I asked Vlog santa how to get a Wii

I know I said all stuff Nintendo Wii would be over at my blog Wii The Media but this one is just too funny… so I cross post here:
I sent Vlog Santa a short video asking him, “How do I convince my wife to let me get a Wii?” Well he took my question as [...]

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Wii The Media dot com is live

So I’ve installed WordPress and selected a theme over at WiiTheMedia.com. All my posts about the Nintendo Wii and making media will be over there for now on. Once I get a Wii and start publishing stuff from it I’ll let you know. Could the future of media making and computers be devices without keyboards [...]

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Mii Yesh

I made this at http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/10/mii.swf.
I am now officially obsessed with the Nintendo Wii… My apologies to regular readers who couldn’t give a damn. Ya’ll know what I want for Christmas now right?

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Having Fun Making Media - Photos

Another Channel on the Nintendo Wii is called the PhotoChannel. Its basically a photo viewer app that allows you to organize and perform basic edits. You import your photos into the Wii via SD card. This allows you to look at them on your TV. All this is done with the wireless Wii remote controller. [...]

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WiiTheMedia.com

I just bought the domain name wii the media (dot) com. Nothing there just yet but I’ll let you know. The idea to buy it came about from daydreaming and my blog posts Wii the Media (duh) and Wii and Newspapers. Several people have told me they enjoyed the ideas. Let’s see how Wii can [...]

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Wii the Media

Right after I wrote the last post I came up with the title of this post. In case you didn’t notice its a pun on the phrase “We the Media“.
Can a video game console help Citizen Journalists? The Wii has an internet connection, a browser, a basic photo editing app (PhotoChannel), message board, avatars, [...]

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Wii and Newspapers

Newspapers have been trying for years to increase the number of young people reading there content with varying degrees of success.
Here’s an idea:
Partner with video game manufactures and push your content through their consoles. The Nintendo Wii, pronounced We, just came out to rave reviews. We’ll see how many units they sell.
Back in September [...]

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Reading the news Nintendo style

The video game console manufacture Nintendo has launched Wii.com. It’s a look into how their new machine called Wii (pronounced ‘we’) will perform. Wii online has several channels. (inovative name huh) One interesting channel they have is called Newschannel and Forcastchannel.
Catch up on current events each day with the latest headlines on the News Channel.
*This [...]

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