BitDepth 741 - July 27
26/07/10 21:25 Filed in: BitDepth - July
2010
What
is BitDepth?
BitDepth was an elaborate pun on the resolution of old colour monitors, which grew clearer as you add more bits. This photo deepens the arcana of that wordplay. Photo by Mark Lyndersay.
Preparing to give a talk on technology reporting to a group of young journalists, it became clear that I’d have to explain what I’d been up to in this space over the last fifteen years. Damn.
While reporting is only one of the things I’ve used the rather wide ranging columnists’ licence to quill to do, reporting has always been at its core.
So what is BitDepth about? It is, ultimately, about tools, the newest tools of the present and if I get it right, the ones that will play a role in our future.
All technology stories are ultimately stories about tools, about objects and socially lubricating services that provide a lever of change in the world we live in.
We’ve come some distance from ploughs and combustion engines, but each of those tools was a powerful leveraging technology in its time, allowing the power of a human being to multiply its impact beyond our body’s muscle limitations.
The role of a technology reporter is a relatively recent invention in the world of journalism. The rate of invention and acceptance of tools was measured in decades and longer in the centuries prior to 1900. It’s only been since the 20th century that the speed of technology development and applied science has accelerated to the point that it could be considered something worth chronicling in anything other than almanacs and annuals.
The increasing pace of technology invention, adaptation and adoption has created remarkable opportunities for learning and, more compellingly, the extension of the human mind as a leveraging force.
The students, technocrats and philosophers of today benefit not only from access to more information than any human beings at any time in the human race’s time on the planet, they also have the advantage of computing fulcrums that leverage the relatively puny capacity of our brains to retain information.
For the first time in history, the playing fields of knowledge are open to anyone who can use a computer in a democracy of information that’s fundamentally changing everything about human potential.
Reporting on these changes is roughly equivalent to being able to take notes while Oppenheimer sealed the casing of the first atomic bomb or holding Einstein’s chalk duster while he worked through his theory of relativity.
But reporting on today's technology can be demanding particularly if a reporter wishes to establish some authority in the field. This column, for instance, never discusses gaming, one of the most popular technology subjects. I'm bad at games and don't understand the nuances of the sector well, so I choose to spare readers palpable evidence of my ignorance and ineptitude.
Sources of information are plentiful, but they can prove misleading if we choose to falter in the journalist's responsibility to multiple source information and falter in the effort to get the story right.
I’m not sure that any of the young journalists I spoke to had one whit of interest stoked by my talk on the subject, but you can catch the presentation, which I’ve posted as a vidcast here.
Let me know what you think.
Postscript: BitDepth got its genesis in the pioneering computing technologies that former Guardian CEO Alwin Chow pressed for in 1989. It was there, between late 1989 and 1992 that I got my deep immersion into technology as applied to the business of photography, journalism and publishing. Nothing was ever the same again for me afterward.
BitDepth was an elaborate pun on the resolution of old colour monitors, which grew clearer as you add more bits. This photo deepens the arcana of that wordplay. Photo by Mark Lyndersay.
Preparing to give a talk on technology reporting to a group of young journalists, it became clear that I’d have to explain what I’d been up to in this space over the last fifteen years. Damn.
While reporting is only one of the things I’ve used the rather wide ranging columnists’ licence to quill to do, reporting has always been at its core.
So what is BitDepth about? It is, ultimately, about tools, the newest tools of the present and if I get it right, the ones that will play a role in our future.
All technology stories are ultimately stories about tools, about objects and socially lubricating services that provide a lever of change in the world we live in.
We’ve come some distance from ploughs and combustion engines, but each of those tools was a powerful leveraging technology in its time, allowing the power of a human being to multiply its impact beyond our body’s muscle limitations.
The role of a technology reporter is a relatively recent invention in the world of journalism. The rate of invention and acceptance of tools was measured in decades and longer in the centuries prior to 1900. It’s only been since the 20th century that the speed of technology development and applied science has accelerated to the point that it could be considered something worth chronicling in anything other than almanacs and annuals.
The increasing pace of technology invention, adaptation and adoption has created remarkable opportunities for learning and, more compellingly, the extension of the human mind as a leveraging force.
