Podcasts – or more importantly time shifted audio content – are, I believe, one of the great information accelerators of our age. I subscribe to a number of feeds mainly from NPR in the US, the BBC in the UK and the ABC in Australia. I listen to them in the car on my commute [...]
I listen to a lot of science on podcasts one way or another. There are the obvious programs from the ABC and BBC. But there are a lot of other radio programs that then get podcast that feature information that is science related – mainly from the BBC as far as my listening habits are [...]
The statistics tell a different story. But they also show that there is a trend toward newer media: – Blogs are now used by 24% of Internet users, up from 13% in 2006 – Social networks are now used by 26% of Internet users, up from 17% in 2006 – Videocasts are now used by [...]
I commute by road when I am not catching the train. That is typically at least a one hour journey if I go to the UoW campus or a two hour journey if I go to Sydney. I listen to a lot of podcasts during those trips. One that I regularly find quite brilliant is [...]
I first came across John Gray via the excellent podcast that come from the Australian ABC. One of the podcasts I listen to features big ideas. An address that author and philosopher, John Gray, gave to the Sydney writers festival was a feature. This guy is one of the most lucid thinkers in the world [...]
Tivo had a rocky start as a company. Great technology that not enough people used. But they're changing. Recognizing a world that wants to make entertainment and the Internet easier Tivo have pushed idea after idea that builds off fast broadband, wifi and the Tivo box. Personal photos, movies, podcasts, info, games etc etc. Some [...]
The rising popularity of user-driven online services, including MySpace, Wikipedia, and YouTube, has drawn attention to a group of technological developments known as Web 2.0. These technologies, which rely on user collaboration, include Web services, peer-to-peer networking, blogs, podcasts, and online social networks. Respondents to a recent McKinsey survey show widespread but careful interest in [...]
Tivo just announced its plans to enable users to be able to download videos from the web. Noted in the story is that : “TiVo's new broadband offering, however, will work only with downloaded videos that are not copy-protected, such as most user-generated clips and many video podcasts. Feature films and videos purchased from online [...]
Last year was the podcast debut. This year things are coming together. LiveOffice offer corporate users the ability to turn conference calls into podcasts. (You ask them to fix the issue. Hand over some money. They tape the call. Tag it. RSS it. Post it.) A yawn? Nope. Think about all the sales calls, analysts [...]
The 2006 Communications Policy and Research Forum takes place on Sept 25th and 26th in Sydney. This is an event put on by Network Insight, the think tank run by Mark Armstrong, one of the most visionary and intelligent people in Australian public life. I shall be speaking on a panel tomorrow on New Media. [...]