I'm David Brazeal. I love baseball, social media, good TV and bad movies, and the Republic Tigers. This is where I pull together what I write about all those things.
3 Features I Want in a Kinect Baseball Game
Why should we waste Xbox Kinect on dancing games? What if you could play a real sport, like baseball, on it? Here are 3 features the perfect baseball game on the Kinect should have:
1. Pitch recognition. An improved camera could recognize the player’s grip on the ball, and determine what pitch [...]
Tech Pioneer Says School Computers are a Waste
This would explain why my son’s 2 years of junior high computer class have consisted of typing lessons:
Computer scientist Alan Kay is one of the most foremost experts in computers in schools, and yet he believes technology in education has largely failed.
Computers have been in schools for the last 30 years, but with few exceptions, [...]
Cheap Publicness, Expensive Privacy
Jeff Jarvis gives us the distilled version of why big media companies are in such big trouble: privacy used to be cheap, publicity used to be expensive. But…
Now publicness is free.
So the old controllers of publicness — media and entertainment companies — can’t make money on it anymore.
Shocking New Study by Journalists Shows Importance of Journalists
My friend Steve points me to a press release by the University of Missouri School of Journalism (among others) subtitled MU researchers say citizen journalism does not match void left by legacy news organizations.
Other press releases from the MU news service today include the following findings:
Buggy Manufacturers Say Combustion Engine Does Not Match Reliability of [...]
Roger Ebert on New Media
Roger Ebert talks about a new movie-review TV show he’s producing:
“We will go full-tilt New Media: Television, net streaming, cell phone apps, Facebook, Twitter, iPad, the whole enchilada. The disintegration of the old model creates an opening for us. I’m more excited than I would be if we were trying to do the same old [...]
Hyperlocal Sports
I had a guest post published over at HyperLocalBlogger, a site dedicated to small media sites with an intensely local focus. It’s about my experience with RepublicTigerSports.com.
Hyperlocal: Good for Readers, Advertisers
Loved this article about hyperlocal news sites. Those are sites (like RepublicTigerSports.com) that focus exclusively on very small areas — right down to the neighborhood level. Jeff Jarvis, who’s one of the leaders in thinking about this topic, has a couple of juicy quotes. This one’s the best, in my opinion:
“It’s not about selling inventory [...]
Journalism + Marketing
I went to journalism school, and now I’m in marketing. And luckily, a lot of the stuff I learned about journalism now applies to the way organizations should engage their target audiences. Both journalism and marketing are about offering valuable information that people want to receive.
One David website to rule them all…
The great thing about the Internet is that it’s really easy to come up with new ideas and implement them. But the trouble with the Internet is that it’s really easy to come up with new ideas and implement them.
