by John Farmer & Lori Koch
With every new iteration of smart phone and tablet, a new generation of amateurs springs up to bounce roughly edited snippets of their lives off the nearest satellite... READ MORE
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The Top Five Reasons Why Tech Giants Fought Like Reality TV Stars in 2012
by John Farmer
1. Snooki Became a Mom! (Apple had a cow over Google Maps)
Google refused to give Apple's iOS the same functionality as Android for GoogleMaps. Voice-directed turn-by-turn navigation was only given to the Android OS. This obviously gives Google the edge over Apple, so Apple pouted and never renewed READ MORERead More
FALL IN LOVE WITH TECHNOLOGY, ALL OVER AGAIN
by John Farmer
“And the crowd goes wild!” Well, maybe it's not so much a crowd, but a small team of individuals who take a certain strange pride in the little things that make a local news program work. All those little graphics, wipes, dissolves, fades and camera shots are executed in harmony at the hands of operating engineers, the director calling the shots and the moody machines that make it happen. There's a certain sarcastic edge to the exuberance we feel when things work out just right. It's all about buttons, faders and computers and as with most technology, we sometimes feel the need to humanize it, especially when it's not working the way we want it to.
Read MoreMEDIA TECHNOLOGY IN PEORIA
by John Farmer
Peoria’s media force is growing and shrinking at the same time. Smaller production companies are popping up all over the place offering a multitude of media services.
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