The students, technocrats and philosophers of today benefit not only from access to more information than any human beings at any time in the human race’s time on the planet, they also have the advantage of computing fulcrums that leverage the relatively puny capacity of our brains to retain information.
For the first time in history, the playing fields of knowledge are open to anyone who can use a computer in a democracy of information that’s fundamentally changing everything about human potential.
Reporting on these changes is roughly equivalent to being able to take notes while Oppenheimer sealed the casing of the first atomic bomb or holding Einstein’s chalk duster while he worked through his theory of relativity.
But reporting on today's technology can be demanding particularly if a reporter wishes to establish some authority in the field. This column, for instance, never discusses gaming, one of the most popular technology subjects. I'm bad at games and don't understand the nuances of the sector well, so I choose to spare readers palpable evidence of my ignorance and ineptitude.
Sources of information are plentiful, but they can prove misleading if we choose to falter in the journalist's responsibility to multiple source information and falter in the effort to get the story right.
I’m not sure that any of the young journalists I spoke to had one whit of interest stoked by my talk on the subject, but you can catch the presentation, which I’ve posted as a vidcast here.
Let me know what you think.
Postscript: BitDepth got its genesis in the pioneering computing technologies that former Guardian CEO Alwin Chow pressed for in 1989. It was there, between late 1989 and 1992 that I got my deep immersion into technology as applied to the business of photography, journalism and publishing. Nothing was ever the same again for me afterward.
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BitDepth 740 - July 20
19/07/10 22:09 Filed in: BitDepth - July
2010
The
future in their laptops
The HP Mini 210-1030NR isn’t the best selling netbook on Amazon, that honour belongs to the ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1005PE-PU27-BK, but it follows close behind and both meet most of the requirements for the Government’s laptop initiative. Also, HP’s PR is way better than Asus’. Photo courtesy HP.
In one of the boldest sweeps of their manifesto, the People’s Partnership announced that: “Every child going on to secondary school from the SEA will be provided with a laptop to begin their secondary school education.”
As party promises go, this one was clear-cut. Sensing low hanging, if somewhat expensive fruit, the party coming into power immediately announced that it would be implementing this project for the coming school year.
The thing with such tempting fruit, though, is that they are a great temptation to competing interests, and, if unpicked, swiftly go overripe or fall prey to predators.
The Government may rest assured that its natural predators, the PNM in Opposition, will be marking each stage of this project as it moves toward implementation and beyond and will be swift to point to any indication of its failure.
It should not be necessary to have party affiliations to wish this project every success. The modernisation of Trinidad and Tobago’s education system and the embrace of computer technology in that process should be endorsed by any right thinking citizen keen to raise the learning potential of our children in school.
That said, plunking down thousands of portable computers into a school system quite clearly unprepared for them is unlikely to achieve the desired result immediately and even the most hopeful supporters of the project should be willing to acknowledge the possibility, and I note this with the greatest of restraint, of “hiccups.”
At a recent meeting of the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society, the usually heated, noisy discussions exploded into one shade shy of an uproar when the subject came up for discussion, and the small group carried on tirades on the matter over pizza that could only have been warmed by the heat of the debate.
The laptop initiative has the potential to become the bombshell move that the UNC last dropped when they removed VAT and duty on computers during their last run in governance, a decision that prompted an explosion in the numbers of computers being imported into Trinidad and Tobago.
What happens when laptops land in schools in which only the newest, youngest students have possession of them? Will they prompt a new kind of technology driven hazing?
What will teachers, some of whom are barely holding their own doing chalk and talk in the face of poor support systems, make of a whole new dimension to their teaching experience and the challenges of making use of new technology wielded by a fresh young student body?
What happens when a school system already adept at creating porn on cell phones has access to even moderately powered computers?
The successful children of SEA 2010 will not be the only ones given a laptop. In some cases, this will be the first computer in a household. What will those families do with this new opportunity and how will they leverage it to their advantage?
For Minister of Education Tim Gopeesingh, those problems are still far off as he publicly wrestles with a bureaucracy designed to slow fast moving plans down to manageable speeds.
Reporting on his experience with the Ministry of Education’s Information Technology department, Gopeesingh said that: “There is filibustering, there is incoherence, there is a slapdash approach to it. What do I do?”
