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Clueless Is as
Clueless Does
by Dana Blankenhorn
ClickZ, March 7, 2001
I'm constantly entertained by the Internet strategies of Big
Media companies. They're always good for a laugh.
The complete, utter Cluelessness of it all is what gets to me. You just know
they craft these things around big tables, using spreadsheets, moving
assumptions and properties around the Big Board, thinking they're in "Fail
Safe" when it's really "Dr. Strangelove." It's as funny as Elmer
Fudd singing Springsteen.
In the past, we've seen them dismiss the Net, spin off the Net, claim domination
over the Net, and seek to turn the Net into newspapers, magazines, TV, and
vertically integrated AOL-like empires. All of these strategies failed because
they don't understand the first thing about the Net, namely that it's primarily
an interactive medium, and in order to take you first must give, then engage in
free give-and-take. In other words, you win time by letting people talk, by
encouraging fans, and by listening.
Media Channel's Media Ownership Chart
Retro-themed entertainment and merchandise based on classic
television, movies, music, toys, snack food, and fashion. ... A massive pop
culture resource, with exhaustive information on the junk culture that obsesses
us: TV, Movies, Cartoons, Toys, Fashion, Arcade Games, Breakfast Cereal, Snack
Foods, Children's Books, and much more...
In other words, all the things that made life worth living.
International Piano-e-Competition
Through advanced technology, including the use of pianos
capable of transmitting the pianists’ performances via MIDI through the
Internet, the Piano-e-Competition can be judged from any location. This concept
enables the e-Competition to attract to the jury great musicians who would
otherwise be prevented from participating by their busy schedules.
For the first e-Competition, two juries will be assembled: one, “on site”,
consisting of seven jurors; with an additional "off site" judge added
for the finals. This judge will adjudicate from his “home” location. He will
be able to view the competition via video-conferencing, and also hear the
competition as synchronous performances are transmitted from the competition
site directly to his location.
EatSleepMusic.com's Get Up and Sing!
Smithsonian Jazz - A Jazz portal intended to preserve and promote one of America's greatest art forms - Jazz
The John Coltrane Foundation - way cool
The Museum of Musical Instruments
Help Milko get his groove back on the Music Machine by creating your very own music video. Choose metal, hip-hop or disco and then drag and drop video clips, vocals and effects on a timeline to create the ultimate video dance party. Sit back and watch Milko bust a move using everything from the classic Travolta steps to the cool moves of Coolio.
Infinite Wheel's Dub Selector
Q Radio's Music of South Africa
Thomas Dolby's Beatnik
Beatnik provides interactive audio technology that lets anyone communicate with music and sound on the Web and in a digital world.
These fully sonified Beatnik JavaScript tutorials by Doug Loftus take you from the Basics of Sonfication using HTML & JavaScript, to creating dynamic sonified buttons, to implementing smoothly faded audio transitions to creating a music console.
Altoid's Peppermint Lounge
Kevin Hibbs' Monterey String Quartet
The Symphony: An Interactive Guide
GMN Arts Network's Classical Composers
to document and preserve the 20th century's recorded heritage of classical music, and to serve as the de facto primary source of information on classical music for everyone from professionals to dedicated amateurs; information and commentary on musical works, composers and performing artists.
Yazoo Records - American ethnic music of the 20s and 30s
Early Recorded Sounds & Wax Cylinders
Explore early sound recording methods, two-minute wax cylinder records and
antique phonographs; see plenty of rare vintage photos; and enjoy listening to
early recorded sounds taken directly from the original wax cylinders.
The Online Experience Music
Project
AtomFilms -- Get into their shorts!
MOVIEPLANNER™ is a filmmaker's best friend! And it's
absolutely FREE!
The purpose of MOVIEPLANNER™ is simple: to help you co-ordinate all of the
things you need in order to complete your film project. In essence it is an easy
way to break down your movie into manageable pieces.
Webflicks -- showcase
for the non-profit 911 Media Arts Center in
Seattle. Music videos, animated cartoons, documentaries, narratives and
impressionistic works.
Eveo.com - Web video made simple
Sundance
Online Festival -- animation, live action and interactive digital media
NetFlix
DVD movies are delivered to your home by first class mail. There are no due dates or late fees. When you're done with a movie, drop it in any mailbox using our prepaid return envelope.
VirtualDub 1.4 -- free video capture and video editing tool
Have you ever worked with desktop video?
Sure, you've probably played a few video clips on your monitor. But have you
ever made one yourself? Used a video capture device? Wrestled with the software
that comes with it? Felt like the software is a few leagues above or below your
level? Time to try something else.
VirtualDub helps you get video into your computer. ... VirtualDub lets you clean
up video on your computer.
MovieXone -- free digital video production tool
Tools for editing and animation, audio so that you can produce more than silent movies and a titler. Suitable transitions and great effects are also included.
Let’s Go
out to E-Movies
by Scott Bass
ClickZ, November 13, 2000
With the proliferation of broadband, people are getting excited about online movies. Here's a tour of what's playing on the Net.
