And the day started with the most excellent news that the Comments function on this very new blog does work. That the first (and so far only) comment posted came from Adam Curry is somehow appropriate; his Podshow venture is breaking new ground and his Delta Sierra Charlie podcast is a brilliant mixture of media miscellany, trans-atlantic networking and (not to be underestimated) the on-going and highly entertaining soap opera of the family Curry.
I tend to reserve a late-afternoon slot to listen to his latest episode (which on Friday reassured me that we 'senior citzens' are the fastest growing cohort of bloggers). I am certain that I would never have started my own (as a learning-by-doing prelude to full-scale podcasting) without the encouragement provided by Adam's DSC.
The sub-head of my blog refers to the 'perspective of the United Arab Emirates'. And today calls for that particular viewpoint to be taken into account. Our corner of the Middle East is notably peaceful but there are of late some troubling developments. A dubai blogger calling himself Keefieboy posted on Friday 24 November under the alarmist heading Uncivil war in the UAE. It is well worth reading, in particular in the run-up to next weekend's National Day which celebrates the 35th birthday of this young but unimaginably rich country.
On a less sombre note, a couple of links to recent posts. I have previously referred to Henry Jenkins who has again managed to provide food for thought and obliged us all to recall the role that vaudeville played in the history of entertainment media, drawing provocative comparisons with YouTube.
As always it is profitable to drop by BoingBoing where Cory Bergman draws attention to a story written by Bob Garfield, editor at large of Advertising Age, for Wired Magazine and highlights the following paragraph: "Without being overly simplistic or melodramatic, the state of the Old Commercial Broadcasting Model can be summarized like this: a spiraling vortex of ruin. Fragmentation has decimated audiences, viewers who do watch are skipping commercials, advertisers are therefore fleeing, the revenue for underwriting new content is therefore flatlining, program quality is therefore suffering, which will lead to ever more viewer defection, which will lead to ever more advertiser defection, and so on." Stirring stuff, in full length here.
I tend to reserve a late-afternoon slot to listen to his latest episode (which on Friday reassured me that we 'senior citzens' are the fastest growing cohort of bloggers). I am certain that I would never have started my own (as a learning-by-doing prelude to full-scale podcasting) without the encouragement provided by Adam's DSC.The sub-head of my blog refers to the 'perspective of the United Arab Emirates'. And today calls for that particular viewpoint to be taken into account. Our corner of the Middle East is notably peaceful but there are of late some troubling developments. A dubai blogger calling himself Keefieboy posted on Friday 24 November under the alarmist heading Uncivil war in the UAE. It is well worth reading, in particular in the run-up to next weekend's National Day which celebrates the 35th birthday of this young but unimaginably rich country.
On a less sombre note, a couple of links to recent posts. I have previously referred to Henry Jenkins who has again managed to provide food for thought and obliged us all to recall the role that vaudeville played in the history of entertainment media, drawing provocative comparisons with YouTube.As always it is profitable to drop by BoingBoing where Cory Bergman draws attention to a story written by Bob Garfield, editor at large of Advertising Age, for Wired Magazine and highlights the following paragraph: "Without being overly simplistic or melodramatic, the state of the Old Commercial Broadcasting Model can be summarized like this: a spiraling vortex of ruin. Fragmentation has decimated audiences, viewers who do watch are skipping commercials, advertisers are therefore fleeing, the revenue for underwriting new content is therefore flatlining, program quality is therefore suffering, which will lead to ever more viewer defection, which will lead to ever more advertiser defection, and so on." Stirring stuff, in full length here.
"Television may clean up its act, but red meat of excess will still be available in cyberspace," says Mark Lawson in last Friday's Guardian. Chew it over here.
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Indeed, the UK is reading along Malcom. Hoping to hear more of your awesome voice tho' :)
AC
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