January 31, 2006
200,000 CC mp3sThe Soundclick music community passed the 200,000 mark for CC-licensed mp3s over the weekend. That's a whole lot of music.
Soundclick doesn't offer CC-specific search or feeds, which rather points out an opportunity for aggregators.
Forunately Google and Yahoo! have both indexed the Soundclick site rather well. Click on one of the previous links or type site:soundclick.com into the search form on the CC find page, which allows you to search Soundclick using Google or Yahoo!'s CC-enabled search.
That's a whole lot of music.
Capn Design Archives: The Cost of A La Carte Telvevision
Pantech&Curitel IM-U100, the PMP phone
Artnet magazine reviews SUPERLOWREZ show.
Microcinema International - Mobile Exposure 2006 Call For WorksRESFEST Digital Film Festival
Help Wanted: Gawker Guerrilla Video Project - GawkerJanuary 30, 2006
Make it easy for your viewers to subscribe in FireAnt with our new 1-click subscription button!
Here's what is looks like:
Use our button maker to copy-paste the code into your site.
We plan to add more fun and useful things like this to the "Tools" sidebar... stay tuned.
January 28, 2006
TV characters blog their way to build ratingsMoreover, that content is increasingly being written under the guise of a show's fictional characters. The character Barney from CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" also has a blog, as does Dave Groves of ABC's "Invasion".
Spot Runner"At Spot Runner we make it easy, simple and affordable for everyone to take advantage of local TV advertising. We started Spot Runner because we saw three important opportunities:
* Small and medium-sized business people want to advertise on TV but the costs of creating ads are prohibitive. * Choosing a media plan, negotiating the price, and tracking your advertising can be time consuming and difficult. * Great TV advertising could be made more quickly and at a fraction of the cost of traditional advertising agencies.
We put these elements together and Spot Runner was born."
SIOC Vocabulary SpecificationGoogle releases Web Authoring StatisticsGoogle has recently released a report on Web Authoring Statistics.
The report, which used over 1 billion documents as its input, analyzes the relative frequency of various HTML elements and attributes. They also mention microformats.org as another initiative which is analyzing markup trends on the web.
The study is worth a read for anyone interested in semantic markup and especially microformats. Beware, however, that in order to see the graphs, you’ll need a browser which can properly render SVG content (FireFox 1.5 seems to work pretty well here).
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Panoramic VideoMake Magazine has a story on how to make inexpensive panoramic video. Dennis Gliksman used duct tape and 6 wide angle firewire video cameras ($129 each).
Panoramic video is like a QTVR window into a scene. With movement all around. The Omnidirectional Vision Page has a terrific overview of 360 degree video techniques. 
Point it up into a Kaidan 360 One VR lens (right, $749.95) consisting of a lightweight and rugged optical system and EyeSee360 PhotoWarp software. The 360 One VR optic provides a complete 360° horizontal panorama with a 100° vertical field-of-view (50° above and 50° below the horizon). .jpg)
Or automatically FTP to a Zoom Server like Social Canvas so multiple users can (virtually) zoom in on a small section of an 8 Meg image. Here a 360 degree panorama from the top of Mt Everest and a one Gig Panoscan.
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Wireless Networking in the Developing WorldIf anyone can claim to be the "father" of community LANs, it might be Matt Peterson who founded Bay Area Wireless Users Group after his first wireless adventure, PlayaNET (an internal network for the annual Burning Man event back in 2001). Matt Peterson, Rob Flickenger and others built the foundation of what was to become a global movement through BAWUG. Soon after, Portland's PersonalTelco, SeattleWireless and many other activist community LAN organizations were formed.
The book addresses what Rob Flickenger, the book's editor and lead author, calls a chicken-and-egg problem: "While much information about building wireless networks can be found on-line, that presents a problem for people in areas with little or no connectivity".
The book covers topics from basic radio physics and network design to equipment and troubleshooting.It is intended to be a comprehensive resource for technologists in the developing world, providing the critical information that they need to build networks. This includes specific examples, diagrams and calculations, which are intended to help building wireless networks without requiring access to the Internet.In the developing world, one book can often be a library, and to a techie this book may well be a bible.
