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Berkman Center for Internet & Society - Film and Fair Use:

Today the Center for Social Media at American University released "A Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use," which details the situations in which today’s documentary filmmakers believe they have the right to quote copyrighted material without licensing it. What are those situations? According to the report, they are: employing copyrighted material as the object of social, political, or cultural critique; quoting copyrighted works of popular culture to illustrate an argument or point; capturing copyrighted media content in the process of filming something else; and using copyrighted material in a historical sequence.”

a bit late on this one, but oh so relevant - es

I'd like to introduce a new editor to the unmediated blog, Michael Parenti. Michael is a VJ, coder, media instructor, and all around good person whose varied interests makes him a fitting addition to the trackers at unmediated. You can check out Michael's work and ideas through his project Artificial Eyes, his personal site, and (my favorite) his del.icio.us links. Welcome, Michael! -kc.

an online archive of geographical maps showing the daily movements of an artist over the course of a year by carrying a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver. the various maps display each days’ trajectory individually & hence follow the artists’ daily routine & movements. [gpsdiary.org|via rhizome.org]

Another bad sign from the FCC: Chairman Kevin J. Martin says cable needs to do a better job shielding kids from programming aimed at adults. Said Martin: "I think the industry needs to do more to address parents' concerns... You can always turn the television off and … block the channels you don't want. But why should you have to?" Martin's comments were made at the Senate's ominously-named Open Forum on Decency. Is the FCC positioning itself to regulate cable programming? Note to Mr. Martin: there is no federal right to HBO.

I am looking to play around with Flash. (Flash haterz, leave me alone...) I need a decent system that can encode into Flash and act as a content management tool. The top-end solutions are nice, but too expensive. As in I have no money. I'm hoping for an open source or dirt cheap solution. Anyone?

a series of aesthetic data visualization sketches as insightful 'portraits' of how people use data about them, through a visual representation of information patterns created during mobile conversations. one of the sketches investigates the spatial distribution & relationships between the places & users. the graphic shows the representation of the cities for each user based on how many times they were called & the total amount of time spent on during the conversations.
currently, these graphics are seen as 3D environments that can be implemented as interactive visualizations, enabling users the control of a camera to browse the scene from a desired point of view (i. e. as if traversing a visual narrative). see also ispots wireless network visualization. [mit.edu|thnkx Regine!]

I love it. Lucas Gonze, whose blog posts are recently regularly epic, has posted a wonderful meme on Lightnet. He contrasts Darknet- which I'll define as an internet-based interface for browsing and consuming traditional mass produced media- with Lightnet- illustrated with examples like ccMixter, CreativeCommons, WebJay, and MeFeedia.

What's so beautiful about Lucas' idea is that Lightnet is sustainable media technology. Lightnet feeds itself through nurturing and enabling the expression of the creative impulses we experience during content consumption. Darknet restrains and/or swallows up these impulses for personal gain. With Lightnet, our aggregate participatory media experiences are like earth worms toiling the soil we live in- the attention we spend consuming media fuels the creation of new more relavant media, entertainment, and information. With Darknet, the ripple effect of our lives comes across as fashion and trend.

Lightnet is participatory media while Darknet is traditional linear media (no matter how personalized). In Darknet, identity is equal to our content collections and the content collections of those we associate ourselves with. In Lightnet, our individual playlists, our music and video libraries, and the videobloggers we subscribe to take on completely new meaning and value in the context of our social networks, relationships, and the shareable transparancy of our decisions and impulses.

In Lightnet, our identities can shine and become prolific - eventually becoming a new creative class of worker. Lucas has made it clear. Supporting Darknet is futile. Lightnet and sustainable media technologies will fuel the creation of an entirely new way to live, earn money, and communicate. So let's get busy!

(Also see Lucas' post (with remarks by Michael Migurski) on the Apple extend and embrace of Podcasting™. -kc.)

I haven’t fully gotten my head around Ray Ozzie’s announcement of SSE, a two-way RSS that allows you to not only receive new data but send and sync new data. I’m delighted that he consulted Dave Winer in the process, by the way. Ozzie mentions SSE’s use in such applications as calendaring and contacts. But I wonder if there’s not something else here, something about making one-way feeds two-way, something about making RSS conversational.

I have to believe there are applications for news here: various correspondents share the latest news on a story, for example. Perhaps this is how we update disaster reports. Perhaps this is how first-responders do, too. Or perhaps this is how we can keep data bases of current inventory and prices of materials. Maybe it has an application in shared reviews. Or maybe I’m getting it wrong.

How do you think SSE could be useful to news?

: Crunchnotes says new companies will be built on the back of SSE.

: LATER: See good discussion in the comments.

: I wonder, also, whether this is one way to handle corrections.

flickerization of mobile media: A mobile media network for instantly sharing your photos and videos on mobile phones.

Ajax based feed reader that provides headlines from major news organizations as well as other tech and blog feeds.

amazing library of functions that we can rely on called Prototype.js to ease our JavaScript development practices.

software turns air guitar playing into sounds.

how to stream any type of media file from your computer to another device on your network. We will also demonstrate how to remotely control VLC using any web browser.

The new Mac mini project, code-named Kaleidoscope, will feature an Intel processor and include both Front Row 2.0 and TiVo-like DVR functionality.

Participants would be asked to post the American Edit album online for 24 hours only starting on Tuesday, December 13, at 12:00AM.

Russell Beattie talks about the new firmware for Sony's Playstation Portable. He likes it.

Sony just released a new firmware update v2.6 for the PSP with RSS(!) and Windows Music support. I’m downloading it to try now, but I think this is a pretty cool update. I have to say, besides Sony’s insistence on hammering the homebrew scene, they’ve done good things with the PSP firmware updates, adding a browser, LocationFree support and now this stuff.

As long as there’s not a root-kit installed, then I’m willing to give them two thumbs up! Nice job Sony!

The addition of RSS to this device is something I really wasn’t expecting. It makes perfect sense - the killer app for the browser has been Bloglines mobile, so now that I’ll be able to snag a bunch of feeds right on the device itself before walking out the door? That’s pretty cool.

Waiting…. Okay, it’s installed.

Hehehe. Surprise, surprise. So I immediately went to the “RSS Channel” app and started it up, and it gave me a message that I didn’t have any subscriptions, and asked me if I wanted to open up the browser so I could add some. I said yes, and arrived at this page. Awesome...

I wonder if it works on the News4Neighbors feed...