“We’ve got to make face-to-face time sacred, and we have to bring back the saying we used to hear all the time, and now never hear, ‘Look at me when I talk to you.”
via Clifford Nass, Researcher on Multitasking, Dies at 55 – NYTimes.com.
Category: news
inessential.com: Why I love RSS and You Do Too
Great post by Brent Simmons about RSS and plumbing vs proprietary web apps inessential.com: Why I love RSS and You Do Too.
My book in Chinese!
One of my new students brought in a copy of my book in Chinese. I had no idea it was translated and available. Nice!
Bringing in a generic H.264 stream to Wirecast (via Wowza and Wirecast’s Generic IP Camera support)
Wirecast is truly a studio in a box. It has a great support for multiple cameras, mixing live and recorded sources, graphic overlays and so on. Recent versions even allow you to bring in live feeds from IP cameras including support for specific Axis cameras.
Since I am a big fan of IP cameras and Axis in particular this is great news. Unfortunately Wirecast doesn’t have direct support for most models and I had to dig quite a bit to get things to work using their “Generic” IP camera support.
First test was to get a straight H.264 encoded into Wowza and then out to Wirecast. To do this, I used the Flash Media Live Encoder and set it publish to “rtmp://localhost:1935/img” (I have Wowza running on my local machine and an application called “img” which is a copy of Wowza’s “live” application). I set the Stream name in FMLE to “media.sav” which is what Wirecast is looking for by default.
In Wirecast’s Source Settings, I added a new IP Camera and set it’s IP address to: “127.0.0.1:1935” and choose “Generic” as the type.
Viola! It works, the video is being captured and encoded by FMLE, sent to Wowza and pulled into Wirecast as a Generic IP camera. In this manner, I can have live cameras via FMLE from anywhere in the world brought live into my final stream.
(Big thanks to Steve McFarlin the developer of the LiveU iPhone broadcasting app for his post on Wirecast’s Forum detailing how he got his software working.)
abiano – now in the Google Play app store
Krandni, students in my NYUAD mobile media course have developed a new musical Android app called abiano. It was developed in Processing and is a lot of fun to play with! Get it at Google Play
Google Streetview Fame
Finally!
MoMA App wins a silver Muse award!
Obscura Cam now in the Android market!
I am happy to report that the app I have been working on in collaboration with Witness and the Guardian Project is now available in the Android Market.
The app, Obscura Cam is the outcome of the first phase of our
Secure Smart Cam project to create smart phone camera software which allows for greater privacy and security in the capturing and sharing of media.
Of course, it is all open source
Trying out Storify.com
The Secure Smart Camera App for Human Rights Video : Video For Change :: A WITNESS blog
Bryan at WITNESS put up a blog post concerning the app that I am working on along with other Guardian folks.
The Secure Smart Camera App for Human Rights Video : Video For Change :: A WITNESS blog.
It’s worth a look if you are interested in the intersection of human rights, mobile technology and citizen media. It’s an open source Android project too!