January 25, 2006
Amateur Video Sharing Grows Online Old media | King content | Economist.com"True, the internet and digital devices will eventually break those companies' grip on distribution. But they gain something else: a digital world in which what you supply matters far more than how you supply it. In satellite radio, for example, Sirius has crept up on XM Satellite Radio thanks chiefly to its content, in the controversial form of Howard Stern. And this world holds another promise, too: an abundance of virtually costless ways to supply consumers with what they want to watch, whenever they want it—things established media are ideally placed to provide."
DojoToolkit.orgCreative Commons WikiMediaShift | PBSanother new meme from lucas gonze: "hotlinks"Consumer Advocates Fear Corporate 'Fiefdoms' and a Class-Based InternetBig Content would like to outlaw things no one has even thought of yetJanuary 24, 2006
New Year, New FireAnt.
Download it now at http://FireAnt.tv
So what's new? The biggest thing is that our website is completely revamped and is already (in my humble opinion) the best way to discover videoblogs on the web.
We've got thousands of video RSS channels listed, from personal video diaries to citizen journalism, and viral video to mainstream media... all can be downloaded and subscribed to in FireAnt. If you already have a videoblog, then make sure you've got an RSS 2.0 feed and add it to the directory.
We'll be continually developing this website over time adding all sorts of ways to discover, view, organize, and share media with friends.
The website is also a major new component of the new version of FireAnt for Mac and Windows. The FireAnt Directory is available inside FireAnt. If you're viewing this directory inside FireAnt, then you will be able to easily subscribe to channels with one-click, and easily access your Queue for a la carte downloads.
On the client side there are all kinds of bug fixes and improvements. The Mac version has multiple viewing sizes, better organization in the Episodes tab, and also the ability to browse inside a channel to select individual items for download. On Windows, we've squashed a lot of bugs and tuned the performance. We are also creating a device synchronization API so that we will be able to more easily sync to portable devices.
Videoblogging has come a long way since January 2005 when we first launched ANT (ANT's Not Television) during a blizzard in NYC at the world's first Vloggercon. Let's make 2006 even more memorable.
Thanks to everyone who helped contribute to this release, including all those who helped beta test and everyone in the videoblogging community making amazing content. You are what's driving this machine. Stay tuned, because there's a lot more to come.
January 23, 2006
Greasemonkeying Reuters VideoI got a ton of responses when I posted a couple Greasemonkey scripts to download videos from Google Video and YouTube a while back... mostly because the blog entry made it to the front page of Digg.com. Since then I've gotten tons of requests to make scripts to download videos from all sorts of different sites.... Here's another to download videos from Reuters:
As usual, this is a Greasemonkey script, so you'll need Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension installed. Then you can simply right-click the above link and choose, "install user script".
Once installed, this script will place a download link at the top of any page of http://today.reuters.com/tv/. You can right-click the link to save the Flash video (FLV) file to your computer. You can then play the video with an FLV player like this one. Or you could transcode the video to another format to edit or take with you on a portable device using something like this.
See the screenshot below to see what this script does:
January 22, 2006
hotlinks- Melodiefabriek improved on Pete Prodoehl's cgi to build proper URLs for the MP3s in podshow page. (Related post: free the URLs, a.k.a. lightnet post #11).
- Mike Linksvayer blogged on hotlink policies. This is in response to my comments on complaint forms for hotlinks, and he said a lot of things that I was struggling to find words for, like:
One sort of complainer wants a link to a third party site to go away. I suspect the complainer usually really wants the content on the third party site to go away.
About the wording "hotlink", I have adopted it (instead of the more accurate but convoluted "direct link") under the slightly new meaning of "a link which pisses off the host instead of pleasing them."But maybe "hotlink" is just a great word which will mean whatever we want it to mean because it sounds so cool. What a great word - not only does it have "hot" in it, it could easily take on the smell of teenage rebellion. It's like "Hot Wheels."
