eric rochow

I’ve always liked the idea of having a Tivo, but never quite trusted the idea that it connects back to Tivo and had the capability of monitoring what you watch. a bit of Big Brother i’d rather not participate in. (watch now as i buy a Tivo next month…)
I’ve always thought that the log [...]

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I’ve been thinking about getting a bluetooth earpiece headset for hands free calling from my Treo. It would be handy to be able to actually look at my Treo for dates and info while on the phone. I”ve been doing an informal survey of users, mainly black car drivers here in NY. (Black cars are [...]

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C.W. Nevius, in his SFGate blog, writes:
Alexander Halavais, may only be an assistant professor of interactive communications at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, but he knows how to deliver the money quote. Asked about bloggers by the Washington Post, Halavais came up with a beaut.
“The average blogger is a 14-year-old girl writing about her cat,” Halavais [...]

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so here I am, prostletyzing about the convergence, and how old media is moving to new media, and Richard Siklos writes in the NY Times (June 25th, 2006) “Waiting for the Dough on the Web”
NOW and then, an executive whose brain I’m siphoning will turn the tables and pose a question. And lately, I’ve [...]

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Too much choice:
Reading on Anders.com, Anders Brownworth referenced a treatise by the Blackfriars: The Tyranny of Too Much. Really hits the nail on the head.
“In an era where an overload of broadcast advertising had created a Tyranny of Too Much, or a noise level that consumers had conditioned themselves to ignore, new media had [...]

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Recently most of what we hear is the porting of all sorts of media to be played on an iPod or cell phone, and being a content creator myself, I’ve been thinking: maybe not all content works with that small screen.
I don’t see us becoming a nation solely of iPod watchers, besides, we would then [...]

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So we keep reading about how marketers are always trying to catch the eye or ear of the coveted 18-34 yr olds, and I, being a bit older (43), keep thinking: the rest of us have plenty of money to spend (and time to do it) as well. This is especially true of seniors, who [...]

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How many videoconferences have you been in where you want to look at the person on the screen yet you also feel you should look into the camera lens? Rumour has it Apple may have something to solve this. A LCD screen with image sensors sandwiched between the pixels. The sensors are basically a video [...]

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