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March 31, 2004
A P2P media distribution platform for news for and by students and others
DV Guide
The goal of this project is to create a content sharing platform consisting of contributors and corerspondents recruited from young audiences and students distributed throughout the global mediascape who are engaged in direct reporting via collective production of Internet and broadcast news clips. Ideally, the material of DV Guide should reflect on the social and cultural issues of a given participants respective community that has significance for broader audences while at the same time maintains the highest standards of journalistic integrity.
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P2P, 802.11b, handhelds and radio, a combination made in my heaven
tunA
From MIT via Gizmodo:
tunA is a mobile wireless application that allows users to share their music locally through handheld devices. Users can "tune in" to other nearby tunA music players and listen to what someone else is listening to. Developed on iPaqs and connected via 802.11b in ad-hoc mode, the application displays a list of people using tunA that are in range, gives access to their profile and playlist information, and enables synchronized peer-to-peer audio streaming.
Thanks to Dan for the link.
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a GNU GNOME...
GNOME: The Free Software Desktop Project
From the page:
In a release that marks the fruit of six months of hard work from our hackers, maintainers, translators, testers, usability team and accessibility team, the GNOME community has done it again: GNOME 2.6.0 continues the high standards in the areas of usability, accessibility and internationalisation that our users expect from the world's Free Software desktop.
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Clay writes about "Situated Software"
Shirky: Situated Software
From the article:
Part of the future I believe I'm seeing is a change in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, I'm calling situated software. This is software designed in and for a particular social situation or context. This way of making software is in contrast with what I'll call the Web School (the paradigm I learned to program in), where scalability, generality, and completeness were the key virtues.
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Posix for Java
Free Software by Gregory Guerin
From the description:
Imagine that you could catch signals, raise resource-limits, get mounted file-system info, manipulate file modes, or change effective user ID from Java. Imagine that many of the other interesting and useful POSIX system-calls were also accessible from Java. Imagine that they were organized in an easily understood and usable class library, which could be implemented for different platforms yet still be used transparently by any API-conforming user program.
Stop imagining and start downloading, because that's what this class library does. It includes a working implementation for Mac OS X, but anyone with moderate JNI and Unix experience can create an implementation for other Unix platforms. It's even possible to create implementations for non-Unix platforms, such as that operating system whose name starts with 'Wind'.
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March 29, 2004
Wrapping it all up...
ffmpegX a VCD, SVCD, CVD, VOB, DivX, XviD encoder for Mac OSX
Wraps all those nice Open Source audio and video encoders and players for MacOS X.
From the site:
ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools including ffmpeg the "hyper fast video and audio encoder" (http://ffmpeg.sf.net/), mpeg2enc the open-source mpeg-2 encoder and multiplexer (http://mjpeg.sf.net/MacOS/) and mencoder the mpeg-4 encoder with subtitles support (http://sf.net/projects/mplayerosx).
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March 27, 2004
Fighting for LPFM (Low Power FM) in the Cities
About the Prometheus Radio Project!
What is Prometheus all about:
To serve as a microradio resource center offering legal, technical, and organizational support for the non-commercial community broadcasters
To research and develop technical resources in anticipation of legalized micro-radio. Upon legalization, we will offer technical services to non-commercial micro-stations- equipment testing, frequency searching, submitting FCC applications, studio advice and so on
To sponsor and produce educational tours, conferences, events and literature on microradio and democratic media issues.
To serve as a public interest advocate on microradio issues, and to help facilitate public participation in the FCC rulemaking and legislative process.
To help start a regional micropower association, which could eventually serve as a self-regulating association for low power fm analagous to the ARRL for HAM radio. Until this is formed, we will perform some of its future functions, primarily performing a coordinating and secretarial role to facilitate communications among existing stations.
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WiFi for anything and everything
Lantronix Device Networking Products - Embedded Device Servers - WiPort(tm)
From the site:
The WiPort is the most compact, integrated solution available to add 802.11b wireless networking to any edge device with a serial interface. Using our highly integrated hardware and software platform, you will add profit to your bottom line by significantly reducing product development time, risk, and cost.
