Posts by Geoff Lealand
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New Reality TV show.
America's Next Top Kill Model.
Or, as I suggested before, America's Next Top Role Model?
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Great programme tonight, Russell--but there is now competition from my Significant Other who wants to watch SGU (StarGateUniverse) on Prime at the same time.
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How could you not love that?
Not if you were standing in it ;-)
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What makes it even worse is hearing that tiresome old nostrum politically correct being dragged out yet again, to justify Haden and those radio nongs.
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I know of one department down here where several of the professors still have general staff type out their papers and lectures.
Lazy sods!
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AC Nielsen provides ratings for every 15 minute slot.
ACN's brief is to measure "presence in the room where a TV set is on". This happens for evrey 15 minute slot (well, more correctly, buttons are pushed), from a base panel of 500 NZ households. All that follows is conjecture, extrapolation or supposition.
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Nice story, Hilary. I had my first encounter with computers whilst studying in the USA in the early 80s--using punch cards. Oh the horror, when you mis-punched a card!
It is interesting how work patterns have changed in education. Once upon a time, every university dept had a departmental secretary, whose job was to type out the efforts of teaching staff. Now we do all this work ourselves.
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Rob: it is difficult to sum up Turner's argument in a sentence or two but it is a careful and considered caution against being seduced by the rhetoric of yet-unsubstantiated change. It you like, I could loan the book to you in a week or two.
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often we engage in it so we can engage others about it later.
Well put!
The internet is the future - TV is dead.
As Mark Twain famously declared The rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated Personally, I prefer to watch TV in company, to share the laughter and the questions, than staring at a computer screen in a solo fashion.
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The TVNZ programme really is bloody awful. As I pointed out above, it is more than a little ironic that Prime is screening a 7-part doco series later this month (which TVNZ apparently passed on ), whilst TVNZ serves us up this mess.
It's a brilliant and concise intro about the biggest difference between television past and visual culture future - our role as active creators rather than passive consumers. Of course, some of us maintain there's never been such a thing as passive..
I can see what you are suggesting Sacha but I have been greatly swayed recently by Graeme Turner's new book Ordinary People and The Media: The Demotic Turn. He argues that much of the talk about the democratisation of the media (as 'produsers' or 'prosumers') is rushing far ahead of any convincing evidence of substantial change. He also argues that many of us are colluding in the interests of established media by supplying free content for them, and that the great majority (more than 80%) of blogging is anti-democratic in nature*, through its encouragement of bigotry and intolerance. It is not an alarmist book but a carefully considered analysis.
* obviously PAS is a notable exception