әйтпесе, компында “Интернеттен ақша табу” деген тәрізді тақырыптағы презентацияларды көзім шалған.

5. Өткен аптада Бішкекте болдым. Тәжікстаннан, Өзбекстаннан, Түркменстаннан әріптестерім келді.
   

   OSCE Бішкек

   Тәжікстандық журналист “Қысты жек көремін” дейді. Себебі қыс келе бастаса болғаны: “Жылу, свет” деген мәселе қайтадан туады екен. Былтыр екі күн бойы күллі республикада свет болмапты.

6. Алматыдағы қонақ үйлердің бірінде семинарда отыр едік. Бір кезде: “Сездіңдер ме? Жер сілкінді” деді. Семинар жайына қалды.
7. Халал сөзі маркейтингке де еніпті. Алматы аялдамаларында “Шошқа қосылмаған” деген жазумен тәтті өнімдер жарнамалануда. Естеріңізде болсын! Шошқа майы қосылмаған деген сөз, халал екенін білдірмейді.
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   Medianet 2009

   Бірақ бәрінің инетке төтелей шығу мүмкіндігі жоқ екен.

9. Қарашаның ортасында КИМЭП-те тағы бір семинар өтпекші. Орыс тілінде. Сол семинарда “Қазақ тіліндегі жаңа медияның жайы” деген тақырыпта презентация жасайсың ба деп жатыр. Ұсыныстарың болса, қуанар едім.
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MobileWeb.be will be presenting at the MediaNet Vlaanderen workshop “Mobile present and future. A reality check” this next Thursday.

“Web or App: where’s the money?”, Danny Lein (CEO mobileweb.be)
The strongly growing Mobile Internet opens up new possible business models for media companies, along with new operational and technical challenges. Which technologies will prevail and which sources of revenue can be tapped into? What are the opportunities and pitfalls offered by the emerging Application Stores such as the iTunes AppStore?

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The paid-download world of digital music is a tricky beast to tame.   Artists continue to struggle to generate revenue even though they can easily establish a distribution network via iTunes, eMusic, Amazon, CDbaby.com, and so on.   Here lies the problem. Digital distribution is fragmented among only a few big players. Consumers continue to remain loyal to their chosen distribution networks whether it be iTunes or a bitorrent site like Mininova.  When a person hears a new band or song, it is almost instinctual that they Google the name and stumble onto either a MySpace page or an artist website.   Discovery is not the issue.  The issue arises when someone hopes to buy the music, but is forced to search through iTunes, see if the band is available on eMusic, or scour the web for torrent files.   From a user experience perspective, this deters a good amount of the target audience away from seeking out actual copies of the music in exchange for the ability to stream music.   

So what is the solution?  A few companies have been working to develop open API music e-commerce stores which can be easily integrated on any web page.  Imagine visiting an artists website and being able to access an entire discography with the ability to stream and purchase songs, without ever leaving the page. SNOCAP has been at this for a while, creating an easy to integrate open API for an artist’s MySpace page.  The company has been relatively unsuccessful with the idea, mainly because of their exclusive partnership with MySpace. Musicians must realize that MySpace serves mainly as a portal for discovery not commerce. Music fans head to an artists MySpace page to stream tracks and get information rather than buy music. 

Recently, another company, MediaNet Digital, announced it’s own new open API, MN Open.  MN Open hosts a number of web components that can be used by anyone and easily installed onto a website without any coding required. Alan McGlade, CEO of MediaNet, stated: “MediaNet is delivering the next generation of music services. We are changing the paradigm by bringing music to the user rather than forcing them to go to a handful of centralized online destinations to acquire downloads. The MN Open Web Components and API offer for the first time, the ability to engage users in the moment to discover and purchase music, while our customers can keep them on their site longer and maximize revenue.”  The components include: 

• Media Matcher: Automatically matches MediaNet’s catalog against existing web content
• Media Links: Hyperlinks references to artists, albums and songs within existing content on page
• Relevant Media Search: Integrates into site’s existing search and returns media results alongside regular search results
• Media Explorer: Dynamically displays music-related information with purchasable media
• Media Charts: Charts top selling content to entice music discovery, sampling and purchases
• Media Purchase: Fulfills purchases through an automatically configured and setup component which appears in its dedicated, secure window

What I find very promising about MN Open is its feature functionality and it’s ability to be completely customized, branded, and integrated into any artists page.  Already, a number of music service providers such as MOG have arranged deals with MN Open to become their streaming music service.   The service may help decentralize digital distribution and allow artists e-commerce stores to become fabricated into the basic layout of their web page.  Another cool feature is that even music fans can embed the API on their site.  Imagine a fan blogging about their favorite artist while also helping them sell the music on their own site. While open API’s may not be the revolutionary technology necessary to immediately stimulate revenue from digital music, I believe that it may hold the key to democratizing music e-commerce.   While the web inches its way toward Web 3.0 capabilities, we will begin to see more open API’s integrated into websites.  We are already beginning to see the “life-stream” appear on many web pages via the Twitter open API.  As these technologies continue to proliferate the web, I believe open API commerce platforms may gain substantial traction.  Why would you seek out music on iTunes or a torrent site if you have the ability to get it right then and there on their web page?   