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March 26, 2004
Nice discussion of early animation and game programming in J2ME (MIDP 1.0)
Programming Games in J2ME (SYS-CON)
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Better Mac Sound Preferences/Control Panel
Alain CRETET Software
From the site
BetterSound is a Mac OS X audio preference panel, offering some extra features in sound control management.
BetterSound allows you to see all audio input and output controls at a glance in one panel.
With a powerful peakmeter, mutes and levels management, you can control easily all your audio devices.
Thanks Hans
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Save your fingers
How SawStop Works
Thanks to Alex for the link:
The SawStop system works by recognizing the difference in the electrical properties of wood and a user. The system induces a high-frequency electrical signal on the blade of a table saw and monitors this signal for changes caused by contact between the blade and a user's body. The signal remains unchanged when the blade cuts wood because of the relatively small inherent electrical capacitance and conductivity of wood. However, when a user contacts the blade while the saw is operating, the electrical signal changes because of the relatively large inherent capacitance of the user's body.
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Lessig's new book, Free Culture
== Free Culture ==
From the site:
All creative works - books, movies, records, software, and so on - are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible - technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we've forgotten?
I have uploaded a PDF copy of Lessig's book, Free Culture, download it.
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Getting out of your employees way
InfoWorld: Fired up IT: March 19, 2004: By Chad Dickerson : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS
About the book: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
From the book review/article (culled from the book):
Protecting the productivity of your top performers is essential to managing successful projects. According to studies cited in the book, the best people will outperform the worst by about 10-to-1. The best performer will outperform a median performer by 2.5 times. Finally, on average, the one-half of performers who are better-than-median will typically outdo the other half by 2-to-1.
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March 25, 2004
The URL says it all, StreamingMarketplace.com
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The powerbooks are taking over
Streaming Media, Inc.
From the release:
The key features of the Streambox ACT-L3 Portable Video Transport System are:
-Real-time compression of 1/2 D1 (352x480i) interlaced video 30 fps on a PowerBook G4 with a 1.25 Ghz CPU or higher. The system supports full D1 resolution at 15 fps and higher.
-The ACT-L3 Codec produces high quality video transmissions at data rates as low as 64 kbps and higher over IP, sat-phones, 802.11 and 3G wireless networks. Optimal full resolution broadcast quality is available with IP satellite systems or land-based DSL lines.
-Live DV Video capture from camera via Firewire input.
-Works seamlessly with existing NLE editing software such as Apple’s Final Cut Pro.™
-Advanced Forward Error Correction technology recovers and cancels packet loss and overcomes jitter and buffering.
-Bandwidth shaping technology controls and prevents video overflow at satellites, routers and network switches for smooth video delivery.
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March 24, 2004
Indie record stores tell us the the RIAA is full of it..
Wired News: Record Stores: We're Fine, Thanks
Interesting, from the article:
High prices, rather than file sharing, are what usually stop a kid from buying a CD, Wiley said.
Typically, the music industry wants stores to sell CDs for $18 when they should be going for $15, he said. That $3 can make the difference in terms of whether or not a CD is going to sell.
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Unless I am completely nuts, Rob Glaser doesn't have a clue
Real's Glaser exhorts Apple to open iPod | CNET News.com
From the article:
Because Apple's iPod music player does not support other proprietary music formats and does not license its own format to rivals, Real's Rhapsody and other song sites are blocked from easily reaching iPod users.
"Apple's (market) share will go down if they continue to do this. The only way to presently put songs on an iPod is to (buy) them from iTunes," Glaser said, referring to downloads purchased from online music stores. In addition to iTunes songs, the iPod can play files encoded in the MP3 format, including tracks ripped from CDs.
Hey Rob, the iPod supports MP3, duh!!! If you would open up, then you would be fine, but no, Real/Rhapsody does do MP3, does it..!? Wait, Rhapsody does support Mac users either, hows that for open.. He he he, Glaser is full of it..
