Cox Crow

Ernie the Attorney covers the JumpTV case. So does Robert Shaw:

Technology Neutral Regulation?: Webcasters Demand TV Rights. JumpTV.com claims that Canadian law allows it to webcast network TV signals. But the broadcasters' lobbying group says the government shouldn't let that happen. Anyone remember this started with the shutdown by a U.S. judge in 1999 of the now defunct iCraveTV.com, a Canadian company that began streaming television shows over the Internet?

6:20:10 PM #
categories: Industry, Media

Presence of Mind

cwcoxjr (10:33:15 AM): the UC PDA thing is similar to a project at PARC — part of the Ubiquitous Computing project
cybrarygal (10:33:38 AM): yeah, just more "mainstream"
cwcoxjr (10:35:30 AM): presence is very important. I know "where" you are by your AIM presence, for example.
cwcoxjr (10:35:51 AM): eventually, Radio will know where you are by your AIM [or Jabber] presence
cybrarygal (10:36:07 AM): or your news aggregator
cwcoxjr (10:40:39 AM): makes no sense to deliver the newspaper to your house when you're on vacation

5:28:41 PM # Google It!
categories: Writing Online

Patience, Grasshopper

In 1997, while working for The Associated Press, I sat in on an interview with then-CEO of Compaq Eckhard Pfeiffer. Most of the interview was forgettable, but one thing sticks out: he had to leave to go a conference where he was speaking on digital convergence — you know, where the PC and the TV become one and the same beast.

The term had been bandied about for years before that, and I remember thinking, "Yeah. Right."

3:37:02 PM # Google It!
categories: Industry, Media

The Shifted Instigator asks, "You're going to blog that, right?"

2:27:05 PM #
categories: Messaging, Writing Online

What are you trying to tell me?

Jenny said:

I think the most thought-provoking idea in this editorial is the question asking how you would explain the internet to an 18th Century person. Now there's a subject worthy of discussion! I'm going to be thinking about that one for days....

Leonard Pitts, Jr., in "History didn't foresee cyber sleaze," asked:

You're talking to men from the era of broadsheets and pamphlets. And you're trying to get them to understand an invisible network that beams music, news and advertisements for lower interest rates all over the world. How would you do it?

I don't think it's beyond the Founders' comprehension. But what element of the Internet are you trying to explain? Networks? Or the crazy feature that the Internet has of routing around damage?

1:56:39 PM # Google It!
categories: Language