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While waiting for some emerge’s to finish up, I thought I’d share this clip…most likely staged, but funny regardless

Explain this to your boss (wmv)

Here’s a spoof ad for Google Maps. pretty clever

http://ia300115.us.archive.org/3/items/Google_Maps_Ad/googlemaps.mov

I must be completely out of the loop because I had no idea Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story! was even in the works! I watched it last night and it’s absolutely hilarious. I’d highly recommend checking it out…

All I can say is, it’s about time! PBS is producing a 13 show series called NerdTV. The ep’s will be released DRM free under the Creative Commons license. It’ll be interesting to see if people remix and re-release some of this content.

here’s the link to Cringley’s article on NerdTV

yay for nerds!

I ran across this demo while trolling the depths of the interweb. Check it out…they’re compositing 3D objects onto a video screen in real-time. Absolutely amazing.

http://www.demo.com/demo/demonstrators/2004/page773-697045.html

Once again, the BBC is WAY ahead of the curve. The BBC has such an advantage being a publicly funded organization. I wonder if this will ever be made available globally. I’d most likely be willing to pay the “TV Tax” to the UK government to gain access to high quality, downloadable, DRM free (hopefully), commercial free, content that doesn’t suck. According to tvlicensing.co.uk, a colour license costs 126.50GBP/year (231USD). That’s about $19.00 per month, which seems a bit steep. I’d certainly pay $5-10/month. Just think of the additional revenue this could bring in!

from Policani’s Digital Media Blog:

Little Hamster writes "Five thousand households with broadband access has been selected for a trial of the BBC’s new interactive Media Player. The trial will run from September to December, and users can ‘time shift’ and download selected BBC TV shows, radio programmes, regional programming and feature films. After seven days, the content will be automatically deleted from the user’s computers. BBC will use this trial to iron out any outstanding rights issues and resolve teething difficulties with the technology ahead of a full launch next year." The BBC Press Office has a release about this as well.  [ more… ]