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March 23, 2004
Mobile phones go academic
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March 22, 2004
Dyne:bolic gets an update
d y n e . o r g :: dynebolic mailinglist
The description:
Dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists and artists to stimulate the production and not only the fruition of digital and analog informations. It takes birth as a grassroot effort to spread free software and the spirit of sharing information and knowledge.
This version supports hard drive booting and much much more..
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Sick, yes really tasteless.
Ananova - Virgin Atlantic clubhouse urinals are the shape of a woman's open mouth
Somebody should take a sledge hammer to them.
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A blog for moblogs
Moblogging.org
As they say:
Software, Hardware and regularly updated news regarding moblogging.
News, Mobloggers, Software and more..
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Phone browser, Opera on Nokia phones
Opera for Series 60 tutorial
From the site:
The Opera Web browser for Smartphones is a full Internet browser that allows all access to any Web site, just as with a desktop computer. Opera is included on the Nokia 6600 as part of a complimentary sales package for Europe and Africa and is easily downloadable for the Siemens SX1, Nokia N-gage, Nokia 3650, and Nokia 7650.
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Flashy phones
Macromedia - Products : Mobile and Devices: Flash Lite
From Macromedia:
Macromedia Flash Lite is a new Macromedia Flash profile specifically developed for mobile phones. This profile is designed to require fewer device resources and to operate in most mass-market phones shipping this year.
A good list of supported devices can be found on the site..
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Using Java to take pictues with your phone
Taking Pictures with MMAPI
Jonathan Knudsen's article does a good job explaining some of the basics of using the Java/J2ME MMAPI (Mobile Media API) on camera phones. I can't wait for my Nokia 6620!!
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March 21, 2004
The Center for Democracy and Technology
CDT Mission
From the site:
The Center for Democracy and Technology works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media.
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March 20, 2004
Joi using a 35mm digital camera
Joi Ito's Web: Switching to Canon EOS "Kiss/300D" Digital for my 35mm photography
"Switching to Canon EOS "Kiss/300D" Digital for my 35mm photography" -- Nice, takes standard lenses and everything...
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New stretchy wires for wearables
Stretchy wires form bendy circuits: Rubbery electronics might be possible using gold springs.
From the article:
US researchers have made electronic circuits that can stretch like rubber. The flexible wires might create wearable electronics or artificial nerves that can bend inside the body.
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Power Pilgrims - Strange tech/performance art..?
Power Pilgrims
From the site:
The Amber Order is a cult that pays reverence to, and expresses their trust in, the Great Technological Systems through sartorial submission and silent praise. Four Amber brothers made their first pilgrimage to Den Gr Hal for the 1/2 machine event in August 2003.
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The bazaar of open source development
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
One of the great lines: Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.
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Less is More (More or Less): Uncommon Sense and the Design of Computers
LessIsMore
Bill Buxton lays out why single purpose device and software design are better than the do everything approach so often in practice.
Another interesting article along these lines is The Rise of "Worse is Better'' by Richard Gabriel.
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Another TiVo for internet radio
Griffin is now selling the RadioShark
Here is a couple of similar products on this site: Radio YourWay and Replay Radio
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Nuclear war, yup that's what the US does.
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Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto
Bruce Mau Design     Incomplete Manifesto
From the manifesto:
9. Begin anywhere. John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.
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March 18, 2004
See what your neighbors do with it and how they make it
Neighbor Search
Wow! Donating more than $200 to a campaign, the world knows..! From an art organization, what does this mean? Is Eyebeam showing everyone what information is collected and available to those in the know?
From the site:
Use the location search (on your home address) to find those who live near you that have made presidential campaign contributions. You can also search for friends or celebrities by name
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March 17, 2004
RedHat's next generation Linux Kernel project
Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule.
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IIDC (IEEE 1394 or FireWire based Digital Cameras) for Linux
Coriander Home Page
From the site:
Coriander is a Linux graphical user interface (GUI) that let you control a Digital Camera through the IEEE1394 bus (aka FireWire, or iLink). By Digital Camera, I mean here a camera that complies with the IIDC v1.04 (or later) Digital Camera Specifications, published by the 1394 Trade Association.
