Rav Casley Gera

You know in Star Trek, when Picard orders up a record, piece of data or video by speaking to the computer? Imagine if the computer replied, ‘this media is brought to you by Toyota Galactic’…

The travails of Twitter are a reminder that the model of the free internet - where users rarely expect to pay websites for services or content - is hard to make work. New services are cautious about introducing advertising for fear of annoying users. With more and more audio and video content on the web, sites have experimented with adding audio and video adverts, with mixed success. But when speech becomes the main method of interaction with computers - a switch which, thanks to vast improvements in speech recognition technology, is finally looking likely - it’ll become effectively impossible for advertising to provide the main income stream for content and service providers. [Read more →]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc. is offering free e-mail accounts under two new designations in an effort to attract Web surfers unhappy with their current addresses.

The Sunnyvale-based company expects to begin registering new addresses under the domains of “ymail” and “rocketmail” around noon PDT Thursday at http://mail.yahoo.com .

-Wired News

This is… wierd. rav-g@rocketmail.com was my first email address, in 1997 I think. Now it’s back! This can’t be progress, can it?

American cinema's creative zenith was reached in the 1970s, just as movies were being displaced by TV. Now we have a golden age of American TV drama, just as TV is under threat of being completely displaced by the internet. Was it always thus? Are we doomed to see the economic models of great art forms disrupted, just as they have reconciled their artistic and commercial imperatives?

April 20, 2008 in Culture & Media, Rav Idly Wonders, Technology | 1 comments

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I’ve just deleted 20,362 music files from my computer. Over 1,400 hours of music, gone. I feel like a wave of liberation has washed over me, or something. [Read more →]

I got a little angry at friend of mine. Let’s call her, for the sake of example, Mandy Davis. Not a close friend, it’s fair to say: someone I’ve done a couple of film projects with, nothing major. Possibly she’ll invite me to the party, but definitely not to the actual wedding. That sort of thing. But a nice, friendly, fun person, not someone I’d expect to get annoyed with. [Read more →]

The world has been drooling recently over the new Apple mobile phone. Like the iPod, it’s sexy, slim, and simple to use, and it’s expected to fly off the shelves. But it’s not just phone companies who should pay attention: it’s the Government, too.

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In a faraway domain, a fragile democracy is fighting for survival. Everyday we watch on our screens it struggles to maintain order amongst chaos and defend its day-to-day operations against dissent and malicious attacks. What? No, not Iraq! I’m talking about Wikipedia.

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Nothing But Bonfires is my fabulous acquaintance Holly’s marvellous blog. And there are pictures of me! and other people.

MP3 Blogs. Essentially a good idea. But with so bloody many of them, how do you keep up with the gems? Enter the shining white horse of technology, and riding atop it - The Hype Machine! This marvellous thing aggregates all the best MP3 blogs into an almighty daily list you can play in a thousand different ways - including a podcast, for those who desperately want to fill up their hard drives. The tech doesn’t matter - what it basically means is instant, free resource to a stupidly large number of great new (and some old) songs.

Enjoy! R

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