Creative Labs Under Massive Blogosphere Attack Over Post To Daniel_K

A couple of updates to yesterdays post.
It appears Creative Labs is under a massive blogosphere attack at this moment.

As I write this there are 176 pages of feedback to Phil O’Shaughnessy’s about his post to Daniel_K. Mr. O’Shaughnessy is getting a lesson in Corporate Communications like he’s never had in his life.
The forum page [...]

Creative Lab Inc.’s Corporate Actions And The Reptilian Brain…..

This post is about a corporate culture problem that surfaces regularly and I just don’t understand why it continues. Last week I wrote a post on silo’d corporate culture and how in SONY’s case they had to back down on a $50 charge to remove bloatware from their VAIO laptops. Obviously following SONY’s BMG CD [...]

Transferring Those 16mm and 8mm Films In The Digital Era And Making Them Look Great!

Tonight Many Ayromlou of Nerdlogger and myself were questioned on modestly priced technology to transfer 16mm film to video. Short of having an old style Telecine or a more modern –and expensive– film Scanner, the last item that I purchased for this purpose was an Elmo TRV 16 unit. That was over 20 years [...]

STAETIM – Fourth Year New Media Festival at Ryerson University

I just returned from the opening of STAETIM which is the New Media Festival put on by the fourth year students in Ryerson’s New Media program. I mentioned in a post some weeks ago how passionate I am about this program in terms of its distinctiveness. In an era of rapid technological change New Media [...]

Revolabs Solo™ Wearable Wireless Microphones

Jeremy Littler the inventor of Streamulator showed me this neat wireless microphone. It’s the Revolabs Solo™ Wearable Wireless Microphone that’s a single lav that arraches to ones shirt. The reciever outputs the audio via a USB connection and charges the microphone when its not in use. Jeremy mentioned that the battery lasts eight hours! [...]

Avoiding Silos and How the Single Killer Application Does Not Exist

I think Dan Tynan got it right…. His recently published column titled “Ten technology combos that are changing how we work and live” really gets to the heart of the change process that is occurring across many professions today. It’s been my experience that no matter how hard one works to master all of the [...]

Guitar Hero For Nintendo DS

If you think the virtual Korg MS-10 that was designed specifically for the DS was a crazy idea… Think again! After selling $1 billion worth of games in its first 26 months, the popular Guitar Hero appears to be heading to the Nintendo DS. Players will interface with the DS using a Guitar Grip that [...]

Totally ’80s Synthesizer Being Developed For Nintendo DS – We’re All DEVO!

OK – I understand that I missed the big DEVO concert at this years MacWorld. Apparently the event was sponsored by Microsoft to highlight the release of its new Office 2008 suite of applications for the Mac platform. That said (and to ease my broken silicon heart) I came across this [...]

Intel’s Automated Video Editing, Muvee, and MemoriesOnTV.

Those who know me understand that I started in the Media business as a video(tape) editor. Having started in the era of videotape, I have seen many things develop and one area that I’ve always been interested in is the concept of Automated Video Editing. When first hearing of this concept the vast majority [...]

Green Media Computing – From Data Centre Cooling Through Production Technology Virtualization

I thought I’d conclude my weekly post by blogging the details of this weeks Toronto Section SMPTE meeting that I organized thitled; ” Green Media Computing – From Data Centre Cooling Through Production Technology Virtualization”. For the record it occured on Tuesday March 11, 2008 in Room RCC-204, Eaton Lecture Theatre, Rogers Communications Centre [...]