I can’t offer any advice on that one, but these are some things that need to be done.
The Education Ministry must create a simple, one page order of conduct for the use of the new laptops in the school system.
Teachers must be coached on how the implementation will be handled on school premises and offered guidance on how these new tools might be integrated into the assignments of the first-year curriculum.
Students should be coached on the value of forming peer groups to share information and earned understanding of these new computing tools.
Local developers should be encouraged to create software and learning websites aligned with education requirements to leverage the value of what are, in the end, just little technology boxes.
This is a critical moment for the new Government, and the way this project is handled will not only be important to them politically, it will also change the lives of thousands of children at a critical point in their learning experience.
The specification sheet for the laptops for children initiative, inclusive of Government approved arbitrary capitalisations.
Minimum Technical Specifications Laptop Type 1 (17,300 Units)
Processor Speed (cache) Dual Core 1.66GHz (512MB L2 Cache) or equivalent
Memory 1 GB, DDR SDRAM
Video Card Integrated
Display Size 8”
Audio Type Integrated
Speaker Type
Integrated Hard Drive Size 160GB
Network Speed (Ethernet Connectivity) 10/100 Mbps
(Integrated) Wireless Network Type 802.11g
Key Board Type English
Input Device Touch Pad
Interface Provided 2 x USB 2.0,Video Output, LAN, Audio
Operating System Type Microsoft Windows 7 (English) 32-Bit (with domain-based networking capability)
Power Supply External AC Adaptor (100-240v)
Battery (Battery Life) 6 Hours
Web Camera
Integrated Mouse
Optical Mouse with Scroll and mouse pad
Laptop Tag (Asset tag) Unique Identifier
ENERGY STAR ® ENERGY STAR Version 5.0 compliance
Pre-installed Software
Student / Classroom Productivity & Educational Software
Security software such as Anti-Virus
Optional Pre-installed Software Encyclopedia
Optional Requirements
Optical Drive DVD +/-RW
Carry Handle
Integrated Wireless Bluetooth
Integrated Security Cable Locks
Accessories Carry Case
Note: Maximum weight of the Type 1 Laptop should not exceed 1.3kg, excluding battery.
Minimum Technical Specifications Laptop Type 2 (3000 Units)
Processor Speed (cache) Dual Core 1.66GHz (2MB L2Cache) or equivalent
Memory 2 GB,
DDR SDRAM
Video Card Integrated
Display Size 8”
Audio Type Integrated Speaker Type
Integrated Hard Drive Size 250GB
Network Speed (Ethernet Connectivity) 10/100 Mbps
Wireless Network Type 802.11g
Key Board Type English
Input Device Touch Pad Interface
Provided 3 x USB 2.0, Video Output, LAN, Audio Operating
System Type Microsoft Windows 7 (English) 32-Bit (with domain-based networking capability)
Power Supply External AC Adaptor (100-240v)
Battery (Battery Life) 6 Hours
Web Camera Integrated
Mouse Optical Mouse with Scroll and mouse pad
Optical Drive Built-in DVD +/-RW
Laptop Tag (Asset tag)Unique Identifier
ENERGY STAR ® ENERGY STAR Version 5.0 compliance
Pre-Installed Software Student / Classroom Productivity & Educational Software Security software such as Anti-Virus Optional Pre-Installed Software Encyclopedia Optional Requirements Carry Handle Integrated Wireless Bluetooth Integrated Security Cable Locks Accessories Carry Case
Note: Maximum weight of the Type 2 Laptop should not exceed 2.5 kg, excluding battery.
The HP Mini 210-1030NR isn’t the best selling netbook on Amazon, that honour belongs to the ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1005PE-PU27-BK, but it follows close behind and both meet most of the requirements for the Government’s laptop initiative. Also, HP’s PR is way better than Asus’. Photo courtesy HP.
In one of the boldest sweeps of their manifesto, the People’s Partnership announced that: “Every child going on to secondary school from the SEA will be provided with a laptop to begin their secondary school education.”
As party promises go, this one was clear-cut. Sensing low hanging, if somewhat expensive fruit, the party coming into power immediately announced that it would be implementing this project for the coming school year.
