Archive for March, 2007

The Fate of a 75 year old Cinema in the Digimedia Age

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Had an unexpected find during a visit yesteray to Sonoma California. The lovingly beautiful Sebastiani Theatre, located right on the very historic town square in what is now best know as California Wine Country.
Built in 1933, the palace had fallen into disrepair, but has been restored over the last 15 years by owner Roger [...]

Journalism Channel Industry Structure And Economics Report

Friday, March 16th, 2007

StateOfTheMedia.org has the 2007 version of its annual report covering the economics, industry trends, and structure of news media: traditional, analog, and new digital channels for news.
This is the 4th annual report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism
of Washington, DC, 20036.
Areas covered this year include: Digital Journalism, Newspapers, Online, Network TV, Cable [...]

digimediafinance and mybloglog.com

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Welcome to all new readers who came here via mybloglog.com!
I added a widget on the right column that shows recent visitors who are registered with mybloglog.com, a traffic creating tool from Yahoo.
Should be interesting to see who is finding this site by that channel. Already it looks like one “cam girl” from myspace has wandered [...]

Site news update

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

I have tweaked the layout of this blog a bit today. The main thing is the new 2nd sidebar on the main page, and new information in each sidebar designed to make this blog more informative for you.
In the far right sidebar, now you will see a “tag cloud” that gives you a sese of [...]

Quick GDC Followup and Thanks to All

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Thanks to all of you who took time out of your busy schedules at GDC to meet with me. Both the planned and ad-hoc meetings were wonderfully productive. In fact, 3 days was not nearly enough time to meet with everyone.
For those of you for whom I was scheduled to meet but was not able [...]

Barry visits the 2007 Game Developers Conference in SF

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

There is much more coming from last week’s Game Developer’s Conference, held in San Francisco, but I want to give my general impressions.
The conference was held all last week, for the first time in San Francisco, having apparently outgrown its previous San Jose digs. The conference proper was held in the old North Hall of [...]