New New Media looks at how our mediascape is exploding to bits. How the latest technology and the internet are changing the way we live, work and play. How the latest media is shaping us all. http://www.sbs.com.au/rss/Blog/108389 It might be hard to imagine watching “The Office” on a screen no bigger than a business card. But hundreds of thousands of people — by the most conservative estimate — are already doing just that. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117922/Audiences-and-Hollywood-flock-to-smartphones http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117922/Audiences-and-Hollywood-flock-to-smartphones Sat, 15 May 2010 09:16:10 +1000 It's called behavioral tracking. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117872/Shoppers-who-can-t-have-secrets http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117872/Shoppers-who-can-t-have-secrets Fri, 14 May 2010 09:06:40 +1000 In the latest round of the book pricing wars, Amazon.com has begun selling a number of new hardcover books published this month by Penguin for only $9.99 amid a dispute between the two companies over electronic books. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117867/Amazon-cuts-prices-in-tiff-with-Penguin http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117867/Amazon-cuts-prices-in-tiff-with-Penguin Tue, 11 May 2010 09:04:27 +1000 It's not news that sporting events have become increasingly branded over the years. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117862/Beware-of-ad-creeps-on-the-golf-course http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117862/Beware-of-ad-creeps-on-the-golf-course Fri, 07 May 2010 09:07:00 +1000 A few weeks ago, government inspectors fanned out across the city and ordered shops selling pirated music and movies to stash away their illegal goods during the expo, a six-month extravaganza that opens this month. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117857/In-Shanghai-bootleg-goods-are-moved-to-secret-rooms http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117857/In-Shanghai-bootleg-goods-are-moved-to-secret-rooms Thu, 06 May 2010 09:04:47 +1000 It’s hard to plan very far in advance in the videogame industry, but the house that Halo built knows what it’s doing for the next decade: Working on a secret new game franchise with Activision Blizzard. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117852/Bungie-has-10-year-plan-for-secret-new-game-series http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117852/Bungie-has-10-year-plan-for-secret-new-game-series Tue, 04 May 2010 09:01:10 +1000 Television dramas that rely on forensic science to solve crimes are affecting the administration of justice. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117741/The-CSI-effect http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117741/The-CSI-effect Sun, 02 May 2010 09:02:08 +1000 For once, Hollywood is right to oppose innovation to allow trading of contracts based on films’ box-office takings. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117736/Land-of-the-lost http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117736/Land-of-the-lost Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:09:48 +1000 Virginia Heffernan find herself in the live microblogging of the popular TV show. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117731/-Lost-in-translation http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117731/-Lost-in-translation Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:07:04 +1000 This year, CNN in the US has seen a 41% drop in its weekday prime-time ratings compared with the same point in 2009 according to Nielsen. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117587/CNN-plans-nothing-drastic-to-stem-ratings-drop http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117587/CNN-plans-nothing-drastic-to-stem-ratings-drop Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:59:56 +1000 Google’s decision last month to remove some of its operations from China has overshadowed a startling dynamic at work in this country. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117582/For-Chinese-web-is-the-way-to-entertainment http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117582/For-Chinese-web-is-the-way-to-entertainment Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:57:50 +1000 Aside from a certain leak of a certain phone, no topic has garnered as much blog and Twitter attention as Roger Ebert's expansion of his "video games are not and cannot be art" theory. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117577/Game-designer-Kellee-Santiago-responds-to-Roger-Ebert-s-quot-Video-Games-Are-Not-Art-quot-rant http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117577/Game-designer-Kellee-Santiago-responds-to-Roger-Ebert-s-quot-Video-Games-Are-Not-Art-quot-rant Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:53:01 +1000 Type the Chinese characters for “carrot” into Google’s search engine here in mainland China, and you will be rewarded not with a list of Internet links, but a blank screen. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117437/China-s-censors-tackle-and-trip-over-the-internet http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117437/China-s-censors-tackle-and-trip-over-the-internet Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:55:58 +1000 Nike goes to grim lengths to absolve its wayward son. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117432/Tiger-who-s-your-Daddy http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117432/Tiger-who-s-your-Daddy Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:53:37 +1000 Six months ago an Apple analyst told me he thought the company’s long-term goal was to become the internet’s cable TV company. Fred Vogelstein didn’t get it then. He really get it now. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117427/Apple-goes-where-the-portals-failed http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117427/Apple-goes-where-the-portals-failed Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:47:39 +1000 For everything that's been written about the iPad no one knows for sure how it will really be used. Except Apple. They think it's going to be your new TV — here's why they're right. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117262/The-iPad-will-be-your-next-TV http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117262/The-iPad-will-be-your-next-TV Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:25:35 +1100 Some (not all) fear for the demise of real reading and writing with iPads and tablets, but it’s more likely we’re really at the leading edge of an innovation curve that could breathe new life into the written word. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117117/Eye-tracking-tablets-and-the-promise-of-Text-2.0 http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117117/Eye-tracking-tablets-and-the-promise-of-Text-2.0 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:09:09 +1100 In his deliberately provocative — and deeply nihilistic — new book, “Reality Hunger,” the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction “has never seemed less central to the culture’s sense of itself.” http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117112/Texts-without-context http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117112/Texts-without-context Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:07:01 +1100 If you took a guess at what sites get all the traffic online, you'd might guess that Google searches and social networking suck all our time online, and the rest goes to shopping. Actually, no. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117107/Infographic-of-the-day-Comparing-the-100-largest-sites-on-the-internet http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117107/Infographic-of-the-day-Comparing-the-100-largest-sites-on-the-internet Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:04:39 +1100 Variety, the show business bible, was born nearly 105 years ago when young Sime Silverman, by his own account, was fired by The Morning Telegraph for a review in which he declared a new theatrical sketch by a performer who happened to be one of the paper’s advertisers “N. G. (No Good).” http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117102/Trade-papers-struggling-in-Hollywood http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/117102/Trade-papers-struggling-in-Hollywood Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:01:20 +1100