BBC writer Kevin Anderson-Washington tells Jeff Jarvis that the BBC uses Skype (voice over internet telephony service) for interviews because it offers higer quality than a plain old phone line.
Yes, we’re using Skype heavily. We recently conducted an interview with Mr Behi, an Iranian blogger, via Skype. It’s very useful for us in that repressive governments can’t block it due to its distributed nature. And seeing as on a good connection, it’s a full 44Khz signal, it’s just below the quality of the very expensive ISDN broadcast equipment we have.
VOIP is a true disruptive technology. Is your company taking advantage of it? Should you be? Here’s 10 reasons why you should be from the Globe and Mail.
Add Your CommentsClickZ Stats identifies April’s top Internet advertisers by expenditure. Total spent - $258.6 million. If Goldman Sachs is right, that number will grow quickly. They are calling 2005 a “breakout year” for online advertising and predict that online advertising could account for as much as 7% of the ad market by 2009 with search marketing representing more than half of all ad dollars spent.
From SEO Roundtable:
“Google is beta testing the functionality to allow Web visitors to change the ads served up by Google AdSense.”
We came across Greg Paprocki’s work on Getty Images. This fellow has a very hip style and it instantly caught my eye.
Q. Are you purely self taught or are you still paying off some student loans?
A. Since I was able to pick up a crayon, I’ve been drawing. As a child, I spent hours each night drawing until bedtime. My family was pretty poor, but I received some art scholarships. (more…)
If an abstine-deranged aesthete had access to hard rock and jazz, he might have painted like Anthony Zito. Otherwordly, strange, and always different, Zito’s paintings seem to defy catagory. Asture portaits of stars and half-insane figure studies against watercolor….with demon clowns. Some are witty, some are beautiful, some are waking nightmares. We like it. We like it alot.
Our Spotlight artist discusses how he comes up with those portraits
From the Press Release
LOVE + MONEY
ICON4 Conference NEWS FLASH
In San Francisco July 7-9 join 50 of the world’s most interesting visual thinkers as they talk about the art and business of illustration.
- McSweeney’s editor Dave Eggers riffs on words, pictures, and pirates
- Europes top AD in 2004, Erik Kessels shows what it takes to go global (more…)
How does Molly Crabapple get those disturbing drawings done? Why not let her tell it
The oh-so talented olive47 took a few minutes to answer some of our questions about the biz.
1. Do you have any advice for a newbie just breaking into the business?
a. Make sure that the art field is really where you want to be.. where you have to be, because there’s tons of competition and it can be hard on the soul.
b. Remember everyone’s opinion is subjective. (more…)
The amazing, blazing A.V Phibes answers more questions aout herself and about art.
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