Tim Anderson muses on Apple Music providing a walled garden of goods that, though they could not have imagined it to be successful, sounds great and has nothing revolutionary about it.
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Tags: AC/DC, Apple, Apple Music, Beats Music, big data, iTunes, iTunes Match, Lala, Led Zeppelin, MOG, music piracy, OS X, popular music, Spotify, streaming music, Taylor Swift, The Beatles, Tidal, walled gardens, WWDC
Posted in Current Events, Music | Comments Off on Walling the Garden and Putting the App into Apple Music
While Internet denizens celebrate the web’s “official” 25th anniversary today, we might pause to recognize how confusing and uncertain “inventions” and “births” sometimes are.
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Tags: Apple, eWorld, hyperlinks, new media, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, World Wide Web
Posted in Internet, Perspectives | 4 Comments »
Jeremy Morris provides a report from the Apps and Affect conference held back in mid-October, which brought together a wide range of new media scholars to examine the relations between mobile apps and their networked context.
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Tags: App Culture, Apple, apps, Apps and Affect, Casual Software, DJ Spooky, Imaginary App, Jodi Dean, Mark Andrejevic, Paul Miller, Software Commodity, Svitlana Matviyenko
Posted in Report From... | Comments Off on The App Imaginary: Report from the Apps and Affect Conference
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Apple, blackout, CBS, Esquire Network, FilmOn X, iphone, IPO, SiriusXM, Time Warner Cable, Twitter
Posted in Columns, Current Events, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Sept 2 – Sept 15
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Apple, CBS, e-book, Greece, Hulu, Legendary, Microsoft, rolling stone, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros.
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? July 8 – July 21
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, apps, Google, Hulu, Microsoft, Star Trek, Strongbox, Tumblr, Xbox, Xbox One, Yahoo, YouTube
Posted in What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? May 12 – May 25
Ten media news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: advertising, Amazon, AOL, Apple, Barnes and Noble, CBS, Dell Inc, Dreamworks, Grammy Awards, NBC, Netflix, social media, Super Bowl, television, Virgin Media, Xbox
Posted in What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Feb 3-Feb 16
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: advertising, Apple, audiences, Blockbuster, digital music, Disney, Hollywood, independent film, internet, iTunes, MGM, mobile technology, Nintendo, piracy, porn, Samsung, Sony, Sundance, television, Twitter, video games, video on demand, Warner Bros., Xbox
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Jan 20-Feb 2
As we reinvent our lives through gamification, we have to ask ourselves what it means to be alive.
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Tags: Apple, digital media, gamification, gaming, internet, iPad, iphone, Jane McGonigal, Kinect, Nike, social media, TED, The Office, user-generated content, video games, Web. 2.0, Xbox 360
Posted in Games, Internet, Perspectives, Technology, TV | 1 Comment »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, box office, children, China, cloud services, digital media, Disney, Dreamworks, DVDs, e-readers, gaming, Hollywood, internet, iTunes, music, Nintendo, Redbox, social media, streaming, television, UltraViolet, Wal-mart, Xbox
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 1 Comment »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, Amazon, Apple, Disney, e-books, gaming, internet, internet radio, iPad, Iranian cinema, mobile technology, movie theaters, music, Netflix, Pandora, Redbox, Sony, streaming, technology, television, UltraViolet, Universal Music Group, Verizon, video on demand
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 1 Comment »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: advertising, Amazon, Apple, China, digital media, e-readers, Facebook, film festivals, gaming, iTunes, Lionsgate, music, newspapers, Nintendo, piracy, Reddit, Sony, Spotify, streaming, television, Twitter, UltraViolet
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Sept 2-15
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, Apple, Cannes, digital distribution, Facebook, film festivals, gaming, IMAX, independent film, Microsoft, music, Nintendo, piracy, SiriusXM, Spotify, tax credits, television, Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? April 15-28
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, digital distribution, distribution, Dreamworks, DVDs, e-books, Google, Hollywood, independent bookstores, independent film, internet, LGBTQ, magazines, music, Netflix, newspapers, Spotify, UltraViolet, video games, video on demand, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? April 1-14
Ira Glass' iconic voice seems to be everywhere, and offers insight into contemporary radio culture and stardom.
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Tags: Alex Blumberg, Apple, celebrity, Ira Glass, journalism, Mike Daisey, NPR, radio, This American Life, This American Life LIVE!, WBEZ
Posted in Columns, On Radio | 2 Comments »