Comments on: Geek alert: CNN builds the Holodeck http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/11/05/geek-alert-cnn-builds-the-holodeck/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Jaafer Haidar http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/11/05/geek-alert-cnn-builds-the-holodeck/comment-page-1/#comment-374306 Jaafer Haidar Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:29:07 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3433#comment-374306 CNN has a fascination with being "web cool". Rick Sanchez going nuts over Twitter (everyday), using "holograms" like Start Wars, and the magic wall. The drive to to embrace new technology to drive younger viewers.<br><br>To us webheads it's a little like the kids watching the parents trying to be cool but you have to applaud them for trying. Keep it up! CNN has a fascination with being “web cool”. Rick Sanchez going nuts over Twitter (everyday), using “holograms” like Start Wars, and the magic wall. The drive to to embrace new technology to drive younger viewers.

To us webheads it's a little like the kids watching the parents trying to be cool but you have to applaud them for trying. Keep it up!

]]> By: Jaafer Haidar http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/11/05/geek-alert-cnn-builds-the-holodeck/comment-page-1/#comment-344570 Jaafer Haidar Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:29:07 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3433#comment-344570 CNN has a fascination with being "web cool". Rick Sanchez going nuts over Twitter (everyday), using "holograms" like Start Wars, and the magic wall. The drive to to embrace new technology to drive younger viewers.<br><br>To us webheads it's a little like the kids watching the parents trying to be cool but you have to applaud them for trying. Keep it up! CNN has a fascination with being “web cool”. Rick Sanchez going nuts over Twitter (everyday), using “holograms” like Start Wars, and the magic wall. The drive to to embrace new technology to drive younger viewers.

To us webheads it's a little like the kids watching the parents trying to be cool but you have to applaud them for trying. Keep it up!

]]> By: steve http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/11/05/geek-alert-cnn-builds-the-holodeck/comment-page-1/#comment-343980 steve Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:25:36 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3433#comment-343980 Keep in mind that in the studio, Anderson Cooper doesn't actually see Will.I.Am as it appears here. Cooper is gazing off into empty space, pretending he's looking at Will.I.Am, who is being inserted afterwards into the picture. (Cooper's really looking at a monitor just out of range.)<br><br>It's all sort of interesting in a can't-believe-they-went-to-all-this-trouble kind of way, but not nearly the technical feat that CNN wants you to think it is. Keep in mind that in the studio, Anderson Cooper doesn't actually see Will.I.Am as it appears here. Cooper is gazing off into empty space, pretending he's looking at Will.I.Am, who is being inserted afterwards into the picture. (Cooper's really looking at a monitor just out of range.)

It's all sort of interesting in a can't-believe-they-went-to-all-this-trouble kind of way, but not nearly the technical feat that CNN wants you to think it is.

]]> By: bwl zwei null · Obama, CNN und das Hologramm http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/11/05/geek-alert-cnn-builds-the-holodeck/comment-page-1/#comment-343972 bwl zwei null · Obama, CNN und das Hologramm Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:01:00 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3433#comment-343972 [...] zeigte sich davon beeindruckt, interessanterweise sind es aber viele Blogleser nicht: Sowohl bei ihm, als auch bei Michael Arrington (TechCrunch), überwiegen die negativen Töne in den Kommentaren. [...] [...] zeigte sich davon beeindruckt, interessanterweise sind es aber viele Blogleser nicht: Sowohl bei ihm, als auch bei Michael Arrington (TechCrunch), überwiegen die negativen Töne in den Kommentaren. [...]

]]> By: Sach http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/11/05/geek-alert-cnn-builds-the-holodeck/comment-page-1/#comment-343969 Sach Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:38:19 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=3433#comment-343969 Yep - Totally cool !<br><br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/5fhj65">http://tinyurl.com/5fhj65</a> Yep – Totally cool !

http://tinyurl.com/5fhj65

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