Topic: Media
Mark Ramsey is founder and president of Mercury Radio Research at Mercradio.com and also writes a radio topiced weblog at RadioMarketingNexus.com. Mr. Ramsey is a terrestrial broadcast radio consultant and audience researcher. His clients are some of the biggest terrestrial broadcasts and satellite radio networks in the USA and
Europe. Mark explains his vision for the coming Digital HD Radio platform and whether it fills a need in the radio market. He also talks about whether the improved sound quality of "AM" Digital Radio broadcasts are really needed and why broadcasters are deploying it. Mark discusses how podcasting will be embraced and how it will impact broadcast radio. [Web Talk audio on IT Conversations]
Portable media is the new personal computer. With the PSP, iPods and Smartphones/PDAs taking over the world, people like to do everything on a handheld device: listen to music, talk to their girlfriends, play games, check their e-mail, and even watch movies. Host Larry Magid speaks to Stephane Maes, Director of Product Management for Handhelds at palmOne all about portable media. [Larry's World audio on IT Conversations]
Since the dot-com days, nearly every newspaper in the world has made use of the Internet and now has a website where readers can get their news faster than they can get the hardcopy paper. But just having a website is one thing. Doing it right -- which is what Rob Curley is known for -- is another. Hear Rob's fascinating keynote presentation from the Integrated Media Association's New Media Summit in which he gives examples of how he and his web-development team at the Lawrence Journal-World continue to do it right.
Rob Greenlee speaks with Todd Cochrane, host of the Geek News Central Podcast and
Weblog. Todd is also the author of the first book on podcasting, "Podcasting: The Do-It-Yourself Guide". Todd also talks about topic-based
podcast networks and how they might just be the wave of the future. [Web Talk audio from IT Conversations]
Culture is remix, and remix, culture. That's the message from an IT Conversations favorite, Lawrence Lessig, at O'Reilly Media's Emerging Technology (ETech) conference in 2005. [ETech 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
Web Talk's Rob Greenlee speaks with Tod Maffin, host of a National Technology
Column on CBC Radio (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). Tod also hosts a
technology series on CBC Television called "Canada Now". He is also
creator of the weblog "ILoveRadio.org" and is also a Podcaster. Tod is
considered "one of Canada's most influential futurists". He discusses the present Podcasting landscape and about the future of Podcasting in Public Radio. [Web Talk audio on IT Conversations]
Bob Cox, Founder of the Media Bloggers Association and Blogger at TheNationalDebate.com and he will discuss some of the important legal issues facing media bloggers. He shares his story about his battle with the New York Times that recently got national media attention. He discusses how audio and video is changing weblogs and why he created the Media Bloggers Association. Bob will also talk about the recent BlogNashville event and the hot topics that came out of that event. [Web Talk audio on IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with former defense attorney DW Buffa. They look at the impact of modern media on criminal justice, while discussing his latest novel, "Trial by Fire." [Tech Nation audio on IT Conversations]
Is big media running scared of the blogosphere? Are blogs geared up to handle this responsibility? Will the Empire Strike Back? Dan Gillmor, formerly with the big media and now a very influential grassroots media journalist is uniquely positioned to talk about these issues. Hear him speak at the South by Southwest 2005 Interactive Festival. [SXSW audio from IT Conversations]
Why is remixing Shakespeare "creative writing" but remixing Star Wars is theft? What does a permission driven copyright regime mean for media remixing, multimedia expression and free speech? In his presentation at the Web 2.0 Conference, Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford and a Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), presents the legal dangers present for media remixers. [Web 2.0 Conference audio from IT Conversations]