The thing with such tempting fruit, though, is that they are a great temptation to competing interests, and, if unpicked, swiftly go overripe or fall prey to predators.
The Government may rest assured that its natural predators, the PNM in Opposition, will be marking each stage of this project as it moves toward implementation and beyond and will be swift to point to any indication of its failure.
It should not be necessary to have party affiliations to wish this project every success. The modernisation of Trinidad and Tobago’s education system and the embrace of computer technology in that process should be endorsed by any right thinking citizen keen to raise the learning potential of our children in school.
That said, plunking down thousands of portable computers into a school system quite clearly unprepared for them is unlikely to achieve the desired result immediately and even the most hopeful supporters of the project should be willing to acknowledge the possibility, and I note this with the greatest of restraint, of “hiccups.”
At a recent meeting of the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society, the usually heated, noisy discussions exploded into one shade shy of an uproar when the subject came up for discussion, and the small group carried on tirades on the matter over pizza that could only have been warmed by the heat of the debate.
The laptop initiative has the potential to become the bombshell move that the UNC last dropped when they removed VAT and duty on computers during their last run in governance, a decision that prompted an explosion in the numbers of computers being imported into Trinidad and Tobago.
What happens when laptops land in schools in which only the newest, youngest students have possession of them? Will they prompt a new kind of technology driven hazing?
What will teachers, some of whom are barely holding their own doing chalk and talk in the face of poor support systems, make of a whole new dimension to their teaching experience and the challenges of making use of new technology wielded by a fresh young student body?
What happens when a school system already adept at creating porn on cell phones has access to even moderately powered computers?
The successful children of SEA 2010 will not be the only ones given a laptop. In some cases, this will be the first computer in a household. What will those families do with this new opportunity and how will they leverage it to their advantage?
For Minister of Education Tim Gopeesingh, those problems are still far off as he publicly wrestles with a bureaucracy designed to slow fast moving plans down to manageable speeds.
Reporting on his experience with the Ministry of Education’s Information Technology department, Gopeesingh said that: “There is filibustering, there is incoherence, there is a slapdash approach to it. What do I do?”
I can’t offer any advice on that one, but these are some things that need to be done.
The Education Ministry must create a simple, one page order of conduct for the use of the new laptops in the school system.
Teachers must be coached on how the implementation will be handled on school premises and offered guidance on how these new tools might be integrated into the assignments of the first-year curriculum.
Students should be coached on the value of forming peer groups to share information and earned understanding of these new computing tools.
Local developers should be encouraged to create software and learning websites aligned with education requirements to leverage the value of what are, in the end, just little technology boxes.
This is a critical moment for the new Government, and the way this project is handled will not only be important to them politically, it will also change the lives of thousands of children at a critical point in their learning experience.
The specification sheet for the laptops for children initiative, inclusive of Government approved arbitrary capitalisations.
Minimum Technical Specifications Laptop Type 1 (17,300 Units)
Processor Speed (cache) Dual Core 1.66GHz (512MB L2 Cache) or equivalent
Memory 1 GB, DDR SDRAM
Video Card Integrated
Display Size 8”
Audio Type Integrated
Speaker Type
Integrated Hard Drive Size 160GB
Network Speed (Ethernet Connectivity) 10/100 Mbps
(Integrated) Wireless Network Type 802.11g
Key Board Type English
Input Device Touch Pad
Interface Provided 2 x USB 2.0,Video Output, LAN, Audio
Operating System Type Microsoft Windows 7 (English) 32-Bit (with domain-based networking capability)
Power Supply External AC Adaptor (100-240v)
Battery (Battery Life) 6 Hours
Web Camera
Integrated Mouse
Optical Mouse with Scroll and mouse pad
Laptop Tag (Asset tag) Unique Identifier
ENERGY STAR ® ENERGY STAR Version 5.0 compliance
Pre-installed Software
Student / Classroom Productivity & Educational Software
Security software such as Anti-Virus
Optional Pre-installed Software Encyclopedia
Optional Requirements
Optical Drive DVD +/-RW
Carry Handle
Integrated Wireless Bluetooth
Integrated Security Cable Locks
Accessories Carry Case
Note: Maximum weight of the Type 1 Laptop should not exceed 1.3kg, excluding battery.