smells like link spirit - michael
MediaShift | PBSpbwiki :: anoniblog | FrontPageConsumer Advocates Fear Corporate 'Fiefdoms' and a Class-Based InternetHannibal over at ars technica has an amazing MUST READ post on the latest broadcast flag draft legislation which aims to bring digital devices such as ipods and psp's under restrictive legislative control to the benefit of large content distributors. Watching this self-flagellation as MUST READ post on the latest broadcast flag draft legislation which aims to bring digital devices such as ipods and psp's under restrictive legislative control to the benefit of large content distributors. Watching this self-flagellation as Posted by exiledsurfer at 12:58 PM | Comments (0)
January 21, 2006
Easy Software for Making Vlogs realtime
Ever since I did a presentation at the meet the vloggers gathering in SoHo this summer, people have kept asking what software I use to do my vlogs. I’ve been using Wirecast from Vara Software. It’s rather pricey, but it allows for simple changes of precomposed shots with videos, titles, and 2 cameras. It saves the videos right to the desired QuickTime format, or even sets up a video stream. Wirecast is available for the Mac and Windows platforms.
Vara Software has released a lighter version called VideoCue for Mac platform. It is really great as it allows for simple drag and drop of videos, pictures and live camera into a storyboard cue. It also has direct support for adding it to your blog. There is a free trial download to get your feet wet and to see if it is something for you.
Blogs as paintingsWatch this clip of blogger, online facilitator and collaboration expert Nancy White.
It is part of TheWeblogProject - the first open-source movie documentary about blogs and bloggers.
also see these other two great video clips:
Indian temples embrace technologyKamlas India has an insightful post on the power of technology in Indian Temples, many of which are IT enabled organizations run by Temple CEO's, compelete with websites, webcasts, e-donations and text messaging prayers.
With myware, soon you may be spying on yourself online - Jan. 19, 2006Digital Curation and Preservation: research agenda for the next decadehttp://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/warwick_2005/Warwick_Workshop_report.pdf
This British Library/CCLRC/DCC/JISC sponsored workshop was held in November 2005, and focused on three main strands in parallel breakout sessions and group discussions. Each breakout group considered one of the following topics:
Curation Services and Technologies;
Drivers and Barriers (policy issues);
and Data Life Cycle Management (process issues).
Each session was chaired by a leading expert on the topic and the groups were asked to consider the topic in relation to the following categories: the scope and definition of each topic, the current state of play nationally and internationally; what the vision was likely to be over the next 5 to 10 years; what we needed to do to achieve this vision; what were the dependencies on which achievement of the vision would be based, and what were the priorities.
Taipei's Huge Cloud
Originally it was planned to be completed by the end of last year but it has been delayed somewhat. It's now expected to be finished by the middle of 2006. The WiFi cloud will easily be the world's largest, covering 90% of Taipei's 2.6 million residents. It will typically cost about $12 per month. Taipei began planning its network in 2003. Mayor Ma Ying-jeou made the Wi-Fi effort a centerpiece of his "Cybercity" campaign to give Taipei an edge over other Asian cities."This will increase the cutting-edge competitiveness of this city, and make the life of our citizens even more convenient," the mayor says.
As in Philadelphia and some other U.S. cities, Taipei opted to let the private sector build and run the network so it wouldn't cost the city money.
In August 2004, the government approved Q-ware Systems Inc., which beat out another local company in bidding. Construction started the following month. Q-ware, in turn, hired Nortel Networks Corp. of Brampton, Ontario to build, equip, and maintain the system.Taipei has encountered obstacles. The Wi-Fi plan met resistance from state-owned Chunghwa Telecom Co., the island's biggest phone company, which urged the city government not to launch the project, people involved with the project say.The "telephone companies are quite nervous," says Mr. Ma, the mayor, who expects the Wi-Fi network to help trim city spending as schools and municipal offices use it to communicate instead of pricier fixed-line and cellular-phone networks.
- Wireless Access Point 7220: (Wireless AP)
- Wireless Gateway 7250: The Wireless Gateway hides Wireless LAN-specific mobility and provides data security for the mesh transit links (between Wireless AP 7220s).
- Optivity Network Management System: Provides centralized facilities for monitoring and managing network operations
T-shirt: I WAS A COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IN A PREVIOUS LIFE
Crazed Viennese net.artists Monochrom have a great new tee for sale (&Euro;18): I WAS A COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IN A PREVIOUS LIFE.
