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And Now, a Game from Our Sponsors
Secret Web sites, coded messages, hidden songs—explore the new world of immersive games.
A Second Chance for 3-D
Hollywood is tapping into the third dimension—starting with Angelina Jolie in Beowulf.
Lonely Planet
Inside Second Life: How Madison Avenue is wasting millions on an empty digital world.
Philip K. Dick Goes Legit
Ushered into the canon by the Library of America: An interview with Jonathan Lethem, novelist and fan.
And Now, a Word From Our Customers
Chevrolet asked Web users to make their own video spots for the Tahoe. A case study in customer-generated advertising.
Can the PS3 Save Sony?
If Sony's new $600 console doesn't blow gamers away, it may be time to say sayonara.



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And Now, a Game from Our Sponsors
January 2008

The future of advertising isn't writing better slogans or using cool photography or video. It's creating interactive stories people can explore over their phones, on the Web, maybe even through a flash drive hidden in a bathroom. It's a new art form. Just ask Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor.

A Second Chance for 3-D
November 2007

Trilogies are done. CGI is ho-hum. Now Hollywood directors are tapping into the third-dimension—starting with Angelina Jolie in Beowulf.


Lonely Planet
August 2007

Second Life: It's so popular, no one goes there any more. How Madison Avenue is wasting millions creating ads for an empty digital world.


Philip K. Dick Goes Legit
June 2007

Ushered into the canon by the Library of America: An interview with Jonathan Lethem, novelist and fan.



Web Video Grows Up
December 2006

In a risky experiment, Chevrolet asked Web users to make their own video spots for the Tahoe. A case study in customer-generated advertising.

Issue a winner of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence.
 

Can the PS3 Save Sony?
September 2006

The company that created the transistor radio and the Walkman is at the precipice. If Sony's new $600 console doesn't blow gamers away, it may be time to say sayonara.

Reprinted in GQ Mexico, February 2007.


Sky Dayton and the Next Wave of Mobile Phones
March 2006

High rates, low tech - when it comes to cell phones, the US is the third world. The trend surfer who started EarthLink wants to sell you a fully loaded device from the wiredest place on the planet.



November 2005

Consumers want an iPod phone that will play any song, anytime, anywhere. Just four little problems: the cell carriers, the record labels, the handset makers, and Apple itself. The inside story of why the ROKR went wrong.*

Issue nominated for National Magazine Award for General Excellence.

(*And what it will take to make a truly rocking music phone.)
 



The All-You-Can-Eat TV of Tomorrow
August 2005

Web, WiMax, cell phones, and more: The sports powerhouse is about to be on every screen in your life.
 




June 2005

This time E.T. wants to kill us. How Steven Spielberg reinvented H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds in 72 days and learned to love digital filmmaking - fast.
 


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Discussions I've Led:

David Pakman


Keynote Interview
with the CEO of eMusic

Digital Music Forum
New York City
February 27, 2008

Video Goes Internet


The Future of What You Watch

The Hollywood Hill
Beverly Hills, California
June 7, 2006

The Internet is destroying the bottlenecks that have limited viewing choices for decades. This goes beyond putting consumers in control of the box - the trend in television for a quarter-century - to turning consumers into producers. When 21-year-old David Lehre has a Web hit with "MySpace: The Movie" and lands a development deal with MTVU, what does it mean for television - and for the Web? A panel discussion with Jennifer Feikin, director, Google Video; Shawn Gold, SVP for marketing and content, MySpace; and Jeff Karnes, director of multimedia search, Yahoo!


The Churchill Club

San Francisco, California
April 24, 2006

A panel discussion with Rob Bennett, general manager, MSN Entertainment; Jennifer Feikin, director, Google Video; Blake Krikorian, founder and CEO, Sling Media; John Papanek, editorial director, ESPN New Media; and Ben White, VP for digital media, MTV.

The Role of Science in the Information Society


CERN
Geneva, Switzerland
December 8-9, 2003

A UN Summit Event at the World Summit on the Information Society, RSIS was held to illuminate the role of science in information technologies. Speakers included Esther Dyson, founding chair of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; Ion Iliescu, President of Romania; Koïchiro Matsuura, Director- General of UNESCO; Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of the ITU; HRH Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Crown Princess of Thailand; and Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web at CERN.

Wired Icons


BARRY DILLER
in conversation
at the 92nd Street Y
New York City
October 28, 2003

As CEO of InterActiveCorp, the ecommerce group behind Ticketmaster and Expedia, Barry Diller has prospered online when others have failed. As former CEO of the U.S. entertainment arm of Vivendi Universal, he helped undo the most disastrous media merger since AOL Time Warner. At the Y he explained why media consolidation remains a threat and offered a pithy assess-ment of his fellow moguls.

Wired in Cannes


The American Pavilion
Festival de Cannes

FUTUREPLEX
How the Internet is Changing the Movies

May 19, 2003

As movies on demand become a reality and WiFi makes it easy to watch on the go, movie-goers will be freed from the con-straints of time and place. What are the implications for filmmakers? A panel discussion featuring CinemaNow founder Mark Amin; Oscar-nominated actor-director-producer Kamal Haasan; Intel VP David Perlmutter; and Marc Shmuger, vice chairman of Universal Pictures.

The Promise of Broadband
May 24, 2002

Will digital media spell doom for producers, or will file-sharing actually boost the entertainment market? A panel discussion with Eric Bassett, producer of davidlynch.com; Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner for Enter-prise and Information Society; Sean Maloney, EVP of Intel; and Palme d'Or winner Wim Wenders. Transcript available at www.wim-winders.com.

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