Archive for February, 2007
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
I'm giving a couple of lectures this semester in the Ecotexts: Nature/Writing/Technology course which has some great books and films on it. I'm getting to give lectures on Blade Runner and the anime Metropolis, but I've also been exploring links between these and other films on the course, including ...
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
If you're interested in Net Neutrality, then check out this evocative mini-documentary on why regulating the internet in the ways being debate in the US are a bad idea of democracy, a bad idea for the US, and a really bad idea for the rest of us!
Save the Internet | ...
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
The Age has a revealing article on work done by Alex Malik which concludes that the delay between the US/UK and Australia release dates for television are one of the primary reasons what people turn to bittorrent:
Huge delays in airing overseas TV shows locally are turning Australians into pirates, says ...
Posted in australia, bittorrent, convergence, tv, tyranny of digital distance | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 19th, 2007
The big news for YouTube watchers is that YouTube's first megastar - New Zealander Jessica Rose aka Lonelygirl15 -- is making the transition from the tube to the silver screen.
As The Age notes:
Web video star Jessica Rose - better recognised by her YouTube alias Lonelygirl15 - will play a role ...
Posted in convergence, lonelygirl15, youtube | 1 Comment »
