Denise Oliver http://www.deniseoliver.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:56:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Bandwidth – a significant cost of content http://www.deniseoliver.com/2012/04/03/bandwidth-a-significant-cost-of-content/ http://www.deniseoliver.com/2012/04/03/bandwidth-a-significant-cost-of-content/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:56:50 +0000 Denise http://www.deniseoliver.com/?p=470 Here’s a factor not often accounted for when considering the cost of content, “free” or otherwise http://www.businessinsider.com/procter-and-gamble-bans-netflix-and-pandora-2012-4

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Even if you’re not concerned about an update that says “John just watched Megan Makes it with Midgets!” you may not want your more sophisticated friends to see you’re reading up on the Kardashian divorce. And if you can get past both of those, how much junk do you want to see just because you “Liked” a page to get in on some promotion? Yes, you can go back and unlike things but constantly tweaking settings is confusing for some and a time suck that, unlike others, doesn’t provide any fun at all.

Robert Scoble expounds on what he calls the “freaky line” of Facebook. http://scobleizer.com/2011/11/20/the-facebook-freaky-line/

]]> http://www.deniseoliver.com/2011/11/21/the-freaky-line-in-fbs-frictionless-sharing/feed/ 1 What Lies Beneath – The DMCA http://www.deniseoliver.com/2011/11/08/what-lies-beneath-the-dmca/ http://www.deniseoliver.com/2011/11/08/what-lies-beneath-the-dmca/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:12:11 +0000 Denise http://www.deniseoliver.com/?p=452 Whenever I have an in depth discussion about online radio, questions invariably come up like “Why can’t I choose the song I like?” or “Will Pandora last?” A lot of what determines those answers lies in the legal foundation provided by the much misunderstood Digital Millennium Copyright Act, (generally abbreviated to DMCA). But the long arm of the DMCA reaches far beyond Internet radio. This article from TechCrunch goes into some of the issues currently faced by traditional media companies (TCM) http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/06/big-media-nuclear-dmca/ and explains why they want changes.

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]]> http://www.deniseoliver.com/2011/06/15/sounds-of-life/feed/ 0 Share Your Ideas about Radio’s Future http://www.deniseoliver.com/2011/04/21/share-your-ideas-about-radios-future/ http://www.deniseoliver.com/2011/04/21/share-your-ideas-about-radios-future/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:47:10 +0000 Denise http://www.deniseoliver.com/?p=424 We’re looking for creative thinking on radio’s future, to be presented in the industry’s first crowdsourced keynote, Brainstorming the Future – What If? If you’ve got a vision, we’ve got the audience at Radio Ink’s Radio Tech Summit, May 17 at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, CA. So let your imagination run wild and submit your ideas and predictions in the comments below. I’ll curate the submissions and present the best ones, crediting the authors, of course.

And I hope you’ll Join me as we learn from some of the top innovators in radio and related technology at the Radio Tech Summit May 17-18. and Radio Ink’s Convergence 11 May 18-19. Find details on the Tech Summit at http://www.radioink.com/techsummit/ For Convergence, see http://www.radioink.com/convergence/

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]]> http://www.deniseoliver.com/2011/04/15/radios-new-realities/feed/ 0 A New Idea for Newspapers http://www.deniseoliver.com/2011/03/01/a-new-idea-for-old-media/ http://www.deniseoliver.com/2011/03/01/a-new-idea-for-old-media/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:42:26 +0000 Denise http://www.deniseoliver.com/?p=412 Talk about a way to make newspapers more relevant. This is a great idea which takes advantage of newspapers’ deep local knowledge. http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=145809&nid=124289

]]> http://www.deniseoliver.com/2011/03/01/a-new-idea-for-old-media/feed/ 0 Good News for Local Media http://www.deniseoliver.com/2011/03/01/good-news-for-local-media/ http://www.deniseoliver.com/2011/03/01/good-news-for-local-media/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:50:59 +0000 Denise http://www.deniseoliver.com/?p=408 I’m often distressed to read about the low opinion so many Americans have of national news, since I know so many journalists who have spent their lives trying to deliver accurate, insightful information to the best of their abilities. Some with international beats even risk their lives to do so. But it’s good to see, in this study from Pew, that we at least value the contribution local news makes to our communities. http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1909/online-community-information-systems-civic-life-social-networks

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