There are so many posts out now about the potential trend of “cutting the cord.” In other words, dropping cable and satellite service and relying on free to air television and internet streaming. Well, I’ve gone even further that that – I’ve even cut the cord to the rooftop aerial and am getting all my […]
Category Archives: Musings
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
This is coming from a scholarly publication perspective, but the problems the author describes are almost identical to what we’re facing in broadcasting. In a nutshell, we are generating data at a rate faster than Moore’s Law can keep up with. Unless that rate changes, it’s just going to keep getting more expensive to store […]
Culture Hack Scotland 2011 – Is coding an art?
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
This is a talk I gave last year at Culture Hack Scotland on the topic, “Is coding an art?”
Big data won’t save us
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
There’s a lot of focus on “big data” these days after the recent Facebook IPO. The term is becoming as ubiquitous at “the cloud.” There’s a great line in Michael Wolff’s article, “The Facebook Fallacy,” at the MIT Technical Review. “The company knows so much about so many people that its executives are sure that […]
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Blurring of Lines
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
In the 121 years since the invention of the motion picture camera, the worlds of production and post production have operated as two connected, but completely discrete units. The production side, an optical/chemical/mechanical process, essentially unchanged from the Victorian era until the widespread adoption of the portable video camera (until recently, almost all feature films […]
June
11
Bridging the Gaps
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
There is intense focus at the moment on the potential of IP delivery of media. A slew of acronyms like VOD, OTT, and IPTV are being joined by terms such as, “second screen,” “orchestrated media,” “lean back,” and “lean forward,” viewing with more to come. To date, the majority of effort in this area has […]
June
11
TV or Not TV
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
There’s a good article by Henry Blodget about the move to online video at Business Insider Here are some reactions off the top of my head: Interesting and clear. Blodget has a good track record on predicting trends. However (and this is a big, “however”) in my opinion, the doomsayers are missing the real story […]
Form and function – leaving the typewriter behind
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
I gave my wife a portable radio for Christmas. It has FM, DAB, Internet, WiFi, UPnP and network folder sharing. Essentially it does nothing that the computers in the house can’t do, but for some reason it’s opened the world of audio programmes in a way that our computers have not. We spent the holiday […]
Towards Hypermusic
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
Originally published at MIT‘s Leonardo On-Line in 1998 Experience While connecting to the Internet, the screaming of two modems arguing about their handshaking protocols finally stops when they come to an agreement. The modem speaker is turned off, but the modem continues to translate digital information into an acoustic signal: music for machines, perhaps. It […]
Turning Cybercasts From Music Promotion to Art Form
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
From @ New York 1998 With the opening of the latest incarnation of the Intel New York Music Festival, a great deal of attention is being paid to the novelty — and commercial and artistic potential– of cybercasting. But “Cybercasting” itself is nothing new:
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