Center for Communication
From the site:
The Center for Communication is an independent media forum, launched in 1980 by former CBS president Dr. Frank Stanton and Museum of Television & Radio president, the late Dr. Robert Batscha, to bridge the gap between the communications industry and the schools. The Center, supported by the industry, is nonprofit and nonpartisan.
Streaming audio in your Palm
Geekzone, mobile forums
From the site:
Pocket Tunes is an advanced audio player for Palm Powered devices. It provides music playback in MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and PCM WAV formats, with capabilities to support future formats as they are developed. Pocket Tunes is the only software to bring streaming audio to Palm Powered phones and wireless devices, allowing users to listen to live broadcasts over the Internet. Pocket Tunes also includes numerous other unique features designed to bring a high-quality listening experience to handheld users.
Rendezvous for Linux and Windows
Porchdog Software
From the site:
Howl is a cross-platform implementation of the Zeroconf networking standard. Zeroconf brings a new ease of use to IP networking.
Thanks to Hans for the pointer…
Video-Sharing Syndicate/Network
v2v | peer-to-peer video syndication release group | ${config.now.dc}
A Call to Join and Contribute to the Establishment of a Video-Sharing Syndicate/Network
building a new era of Open multimedia
Xiph.Org: home
From the site:
Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests. Our purpose is to support and develop free, open protocols and software to serve the public, developer and business markets.
Free Books, Free Books, Free Books
Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web
Everything must go…
New York New Media Association
From the site:
For the past ten years, the New York New Media Association (NYNMA) has had the pleasure of serving the New York area technology industry. Unfortunately, we must now inform you that as of Friday, December 19, 2003, NYNMA has ceased operations due to a significant financial shortfall.
This is the beginning of the end…
Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | ‘Mr Ferrer can’t be with us tonight’
Tagline:
Artists from all over the world are being refused entry to the US on security grounds.
I think this signals the beginning of the end of NYC’s time as a center for art and other culture. Oh, where will we go..?
Java, JNI, Firewire Camera Capture for MacOS
FWCamAkiz allows image sequence acquisition from a FireWire camera compatible with the IIDC standard, on an Apple computer running MacOS 10.1.5 or above. FWCamAkiz provides:
a Java Native Interface (JNI) library handling the camera
a Java class interfacing with this library
a plugin for the free image manipulation software ImageJ by Wayne Rasband which allows comfortable acquisition with multiple timing options from within ImageJ, live preview and color conversion from raw image data.
Documentaries for social good
MediaRights.org
From the site:
MediaRights.org, a nonprofit organization, helps media makers, educators, librarians, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues.