Tag Archives: Technology

The Future of Entertainment is… Paper?

Man, I hate hearing about an awesome conference just after the thing’s wrapped up. So it is this week with PaperCamp, which went down in London on January 17th. Here’s the description of the event from its own webpage: What is PaperCamp? A get-together for a day to talk about, fiddle with, make and explore […]

Moving Into the Cloud.

There has been much made lately of the tech sector’s newest favorite buzzword: cloud computing. Like many such newly-minted terms, there is some dispute about its actual definition; I wrote about one such permutation in a previous entry for the C3 Weekly Newsletter when the MacBook Air was about to be unveiled at the Macworld […]

The Dangerous World of a GPS That Does Not Exist

Every now and then something crosses my inbox that makes my jaw drop. Sometimes it’s genius, sometimes it’s astonishingly crass, and sometimes it’s a combination of the two. This morning’s report from DVICE.com on the Mio Knight Rider GPS is definitely a category three jaw-dropper. On the one hand, it makes perfect sense. If you’re […]

Prototype of the 21st century studio: The Weinstein Company

Cinematical reports that the Weinstein brothers just struck a deal to handle their own DVD distribution. The brothers’ new post-Miramax venture, The Weinstein Company, is emerging as a case study in 21st-century convergence filmmaking. First they unveiled a US$490M round of private equity from investors (including a hefty chunk of change from Mark Cuban), then […]