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 The business card of Eric Schmidt says he is the chairman and chief executive of Google. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/114266/Stressing-the-friend-part-of-frenemy http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/114266/Stressing-the-friend-part-of-frenemy Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:56:52 +1100 Composer Hans Zimmer is an Academy Award-winner for "The Lion King" and has been nominated five other times including for "Gladiator". But his newest blockbuster score is for the highly anticipated video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2". http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/114262/Interview-quot-Modern-Warfare-2-quot-composer-Hans-Zimmer http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/114262/Interview-quot-Modern-Warfare-2-quot-composer-Hans-Zimmer Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:17:17 +1100 Down 10.6 percent in the last 6 months, and the decline is still accelerating. (Or should that be decelerating? Falling off a cliff?) http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/114186/Newspaper-circulation-sets-new-record-decline http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/114186/Newspaper-circulation-sets-new-record-decline Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:17:41 +1100 With the iPhone still the hottest smartphone, there's much speculation about how its future will pan out. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/114176/iPhone-beating-e-readers-at-their-own-game http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/114176/iPhone-beating-e-readers-at-their-own-game Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:15:37 +1100 Thomas Tull is your favorite movie mogul - you just don't know it yet. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/114166/Q-amp-A-Movie-exec-Thomas-Tull-s-journey-from-Wall-Street-to-Hollywood http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/114166/Q-amp-A-Movie-exec-Thomas-Tull-s-journey-from-Wall-Street-to-Hollywood Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:07:39 +1100 That's a direct quote from msnbc.com's Charlie Tillinghast. So it must be true. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/114171/-quot-There-are-no-TV-journalists-anymore.-There-are-video-journalists.-quot http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/114171/-quot-There-are-no-TV-journalists-anymore.-There-are-video-journalists.-quot Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +1100 Not long ago, she started an experiment in self-binding: intentionally creating an obstacle to behavior she was helpless to control, much the way Ulysses lashed himself to his ship's mast to avoid succumbing to the Sirens' song. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113921/Stop-your-search-engines http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113921/Stop-your-search-engines Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:01:45 +1100 Can Jason Kilar and his hit site Hulu save traditional TV from itself while remaking it for the future? http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113851/Can-Hulu-save-traditional-TV http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113851/Can-Hulu-save-traditional-TV Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:31:51 +1100 With just one coat, IdeaPaint turns any surface into a dry-erase board. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113796/IdeaPaint-Turn-your-entire-office-into-a-whiteboard http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113796/IdeaPaint-Turn-your-entire-office-into-a-whiteboard Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:56:43 +1100 Welcome to the future of content distribution, the new newsstand if you ask Jeff Jarvis. Or a den of thieves if you ask Associated Press CEO Tom Curley and News Corp oligarch Rupert Murdoch. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113791/Murdoch-s-Forbidden-City http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113791/Murdoch-s-Forbidden-City Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:55:03 +1100 You might not be as familiar with it as the 60 million people living in the UK are, but local terrestrial TV station Channel 4 has just scored a World's first: It's the first broadcaster to get its full-length program archive shown via YouTube. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113786/UK-s-Channel-4-scores-first-full-length-programs-on-YouTube-bad-news-for-Hulu http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113786/UK-s-Channel-4-scores-first-full-length-programs-on-YouTube-bad-news-for-Hulu Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:52:48 +1100 If you have not yet heard of the horror movie "Paranormal Activity" you will soon. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113631/Coming-soon-to-a-theater-near-you-if-you-demand-it http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113631/Coming-soon-to-a-theater-near-you-if-you-demand-it Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:39:41 +1100 I'm amazed by the cinematic qualities of this high definition footage from Frontline's documentary Obama's War. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113626/High-definition-war-footage-taken-with-Canon-5D-Mark-II http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113626/High-definition-war-footage-taken-with-Canon-5D-Mark-II Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:37:58 +1100 Flat-panel television screens can't get much flatter and consumers don't want the screens to get much wider, so Japanese television makers are banking on a whole new dimension to buttress their lineups. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113621/Seeing-the-future-in-3-D-television http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113621/Seeing-the-future-in-3-D-television Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:34:23 +1100 The departure of Miley Cyrus from Twitter has caused seismic waves of socio-technological uproar. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113616/Miley-Cyrus-leaves-Twitter-yet-the-internet-limps-on http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113616/Miley-Cyrus-leaves-Twitter-yet-the-internet-limps-on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:32:44 +1100 While Barnes & Noble has made its e-book store available on a range of devices, including the iPhone, BlackBerry and coming e-readers from Plastic Logic and Irex, it has always left open the possibility that it would develop and sell its own device in partnership with an Asian manufacturer. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113611/Barnes-amp-Noble-E-Reader-could-come-with-lending-options http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113611/Barnes-amp-Noble-E-Reader-could-come-with-lending-options Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:30:36 +1100 For more than 500 years the book has been a remarkably stable entity: a coherent string of connected words, printed on paper and bound between covers. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113492/Curling-up-with-hybrid-books-videos-included http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113492/Curling-up-with-hybrid-books-videos-included Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:42:18 +1000 The Walt Disney Company hopes an ambitious new digital service will transform how children read its storybooks. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113487/Disney-tries-to-pull-the-storybook-ritual-onto-the-web http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113487/Disney-tries-to-pull-the-storybook-ritual-onto-the-web Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:39:59 +1000 Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has a vision â€" every movie ever made on every screen everywhere. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113337/Netflix-everywhere-sorry-cable-you-re-history http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113337/Netflix-everywhere-sorry-cable-you-re-history Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:40:27 +1000 NBC's new "The Jay Leno Show" is the oldest thing in TV - a comedy-variety show, with a funnyman, a stage, guests and in-show ads. http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113137/Jay-Leno-is-the-future-of-television-Seriously http://www.sbs.com.au/blog/113137/Jay-Leno-is-the-future-of-television-Seriously Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:09:41 +1000