Archives for May 2007
Comcast’s new game changer
150 Megabits per second!
For an in-home, consumer internet connection.
Can I just say that again?
150 Megabits per second!
My current cable modem taps out around 5 Megabits. What COULDN’T I do with 30x more speed?
Don’t miss John Paczkowski’s terrific and short All Things Digital post on Comcast CEO Brian Roberts presentation at The Cable Show.
Is it a [...]
The Media Pyramid & Eventness
To the left is a basic representation of what I call The Media Pyramid.
I’ve developed the Pyramid as a lens through which to understand the different kinds of media and how they relate to each other, particularly in terms of how we consume them cognitively.
The Media Pyramid splits into three sections:
1) The yellow bit at [...]
Thinking Blogger Award… another meme
How kind of Christy Dena to tap me for a Thinking Blogger Award. This is a new — and interesting — meme spreading throughout the blogosphere. I’m going to ponder who I want to tap and get back to y’all here.
My question: does it count if I KNOW the blogger in question and [...]
The Muppets Take Tarantino
Nanette, a colleague of mine, happened upon a hysterical Muppet version of Pulp Fiction.
In addition to sheer humor, this is also significant as an example of what Henry Jenkins calls “participatory culture.” The internet empowers a casual version of this sort of revisioning, but even before the spread of cheap bandwidth and videotools this was [...]
The Saga Continues… now on Valleywag
From my last post, more on “the list” emerges on Valleywag. And, doy, I found the email invitation that got lost in my latest hurricane of business travel.