A related project is: http://www.linux1394.org/
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Makers of Modern Lava Lamps
mathmos - the original since 1963
I like the sound responsive Tuba.. Looks like an ITP project, LEDs in some funky plastic mold that respond to sound.
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New York City area computer recycling, technician training and reconditioned computer sales
Per Scholas :: Access Through Technology
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What happened inside the Pentagon leading up to the War in Iraq
Salon.com | The new Pentagon papers
From the article:
I witnessed neoconservative agenda bearers within OSP usurp measured and carefully considered assessments, and through suppression and distortion of intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods to both Congress and the executive office of the president.
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How News Travels on the Internet (really the blogosphere)
Stephen VanDyke » How News Travels on the Internet
Stephen visualizes how news and information travel the Internet. Interesting that he is really really referring to the blogosphere not the internet proper. If it was the internet proper he would be paying much more attention to the "Dark Matter".
From Stephen's page:
Here's how I see news travel, I think it's a pretty self-explanatory graphic, plus I'm too lazy to do a proper write up. Infer as you wish, maybe I will become the "source" one of these days.
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Light Everything...
Lighted Costumes & Custom LED Fashion Section - Lightgod.com
LEDs and ElWire everywhere!
Light Up Ice Cubes, Lighted Wine, Martini, Margarita & Champagne Glasses + an Amazing Selection of Light Up LED Drinkware
Glow Lights, Battery Operated Lights, Flashing Jewelry, Body Lights & Light Up Toy Section
Light Up Promotional Items, Lighted Corporate Gifts & Glowing Imprinted Products
Party Lights, String Lights, Neon Lights, Fiber Optics, LED Lights, Black Lights, Strobe Lights & Decorative Lighting Products
Lighted Costumes & Custom LED Fashion Section
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Shooting People
Shooting People / Bulletins
From the site:
Shooting People is a very simple idea - that independent filmmaking is about passion, ideas, innovation and finding creative partnerships. By providing a web and email service that allows all groups of the filmmaking community to hook up with each other instantly, swap core advice, debate latest techs and develop creative partnerships
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March 15, 2004
Nice intro to Internet Radio
Yahoo! News - Internet Radio Finds Its Groove
From the article:
Broadcast radio stations may be evolving into the aural equivalent of Burger King, offering the same focus-group tested playlists across the United States, but music fans looking for more flavorful fare can pick from more than 5,000 options on the Internet, where "Webcasters" offer everything from Iranian pop to hip-hop subgenres like turntablism.
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Record a movie on your phone
SmartPhoneToday: News: Record Video on Treo 600 with MovieRec
From the article:
Currently in the alpha stage of development, MovieRec is more or less a proof of concept, demonstrating that video capture is possible with the Treo 600.
The site referenced: http://www.infinityball.com/
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Multi-network Instant Messaging
Cerulean Studios: The Creators of Trillian and Trillian Pro IM Clients
From the site:
The award-winning*, multi-network Trillian IM client allows you to seamlessly integrate all of your communications traffic in a single, sleek package. Stay in touch with contacts spanning multiple networks and grab the latest news, stocks, and other information with our versatile array of plugins.
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DRM for MPEG4
Streaming Media Encryption Spec Published
From the article:
The non-profit ISMA said its Encryption and Authentication Specification v.1.0 builds on the core ISMA Specification 1.0 released in 2001 and sets a framework for the secure content delivery over IP networks. It effectively adds a legitimate digital rights management (define) spec for the MPEG-4 (define) digital media distribution standard.
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Subscribe to my home videos
Wired News: Speed Meets Feed in Download Tool
From the site:
A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular programmer and blogger merges two of this season's hottest tech fads -- RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing -- to create a cheap publishing system for what its author calls "big media objects." The hybrid system is meant to eliminate both the publisher's need for fat bandwidth, and the consumer's need to wait through a grueling download.