Minimum Technical Specifications Laptop Type 2 (3000 Units)
Processor Speed (cache) Dual Core 1.66GHz (2MB L2Cache) or equivalent
Memory 2 GB,
DDR SDRAM
Video Card Integrated
Display Size 8”
Audio Type Integrated Speaker Type
Integrated Hard Drive Size 250GB
Network Speed (Ethernet Connectivity) 10/100 Mbps
Wireless Network Type 802.11g
Key Board Type English
Input Device Touch Pad Interface
Provided 3 x USB 2.0, Video Output, LAN, Audio Operating
System Type Microsoft Windows 7 (English) 32-Bit (with domain-based networking capability)
Power Supply External AC Adaptor (100-240v)
Battery (Battery Life) 6 Hours
Web Camera Integrated
Mouse Optical Mouse with Scroll and mouse pad
Optical Drive Built-in DVD +/-RW
Laptop Tag (Asset tag)Unique Identifier
ENERGY STAR ® ENERGY STAR Version 5.0 compliance
Pre-Installed Software Student / Classroom Productivity & Educational Software Security software such as Anti-Virus Optional Pre-Installed Software Encyclopedia Optional Requirements Carry Handle Integrated Wireless Bluetooth Integrated Security Cable Locks Accessories Carry Case
Note: Maximum weight of the Type 2 Laptop should not exceed 2.5 kg, excluding battery.
BitDepth 739 - July 13
12/07/10 19:31 Filed in: BitDepth - July
2010
Comprehending
content and context
Part of the “Content is King” panel, left to right, Lorraine O’Connor, O’Brian Haynes, Colin Lucas, Ottie Mieres, Edson Reyes, Josanne Leonard and Peter C Lewis. Photograph by Mark Lyndersay.
It was running late, this final seminar of the second day of discussions about Carnival two weeks ago at NAPA. It was hard not to fidget on the awful folding chair in this increasingly dark and empty room waiting on a group of media practitioners, producers, performers and the representatives of three popular local websites to wrap their heads around the idea of content.
Why understanding what content means, why it’s important in a wired world and why it’s critical to have a plan to leverage it to the advantage of the creative community that produces it should elude this eminent group so decisively was absolutely confusing.
Much of the discussion was adamantly off topic, rehashing issues to do with local music and Carnival already aired during the two days of discussions on the topic “This Business of Carnival.”
At one point O’Brian Haynes tried gamely to pull the topic back on track, but he ended up in a muddle about micro and macro opportunities that proved woefully short on specifics or clarity about what, exactly, he was talking about.
Somewhere early on, Peter C Lewis of Synergy made the completely alarming and largely unsubstantiated statement that the majority of artistes were being signed today because of YouTube.
Other comments emerged from the gathered silos of activity on the panel.
Lorraine O’Connor lamented that the majority of music that comes to her TrinidadTunes.com online music venture was substandard.
Josanne Leonard noted that the big broadcast businesses have been slow to adapt to a changing game.
By this time, the room, never host to more than around 70 people, had dwindled to half that and they were dribbling out the door as the discussion meandered.
Having already lamented the absence of any kind of structure to this Carnival business seminar that might have championed the idea of proposals over lamentations and still irritated by the lost opportunities in a seminar titled “Content is King - Traditional Media & New Media,” I am moved to say here what I could not there, overcome as I was by annoyance.
To begin, then, content is the point, not just metaphoric royalty. Nobody tunes in to radio or television or picks up a paper to enjoy the advertising. Nobody attends a party of concert to look at the advertising bunting or to get a branded rag to wave.
They attend for the content, which is not limited to the music or the words or the design of the environment. Audiences are attracted to content which is amplified by its context. A soca hit, for instance, becomes different content at midnight in a party, at midday on the radio and in a video on YouTube. Morphed by its context, the same song becomes a different experience, relished and remembered in different ways.
The key that might have unlocked the collective knowledge at that panel discussion might have been an acknowledgement that each of the participants represented a facet of content use, not its final destination, and the answers were to be found in leveraged collaboration among them in the service of artistes.