The next challenge is generating demand for your music.  Digital distribution is most definitely not going to create millionaires off of a one-hit-wonder.  Those days are long gone.  What it can do is provide an easy to use access point for fans to seek out and purchase music.  This may only be one hurdle musicians have to face in today’s industry, but as digital sales continue to rise we must question the dominance of iTunes and Amazon as digital distribution outlets.

Na bitte – wir sind wieder wer. Zumindest ein bisschen. Sturm, Rapid, Austria und Red Bull Salzburg stehen in der Gruppenphase der Europa League und treffen dort auf höchst attraktive Gegner.

So bekommen es etwa Rapid mit HSV und Celtic Glasgow und Sturm Graz mit Panathinaikos Athen und Galatasaray Istanbul zu tun. Wer nicht live im Stadion sein kann, darf nun sogar wählen, auf welchem TV-Sender er sich die Spiele ansehen wird.

Der ORF überträgt zwar nicht, dafür aber Sky Sport, Sat.1 Österreich und – man lese und staune – Puls 4.

Der junge Fernsehkanal verkündet heute stolz, dass pro Runde ein Spiel eines österreichischen Teilnehmers live und exklusiv im Free-TV übertragen wird. Eine gute Sache – im Sinne der Fans. Dabei hörte sich die Einstellung von Puls 4 zum Fußball vor ziemlich genau zwei Jahren noch anders an.

Anlässlich des Markenwechsels im Herbst 2007 – aus Puls TV wurde Puls 4 – verbannte man nicht nur den beliebten Fußballtalk “Match am Montag” aus dem Programm. Das Branchenmagazin medianet schrieb über die Ausrichtung des Senders:

“Man wolle sicher keinen ‘Frauensender’ machen, aber Fußball, Gewaltdarstellungen und Kriegsfilme etwa soll es nicht geben[...]“.

EcoDoc is a 3 week program for filmmakers and environmentalists to  realize and communicate their vision to the Victoria public, to BC and to the world. MediaNet, in partnership with The Community Arts Council of Greater  Victoria is presenting a week of seminars and workshops for the EcoDoc participants and to the community.

Workshops Sept 12 to 19; Production Sept 20-Oct 4
Screening Oct 7, Victoria Event center

We are proud to have MediaNet members and Media Partners join with us to bring a mentored filmmaking program to the Victoria community.

To sign up for the program call MediaNet at 250-381-4428 or send us an email mailto:communications@media-net.bc.ca

The registration fee for the program is $150 (or $125 for MediaNet or Cinevic members) and guarantees participants a  space in all the workshops as well as access to MediaNet equipment and editing facilities (rental costs included in the registration fee). As well, participants will receive ongoing technical and production mentoring. There are a limited number of spaces available in this program.

Watch the videos from EcoDoc 08 http://www.media-net.bc.ca/otherprograms/ecodocvideos.html

EcoDoc workshop schedule
(all events at the Community Arts Council Gallery: G6 – 1001 Douglas St, unless otherwise noted – some of the workshops may be open to the general public, but spaces will be limited, and eco-doc participants will have reserved spaces; admission to all workshops is included in the eco-doc program registration fee).

Sat Sept 12 – 2 pm – orientation
Meet your fellow documentarians and become familiar with the schedule and how the program works

7 PM – Rick Searle – keynote address – Saving the Real World Wide Web with Social Media
The times are unprecedented. Human activities now threaten to completely overwhelm the systems that maintain life on the planet – the real World Wide Web. Simultaneously, a new social ecosystem is emerging, connecting people across time and space as never before. Social media has an incredible potential to galvanize and mobilize collective action necessary to avert worst-case scenarios.
www.ekoscommunications.com

Sunday 13 Sept – 2 PM Cyrus Block – lighting for the Documentary (EcoDoc participants only) Cinematographer Cyrus Bloc will share his insights and knowledge gathered during a lifetime of working on documentaries, feature films and broadcast series info at IMDB

7 PM viewing internet documentaries:
an evening of viewing documentaries available on the internet from Vimeo to YouTube with discussion and shared opinions

Wed 16 Sept – 7 PM Dogwood – Will Horter (date to be confirmed) – open to the public
Docwood Initiative’s inspriational leader Will Horter speaks and inspires as he talks about the environmental issues facing us on the Island.