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Nate Harrison preaches some gospel
Can I Get An Amen? is an audio installation that unfolds a critical perspective of perhaps the most sampled drums beat in the history of recorded music, the Amen Break. It begins with the pop track Amen Brother by 60's soul band The Winstons, and traces the transformation of their drum solo from its original context as part of a 'B' side vinyl single into its use as a key aural ingredient in contemporary cultural expression. The work attempts to bring into scrutiny the techno-utopian notion that 'information wants to be free'- it questions its effectiveness as a democratizing agent. This as well as other issues are foregrounded through a history of the Amen Break and its peculiar relationship to current copyright law.
Schoolchildren recruited as copyright 'spies' in Hong KongDont be surprised if the US doesent start outsourcing its copyright infringement investigation resources to low wages in the east...
MemoryMiner - Softwaremacworld best of show award.. some pretty interesting stuff going on here.
Riya - Photo Search
We are a group of determined face recognition and text recognition researchers and engineers who believe it is time for a new type of photo search that uses technology to look inside and automatically tag photos. We hope this will revolutionize how people "see" the world.
everyday biometrics for the masses ;)
January 20, 2006
New open-source license targets DRM, Hollywood | Tech News on ZDNetPatriot Search - the RIGHT search Engine
New Voices: New Voices Request for Proposals - 2006Brian Kerr | Library card catalog graffiti
January 19, 2006
content infrastructureTwo related posts on algorithms and infrastructure:
To be sure, Google's road map of evolving search services is being guided by algorithmic strategies that are foreign to the creative likes of publishing, filmmaking, television production, marketing and advertising. But a willingness to embrace the new math and science of connecting with and selling to consumers and advertisers will make artistic media's leap onto the digital broadband fast track quicker and more profitable.
This is the same point that I made with a client company last week in Florida. It's not enough to be a content company anymore, because it isn't the content that makes money in the old media world -- it's the infrastructure that produces the bundle within which the content is delivered. And that infrastructure is basically irrelevant now.
I don't want to zeldman all over this, but I've been under the impression that actual makers of films, music, articles, and stories are already on top of this shift towards unbundly creative works and basic economics of attention. The great misfortune of the content cartels is that they're still thinking in terms of "delivering" "content" to "consumers". It's a very mass-production way of looking at the world, and it's really poorly adapted to the internet.
Heaton is right that it will be necessary to understand the customs and tendencies of unbundled media to operate in that world, but he's wrong to use the word algorithm. An algorithm is bounded, defined, predictable and reproducible. Unbundled media is anything but - who could have foreseen the success of Crazy Frog (thanks Rael) or developed the pop-hit formula for Lazy Sunday? This stuff comes out of nowhere, and reaches furthest when detached from its source and reinterpreted.
netlag world webcam map
an impressive reality video of 1609 different webcams positioned around the world. specially developed software called 'picksucker' saved an image of each camera every ten minutes (from 29-01-2004 until 30-01-2004 18:40 GTM), which are placed on a geographical world map & become animated according to time. created by pleix, a community of digital artists (graphic designers, 3d artists, musicians...).
although based on completely different input data, the end result is looks similar to google search activity map. [pleix.net (mov)|thnkx Yannick!]
Latest Display Technology: SED
LCD, LED, HDTV, plasma, they don’t have anything compared to the latest and greatest display technology that should begin appearing next year. The next big thing is called Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display, or SED for short. Basically it combines the terrific contrast, responsiveness and sharpness of conventional CRT monitors with the power efficiency, size, and thickness of LCDs or Plasmas. Like any new display technology, it will probably cost an arm and a leg.
Right SED Fred [Red Ferret]
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Mediatized StoriesCreative Commons license machine debuts in Second LifeA neat new machine that generates CC licenses for Second Life works will be available for the first time today at 4.30 pm PST (that's 12.30 am GMT on Thursday), just before Lawrence Lessig's talk gets underway.
Check it out on Democracy Island - if you hang out there a bit you'll be able to hear the talk piped from Pooley Auditorium.
Originally posted by Jen from Wonderland, ReBlogged by evan on Jan 18, 2006 at 08:55 AM
Girls with drills and electric wiresAlison Lewis has launched a brilliant website: SWITCH, an online DIY show where she and her friends focus on teaching young women about electronics through fashion and design.
In the first episode Alison and Diana Eng create a talking frame (using "ingredients such as nail polish and a dental floss container.)
