As non-desktop playback devices (PDAs, smart phones, tablet computers) change how we interact with digital media, now is as good a time as any to reflect on the origins of pardigms that have dominated for the last 20 years.

One important milestone was December 9, 1968. On that day, Doug Engelbart demonstrated an online computer system […]

DV cameras and new avenues for video distribution — web and DVD — have ignited a revolution in independent filmmaking in the same way that PageMaker and the laser printer did in publishing. Jason Kliot says this in a Wired story:

We made Chuck and Buck for a half a million dollars. If we had shot […]

The chairman and CEO of the RIAA is claiming that pirated music is to blame for the Mexican Supreme Court’s move to quieter locale. Says Ms. Rosen:

This would be almost laughable if it were not true.

Almost laughable? As Wired notes:

…few federal officials saw it as anything more than a sensible relocation. After all, the court […]