Visual metonymy
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Visual metonymy blog.
A Rock Band rock band?
If you were playing Rock band, but as an actual rock band, are you a Rock Band rock band or just a rock band?
Yes, it’s an obsequious sentence. But the meta-reality of the meta experience is actually very real.
Accompanied on fake guitars and drums by three Web programmers who drove in from the refinery-dotted coastal suburb of El Segundo, Hsuan launches in as a smoke machine puffs nearby.
Well, smoke machines are pretty hackneyed. But
Concert tracking magazine Pollstar said 2,900 fans paid $25 to $36 each to rock the Event Center at San Jose State University on Oct. 11, one stop on a 26-stop tour by four bands — Panic at the Disco, Dashboard Confessional, the Plain White Ts and The Cab — who performed between renditions of songs played by local “Rock Band” contest winners.
So it’s worth real actual money. Really?
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Ze Winneur Iz
Dave Hunter, for his comment about the eternal battle to RULE THE WORLD!
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So Vodafone is being the most progressive of any carrier: hosting and endorsing both radio and user-generated radio.
Niiiice!
Over the top
Stacey Higginbotham has done a short writeup of Christos Lagomichos’ comments on standalone set top boxes.
Getting content from the web to your TV is driving the release of several new set-top boxes such as the Roku, Apple TV and ZeeVee. And yet one of the top chipmakers in the set-top box market doesn’t see those types of appliances winning out over the set-top boxes you get from video service providers (cable, telco, satellite, etc.) anytime soon.
I both agree and disagree with the comments, and the angle. No, it’s not fence-sitting, it’s a case of “different horses for different courses”.
A highly-evolved set top box needs to earn its place in the livingroom of today. Most consumers I talk with, from all walks of life, have a good understanding of what they want, and what might be possible, for a “converged TV” experience.
The carriers and TV companies want to you go into their very vertical, tightly-controlled product lineups: and stay there! The independents, or meta-TV operators, would like you to pick their particular flavour of vertical, tightly-controlled product range.
And the hackers have to stand alone, or find a provider for the in-between. “What if,” they say, “I could have a box that works with my chosen TV bouquet, yet can see and use all the media in my home, and can give me some options for having-it-my-way?”.
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