Kodak news illustrates state of print media #winterlude3

This year so far is not giving me much expectation that print magazines will continue all that longer for business to business.

The news about Kodak is definitely news.

But WhatTheyThink is not active till Monday. The website has a link to Reuters. Maybe this link was placed by a robot or there may be somebody actively in edit mode.

By the way, WhatTheyThink has no print version. It is just a website.

Printweek will not have a printed version till Friday next week. Meanwhile there is a news item partly based on a report in the Wall Street Journal

This has several comments that look at the probable consequences in terms of products available for the print industry. So forms of citizen journalism still have a future.

Of course the print version of Printweek will have something to say when it arrives.

The news of 2012 could well turn out to include further moves online at Haymarket and reduced pages in the printed Guardian. 

Myriad from Phonic FM to home video via CES #winterlude3

I enjoyed the Wild Show today on Phonic FM. We can switch on the Myriad system if the next presenter is not arriving but I don't understand how it works, It must be possible to influence what it chooses in the gaps between actual presenters.

Checking out the CES show next week I find that Myriad will be there and the companmy covers most mobile devices as well as radio stations. This video is about extending the TV at home.

So eventually listening to radio / watching TV could be either setting up the robot at home or connecting to the robot in the studio. Presenters shuffle keywords at some point.

Adobe not at BETT, schools will have to go to Las Vegas

Adobe not at BETT this year, maybe because the marketing spend is now on tablets, Flash video etc

not the sort of thing you should waste time on during school

but maybe there is an educational benefit from Las Vegas and consumer electronics? 

more in this blog later, sometimes i just put things in the find what the spiders will connect it with

Michael Gove at BETT, will the UK get much mindshare? #winterlude3

I have been searching blogs and websites for any news on what Michael Gove or the Department for Education has 

to say about BETT. He will definitely be there and he is sometimes positive about technology. For example-  

Michael Gove on technology at the Policy Exchange this morning:
‘ICT has a huge role to play. I think technology will be playing a larger and larger role in how we make our schools work more effectively in the future. I will be saying more about that soon.
But it’s absolutely right, yes, that both our teachers and students can work from home with the imaginative use of technology and I hope in the future we will be able to make it clear how with the best use of technology we can help parents become more involved in their children’s education, help children learn faster and make sure assessment is better designed to be in their interests.’


However since BECTA was done away with I don't get the impression that there is a UK policy on technology for education. The UK presence at BETT seems a bit weak. The BBC was told not to compete in this space by media such as the Guardian. The BBC continues to have a role but it is not recognised at an event such as BETT.

However other countries are promoting themselves. Korea Digital has the Science Cube linked to a take on science.    

http://www.sciencecube.com/Eng/index.asp

The Supreme Education Council - Qatar is on Stand T34  

http://www.english.education.gov.qa/

Media Development Authority of Singapore is on stand D101
www.mda.gov.sg

apologies for the formatting going awry

anyway my point is that BETT may end up like Wimbledon, a jolly good show with Cliff Richard once in a while if we are lucky. Of course I could be wrong and Michael Gove may announce some convincing policy that will secure a future for UK education. But a blog or links is sometimes useful to follow up an event.

 

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@gifted_giraffe Catchup on 2012 so far, forgot image issue resolved short term

Hello Gifted Giraffe

You tweeted to ask what sort of image I needed. I forgot that actually a short term fix was discovered at the end of last year.

This shows a giraffe, maybe not you exactly, but at least an indication of how you might look in the Phonic studio. You can tweet us between 10 and 12 on a Thursday morning. Or we are in the cafe for a while afterwards. If you wandered over to the steps somebody would notice and find us. Actually Facebook for the Wild Show is better as we check this before the show and sometimes lose track, even of answering the phone.

I am interested in social media and how culture changes. Galleries seem to be dealing with social media but some conventions stay much the same. Current show at Spacex may be about mobile phones or mobility but I was not able to record sound at the intro talk or photograph the speakers or any visual content. I heard that the artists may have been at RAMM on a Tuesday but could not find out how to attend.

So I have posted a YouTube clip of some sound from the Wild Show. I am becoming a sound artist as well as a Photoshop trainee because then I can mess about with sound and vision as journalism or at least blogging. The proper art has a lot of issues around it I find.

As I understand it the Ghostwriter project is a phone scheme where you bring your own hardware and dial in. Not an app and no mp3 to download. No samples available at whatever short length as could be used on radio.

I can understand that if there is a watercolour on loan from the Louvre you might not want to pass it round in a cafe. But a show about mobility and phones could be different. 

Don't worry about anything urgent. There are talks coming up in the next couple of months so maybe some of this is under review.

If you do find some images or sound files, please have a look at Creative Commons. You could reach a wider audience.

Hope 2012 is ok so far.

This tweet is extended via Posterous.

txt continues, In Our Time txt tech stopped with Gutenberg #winterlude3

Still listening to Melvyn Bragg on txt etc.

I think the rest of the week is on science, religion and literature. So today may be the end of general tech.  It seems to have shifted from the process of writing to the wonders of the book itself. So my guess previously that Wordstar and after would get only a few minutes was way off.

Nothing on industrial paper making or the paperback. Maybe they will turn up as science.

Two and a half hours of radio, quite a long time.

I may try to find other bits of sound. So far most of the links on the BBC website are to Cambridge and the British Library. Radio is changing to include social media so there could be contributions from further away.

The process of writing changes with tech such as read / write web. Radio is moving more quickly even though the files need more bandwidth. Maybe the organisational structures are a larger issue.

Consumer Electronics context for video, social media, txt #winterlude3

http://technologizer.com/2012/01/02/the-more-ces-stays-the-same-the-more-it-changes/

Link found through Twitter

also this one

CES is often a sudden shock that announces a new year and that the holiday is over.

The archive shows that television has always been there. The MediaWeek report shows that watching video online is still growing. A guess could be that slower growth is because of better boxes like TIVO so the social media mix continues.

Local television experiments in the UK are still on a broadcast model. I think bits and pieces on YouTube etc could still work out as something.

Expect dramatic announcements from Las Vegas that relate to actual products in Exeter High Street UK sometime in the next year or so. The John Lewis store is not really ready but there is a Richer Sounds at the far end of Sidwell Street.

#winterlude3 continues to the end of Jan. 

Creative Commons conversation is also about journalism @BBCClick

So far Click on BBC World Service has not objected to the extracts fro the Click podcast in my recent Wild Show. I don't thin k it should be a problem. The Click shows are available for download and the podcast mentions the mashup as a form that is not to be discouraged. 

I think the Wild Show could continue to explore Creative Commons during the year. When Dan Jarvis MP visited we talked about Creative Commons and later Cllr Paul Bull commented on the benefits of Creative Commons for public figures and public debate.

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How to finance music production is a continuing issue. We have broadcast some of the Phonic Xmas Party on the Wild Show. Conversation will continue through the Analog2Digital event. The sound recording of the Wild Show can be available after brodcast in various forms. BBC Click are welcome to use any of the interviews as they turn up. Also anyone with opinions is welcome as a guest or to suggest links.