Archive for October, 2005
The Extra-Large, Ultra-Small Medium
Jodi Kantor of The New York Times made an interesting observation regarding the diverging bleeding edges of television technology, with mammoth wide-screen TVs on one end and the iPod and cell phones on the other.
“Something curious is happening to television: it’s simultaneously growing gigantic and minuscule, stretching across living room walls at the same time it slips into pockets.”
It will certainly be interesting to see how this divergence changes the medium.
The article is entitled The Extra-Large, Ultra-Small Medium:
(Via NYT > Arts.)
Apple as a Media Distribution Company?
James Stoup’s opinion piece, The New Media Paradigm,” which posted on AppleMatters today speculates about how iTunes is poised to rearrange the distribution landscape.
What’s intriguing to me is the potential this has for allowing independent filmmakers, musicians, artists, and other holders of intellectual property to gain access to niche markets that were inaccessible prior to the internet and the virtual storefront with it’s essentially zero shelf-space cost.
