Tag: media

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We’ve mentioned this several times over the past few weeks, and so I just thought it was high time to show you some of the fabulous entries we’ve had so far.

In case you missed the announcement, we’re looking for a couple of interns for a six-month stint next year, in what we’re calling our LG Video Media Talent Award. Specifically, Shiny Media, the company which publishes Tech Digest, Shiny Shiny and about 45 other blogs here in London, is after a video-producer/editing-type person, as well as a TV presenter.

If this interests you, and you think you can do a better job than one of our entrants shown above, check out Susi’s video below the jump on how you…

Katherine Hannaford Competitions & Promotions

Rubbish user generated content is killing the internet – and the rest of the media world

gary%20and%20sonic%20200.JPGI’m bored of simpletons videoing their mates on mobile phones, uploading it somewhere, and expecting me to somehow be impressed by this.

It’s just rubbish. The whole web – and print and TV and every other kind of media – is falling over itself to involve the audience and get them submitting stuff to pad out their sites, publications and shows for free…

Gary Cutlack Columns & Opinion

Opinion: Kids use age-old excuse — "everyone's doing it" — to justify media piracy. So what's new?

andy-merrett.jpgAndy Merrett writes…

I’m sure it’s the classic excuse for why kids and teenagers do pretty much anything their parents (or indeed, The Law) don’t want them to.

“But everyone else is doing it.”

Passing over the classic teacher retort “Well, if everyone else was jumping off a cliff [auditioning for a part in “Lemmings the Movie, perhaps?], would you” (oops), that seems to be the reasoning for kids who copy and distribute music, videos, or software over the Internet.

It has to be a lot less dangerous – at least physically – than jumping off that metaphorical cliff.

A study from the European Commission — which is seriously official and, therefore, must be true — found that a large number of kids knew that what they were doing was illegal, but still did it because they saw both their peers and their parents doing it.

The EC calls this an “implicit form of authorisation”.

I just call it kids wanting the latest music and being too poor to buy it. It could be laziness. Or the possibility that most albums contain mainly crap music and they want to make a mix tape of decent tracks.

Andy Merrett Broadband, Internet

UK ISPs send BBC warning about possible bandwidth hogging iPlayer

bbc-iplayer-firstweek.jpgInternet Service Providers in the UK are warning the BBC that the widespread use of its iPlayer service may put too much strain on their networks, and consequently they could place restrictions on their users’ access to it.

Demand for the service certainly seems high, with over 120,000 people signing up to be beta testers in the first week alone.

Yet while it provides great additional exposure for a variety of the BBC’s TV programmes, leading ISPs including BT, Tiscali, and the Carphone Warehouse believe that its soaring popularity will eat heavily into their bandwidth.

Andy Merrett Internet

Trevor Baylis's wind-up MP3 and video player – world first

ecomediaplayer9.jpg Hippyshopper has come to the eco-friendly rescue yet again and will no doubt help save the world, along with Macgyver, Chuck Norris, oh and David Hasselhoff. Better add Al Gore and Bono in there just to be on the safe side, and to avoid any temper tantrums from either party.

The latest piece of must-have green gadgetry comes from Trevor Baylis, who first introduced the wind-up radio to consumers 16 years ago…

Katherine Hannaford Gadgets