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March 14, 2004
"Where are you!?!"
Simeda :: SounderCover
Crazy:
SounderCover gives you the ability to add a background sound to any incoming or outgoing call, giving the impression that you really are in the environment where the background sound is normally heard.
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Radio of the masses
radio vox populi: live from the commons
From the site:
We are entering an age where every citizen will have the means to speak her mind in a public venue. Weblogs are the voice of the people, connecting millions of individuals to their own audience on a daily basis. But what does this communication sound like?
Radio Vox Populi is a realization of the people's voice, taking the content of the weblogs and broadcasting it back to the world. As weblog authors update their sites their writing is collected, synthesized into speech, and streamed to listeners as an Internet radio station. Live from the commons 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
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March 13, 2004
P2P video archive and sharing system
NGV
From the site:
New Global Vision is a digital video archive project. The goal is to build up a network of dedicated ftp servers and a peer-to-peer file sharing system able to overcome the bandwidth problems related to the size of video files.
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March 11, 2004
Vegan bags, some fashion I can respect
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Radio and the Internet
RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter
Surprisingly I have never linked to this off of sLop. In any case, Kurt Hanson has been providing news to folks interested in the intersection of radio and the internet for quite some time. Check it out...
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I hear this is The Guy as far as digital video technicals go
Charles Poynton
Color, Video, Digital Signal Processing and more..
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Friendster, Open Source Style
SourceForge.net: Project Info - Slashster
From the sf description:
Slashster: An Open Source PHP / Mysql Friend of a Friend implementation (e.g: Orkut, Friendster)
This should be interesting, one to keep an eye on.
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Ah ha, that is what this site is, a reBlog!!!
reBlog.org
From reBlog.org:
What is a reBlog?
A reBlog facilitates the process of filtering and republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds. reBloggers subscribe to their favorite feeds, preview the content, and select their favorite posts. These posts are automatically published to a Moveable Type weblog.
Only I am not using RSS.. I will have to check into this.. (when I have time that is)
Here is Eyebeam's reBlog, they are the group that developed the software in the first place.
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Crazy robot kinetic sculptures right here in Brooklyn
Amorphic Robot Works Info
From the site:
The Amorphic Society includes more than 100 interactive and computer-controlled human and abstract machines ranging from 12 inches height to 30 feet long. If you are visiting San Francisco, you will have an opportunity to visit "URGE" the only permanent interactive kinetic sculpture in the Yerba Buena Gardens, located on the corner of 4th Street and Howard Street.
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Art and Science, go together like a horse and carriage..
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) - Art, Science & Technology - mission
From the site:
Founded in 1988, Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) is one of the few art & technology *members* organizations in the USA. Established primarily as a network for artists who either use or are inspired by science and technology, ASCI has become a magnet for some of the best examples of this type of contemporary art and for technologists wishing to collaborate. ASCI programs and services provide members with opportunities for proffessional growth, increased public visibility, and a supportive community. Since 1998, with its first ArtSci international symposium, ASCI has reached-out to the broad scientific community (from astro-physics to bio-chemistry) to involve its members in this and other ASCI events and programs.
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The infamous WFMU, freeform radio
WFMU-FM 91.1/Jersey City, NJ; 90.1/Hudson Valley, NY
WFMU is an independent freeform radio station broadcasting at 91.1 fm in the New York City area, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, and live on the web in Realaudio, or in Windows Media, as well as two flavors of MP3, and all programs archived in Realaudio.
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QuickTime component makers (vdig, broadcaster and more)
abstract plane
The also have an interesting QuickTime JNI port called: KTBJava and a QuickTime Xtra for Director. Their broadcasting software, Uplink looks very promising.
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March 10, 2004
I hear Al Franken, literally.
Air America Radio
From the site:
On March 31, 2004 Air America Radio begins airlifting entertaining, progressive talk radio to millions of Americans who for far too long have been and are being neglected by talk radio broadcasters today.
