"Garden executives said they originally proposed a smaller billboard, but city officials wanted one that was larger. The long banner display also was not in the original plan, Garden officials said."Why are city officials encouraging the owners of the Garden to increase the size of their proposed video wall?
The Garden plans to use two-thirds of the time for advertisements, with the rest devoted to promotions of the teams, Garden events and public service announcements.If this video wall does get approved, how about giving some air time to local artists? I know some video artists that would be happy to have their work showcased. At least that would reduce the amount of advertising that we'd be subjected to.
"I’m excited to announce that we’re adopting the icon used in Firefox."
"When Steve Garfield looks ahead, he sees a further leveling of the playing field. And he can’t wait. "People who are normally just passive consumers of video are gonna say, ‘Whoa, we can create it and we can get it out there the same way the big networks are getting it out.’ Everything will be equal. There are no barriers to entry, of cost or distribution. It’s available to anybody. There are stories to be told. And there are a lot of stories out there.""AND
"Structured Blogging is a way to get more information on the web in a way that's more usable. You can enter information in this form and it'll get published on your blog like a normal entry, but it will also be published in a machine-readable format so that other services can read and understand it."Will this solve the problem of having duplicate instances of the same data everywhere?
Visit Steve Garfield's Lens over on Squidoo.
"A model like this will unclog the creative arteries of Hollywood. It would allow many flowers to bloom and let the shows with true potential find their audiences. It would also allow writers to take greater risks with experimenting with new forms of storytelling that are outside of the traditional four camera sitcom and single camera drama.It's a time for exciting ideas!
It could turn Television in the new millennium into what cinema was in the late 1960s and 1970s was -- a place for young and talented storytellers to flex their muscles and tell stories like they've never been told before. "
"... thanks largely to Ms. Congdon's kooky but comely style, Rocketboom is generating 100,000 visitors a day, according to Sunday's New York Times. PC and video iPod owners are making Rocketboom's video blogs a daily part of their lives.That's not actually true.
The video blogging site is doing so well, in fact, that TiVo has agreed to include Rocketboom in its directory so its DVR owners can watch it on television."
"Whether you sold your home to finance your 35mm masterpiece, or you shot it on DV last night in your basement, if it is under 10 minutes, we'll screen it!"I've been meaning to get to one of these all year.
