Media

Sorry it's been so long without any blogging. Between my class at Stanford, finishing the second edition of my compression book, and a profoundly cool project that'll hopefully be announced soon, things have been beyond busy. But I've got a lot of topics in the queue I hope to get posted before IBC…

For those mourning my relative blog interactivity and going to IBC, you can get your fill of the live Ben Waggoner 3D experience at the Microsoft both.  I'll be at the booth at least several hours every day. I'll get final details up here before the show opens.Microsoft is in the…

I'm here in Amsterdam with furious jetlag, but happy to finally be able to discuss one of big things I've been working on for a while. We've been working on using Silverlight to deliver full interactive movie experiences ala Blu-ray and DVD, liberated from the shiny disc. I've been frustrated for…

    Term „amazing technology" usually translates to „latest technology". But it doesn't have to be necessarily this way in all cases. Let me share a story I had experienced recently.Assoc. Prof. Michael Meadows - my former lecturer and also a Head of Media School at the Griffith…

We’ve all been witness to the disconnect between the people and their leadership, and nowhere is this divide more apparent than between Internet users and content providers. Digital music piracy, DRM-crippled television, and overpriced underwhelming motion pictures have left their marks on all of…

Per yesterday's NY Times article, Yahoo launched their citizen journalism site You Witness News this morning. After signing in with your Yahoo! ID, you can upload just about any movie file that weighs less than 100 megs. After providing some brief description, tagging, and date information, the…