Our on-air personalities and guests represent today's top political and popular humorists, commentators, activists and analysts.
Our irreverent, informative programming sparks the kind of challenging political and social dialogue that has been absent from AM radio for years.
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I like candy (art)
eye candy: photographs by craig kanarick
at: http://www.dylanscandybar.com/art.html
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JNI without the pain...?
Excelsior xFunction - Call native code functions from Java without JNI
xFunction
Java Interface to External Functions
Invoke operating system APIs and functions from native code DLLs/shared libraries directly from your Java code without any JNI programming
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Palm and J2ME.. Very nice
Hand in Hand with PalmSource
Excerpt from the article:
Also at the conference, PalmSource announced it has licensed IBM's WebSphere MicroEnvironment Java 2 Micro Edition and the WebSphere Studio Device Developer toolset. PalmSource will integrate WME into its platform, making it easier for the huge community of Java developers to create apps for the Palm OS. It will also let Palm developers execute Java MIDlet applications on Palm devices.
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Java wrapper for ffmpeg
SourceForge.net: Project Info - JMF wrapper for ffmpeg
Very nice, JMF needs a refresher (an understatement) and it is nice to open source implementations picking up on it (especially since Apple has no idea what they are doing to QuickTime for Java).
From the site:
This is a Java wrapper for ffmpeg compression library. It exports ffmpeg codecs functions as a JMF (Java Media Framework) codec. You can use this codec from JMStudio and then you'll have a video player able to play mpeg1, h263, mpeg4 (divX), etc. streams.
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Dream a little dream
Dream Workshop by Takara
From the site:
Takara Co., Ltd (President and CEO, Keita Satoh) is pleased to announce the current development of a device which helps users to attain the dreams of, well, their dreams. Called Yumemi Koubou (Japanese for "Dream Viewing Workshop" ), this product is designed to help people shape their dreams in sleep, combining multi-sensory stimulus and sophisticated sleep-dream research to create an environment conducive to having a specific dream desired by the user.
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A set of multimedia and 3d classes for Java
Jun for Java
Looks to be some open source and easy to use QuickTime and OpenGL wrappers for Java.. Interesting...
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NASA's site for all things Hubble
HubbleSite
The space telescope has made a come back in recent years and this site has it all, from computer wallpaper to hard science.
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March 09, 2004
Running QTSS/DSS from behind a NAT router
Running QTSS/DSS from behind a NAT router
I am told this article is a life-saver.. I will give it a read shortly and let y'all know.
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Custom cameras
Sensor Technologies America, Inc. - SenTech
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Security camera central
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You only feel safer
Wired 12.03: VIEW
A nice concise argument why we are wasting our money on all of these precautionary measures intended to make us safer but do nothing but make us feel safer.
From the article:
Every day, some 82,000 foreign visitors set foot in the US with a visa, and since early this year, most of them have been fingerprinted and photographed in the name of security. But despite the money spent, the inconveniences suffered, and the international ill will caused, these new measures, like most instituted in the wake of September 11, are mostly ineffectual.
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FireWire cameras, frame grabbers and analog to digital converters
FireWire Imaging > Products
Makers of the very nice uncompressed firewire analog to digital DFG/1394 box.
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Mac TV, Video and Radio Capture Card
AlchemyTV - TV Tuner and Video capture PCI card for your PowerMac
Looks like a nice uncompressed video capture card for the Mac. The TV PVR and radio capabilities are a nice bonus.
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Nice Reactive (interactive?) Video
Daniel Shiffman
I wanna be Dan...!
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Pretty LED lights (in the house)
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March 08, 2004
Play that media, share that control, perform baby, perform
KeyWorx
From the site:
KeyWorx is a Multi-User Cross Media Synthesizer - a distributed application that allows multiple players to generate, synthesize and process images, sounds and text within a shared realtime environment. As an instrument it allows communities of players to dynamically control and modify all aspects of digitized media in a collaborative performance.
