Where's the Content

A number of articles in the NY Times have caught my attention, plus a bit of Podcasting news in general.

First the links. Convergence. Copyright.

...registration may be required on this NY Times page.

And even a middle school is getting students and teachers hip to video content on demand

And those are just the new stories I picked up on the GO train this morning.

Funny how we talked about interactivity and convergence of technology in my Media Business course at Ryerson University in Toronto in 1990 with our instructor Interactive Bob. Everyone had a long time to get ready for this and now everyone's scrambling. What's everyone been up to over the past 15 years? I'm just happy to have this window of opportunity open up to make a show I always wanted to make.

On a sidebar, Adam Curry's Daily Source Code and Leo Laporte's This Week In Tech have started taking advertising for their podcast. It's remarkable how quickly the ad world has warmed up to this phenomenon. I'm happy we got out there early on. To paraphrase Andrew Currie, "we need to pay our mortgages with this stuff now".

Now, what's up with Disney buying Pixar..?