If these talks ever move forward to the oft referenced “authorities” to take determinedly unspecified “action,” then the action on content must be centred on artist empowerment and coaching on the many spokes of opportunity that can radiate from the creations of local artistes.
Content providers are in a unique position to parlay their intellectual property into income in an Internet enabled world, but nobody seems to be paying attention to the need for creators to begin lacing up their togs to take their own profitable run in new media.Read More...
Part of the “Content is King” panel, left to right, Lorraine O’Connor, O’Brian Haynes, Colin Lucas, Ottie Mieres, Edson Reyes, Josanne Leonard and Peter C Lewis. Photograph by Mark Lyndersay.
It was running late, this final seminar of the second day of discussions about Carnival two weeks ago at NAPA. It was hard not to fidget on the awful folding chair in this increasingly dark and empty room waiting on a group of media practitioners, producers, performers and the representatives of three popular local websites to wrap their heads around the idea of content.
Why understanding what content means, why it’s important in a wired world and why it’s critical to have a plan to leverage it to the advantage of the creative community that produces it should elude this eminent group so decisively was absolutely confusing.
Much of the discussion was adamantly off topic, rehashing issues to do with local music and Carnival already aired during the two days of discussions on the topic “This Business of Carnival.”
At one point O’Brian Haynes tried gamely to pull the topic back on track, but he ended up in a muddle about micro and macro opportunities that proved woefully short on specifics or clarity about what, exactly, he was talking about.
Somewhere early on, Peter C Lewis of Synergy made the completely alarming and largely unsubstantiated statement that the majority of artistes were being signed today because of YouTube.
Other comments emerged from the gathered silos of activity on the panel.
Lorraine O’Connor lamented that the majority of music that comes to her TrinidadTunes.com online music venture was substandard.
Josanne Leonard noted that the big broadcast businesses have been slow to adapt to a changing game.
By this time, the room, never host to more than around 70 people, had dwindled to half that and they were dribbling out the door as the discussion meandered.
Having already lamented the absence of any kind of structure to this Carnival business seminar that might have championed the idea of proposals over lamentations and still irritated by the lost opportunities in a seminar titled “Content is King - Traditional Media & New Media,” I am moved to say here what I could not there, overcome as I was by annoyance.
To begin, then, content is the point, not just metaphoric royalty. Nobody tunes in to radio or television or picks up a paper to enjoy the advertising. Nobody attends a party of concert to look at the advertising bunting or to get a branded rag to wave.
They attend for the content, which is not limited to the music or the words or the design of the environment. Audiences are attracted to content which is amplified by its context. A soca hit, for instance, becomes different content at midnight in a party, at midday on the radio and in a video on YouTube. Morphed by its context, the same song becomes a different experience, relished and remembered in different ways.
The key that might have unlocked the collective knowledge at that panel discussion might have been an acknowledgement that each of the participants represented a facet of content use, not its final destination, and the answers were to be found in leveraged collaboration among them in the service of artistes.
If these talks ever move forward to the oft referenced “authorities” to take determinedly unspecified “action,” then the action on content must be centred on artist empowerment and coaching on the many spokes of opportunity that can radiate from the creations of local artistes.
Content providers are in a unique position to parlay their intellectual property into income in an Internet enabled world, but nobody seems to be paying attention to the need for creators to begin lacing up their togs to take their own profitable run in new media.Read More...
BitDepth 738 - July 06
06/07/10 19:40 Filed in: BitDepth - July
2010
After a long symposium on Carnival, it
remains unclear what's to be done and who should be trying to do
it.Read More...
BitDepth 737 - June 29
28/06/10 20:32 Filed in: BitDepth - June
2010
Microsoft introduces Office 2010 and
positions it in the cloud.Read More...
BitDepth 736 - June 22
21/06/10 19:42 Filed in: BitDepth - June
2010
Microsoft introduces web versions of
its productivity software.Read More...
BitDepth 735 - June 15
14/06/10 20:34 Filed in: BitDepth - June
2010
Microsoft upgrades its online document
and storage services, I sample the new wares.Read
More...
BitDepth 734 - June 08
07/06/10 20:47 Filed in: BitDepth - June
2010
Dropbox and other online storage
options.Read More...