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March 07, 2004
David's notes on using JNI with various Unix systems (including MacOS X)
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NY standing up to copyright tyranny
www.nyfairuse.org - New Yorkers for Protecting Fair Use of Copyrighted Material
From the site:
New Yorkers for Fair Use is a group that supports copyright law as Congress originally framed and implemented it. Congress first conceived of copyright law as a limited term protection for authors and inventors. This limited term protection was meant to be an incentive to creators of original work to distribute their inventions as quickly and as widely as possible. Congress hoped that this distribution would facilitate scientific and artistic progress. Today, the extension of copyright to 70 or more years past the death of the author and the passage of laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, support the interests of corporations in maintaining monopolies over their creations at the expense of scientific and artistic progress. The DMCA is a particularly egregious example of this trend in copyright law. The DMCA grants the authors of digital works the ability to specify how their work my be used in perpetuity. Moreover, the DMCA even allows authors to prohibit the copying and quoting of their digital work for the purpose of education -- a use of copyrighted works which has traditionally been allowed under the doctrine of fair use. Because the DMCA allows authors to prevent other members of the public from using their work as a basis for further creative endeavor, we believe the DMCA fatally harms the original intent of copyright law, which was to promote progress in the useful arts and sciences. As such, we support the revocation of the DMCA in the interests of scientific and artistic progress. We also support the extension of the fair use doctrine into the digital domain so that some balance is restored between the interests of the public and the interests of authors and inventors.
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Tiny video projectors, coming soon to a PDA near you
Upstream Engineering
From the site:
First in the world, Upstream Engineering introduces a revolutionary optical technology that will enable video projection from matchbox-sized device running on batteries.
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Background Checks in a Box
Silicon Valley
From the article:
Beyond the gallon jars of mayonnaise and the office furniture, shoppers browsing the aisles at some Sam's Club stores will find something that isn't usually sold at retail -- an employee background check in a box.
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March 06, 2004
Learning OpenGL, some highly recommended tutorials
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Glowing bunnies and other craziness
KAC WEB
The website of Eduardo Kac, the artist who brought us Alba, the GFP Bunny. Alba was injected with a genetically modified protein from a jellyfish while still developing.
Here is text from the website:
GFP Bunny -- With GFP Bunny Kac welcomes Alba, the green fluorescent rabbit, and explains that transgenic art must be created "with great care, with acknowledgment of the complex issues at the core of the work and, above all, with a commitment to respect, nurture, and love the life thus created." The first phase of the GFP Bunny project was completed in February 2000 with the birth of "Alba" in Jouy-en-Josas, France. The second phase is the ongoing debate, which started with the first public announcement of Alba's birth, made by Kac in the context of the Planet Work conference, in San Francisco, on May 14, 2000. The third phase will take place when the bunny comes home to Chicago, becoming part of Kac's family and living with him from that point on.
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Another ultra-portable PC
Flipstart PC by Vulcan - FlipStart PC in detail
I would like to see one of these side by side an OQO (or whatever this: http://www.walking-productions.com/slop/cat_hardware.html#000426 is called).
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No RFID here.
Knowledge Brings Fear: RFID in money errors
Debunking the myth
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March 05, 2004
All kindsa QuickTime utilities
Qtilities.com
Playlist Creator, Subtitles and more more more..
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First reaction, Duh... Second, "maybe but not so fast"..
Study: Broadband 'killer app' found - 2004-02-03 - Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
From the article:
The so-called killer application for broadband Internet access between now and 2006 will not be distribution of professionally produced content, such as today's TV and movies, but rather the addition of video to existing applications such as conferencing, messaging and gaming and the development of applications that rely on user- and community-provided video content, according to a new study by the San Jose-based unit of the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
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Receiver
receiver
Vodafone's online magazine about mobile art, media and philosophy. Nicely done.
From the site:
Wireless telecommunications have entered the media arts, and in accordance with their original functionality, they invigorated the discursive powers of various art forms. Terms like communication and interactivity acquire new significance in museum surroundings, in electronic music, architectural projects, and even poetry. Let's have a look at art the wireless way Ö
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Crazy cell phone add-ons
CommsDesign - The brave new world of cellphone add-ons
I am fond of the X-PandaCam though the article focuses on the anti-sperm beam...
