Michael Sean Wright

Writer, director, live documentary filmmaker - thinker with some questions.

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An Open (Love) Letter to Boxee

Boxee Box why have you stood me up once again? Can’t you see the flame of my affection beginning to wane? You teased me way back at CES seven months ago. Your quirky little cube was all the rage on the show floor. We filmed the glee of CEO, Avner Ronen picking up the ‘Last ...

My Puppy Isn’t a Candylicker. Universal Using DMCA for Free Advertising.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is the weapon of choice for the RIAA. The music industry’s battle to control their properties often snares innocent citizens and puts tremendous pressure on ISP’s to police the net 24/7 searching for pirates big and small. Under the agreement, passed by unanimous approval of the US Senate in ...

Chirp This [infographic]

Well @Chirp, the Twitter conference for developers wrapped up day one with a lot of tension still in the air. Let’s get a few things out of the way: When Twitter announced the recent acquisition of @Tweetie, 10 thousand developers gasped. Twitter is Twitter because 10 thousand developers ‘filled in the holes‘ and made Twitter ...

Hey Streamys: You Know You’re Bad When iJustine Calls You Trash

I’m ashamed to say that I continued to watch the Streamy’s, an online award show for streaming media that played live this weekend, long after it became abundantly clear that this was a plane headed for a mountain. As a producer of streaming events, I tuned into the show to see what can be done ...

SXSWi 2010 IS About Location

As we prepare to venture over to Austin for SXSWi I’m prepping my Android HTC Hero with all the latest geo-location apps to help me stay on top of all of the activities. Last year seemed to be about what was coming and this year seems be all about ‘where we’re at right now.’ Yes, ...

Building a $10,000 Home Production Studio

Marc Ostrick and I continue our adventure into emerging tech with a return trip to Vegas for the 2010 International Consumer Electronic Show. We’re on a mission to take the lessons learned from our previous outings at Blog World Expo, The Twitter Conference, and The TWiT Cottage and apply them to actually building a live ...

#CES2010: The Boxee Set Top Box Fortells the Coming Convergence [video update]

Today’s the last day of CES, but we’re getting our first few features done and posted. First up, Boxee.  A company that continues to gain momentum and pile up awards for their slick, robust and cutting-edge interface.   At this year’s CES they introduced their Beta to the world, along with a set-top “Boxee Box” that ...

2010 Predictions: Michael Sean Wright’s List [online video]

Does anyone win these prediction posts? If I get four out of five, am I deemed a Wiley E. Coyote ‘Super Genius’? Perhaps a better title for this exercise is – ‘My Projections.’ In reality, I’m just trying to force my Pandora utopia upon the world (before the bulldozers). We’ve been talking too long about ...