Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
Monday, July 21st, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) The recording industry has finally met its match, and it's one bad mother -- or, more accurately, several good ones. The first good mother in our saga is Stephanie Lenz, who posted a 30-second video of ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) So a New York judge last week ordered Google to hand over 12 terabytes of YouTube user information to Viacom. Yes, we know what you watched last summer, or at least Viacom's attorneys soon will. The ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Why spend $50 to $100 a month for video entertainment when there's so much good, free stuff on the Web? Good-bye, couch potato, and hello, mouse potato. (This post originally appeared on PCworld.com.) Dan Tynan Lost lost me a long time ago. I'm sick to death of ...
Posted in Da Web, Lists, PC World, Video, Web 2.0 | 5 Comments »
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Over the last 24 hours this blog has been hit with hundreds of comment spams, all trying to drive people to the same site. (Thank god for Akismet, which trapped all but one of them.) I had over 100 in less than a day.
The spam tries to drive you ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
(This post originally appeared in Infoworld's Notes From the Field Blog.) It's been a wild week here in Cringeville. My blog posts on YouTube v. Viacom and the FCC's proposal for a pørn-free wireless Internet have inspired raging debates about copyrights and corporate rights, free speech and free sex. ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Wireless, multiroom home audio is here, sort of. But wireless HD video is still mostly a pipe dream.
(An edited version of this originally appeared in the June 08 issue of PC World magazine.)
Two things really irritate me. One is the miles of wire that you can see strung behind and ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) Frankly, I thought Viacom's $1 billion law suit against YouTube was dead. YouTube has been kicking people off its site left and right for posting copyrighted material, even if they didn't always deserve it. And Viacom had started ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) The longer I stay in this business, the more I think I should have listened to my mother and become a copyright attorney. Don't get me wrong -- I love digging for dirt and punishing the technologically wicked, ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Eventually, you'll be able to watch whatever you want wherever you want. But not today.
(A slightly different version of this appeared in the March 2008 issue of US Airways Magazine.)
By Dan Tynan
My family and I don't watch television anymore. However, we consume TV shows the way Homer Simpson ...
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