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Google's Calculator Functions
Google Web Search Features
From the site:
To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you'd like done into the search box and hit the Enter key or click on the Google Search button. The calculator can solve math problems involving basic arithmetic, more complicated math, units of measure and conversions, and physical constants. Try one of the sample expressions below, or refer to our complete instructions for help in building your own.
If only my command line had this ability built in.. You heard it hear first, Google on the command line is on it's way.
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Some interesting developments from Microsoft Research
Wired News: Does SenseCam Make Any Sense?
From the article:
The prototype responds to changes such as bright lights and sudden movements and might one day even respond to other stimuli such as heart rate or skin temperature -- to track medical problems as easily as to record a Hawaiian vacation. And it could eventually link with other technology, such as face recognition to remind wearers when they've seen someone before.
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Popular blogs as meta-filters
Wired News: Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious
The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas
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March 04, 2004
Sony's interaction research lab
Interaction Lab
From the site:
The Interaction Laboratory was established in 1999 to investigate the future of human computer interactions and digital lifestyles. Expanding the previous real-world user interface research within the Sony Computer Science Laboratories, we are currently working on fundamental technologies, including software architectures, hardware architectures, and sensor architectures, that will be needed to realize natural and intuitive interactions between the human, as a physical entity, and the information environment, as a digital entity. In addition to technology-oriented activities, we are also seeking a deeper understanding of human life itself, through cognitive research, and design and lifestyle studies. The Interaction Laboratorys fundamental goal is to establish symbiotic relationships between humans and technology.
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Java Search Engine
Jakarta Lucene - Overview - Jakarta Lucene
From the site:
Jakarta Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.
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Linux users, record that output...
Download Vsound
From the site:
This program allows you to record the output of any standard OSS program (one that uses /dev/dsp for sound) without having to modify or recompile the program. It uses the same idea as the esddsp wrapper from the Enlightened Sound Daemon (in fact, vsound is based on esddsp). That is, it preloads a library that intercepts calls to open /dev/dsp, and instead returns a handle to a normal file. It also intercepts ioctl's on that file handle and logs them, to help convert the audio data from its raw form. Vsound then uses sox to convert the raw data to the desired file format.
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WiFi changing consumer behavior
USATODAY.com - Wi-Fi changes virtually everything
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Go Larry! Hope the book makes people THINK.
Wired 12.03: Some Like It Hot
From the excerpt:
If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission, then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of big media today - film, music, radio, and cable TV - was born of a kind of piracy. The consistent story is how each generation welcomes the pirates from the last. Each generation - until now.
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March 03, 2004
Creativity always builds on the past
Moving Image Contest Winners | Creative Commons
Nice promotional video for Creative Commons.
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Make your voice heard.
EFF: Homepage
"Defending Freedom in the Digital World"
Where would we be without them?
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Looky here, we aren't all consumers after all.
Internet News Article | Reuters.com
The article states the 44% of internet users post or upload information to the web. Look out Big Media...
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Teaching Oject Orientated Programming in Java
BlueJ - Teaching Java
From the description:
The aim of BlueJ is to provide an easy-to-use teaching environment for the Java language that facilitates the teaching of Java to first year students. Special emphasis has been placed on visualisation and interaction techniques to create a highly interactive environment that encourages experimentation and exploration.
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March 02, 2004
Independent news for Brooklyn
Critical perspectives on arts, politics and culture..
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As Alex says, Social Software in a box, just add water
AlstraSoft E-Friends - Run your own online social networking community just like Friendster. Members create their own personal friends network, meet new friends, dating and join groups
From the site:
AlstraSoft E-Friends is an online social networking software that allows you to start your own site just like Friendster and Tribe.net. The E-Friends software allows members to connect to people in their personal networks and community, creating a new online interactive resource that is based on a trusted network of friends and associates on the internet
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