Internet Movie Archive -- over 350 mostly public-domain movies
Directory of International Film and Video Festivals
a little multimedia neighborhood with a tale to tell. Browse about and read, see, hear stories that matter, stories that move.
Mondo Mini Shows - digital animation syndication service
MovieFlix.com - lots of free movies; premium service is $4.95 per month
Movie Review Query Engine -- over 200,000 reviews
Skop's interactive remixers let users record and play back their own mix of clips and audio.
Julietta
Das Bo
I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives
SMIL (pronounced "smile") - synchronized multimedia integration language
Streaming Media World's SMIL home
SMIL (pronounced smile) stands for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. It is a markup language (like HTML) and is designed to be easy to learn and deploy on Web sites. SMIL was created specifically to solve the problems of coordinating the display of a variety of media (multimedia) on Web sites. By using a single time line for all of the media on a page their display can be properly time coordinated and synchronized.
Other samples:
Tim Kennedy's Rumble
The Sci-Fi Channel's Tripping Astral
Business uses:
Ford Motor Company's Best Practices
REI's Outdoor Advice
A Wake Up Call For Local Stations To Reexamine Their Assumptions About The World Wide Web (no longer available but the quote here gives you the idea)
The first problem Public TV and Radio station managers face in coming to terms with the web is that it requires not only different skills, but a fundamentally different business model than the one to which they are accustomed. A modern web development enterprise is, in many ways, run like an independent film or video production company, and it cannot be effectively managed by someone who is trying to operate it using the business model of a TV or Radio station.
Best Bet! - AccuRadio
Top Internet Broadcasters
Arbitron, April 15, 2004
The top five Internet Broadcasters, AOL’s Radio@Network, Yahoo!’s LAUNCHcast, Live365, Musicmatch and Virgin Radio, had an average audience increase of over 30 percent between June 2003 and February 2004, as measured by Arbitron Internet Broadcast Ratings.
World Radio Network - seeing the world through radio
The only online portal dedicated to the study of clandestine and subversive radio - a field where politics, diplomacy, espionage and broadcast media collide. Clandestine broadcasting is a highly effective weapon in the arsenal of psychological warfare, which, when analyzed, can assist observers to cut through the fog of war and ascertain the strength and capabilities of opposition groups as well as actual on-the-ground military strategies. For the casual Web surfer this site may seem exotic and, at times, conspiratorial. Regular and "professional" users, however, will find an intelligence bonanza.
KPLU from Pacific Lutheran University is terrific, ... to my tastes, at least. It needs a short, safe plug-in from Abacast. Or try these sites or stations or channels or whatever we're calling them:
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KFJC |
Beiruit
Nights |
Internet.com's Streaming Media World
The most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.
Satellite Radio: Sirius and XM
NetRadio - $4.95 per month
Viacom / VH1 's Sonicnet.com
Ads.com -- "All of the ads. None of the shows. ... virtually any current network commercial."
LikeTelevision.com -- films, music videos, television shows, documentaries, long forgotten TV game shows.
The Weakest Link -- enhanced TV -- play along with the show in real time
Epguides -- episode listings for about 1500 television shows, including about 400 full episode guides with short synopses of each episode.
Laugh.com -- clips of Milton
Berle, George Carlin; Sex Tips, Joke Contest, much more
Super Bowl Ads -- those
shown and not shown. Vote for your favorites.
Type in a search word or phrase. The instant your requested word is spoken on a TV show, we'll send you an email alert with a brief transcript. You can then link to an expanded transcript and even to the show's website.
The '80s TV Theme SuperSite -- one of the largest collections of '80s television history on the Internet
Billy Ingram's TV Party
TVparty is stuck in the past. Always has been. Always will be.
TelevisionCommercials.com -- database of over 30,000 TV commercials
Episode lists for over 1800 TV shows. Each list contains titles and airdates. For over 500 shows there is a more detailed episode guide containing guest stars and plot summaries.
TV Chronicles - - American TV, British TV, Canadian TV, and Australian TV; soaps, quiz shows, and other genres.
themesonline -- over 700 themes, commercials, jingles and promos
Digital TV encompasses TV recorded, transmitted and displayed as a stream of 1's and 0's rather than an analog signal.
High-definition TV has 1,080 lines of resolution (compared to 480 lines on analog TV), ans CD-quality sound; flat-screens with letterbox aspect ratio. As marketed in 2001, HDTV is only HDTV-ready. Integrated HDTV has it all.
Interactive TV has Web-like content, electronic coupons, and on-screen shopping.
Don Markstein's Toonopedia -- hypertext encyclopedia of toons
Dave Mackey's Warner Bros. Cartoons Filmography And Title Card Gallery -- from 1929 to 1964: title, production date, animators, etc.
ToonZone's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Page - Classic Cartoon News and Information
ToonTracker -- finder of lost and obscure cartoons
largest online searchable database of cartoon shorts and animation on the Internet. This Encyclopedia of Cartoon facts- a "Tooncylpedia" if you will- is here for you to explore, and to bring back memories of those long-forgotten cartoons of your childhood.
Cartoon Research -- news, articles, commentary and lists of animated feature films since 1937: title, release date, company, runtime, directors, plot summary, etc.
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