http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/11/27/media-lifespans-or-how-to-make-your-photos-live-forever/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/11/27/media-lifespans-or-how-to-make-your-photos-live-forever/comment-page-1/#comment-107704 Digital Caribbean » Blog Archive » links for 2006-11-29 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:10:06 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1119#comment-107704 [...] …My heart’s in Accra » Media lifespans, or how to make your photos live forever “he amount of work that goes into a documentary is analagous to the amount of effort involved with writing a book. But the shelf life of a broadcast television program is shorter than that of a blog post.” Hear, hear! (tags: digitalmedia photography film video creativecommons) [...] [...] …My heart’s in Accra » Media lifespans, or how to make your photos live forever “he amount of work that goes into a documentary is analagous to the amount of effort involved with writing a book. But the shelf life of a broadcast television program is shorter than that of a blog post.” Hear, hear! (tags: digitalmedia photography film video creativecommons) [...]

]]> http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/11/27/media-lifespans-or-how-to-make-your-photos-live-forever/comment-page-1/#comment-87570 Pierres Service » Blog Archive » Media lifespans, or how to make your photos live forever Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:56:49 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1119#comment-87570 [...] These guys put together very high quality hour-long documentaries, which air on PBS. … viewer’s experience of a program can continue after the end of the hour. … spares has been vastly longer than the lifespan of the official shots. …Read more: here [...] [...] These guys put together very high quality hour-long documentaries, which air on PBS. … viewer’s experience of a program can continue after the end of the hour. … spares has been vastly longer than the lifespan of the official shots. …Read more: here [...]

]]> http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/11/27/media-lifespans-or-how-to-make-your-photos-live-forever/comment-page-1/#comment-87498 quixote Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:03:10 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1119#comment-87498 This is obvious to users. It's obvious to anyone who thinks about it, even if they don't always articulate it this well. But it seems to be totally opaque to the vast majority of the industry. Either they're not users, or they don't think, or the industry selects for stupidity. Or all of the above. This is obvious to users. It’s obvious to anyone who thinks about it, even if they don’t always articulate it this well. But it seems to be totally opaque to the vast majority of the industry. Either they’re not users, or they don’t think, or the industry selects for stupidity. Or all of the above.

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