When the Internet Thinks It Knows You - NYTimes.com

Hi gang, as we are on the eve of the Semantech conference in SF, the mother of all semantic technology hoedowns with all the latest and greatest in the field this article is timely.
Again, your intrepid reporter/analyst will be covering the conference. This years challenge, as alluded to in this article, to find out how much the Internet--as if it were an entity(which it may be) actually not only knows about you, but , more importantly, understands.
The leading company in this field, last year kicked off its "meaning based " marketing campaign. Meaning. it would give meaning for those who paid , to the ever growing mounds of data being collected about you. Remember that Facebooks like button, means that you are saying what you like and don't like, and this simple act makes the semantic task, theoretically a lot easier, BUT since the semantic engines still cannot tell the differences between irony and sarcasm,the issue of knowing you in any real sense is mute. Can your behavior likes and dislikes be tracked, yes, how well does this information when correlated with other info define you, that is what I hope to find out at the conference, or at least shed some light on. The internet, meaning companies and the feds that buy and sort the data, may know some of your tastes, but know you, I doubt it. Ask yourself, do you think your facebook friends know you?, How well? Without a way to slice the info along psychographical lines, the Inet can't know your many selves. The beauty of the net is that people can lie, computers don't lie, they compute, language is wiggly, and human beings use it as intended to both occlude and reveal meaning
Drmedia
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When the Internet Thinks It Knows You - NYTimes.com

ONCE upon a time, the story goes, we lived in a broadcast society. In that dusty pre-Internet age, the tools for sharing information weren’t widely available. If you wanted to share your thoughts with the masses, you had to own a printing press or a chunk of the airwaves, or have access to someone who did. Controlling the flow of information was an elite class of editors, producers and media moguls who decided what people would see and hear about the world. They were the Gatekeepers.



When the Internet Thinks It Knows You - NYTimes.com

Studios theater owners get down over VOD

Hi Gang
Check this out, it's ultimately about who gets the cash and behind that is how do the creatives do , you know writers, directors, actors, producers.
Remember how there used to never be backend, now you can count on it.

Location:http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/05/premium-vod-fight-between-studios-and-theaters-gets-nasty.html

Films/video games disconnect

This article outlines the difficult relationship between gamers and movie folks.leaves out a key element: story.
Many of the games generated by films, don't have a compelling story or gameplay, whereas films that take the gamestory seem to do better.Why, screenwriting and game writing are completely different and require different skills and sensibilities .
Creating a script from a game allows the writer to establish the characters, their relationships beyond their one dimesionality in a game.

Drmedia

Location:http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/34430/Opinion_The_Video_GameHome_Video_Disconnect.php

Communications revolution

Looks like the Brits get it. Transmedia Multi screen access .
Content providers want all access to all screens all audiences. DVD sales erode 20% let's see how far that goes .
Dr media says people want to own things BUT don't want to pay, that's called free tv and it's ad supported.
Watch this space, YouTube is aiming at being a cable provider and they are already on otto tv.
Producers next??


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