Bonus: Alison was at CES, meeting and talking with people from Eleksen, Iqua, Chitter Chatter, etc. (video)
Vincent Maher’s Menthol - A Mediated Life » Towards a Critical Media Studies Approach to the BlogoshphereDLD - Digital Lifestyle DayStreamload - MediaMax Online Media CenterLost Boy: Idea for Personal Timeline ViewerI Am Alpha: Welcome to I Am AlphaEvery inch of Netherlands viewable online | CNET News.comCall for online journalism papersThe 7th International Symposium on Online Journalism will be held on April 7 and 8, 2006 at the University of Texas at Austin. As usual, the sessions on the first day have a professional/industry emphasis, and those on the second day will be dedicated mainly to a more academic/research focus, with presentation of papers submitted to a blind review process. The deadline for submitting papers' abstracts is January 27. More information here.
10 New Partners in Adobe's OpenHD AllianceJanuary 18, 2006
StoryField - Tools For Shared History
StoryField is a new desktop database solution for oral history and documentary process, content, resource and idea management.
Developed in FileMaker Pro, StoryField works with Microsoft Office to provide seamless desktop integration and management of multiple users, multiple projects and multiple sources of data during the pre-production to production phases. Users can customize StoryField to create their own digital toolkit and resource library with the ability to track projects, add data and store related materials in various media formats--easily cross-referenced with user defined keyword tags.
MakeZine.com: Make Enhanced PodcastsPROGRAMME - VISION'® - AVit FRANCEStikiPad: Launching (very) soon!
sharemywifi.comJanuary 16, 2006
A Semantic Web Primer - The MIT Press
3Gbps SATA II HDD
NEC's Musical Cellphone Microchip
In response to the rapid increase in the number of mobile phones being used as music players in Japan, NEC Electronics has developed a dedicated SLI chip for audio. This is a companion chip made specifically to enhance audio in cellphones. It has a CPU dedicated to music play, a digital signal processor and a connection for an application processor. It functions with SD cards and supports copyright protection (CPRM). The chip also minimizes battery drain, thus enabling continuous music play for 50 hours. Sampling started yesterday, and mass production is planned for April. Sample price is $13. Hopefully we'll see these in stateside handsets before the end of the decade.
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The Problem with WebcastingJon's Radio: Stanford, meet the lightnet. Apple, get a clue.The workaround, in this case, was simply to expose the feed URLs, and through them, the individual lecture URLs, to public discourse: linking, tagging, blogging, playlisting.
"It was an ironically circular exercise. I started at itunes.stanford.edu, which is just a web placeholder for the JavaScript code that launches iTunes and points it at the special Stanford area of the iTunes Music Store. Then I subscribed to some of the Stanford feeds in iTunes. Capturing the URLs of those feeds was way harder than it should be, because iTunes displays them but won't let you copy them."
Why the media can't get Wikipedia rightInterview with Chris WillisMartijn de Waal talks with Chris about the emerging media ecosystem.
"In the emerging media-ecology no-one has control. The mainstream media used to control everything. They can't anymore. … As mainstream media you have the power to get important ideas out quickly. That should not be the end, but the beginning."
Participatory Journalism - From Reporting To Dialogue: An Italian ViewpointBit Editions introduces SUPERLOWREZ SHOW
Glitch VST by dblue
google video from outside the USWhy's it so hard to get 'Buffy' on my iPod?Apple Computer's iTunes store, of course, offers a few TV downloads for purchase at $1.99 each. Those include a smattering of shows from NBC, USA Network and the Sci-Fi Channel.
The selections are likely to improve, just as the iTunes lineup has gradually expanded to include additions like the Grateful Dead.
But that won't help anyone who owns a video iPod today and wants to watch something beyond "Lost" or "Desperate Housewives." It especially won't help someone with a library of DVDs that would make perfect iPod fodder.
January 14, 2006
1000tags.comThinkGeek :: eStarling Wi-Fi Gmail / Flickr Enabled LCD Frame
O so very lightnet...a standalone Wi-Fi LCD photo frame that connects to a wireless network and automatically displays photos e-mailed to it in a slideshow format. Additionally you can specify an RSS photo feed from Flickr (or anywhere for that matter) What would be super hot is if u could subscribe to video podcast feeds...
