Newest Webcams
From the site:
Random live webcams from the Net
These webcams were found automatically through a variety of clever search techniques. Their owners might or might not have intended for them
to be public. But they obviously are. Many of them are security cameras in companies or
semi-public places. If you hover over the picture you’ll see what location information is available.
Interesting how “security cameras” are not “secure” themselves..
Sling Media :: Welcome
From the site:
The Slingbox enables you to watch your TV programming from wherever you are by turning virtually any Internet-connected PC into your personal TV. Whether you’re in another room or in another country, you’ll always have access to your television.
Just what the world needs, more access to broadcast television. ;-)
Shirky: Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software
Clay makes a great case against developing user centric software.
A random paragraph:
And yet, when we poll users about what they actually do with their
computers, some form of social interaction always tops the list —
conversation, collaboration, playing games, and so on. The practice of
software design is shot through with computer-as-box assumptions,
while our actual behavior is closer to computer-as-door, treating the
device as an entrance to a social space.
META[CC] -Main
From the site:
META[CC] seeks to create an open forum for real time discussion, commentary, and cross-refrencing of electronic news and televised media. By combining strategies employed in web-based discussion forums, blogs , tele-text subtitling, on-demand video streaming, and search engines, the open captioning format employed by META[CC] will allow users to gain multiple perspectives and resources engaging current events. The system we are developing is adaptable for use with any cable news or television network.
Free Neighborhood Wi-Fi – Popular Science
Pop Sci publishes a nice write-up about John Geraci’s Neighbornode project. I had my hands in this a bit early on, a great idea, hope it continues to catch on.
http://www.neighbornode.net/
Main Page – Wikibooks
a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit.
AOL News – Ambitious Google Project to Put Copyright Laws to Test
Scanning to start scanning again in Nov.
Not surprisingly, I see this as great all around. Those publishers who don’t allow it will be sorry in the end.
Prodigem API – TorrentocracyWiki
From the site:
The Prodigem API is an interface for programmers to gain access into the Prodigem Bit Torrent Hosting Service. It allows the possibility of designing new Prodigem interfaces and making Prodigem a part of other services (eg. blogging tools, content management systems). Imagine the power of a “Help, I’ve been slashdotted!” button in any web management tool.
local report: home
For those of you wondering what I have been up to for the past month or so, here is your answer: Called, Whitman Local Report, this is a performance piece utilizing mobile phones to create a montage of video “reports” and phone “reports” all in real time (live).
I created some custom software that runs on the phones (Nokia 6710’s) to shoot and automatically upload video from the participant’s phones (30 of them) and more software to playback the videos as they come in (with some controls for play, pause, stop, next and previous).
Hans, my technical collaborator, took care of setting up an Asterisk server and queue to receive the phone in reports and play those out as they came in.
We have one performance to go, please tune into the live stream, come to the live event or check it out afterwards. The previous 4 are available now if you would like a taste.
Here is some press that I just came across: Art and Innovation Collide
Participatory Culture: News and Ideas
From the site:
This is a big day for us we just released a Beta of DTV for Mac OS X.
Nice interface, easy to use.. Great stuff!
A couple of important things missing: Comments and Permalinks to the vlog entries. Vlogs aren’t vlogs without them.