communications industry structure, including mass media, advertising, and telephone companies
Ninety-five years ago, on December 19, 1913, AT&T Vice President Nathan Kingsbury sent the U.S. Attorney General a letter in which AT&T agreed to allow other companies to interconnect with AT&T in order to provide long-distance telephone services. This Kingsbury Commitment was the beginning of access reform in the U.S. The U.S. access reform centennial … Continue reading celebrating access reform
Unbiased reporting of public opinion began in 1886 as a shrewd business strategy for a new weekly publication aggregating other publications’ content. … Read the post formation and structure of public opinion
YouTube now supports video captions. Captions are uploaded as a separate text file. YouTube also provides automatic translation of these captions into many languages. Web tools for creating caption files are free and easy to use. I recently used overstream to create captions for a docudrama some friends and I made. Making captions takes time … Continue reading captions: helping users, helping yourself
Real-time visual communication using a mobile phone doesn’t seem to be happening. Working with Kodak, Motorola announced early this month the Motozine ZN5. It’s relatively cheap mobile phone with a high-quality digital camera. Sharing a photo with this device means uploading the photo to a website or emailing it. So the Motozine ZN5 isn’t a … Continue reading real-time visual communication
Mass-media news is serious, objective, and publicly important only to persons who are distant in interest and poor in personal communication channels. … Read the post objectifying news: the origin of newspapers