According to recent reports, fake news are shared significantly more on Facebook than real news. That peace of information have created wide spread discussion, some even accusing Facebook to have contributed to the election of President Trump in the US by not providing tools to separate reality from false news. Personally, I don`t know about…
Category: Technology
What is television?
With all the debates and discussion about how television is changing in an online world, I think that it is important to define what we mean by “Television”. A typical dictionary definition would read something like this: “The transmission of transient pictures by electronic means through a wire or though space, using electric or electromagnetic…
How about a Über for legal advises?
There’s something that I don’t like about the so called “sharing economy”; It hurts mostly workers that have already fairly low wages and precarious jobs. See, for an average customer to use the “sharing”, such services needs to be a commodity. It needs to be interchangeable. You want to go from point “A” to point…
NAB 2016: IP for production is finally a reality
Each year, people try to characterize the main trend of the National Association of Broadcaster convention with a theme. This year, I hears of lot of people saying “this is the year of the drones”. Truth, there was a lot of drones (too many suppliers actually, we’ll see in a few years how many are…
Better to Reign in Hell than Serve…in Hell!
I was responding to a colleague from my time at Current TV last week. He had forwarded me an email from a recruiter and from the description it was pretty clear that it was a job at Direct TV. Now, I have nothing against Direct TV but really, I think I am through working for large…
My Reboot: Ageism, Career and Gender
This post is about me. I usually talk about media and technology in this blog but at this point, I felt that it was useful for my readers to set to talk a little about me and what I am doing at this stage of my life. I am now 51. Despite my background and…
A new pipeline makes no sense.
TransCanada’s “Energy East” pipeline is a project estimated at $15 billion dollars that would convert an existing natural gas pipeline to one that carry oil and adding new sections for a total of 4 600 KM. The pipeline would run between the Canadian provinces of Alberta to New Brunswick. That would link the tar oil rich western…
Air travel: A better experience through technology
I have travelled a lot on airplanes and in the last decade, it became an horrible experience, one that I was dreading everytime. Lines at check-in, security, custom and immigration, packed airplanes, no legroom, runway delays, no food… you get the idea. So much that I would prefer to drive whenever I can reach a…
TV5 Monde hacking: First but not last
By now I am sure you heard about “TV5 Monde” TV networks being hacked and put off the air. While there has been quite a few media web site being hacked, this was the first time that the traditional satellite based linear TV was putted down. Having built and operated TV networks and having developed…
HR: Seeing employees as building blocks
This reflection came to me recently as I have been considering contract work and regular jobs and doing some interviews in the process. There has been clearly changes in the last decade or two in terms of how you look for talent, how you recruit them and how they fit in the organization. In many…