EmailToday's video of the day is a throwback to one of the all time classics of Internet videos: the numa numa video. 12 years ago this was the height of Internet video. Video quality and broadband copacity was not what it was today, and the content reflected that. Most Internet video 12 years ago looked like something you'd see on America's Funniest Home Movies -- not great. Now, with full HD and faster Internet speeds what we watch over the Internet is vastly superior in terms of quality and content. Just imagine what kinds of videos we'll be watching on our computers in 12 years time.
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No News Today — or tomorrow for that matter.
March 26, 2024
For most of human history, people lived in a world without news. The concept simply did not exist. The idea of news is really a 19th-century phenomenon, driven first by newspapers, and then by electronic media which brought us radio, then TV and now the web. Now, it seems, we are headed back to a world without news. Not because the technology is not there, but rather because, increasingly, people are no longer interested in news, at least in the way it is packaged now.
What TV News Could Be
February 26, 2024
When television was invented in the 1930s, no one knew what TV news was supposed to look like. The medium had never existed before, and so, like Gutenberg half a millennium, prior, the first creators of TV news had to fall back on a medium with which they were familiar, and that was radio.
What Is News? What Should it Be?
February 20, 2024
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