TENORI-ON - DESIGN - YAMAHA Global Gateway
TENORI-ON (sound on your palm) is a novel personal digital instrument for playing sound and ambient light patterns. This instrument was developed by Japanese Artist, Toshio Iwai and Yamaha Corporation
Re:Loc
Postvinyl (Space Age Tool for the DJ, 2005) is a project in progress developing space age tools for the DJ. Our current game level contains recordplayers, records, sleeves and posters to be viewed at the discretion of the virtual DJ.
StoryField - Tools For Shared HistoryCongress looks askance at firms that bow to China | CNET News.comOnlyOnce: New Media Deal, Part II - the We Media DealDownload Google VideosGoogle Groups : alt.fan.noam-chomskyJanuary 13, 2006
SparkleIt's free, it's easy, and it'll make using a Mac better for everyone, so go for it!
øM: Generative Music PlayerThis means that every time you'll listen to øM music, you'll get a unique listening experience. Generative music behaves like organic lifeforms. øM player is usefull to Meditation, Reki or Yoga practicioners as well as everybody interested in self generated ambient music.
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file-swap.com Give one file - get one free!"As our slogan says: Give one file, get one free!
File-swap.com is meant to be fun. It acts as a big black box. You put in one file and you will receive a different file in exchange which someone swaped earlier. If many users swap cool files many other users recieve cool files."
Legal Affairs blog - Cool Tools For Tyrants"By taking advantage of market freedom and selling products to repressive regimes, however, these companies undermine another fundamental freedom: the ability of individuals to speak and think without fearing government retribution. Cisco, Secure Computing, and others put the U.S. in the untenable position of advocating for human rights abroad while allowing these companies to supply products that help China and other nations violate human rights."
How Apple lost it's Web Video mojo, and how it could get it back - Epeus' epigoneJanuary 12, 2006
3d thoughtscape network
a 3D network browser that allows users to pan & rotate a large three-dimensional concept diagram. for the Austrian European Community presidency, 200 European key persons were questioned about their opinions on the strengths, weaknesses, chances & risks of the European Union. based on co-occurances of specific topics, 4 different network diagrams were created, representing a European 'thoughtscape' (gedankenraum). see also eurosong visualization & blog impact visualization for more euro-centered data representations. [aec.at]
Freeculture Urges Boycott of DRMed Disks(We're back, with thanks to Corante for giving us bigger and better hardware.)
Gavin Baker of FreeCulture.org sent me a note asking for people to sign up for their Pledge to boycott DRM campaign. This is really a "no brainer" for me. I cancelled my Sony-BMG membership years ago when they put out their first copy-locked audio disk and I haven't bought a new CD from a store in almost five years. (I do still buy direct from artists/DJs and haunt used-music stores.)
FreeCulture's modest 500 signature goal has been doubled so far and I wouldn't be surprised to see them get 5000 signatures.
Mactel Watch: Which Audio/Music Software is Mac-Intel Ready?
A CDM Special Report, http://www.createdigitalmusic.com/intel/In 2006, we're compiling our own list of audio and music software, plug-ins, and drivers that have been updated as Universal -- containing code that's optimized both for PowerPC Macs and the new Macs with Intel processors. With this list, Mac musicians can keep track of which software will run best on the new chips. We'll also link to compatibility coverage elsewhere and to additional reporting on the new machines and their performance.
You can help! Developers and readers should contact us at a special email address with any tips on software updates or other features:
intel (at) create digital music (dot) com
There are already a fair number of resources available (including new drivers from MOTU), just in case you've just purchased a new Intel iMac. Expect more complete information after we poll manufacturers at the NAMM trade show. Here's the current list:.
First simultaneous release movie opening tonightPaul Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal KidYou probably know Paul Miller as the DJ culture guru famous for creating structure from sequences. Also known as DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, he works in music, video, and text, he cuts-up and collages, he deconstructs and creates. And Paul appears in our 24×7 film experiment.
The clip in this post is from the beginning of the shoot where the conversation was about collaboration. As with the other clips we’re posting in the production blog, this clip is pretty typical of the shoot however it’s not amongst the footage that’s making it into the final cut.
