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Ah, Timeshifting: From Betamax to Blockbuster (review)

April 8, 2008 by Jay Datema
Filed in Communities, Development, authors

Although he’s been too modest to mention it here, Josh’s first book comes out this month from MIT Press. Entitled From Betamax to Blockbuster, it charts the history of the video store, the dueling formats that made it work, and the inevitable consolidation that changed a conversation point into a commodity.
The introduction is available [...]

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24 Hours of Public Programming prototype

December 7, 2007 by Jay Datema
Filed in authors, interviews, podcast

The prototype for the selected historical audio programs is coming along—it brings up some interesting notions about embedded metadata living alongside curated and created annotations. Watch the labs for a live site as it becomes available. Anyone have best practices with audio to share?

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