Monthly Archives: May 2005

BBC Training & Development > Free Online Broadcast & New Media Courses

Found this through the website of Christy Dena, my australian crossmedia colleague (she is in my favorite links: crossmediastorytelling). It is really nice of the BBC to teach us how to make television, since a lot more of us are going to do this in the near future when co-creating crossmedia stories! I was in [...]

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NEW dutch station TEN goes for (golden) OLDies

The profile of TIEN (ten) the new Dutch television station that John de Mol is launching the next season in the Netherlands is slowly becoming clear. What strikes most is the use of old (proven) Endemol formats like Big Brother, The Soundmix Show and Deal or No Deal and not Endemol but with a long [...]

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New formats for news

Here is an excellent report from the mediacenter about the future of newsmedia. I really could not agree more then with their description of the changes. Which are upon is in Europe just as well. But the pace is slacking in EU. Why isn’t there a mediacenter like institute for the even more diverse European [...]

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Blogs and the news: BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis

Here is a valuable tip for journalists that are up to speed with the changing news media landscape: Here’s what they do in the states with the influence of bloggers. So the basic idea is, be smart and look at it fresh and get those voices in your format!
BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis: “CNN has the [...]

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Peter R. de Vries joins SMS DEBAT

National Celebrity and crimefighter Peter R. de Vries has recently decided to go into politics. It looks like he has the trust of a relevant group of civilians. Different polls have currently given him around from 5 to 9 seats in parliament and up to 22% of the votes (De Telegraaf). He wants to have [...]

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Powerplay for position of most influential mediatycoon of Europe has started

This is really beginning to look like one of their drama scenario’s; A small circle of influential European mediatycoons are fighting to gain the most influence in the (European) TV World. Berlusconi’s company Mediaset is eying Endemol; is the news according to Southern European journalists. While John de Mol is currently busy building his media [...]

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Press activity SMS DEBAT results in good internet coverage

To get more applicants and interest in the project, last week we send out a press release on SMS DEBAT. We got a lot of interest, that’s good. We wanted some national news coverage, but the journalists needed larger numbers to bring this as news. Editie NL made the choice to make an item om [...]

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Interesting Day at the European Commission to talk about games and collaborative working environments

Yesterday, I spent a day at the office of the Directorate Generale of the Information Society and Media of the EC (sounds pretty awesome hey Specialist from different backgrounds; games, organisation management, interactive storytelling and crossmedia where invited to discuss the use of game structures for achieving collaborative working environments. Making work more [...]

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Dissimulations

Sometimes you stumble upon a piece that is old, 1995 and yet so very insightfull that it even gives you reflection on what is happenig today. Dissimulations is such a piece. It hunts my presumption that story is the DNA of meaning and therefore I like it.
Dissimulations

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Correction: POSSIBLE take over ‘538′ Station

I have to correct myself. The take over of radio station ‘538′ is still not confirmed by Talpa and therefore my conclusion of Talpa buying ‘538′ are to preliminary. The sources I have used are other blogs, and not a confirmation by Talpa (as if they are going to send me one However I [...]

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