It has encouraged managers to take advantage of such tools as webcasting open tele-conferences to reach widely scattered shareholders.Yet for all its radical egalitarianism, Regulation FD has never been as draconian as it looks.
Levertons, which has overseen funerals from George Orwell and Kenneth Williams to Princess Diana and the Queen Mother, is even preparing for the eventuality of webcasting funerals for mourners who are unable to attend.
Since January, he has been webcasting all of his concerts live through a system worthy of Rube Goldberg: after capturing the audio on a mixing console, the band bounces the signal to two apps and then to an iPhone, which transmits the show to the band's Web page for anyone to hear.
The flotilla's organizers, from Insani Yardim Vakfi, the Free Gaza Movement and other groups, were Webcasting live from the open seas as the confrontation started, using the services of Livestream, a New York-based company that hosts free Webcasts.
By creating a Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee of informed outsiders and by Webcasting the deliberations of that group, the agency has brought perhaps an unprecedented degree of transparency to public policy for banks — a point made forcefully by Dennis Kelleher; his blog at Better Markets is a must-read for anyone who cares about financial regulatory reforms.
The comptroller's office pointed to other steps it had supported, like webcasting pension board meetings and offering up-to-date reports of the funds' portfolios.
And this month, the Service Corporation International in Houston, which owns 2,000 funeral homes and cemeteries, including the venerable Frank E. Campbell funeral chapel on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, said it was conducting a pilot Webcasting program at 16 of its funeral homes.
Thom has been compared to Janis Joplin and KT Tunstall and, according to the reams of press cuttings that accompanied her rise, was penniless and struggling until she secured a £1m deal with RCA Records by webcasting 21 gigs from her Tooting basement.
She's the Scottish songwriter who landed a record deal in 2006 by webcasting a series of gigs - which she called 21 Nights in Tooting - from her apparently dingy flat in south London.
Last week Tinopolis, which makes a range of programming for S4C, including two hour-long, weekday magazine programmes, Wedi 3 and Wedi 7, began simultaneously webcasting the programme on broadband from its Llanelli headquarters.
Webcasting site Ustream has inspired a trend for online parties, where you can sit at home watching people having more fun than you.
