Posted byPaul Quigley on August 28, 2009 Once upon a time it was all so simple. Wasn’t it? Content was just, well, content. The guts of documents, files, records, stuff which had content and was worth keeping. Now, it’s all changed. Not only has the whole ‘content is king’ thing changed beyond all recognition since […]
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Robert Bredlau of e-Spirit looks at how forward-thinking CMS vendors are empowering enterprises into the world of video. Video content has revolutionised the web. It would take over 400 years to watch every single clip that currently exists on YouTube as there are thirteen hours of content uploaded every minute. In addition to this the […]
To those of a certain age, it hardly seems five minutes ago that Jim Barksdale of Netscape Communications was waxing lyrical, like some web evangelist, on the merits of the Navigator web browser – over and above the arch-villain Mosaic-based Internet Explorer variant. Posted byPaul Quigley on August 28, 2009 To those of a certain […]
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Following on from our last edition where we featured digital assets, the notion of ‘toxic’ financial assets has been all over the mainstream media, highlighting the relative value of tangible and intangible assets. Apparently, many wealth management funds are trying to move client assets into gold, a safe haven during times of economic upheaval. So, […]
Insurgent search engine newbie Cuil (www.cuil.com) is making a big splash in the SEO world. In the short time since the former Googlers left the fold to start their own search enterprise, they’ve not only managed to draw interest from users due to their innovative algorithms and content and context results, but also because, unlike […]
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So is it totally unreasonable to expect the world to move from a paperless office situation to a paperless world scenario? No more books, libraries, just banks upon banks of monitors and servers to read Beedle the Bard, the Bible or the Best Bits of Brigitte Bardot and Billy Bunter? Document management: from paperless office […]
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The HXR-MC1 is a “camera on a rope”. Sony’s HXR-MC1 ($2800, street price) is a “POV” camcorder, an HD single-chip CMOS camera head with 10x zoom, separated from the “main body” with controls, LCD screen, and recording media, by a nine-foot umbilical cable. You can put the camera head in unusual or awkward places—on a […]
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You’ve been framed: ID fraud threatens branding, bottom line and business ethicsPaul Quigley,Editorial Director The news this week that insurance giant Aviva had been defrauded by corrupt workers at an off-shore Indian call centre throws stark light onto not only the risks involved in outsourcing mission-critical data to third-party entities in foreign jurisdictions, but also […]
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Banking, real estate and the stock market: all three are prone to “irrational exuberance.” As it turns out, the production community is not immune either, witnessed by the hordes rushing to buy (or wishing they already owned) a RED camera or a Canon 5D mkII. Mind you, both are excellent tools – but neither is […]
I’ve recently spent a lot of time evaluating our production processes looking for ways to improve efficiency. There were two motivating factors. First, we’ve pretty much abandoned Standard Definition production, relegating it only to live web events where we are streaming the content or where the client demands it. Second, I was working on a […]