BitDepth 733 - June 01
31/05/10 20:00 Filed in: BitDepth - June
2010
How I called the 2010 national
election.Read More...
BitDepth 732 - May 25
24/05/10 18:46 Filed in: BitDepth - May
2010
A letter to the new Prime Minister
about the technology issues facing the new
administration.Read More...
BitDepth 731 - May 18
17/05/10 19:36 Filed in: BitDepth - May
2010
The end of the traditional press
release in the Internet era.Read More...
BitDepth 730 - May 11
10/05/10 23:48 Filed in: BitDepth - May
2010
Politicians take their campaigns to
Facebook in force.Read More...
BitDepth 729 - May 04
03/05/10 22:12 Filed in: BitDepth - May
2010
Young boys caught in a sex scandal are
excoriated on Facebook.Read More...
BitDepth 728 - April 27
26/04/10 21:52 Filed in: BitDepth - April
2010
Why does Apple hate Flash
so?Read More...
BitDepth 727 - April 20
19/04/10 20:46 Filed in: BitDepth - April
2010
After fondling the iPad, some thoughts
on the Apple device.Read More...
BitDepth 726 - April 13
12/04/10 19:01 Filed in: BitDepth - April
2010
Photographers face new challenges in
the 21st Century, embracing new technologies must run in parallel
with traditional business and photographic techniques if
professional photographers hope to be successful.Read
More...
BitDepth 725 - April 06
05/04/10 21:53 Filed in: BitDepth - April
2010
A Telecommunications Authority
symposium on the broadcast media veers toward
witchhunting.Read More...
BitDepth 724 - March 30
29/03/10 21:37 Filed in: BitDepth - March
2010
Journalism in 2010 is not only
influenced by the Internet, it can be lubricated using this medium.
Read
More...
BitDepth 723 - March 23
21/03/10 23:35 Filed in: BitDepth - March
2010
The Teleios CodeJam 2010 produced some
interesting notions and bits of code in the service of ICT based
social improvement.Read More...
BitDepth 722 - March 16
15/03/10 23:46 Filed in: BitDepth - March
2010
Photoshop turns 20 long after it
became a noun and a verb that described the extensive
photomanipulation it was capable of.Read
More...
BitDepth 721 - March 09
08/03/10 22:08 Filed in: BitDepth - March
2010
The US Embassy's Feng Hua Wang
explains how the state uses social media to convey its messages
globally.Read More...
BitDepth 720 - March 02
01/03/10 20:58 Filed in: BitDepth - March
2010
TSTT formally introduces its WiMax
service for broadband in Trinidad and Tobago.Read
More...
BitDepth 719 - February 23
22/02/10 22:19 Filed in: BitDepth - February
2010
Because every Carnival should have a
trilogy, here's my third installment on Carnival 2010, as copyright
issues raise the question of whose Carnival it really
is.Read More...
BitDepth 718 - February 16
16/02/10 07:45 Filed in: BitDepth - February
2010
A talk by Pat Bishop stirs some
unwelcome thoughts about Carnival's future.Read
More...
BitDepth 717 - February 09
08/02/10 20:40 Filed in: BitDepth - February
2010
If those charged with running Trinidad
and Tobago's Carnival celebrations wanted to destroy it, what could
they possibly do differently?Read More...
BitDepth 716 - February 02
01/02/10 23:01 Filed in: BitDepth - February
2010
Apple introduces a tablet PC and the
world goes crazy. What's in the high-tech slab of glass and
aluminium?Read More...
BitDepth 715 - January 26
25/01/10 22:52 Filed in: BitDepth - January
2010
Mr Vybe, a young soca singer, works
social media networks to promote and advance his
career.Read More...
BitDepth 714 - January 19
18/01/10 22:40 Filed in: BitDepth - January
2010
After Beyoncé's concert, TSTT needs to
show me some love. Hello?Read More...
BitDepth 713 - January 12
11/01/10 23:21 Filed in: BitDepth - January
2010
Some ruminations on technology trends
and where they are likely to take us...Read
More...
BitDepth 712 - January 05
28/12/09 22:29 Filed in: BitDepth - January
2010
The Lightroom 3 public beta introduces
some new features and some new bugs.Read
More...