Have a look at some of the projects Paul has in the works and pick up his book if you have time, it’s an interesting and enjoyable read, of course you have already checked out his music.
Paul Miller (8.6mb quicktime faststart .mov)
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Score one for the media"Ever since the Constitution was issued, it's been chipped away at," District Judge Mark Kent Ellis said at Tuesday's hearing on television station KPRC's motion to quash a grand jury subpoena for the video. "I'm sympathetic with the needs of a press to be free."
VoiceBoxVoiceBox is said to offer the world's first conversational voice search and navigation platform that enables users to access information from any mobile device over any IP network without memorizing specific commands or navigating through tedious menus. The VoiceBox Navigator Platform is offered to the automotive, digital home, mobile phone, and VoIP markets.
The platform’s speech recognition algorithms are designed to determine the context and intent from conversational speech, enabling consumers to speak in free-form language. Users can ask for directions to the nearest Italian restaurant, check on traffic for the daily commute, make hands-free phone calls, navigate through hundreds of channels on satellite radio, or search for songs and artists on their iPod intuitively and safely. How about voice activated public art?
A "citizen journalism"-related website called Everyday HogwashA website called Everyday Hogwash just launched. File it in your ideas list under "citizen journalism"-related. E-Media Tidbits reports.
The concept is simple: Hogwash collects "rants" from people about various annoyances and things they've had to endure from companies: "Hidden fees. Really tiny fine print. Overbooked airplanes. Hypnotic hold music." We've all had bad experiences with various companies, so, the website's concept goes, let's share them and "have some therapeutic yuks at the millions of little ways companies stick it to us."
To encourage submissions, the site is very contest-oriented, giving away cash to daily prize winners as selected by a panel of judges.
The concept seems a bit thin for a website -- it's more like a feature of a larger site. Indeed, the idea of using contests to solicit citizen submissions is a good one.
Let's ChatsumChatsum is a Firefox extension that lets you chat and leave messages on any website for other Chatsum users to see and interact with.
The Chatsum sidebar houses a fully-fledged chatroom, specific to the page you’re looking at, and all the other users in the room are also viewing the same web page. When you navigate to a different page the Chatsum room changes automagically. If you open a page in a new tab, Chatsum will keep pace with whatever you’re viewing. There is the option to switch between a page level room and a site level room, and you can also see what rooms/pages are popular with other Chatsum users.
Safari and Explorer versions are in development and the developers, George Grinsted and Lee Parry, are planning some other interesting community features: including "non-chat" surprises, a Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X 10.4, etc.
Check it out, sign up for the beta and help them "squash the bugs."
More background information: Chatsum Development Blog; George's and Lee's blogs.
GAME as CRITIC as ART. 2.0. (Part V)Last episode of Laura Baigorri' essay for GAME as CRITIC as ART. 2.0. (see Part I, II, III and IV.)
In one of her PDF , Laura Baigorri recommended also the following games:
- Rethinking wargames that "uses the game of chess to find strategies that challenge existing power structures and their concomitant war machineries",
- UnderAsh and UnderSiege "is about the modern history of Palestine and it focuses on the lives of Palestinian family between 1999-2002 during the second Intifada. All levels are based on true stories."
- Crosser and La Migra simulate opposing points of view on the Rio Grande (more details),
- Stone Throwers, "in dedication to the Palestinians who have died in the nearly three months of clashes with the Israeli army."
- The Great Game, a daily record of Enduring Freedom as a 3d terrain map of the Afghanistan region,
- Tropical America: your journey begins as the sole survivor of a terrible massacre - you must find four pieces of evidence to bring justice to the memory of your small village.
Diffusion and investigation:
Water Cooler Games, Opensorcery, Molleindustria, Selectparks, Persuasive Games.
Shows: Breaking and Entering: Art and the Video Game and re:Play.
NPR : Copyright Laws Severely Limit Availability of MusicTV Stations' Web Revenue Doubled in '05Multimedia Reporting and Convergence SeminarThe Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism in partnership with the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation is accepting applications for this expenses-paid seminar that combines practical instruction in multimedia reporting with in-depth exploration of media convergence and other critical issues for online news operations.
Participants will get five full days of intense hands-on instruction on how to do multimedia stories for the Web...