That over-the-top services (OTT) now permeate the mainstream is beyond doubt, but OTT really hit the gas over the last 12 months says research by Parks Associates.
YouTube is in talks with US studios to secure streaming rights to TV shows and movies for its fledgling subscription service.
Research shows video consumption equivalent to a part-time job
Pubblicato: 6 dicembre 2015 in La materia dei segni
Watching TV and streaming entertainment take up a lot of our time. In fact, you could say it’s a part-time job: Research from Rovi shows that globally, respondents report watching four hours of entertainment per day.
With A Very Murray Christmas, Netflix Shows It Is TV
Pubblicato: 5 dicembre 2015 in La materia dei segni
Bill Murray’s “A Very Murray Christmas” on Netflix hearkens back to the days when the broadcast networks ruled TV. Guess who rules TV now?
BILL MURRAY’S “A Very Murray Christmas” starts streaming on Netflix today. It’s an hour-long throwback to what a lot of television once was: an old fashioned variety show. The story doesn’t matter much; what does is the sentiment. Murray sings, he dances, he laments, and he drinks. He’s joined by Amy Poehler, Chris Rock, George Clooney, and Miley Cyrus, among others. And while the songs haven’t changed all that much since the ’50s, the homage has been updated with just the right amount of self-awareness for our more self-conscious time. Leggi il seguito di questo post »
How Mark Zuckerberg’s Altruism Helps Himself, the true story
Pubblicato: 5 dicembre 2015 in illusioni digitali
Mr. Zuckerberg set up a limited liability company, which has reaped enormous benefits as public relations coup and will help minimize his tax bill.
Mark Zuckerberg did not donate $45 billion to charity. You may have heard that, but that was wrong.
Here’s what happened instead: Mr. Zuckerberg created an investment vehicle.
Sorry for the slightly less sexy headline. Leggi il seguito di questo post »
A banner over the Bonne Bière cafe’s awning reads “Je Suis En Terrasse” — I’m on the terrace — a defiant message that spread in the days after the Nov. 13 attack. Leggi il seguito di questo post »
A growing number of Muslim women are using social media (and a healthy dose of humor) to speak truth to preconceptions about Islam and the Middle East.
YOU KNOW YOU’VE reached peak Islamophobia when a presidential candidate says he’d be uncomfortable with a Muslim in the White House. Leggi il seguito di questo post »
Crispr Is Getting Better. Now It’s Time to Ask the Hard Ethical Questions | WIRED
Pubblicato: 3 dicembre 2015 in illusioni digitali
When Chinese scientists announced in April they had edited human embryos using a new genetic tool called Crispr, the headlines blared “designer babies” and the wider world woke up to Crispr’s power.
Sorgente: Crispr Is Getting Better. Now It’s Time to Ask the Hard Ethical Questions | WIRED
The winner is … Narcos. C21 Drama Awards winners revealed
Pubblicato: 3 dicembre 2015 in La materia dei segni
CONTENT LONDON: Netflix drug drama Narcos, Nordic hit The Bridge and German Cold War spy thriller Deutschland 83 were the big winners at the C21 International Drama Awards in London tonight. Leggi il seguito di questo post »
George Lucas: To feel the true force of ‘Star Wars,’ he had to learn to let it go
Pubblicato: 2 dicembre 2015 in cinema
The filmmaker looks back at his creations, and decision to sell them to Disney.
At the ranch, yes. Yes. Feel it flowing within you. The gate, the road, the hills, the trees, the vineyard. You, him, the house. Luminous beings are we. This was all built in the 1980s with piles of that initial “Star Wars” money, yet the main house was made to look several decades older, grander, Victorian — authentically ersatz, basking in the Marin County sun. Leggi il seguito di questo post »
An Anonymous Satire of Silicon Valley Now Has a Publisher
Pubblicato: 2 dicembre 2015 in illusioni digitali
Farrar, Straus & Giroux is to publish “Iterating Grace,” a book first distributed by its two authors to people connected with the technology industry.
This past June, mysterious packages containing copies of a slim, anonymously written book were sent to dozens of people who work in or write about the technology industry. Leggi il seguito di questo post »
A religion better known for declining numbers is growing like wildfire here.
It’s a good time to be pope, at least if you’re Francis. He may not be quite as dreamy as, say, Justin Trudeau, but he’s almost certainly the first pope in history that people Facebook about to up their own social cachet. What’s more, Pope Cool Guy is part of a Catholic Church that may no longer be tanking, at least in one place. Leggi il seguito di questo post »
To everything there is a season, and now is the season to reconsider faith-based charity.
In the post-Dubya era, we haven’t heard much about one of his old project faves — faith-based charity. Naturally, it’s not exactly territory Obama might want to tread in right now. Say “religion” and “charity” and you might start thinking Hobby Lobby-staffed health clinics. For women.
It’s time to reconsider. Leggi il seguito di questo post »
Decima puntata. La paura di evolvere Non c’è problema, la webserie
Pubblicato: 1 dicembre 2015 in La materia dei segni
Il tempo con lo psicologo è finito, è ora di evolvere. E di pagare la seduta.
Sorgente: Decima puntata. La paura di evolvere – Repubblica.it
Papa Francesco, la misericordia, il perdono e il Giubileo raccontati in Dvd
Pubblicato: 1 dicembre 2015 in cultura
Esce una collana di 15 Dvd curata da Andrea Piersanti
Rai e Corriere della Sera hanno realizzato un documentario, “Il Giubileo di Papa Francesco e il cammino della storia della Chiesa cattolica”, che consiste in una collana di quindici Dvd (in vendita in edicola, appunto, con il Corriere della Sera, Famiglia Cristiana e Credere). Leggi il seguito di questo post »
Lunedì in edicola con Il Corriere della Sera, Famiglia Cristiana e Credere.
“La misericordia non è una novità nella vita dei cristiani. Papa Francesco però la propone come una forza inedita e rivoluzionaria. Si tratta della parte più complessa e affascinante di questo pontificato. Per me è una grande fortuna aver potuto realizzare un documentario su questo tema”. Leggi il seguito di questo post »
Si può già parlare di teologia della misericordia? Il mio primo documentario su Papa Francesco
Pubblicato: 29 novembre 2015 in la giusta distanza
Lunedì in edicola con Il Corriere della Sera, Famiglia Cristiana e Credere.
Si può già parlare di una “teologia della misericordia” come tratto distintivo di questo pontificato del terzo millennio? Difficile dirlo. Il dibattito teologico è solo ai suoi timidi inizi. Le parole di Papa Francesco, infatti, sono pastorali e non “teologiche”. Danno indicazioni ai fedeli, ai battezzati e parlano anche ai non credenti, ma non forniscono spiegazioni per gli studiosi. La misericordia, d’altra parte, è una “novità” antica come la Chiesa stessa. Leggi il seguito di questo post »
La giusta distanza 