Archive for the ‘New Media’ Category
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
One of the big topics here is how to monetize new media. All the Broadcasters, Producers, and Developers are concerned about their ability to generate money from the investments they make into new media content creation. In order to sustain the flow of good content people need to be able ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
So, besides attending nextMEDIA for the insight and networking, I'm also here to pitch my project called Moments.
I attended the CBC Digital Development Labs last month and have been in talks with the CBC to get this project off the ground. Today I met with Stephane Bousquet, who ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Jeff Barr - Senior web services evangelist at Amazon.com on Amazon's Cloud Computing platform
Pervasive connectivity means that you don't intentionally turn on your media experience. Its now all around you all the time.
This means that media interactions can happen at will, anytime, anywhere. This is interesting because film is intended ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Bill Buxton is a researcher at Microsoft and and Acadamy award winner for his creation of Maya. The following is a paraphrased (and slightly augmented) version of his presentation:
Film is technology based. One may think it is an art, but emotion and chemistry on celluloid is no different than digital ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Earl Hong Tai, Director - Western Region of Telefilm Canada presented in the opening ceremony.
His speech speaks to the film debate and purpose of nextMEDIA.
He asked: why is a film and television cultural funder at nextMEDIA? The lines are being blurred and there is a fundamental shift in storytelling.
"Our screens ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
So the event opens with a getting-to-know you kind of networking event where I learned 30 people's names (out of the 400 people that are here). This early exposure comes in handy as I'm seeing them all over the event and it feels like we've made a bond already.
Here is ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Hey there, I'm at nextMEDIA 2008 in Banff and will be doing some brief blogging coverage of this amazing event.
Some backstory: nextMEDIA is the new media conference that proceeds the Banff Television Festival -- they are really one in the same with two different names. There are big players from ...
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