AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

LA Times Blogger David Sarno discovers online sensation Fred, here:
Last week, someone in the online video business gave me a simple tip.
“Fred,” the guy said.
“Fred?” I said.
“Yes,” he said. “Kids love Fred.”
I had not heard of Fred, much less known that kids loved him. But that would swiftly end. As soon as I could, [...]

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Brightcove Gives Up on Consumer Video - Read/Write Web
Brightcove has never really been more than a half-hearted consumer video play, opting instead to function as a content distribution network for a large number of high profile media partners. Today Brightcove informed members of its Brightcove.TV site that it will no longer be accepting direct consumer [...]

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Time to rewrite their future - LA Times
Why don’t striking writers create original online programming that could bolster their cause and show the medium’s true potential?
LAST week in a CBS Studios picket line, one TV writer referred to the current WGA work stoppage as “the first Internet strike.” And there may be something to that.
Certainly [...]

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J Allard: Microsoft’s Plan to Be King of All Media - BITS/NY Times
In November 1994, I had breakfast with Nathan Myhrvold, then the chief technology officer of Microsoft. He talked about how the soon-to-be-introduced MSN online service would best America Online. Central to his thinking was that MSN would give publishers a higher percentage of [...]

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