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Category Archives: digital media

The State of the Web

This interactive infographic has a ton o’ info about the world wide web:

89 % of email is spam.

35 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every hour.

South Korea has the world’s best broadband.

119 million tweets per day.
There’s a lot to explore.  Check it out:
Created by: Online Schools

NXNEi

Are you going to NXNE Interactive?
I am.
I’ll be on two panels.
Winning Hearts and Minds: The Human Element of Transmedia is Thursday June 16, 2011 from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m.  Anthea Foyer is moderating and I’ll be seating between two Jasons, Jason Leaverand Jason Gilmore.  I think it’s going to be great.  When we met up to plan the session, […]

Case In Point

I was talking about partners who can make a web creators life easier and I mentioned Wendy Bernfeld of the Rights Stuff. And here is an example of how helpful she can be!This is here Power to the Pixel talk to producers about the space from a distributor’s point of view.

Just Think About This

“…the secret to the future of all Content and its value as an investment vehicle, lays in age old tradition of compelling storytelling.”
The above quote comes from Gerson Lehrman Group.  It is part of the summary of a much longer analysis; a rebuttal to an article by Ethan Smith in the Wall Street Journal about […]

Deadwood, Digital and Interdependence

Banff, Alberta.  The festival is gearing up around me, old friends reunite, little groups clustered around table talking intensely, pitches in the air, the ever presented Rockies in sharp relief against a blue blue sky.
Over breakfast I was reading an old New Yorker profile of David Milch by Mark Singer.  It was written in 2005 […]

Experimenting with the Experimental Fund

These are exciting times.  There’s finally money around to invest in digital creations thanks to the IPF and the CMF’s new experimental fund.  I went to the CMF information session this morning at the Royal York and basically I liked what I heard.
These aren’t verbatim quotes, but what I heard was, there are some rules, […]

The Ultimate Interactive Doc Collection

At docSHIFT last night, Mark Greenspan, the ubercool new media producer and the guy who puts together NextMEDIA, gave a presentation on interactive docs.
Here are links to docs he talked about so you can go play around with them.  If you know of any docs that are missing from this list, let me know please.
Branching […]

docSHIFT Networking

Who’s going to the docSHIFT networking night at the Gladstone Hotel on Monday night?
docSHIFT is a two year project run by DOC Toronto with funding from OMDC’s Creative Cluster Partnership Fund.
docSHIFT: Real Stories to Multiple Platforms will create new business opportunities by bringing Ontario documentary filmmakers together with new-media producers. It will facilitate new creative […]

Applying to IPF’s Web Drama Series Pilot Program

Andra Sheffer’s office has walls in two shades of blue and looks west out at College where the blue roof of the police headquarters matches her decor nicely.  I was visiting to find out more about the Independent Production Fund and what I could put into my application that would help it stand out from […]

Distribution and Deity

Over at Advertising Age, Keith Richmond is writing about the importance of distribution in the next decade. His piece is called Is Content King? Then Distribution is Crown Prince, subtitled Great Content Does Not Mean It Will Find an Audience:
 In the next decade, we will see significant changes to the way that content […]