Thursday 17 Sept – environmental issues talk TBA

Friday 18 Sept – Tom Shandel – creating the documentary: a producers view (open to the public) From “The Corporation” (1999) to “America, Love It or Leave It” (1990), from the founding of medicare (“Bitter Medicine” 1983) to “Kerouac” (1997) Tom Shandel has been making documentaries that take the pulse of the times. Tom will share his insights and his knowledge about documentaries and what makes them work. http://shandel.ca/

Sat 19
Richard Boyce/Kirk Schwartz – Story editing session 10 am to 5 pm (EcoDoc participants only) MediaNet’s Technical Director Kirk Schwartz and environmentalist, filmmaker and social activist Richard Boyce team up to help you refine and develop your story

Sunday 20 sept 2 pm Richard boyce – Activist Video Workshop (EcoDoc participants only) Activist and filmmaker Richard Boyce shares his experiences using video not just for creating documentaries but as will in his work with Homeless Nation, in the courtroom, with politians and public accountability and in changing public opinion

Sat 26 Sept (tentative date) Mandy Leith Editing mentor sessions (EcoDoc participants only)- works in progress.Editor, activist and founder of Open Cinema, Mandy brings us years of editing and storytelling experience to help refine and focus your doc

Sunday 27 Sept 7 PM participants Crit night – works in progress - Participants will gather to look at and discuss each others work in progress with an eye to learning from and about each other’s work

During the 3 week period of EcoDoc all participants will have access to MediaNet’s production and editing facilites and  technical support. Participants will be guided in working with Final Cut and Final Cut Express as well as support for audio and video aquisition.

Production ends 3 Oct

Screening Wed 7 Oct 7 PM – Victoria Events Centre (Everybody welcome – admission by donation). Come see the work done by local Victorians about local issues in the friendly atmosphere of the Victoria Event Center, 1415 Broad St

Beginning September 6th, 2009, AT&T has confirmed via an internal memo leak that ALL customers with a smart phone purchased after September 6th, 2009 will be required to migrate over to the existing data plans. People with existing MediaNet plans will be grandfathered in but those signing up after the 6th are SOL.

Beginning September 6, 2009, customers who activate or upgrade to a Smartphone will need to sign up for an appropriate data plan. Existing Smartphone customers active prior to September 6, 2009 will be grandfathered and exempt from the new policy.

Why we are making this change?
We want our customers to have the best possible experience with their Smartphones. A predictable bill is a key factor in customer satisfaction, so effective September 6, 2009 Smartphone customers will need to subscribe to a data plan, as the vast majority of customers already do. Data plans let customers fully utilize their device, without the worry of bill shock.

How we will ensure an extraordinary customer experience?
The sales representative is the customer’s expert resource in helping select the right device for their needs. When a customer does not want a data plan, we will position other devices in our industry leading portfolio for the customer to choose from, as many devices do not require a data plan.

Action Required:
Sales Managers will review the Know the Facts, Job Aid, and FAQs (found under Related Links) with their sales teams and ensure all sales representatives fully understand the new policy and how to position the Smartphone data requirement to customers. A Sales Coaching Session will be available on September 5, 2009 (document to be distributed in advance).

[via BGR]

Hey guys,

As you can probably already noticed during the weekend, we’ve added a new Music Store Selection feature which enables you to select your music store services for $1 per store/per album (with the exception of MediaNet being $5 and VidZone $10). Now as a free customer, you’ll be able to gain access to extra stores easily and gain more distribution without paying any annual fees. As always, you’ll be entitled to 100% of royalties from all music store services. Another bulletin is that starting today, the WaTunes free service will be only available on the iTunes Store. This means that moving forward, the iTunes Store will be the only store where we’ll deliver your content for free!

Another great announcement is that we’re finalizing our new Wal-Mart MP3 deal. This enables you to sell your music into the Wal-Mart store with great ease. As a VIP customer, this store addition will be added into your services entirely free. For free customers, you can OPT-IN to the new Wal-Mart store for just a buck! No annual fees, no track fees, nada!

Customers who are power hungry for iTunes will still be able to gain access into the iTunes Store entirely free while receiving 100% of the royalties. So what are you waiting for? Get into the new music store services today and take advantage of these new offerings.

The Times of India may have made many sterling contributions to Indian journalism in the first 150 years of its existence, but its chief claim to fame in the last 21 years has been to blur the distinction between editorial and advertisement to the extent of rendering the former irrelevant to journalism.

The Times is, of course, free to do what it pleases. But when the market leader with a stranglehold on circulation and advertising revenue sets such a low editorial benchmark, it leaves little room for “serious” players invested in journalism when confronted by advertisers accustomed to the red-carpet treatment.

Either they have to swallow their pride and follow the leader hoping no one will notice—or risk losing the advertising and falling by the wayside.

A good example is yesterday’s Deccan Herald, the Bangalore based single-City newspaper that was trounced by ToI in its lair over a decade ago and is now facing fresh competition for the No.2 slot from new entrants like DNA and Deccan Chronicle .

DH carries a half-page advertisement for “affordable premium homes” launched by the listed company Puravankara on page 1, and follows up with a news story on the “good response” to the advertiser’s project on page 4 with prose straight from the advertiser’s brochure.

Only the naive would contend that this is the first time an advertiser has taken an expensive ad on the promise of positive coverage in the news columns, but….

Images: courtesy Deccan Herald

Links via Anand V.

Also read: ‘Indian media in deeply murky ethical territory’

When Puravankara says Jayakar Jerome zindabad

Le 7 juillet 2009, participez à l’évènement exceptionnel dans les Hautes-Alpes : Izoard 707.

Izoard 707, événement dans les Hautes-Alpes

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