New Technology Presentation at Rio International Film Festival

On Thursday, September 28th I moderated a Rioseminars Panel at Festival do Rio 2006 (Rio International Film Festival) titled “New Technologies / Digital Market” with Irina Neves (COO, Cine Mobile), Fabio Lima (COO, Rain Network), and Martha Cavalheiro (Marketing Vice President, Latin America, 20th Century Fox). We each gave a brief presentation and then engaged with the audience in a very lively question and answer session. My presentation provided the “big picture” context for the discussion, while Fabio, Martha, and Irina discussed their cutting edge work in mobile media and digital distribution.

I promised to make my slides available, here they are: Rio2006-NewTech-v2.pdf (PDF, 10.2 MB)

The presentation is based in part on a work-in-progress article: Macro-Trends-v2.pdf (PDF, 164 KB)

Amanda Congdon’s new project

Today Amanda Congdon launched her new project, Amanda Across America, a five week road trip sponsored by NRDC, among others. Check it out.

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Art Film Talk: A critique of globalization

In Episode 17 of Art Film Talk I talk with David Redmon & Ashley Sabin, the filmmakers behind the documentary film Mardi Gras: Made in China. The film presents a fascinating critique of globalization.

The very last page of the Internet, but wait, there’s more…

If you go to this web page: http://wwwdotcom.com/ that was featured on Rocketboom on 05-Sep-06 you might wonder who’s behind the very last page of the internet. Turns out it’s a nice gentleman by the name of Arthur who has had the URL registered for a long time and uses it to host web forms, he told me via email, “We put the ‘End’ text up to promote some humor but also to see who visits us with some interest.” It’s not the only “last page” you will find on the web, however, there are many pages like this if you do a Google search. Ok, let’s get back to work.

Podcamp Boston 2006

PodCamp Boston 2006 will be held on September 9th and 10th at Bunker Hill Community College. This will be a BarCamp-style meetup for bloggers, podcasters, listeners, viewers, readers, and new media types of all stripes. You need not be a podcaster to attend. If you’re interested in podcasting, a listener, a viewer, or just curious, you will want to attend this event. There will be many interesting sessions at this event. Since the event is an UnConference it’s free to attend, however, you should register online because only registered attendees will receive free food, swag, and more. See you there!

Art Film Talk: Steve Garfield, Video Blogging

In Episode 16 of Art Film Talk I talk with Steve Garfield about video blogging. It was pure serendipity, I was driving to MIT to record an interview with Henry Jenkins, Steve called, and we ended up having lunch at the Stata Center, recording an interview, and then videotaped two promos for Podcamp Boston, one of which might appear on Rocketboom next week and the other is on Steve’s video blog. That was a fun afternoon.