Tag Archives: production techniques

January 22

BROADCASTING IN 2024: SPOTLIGHT FALLS ON PRODUCTION AND PLATFORMS

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Here’s a recent article I wrote for IBC looking at the trends in broadcast technology over the past year. https://www.ibc.org/distribution-consumption/features/broadcasting-in-2024-spotlighted-production-and-platforms/21539

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September 03

Where are the Creators?

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Music Tech UK asked me to contribute an opinion piece for their blog. You can find it on their site https://musictechnology.uk/where-are-the-creators/ along with a lot of other interesting stuff. Where are the Creators? By John Maxwell Hobbs, CEO, Streamline Media Over the past year, I’ve attended a number of music panels focussed on everything from […]

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September 03

Streamline Podcast – Tim Boggs

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My startup Streamline Media Limited has launched a podcast. We’ll be talking to a wide variety of people in the creative industries about their work. The second episode features Tim Boggs. Listen to episode 2 with Tim Boggs Timothy Boggs is an award winning filmmaker, Artist and songwriter who lives and works in Los Angeles. […]

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September 03

Streamline Podcast – Eric Liljestrand

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My startup Streamline Media Limited has launched a podcast. We’ll be talking to a wide variety of people in the creative industries about their work. The first episode features my old friend Eric Liljestrand. Listen to episode 1 with Eric Liljestrand Eric Liljestrand is a guitarist, producer and engineer based in Los Angeles. He began […]

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January 11

AI AND ETHICS: THE DEFINING POINT OF CONTENT CREATION

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In the past few weeks, the news has been filled with one dramatic story after the other about AI. However, in a significant shift, rather than being about the technology itself, these stories have been about the people creating AI and those affected by it. Here’s an article I wrote for IBC on the subject. […]

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December 14

Outside Broadcast CTOs

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I’ve just interviewed six CTOs leading major Outside Broadcast companies for the publication SVG Europe. They’ve all had to overcome signification challenges to their industry during the Covid lockdowns, and they’ve all come out the other side with strong insights into the present and future of broadcasting. Read them here.

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September 01

Waiting for the Sergeant Pepper Moment

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I’ll be chairing one of the featured panels at IBC this year called, “Waiting for the Sergeant Pepper Moment,” looking at the potential technology has to change the way we make television. You can read about the panel at the IBC website. In 1967, The Beatles released their album “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” […]

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August 08

BBC Academy – Technology – Out with the old, in with the new

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I’ve written an article for the BBC Academy looking at the dramatic changes we’re experience in broadcast technology. Check it out here: BBC Academy – Technology – Out with the old, in with the new.

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October 11

To the Spoils Goes the Victor (now, the hard work begins)

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In my last post, I only half-jokingly asked, “What do you do when you’ve won the revolution?” The answer to that is, “get working.” A revolution overturns the old order. Most revolutions fail because they’ve only focussed on the negative, with the only goal being the elimination of that negative. Once that’s accomplished, for most […]

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Big data won’t save us

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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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