http://guinevere.ca blog and lifestream of Guinevere Orvis Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:37:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://guinevere.ca/media/content/gaza-sderot http://guinevere.ca/media/content/gaza-sderot#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 15:59:04 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=255 It’s day two at the Input conference in Warsaw and I wanted to share the best project I’ve seen so far. Gaza/Sderot – Life in Spite of Everything is a series of 80 films shot over 40 days — one per day in Gaza and one per day in the town of nearby Sderot. Each [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/content/gaza-sderot/feed 0 http://guinevere.ca/media/broadcasting/more-tv-shows-online http://guinevere.ca/media/broadcasting/more-tv-shows-online#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:52:40 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=85 Canwest has announced that they’re going to be streaming some big name shows online this fall including House, Heroes, The Office, Deal or No Deal, Weeds, Knight Rider (the new series, not the old) and 90210 (also the new one). In addition, they’re going publishing additional webisodes and behind-the-scenes footage not available on TV. Canwest [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/broadcasting/more-tv-shows-online/feed 1 http://guinevere.ca/media/events-life/new-media-olympic-coverage http://guinevere.ca/media/events-life/new-media-olympic-coverage#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:36:38 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=63 I’m flying to Winnipeg and I’ll be away from my computer until next week, but before I go, I had to at least mention what is going to be the best new media coverage of any Olympic Games ever. The big story is NBC’s Olympic site which will cover over 2,200 hours of live video [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/events-life/new-media-olympic-coverage/feed 0 http://guinevere.ca/media/metrics/avril-lavigne-breaks-youtube-record http://guinevere.ca/media/metrics/avril-lavigne-breaks-youtube-record#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:41:57 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=36 Yesterday Twitter was abuzz as we watched Avril Lavigne’s music video for the song Girlfriend climb in viewership to beat the “most watched” record at YouTube with over 92 million views. The record was previously held by Evolution of Dance. 92 million views, wow! How did she do it? Well actually, she didn’t. Avril fans [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/metrics/avril-lavigne-breaks-youtube-record/feed 1 http://guinevere.ca/media/broadcasting/rise-of-the-webisode http://guinevere.ca/media/broadcasting/rise-of-the-webisode#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:26:21 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=35 There’s no shortage of video content online. YouTube alone has over 83.4 million videos to choose from. This enormous clip buffet keeps us on a steady viewing diet of mostly: Real-life, non-fiction video clips. Videos that originated on another platform, like television episodes and segments or movies (legal and otherwise.) Mashups of the above. However, [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/broadcasting/rise-of-the-webisode/feed 1 http://guinevere.ca/media/broadcasting/an-alternative-to-geofencing http://guinevere.ca/media/broadcasting/an-alternative-to-geofencing#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 02:44:50 +0000 Guinevere http://aboutnewmedia.com/?p=19 Photo: a typical geofencing message. Last week at Mesh, my final thoughts on the Video is Everywhere discussion panel that I participated in was that I wish we had gotten to talk about geofencing. It didn’t come up in our conversation there, so I thought I’d bring it up here and hopefully start a discussion [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/media/broadcasting/an-alternative-to-geofencing/feed 0 http://guinevere.ca/entertainment/the-human-guinea-pig http://guinevere.ca/entertainment/the-human-guinea-pig#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:42:46 +0000 Guinevere http://guinevere.ca/entertainment/the-human-guinea-pig Ryan Stock from the show Guinea Pig performed at the CBC atrium today before his interview for The Hour. I took some video clips of his performance. Ryan does shock tricks, so be warned that these are gross/disturbing. Viewer discretion, etc. Here are all the videos I took from his performance today: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=OX1iUxmv3PA http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=vgD7NuRdGM0 http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=8hnI8FYWKlE [...]]]> http://guinevere.ca/entertainment/the-human-guinea-pig/feed 1