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September 30, 2004

Howard writes about how text messaging is changing the face of world politics

TheFeature :: Political Texting: SMS and Elections
From the article:
Texting and electoral politics are the strange bedfellows of the 21st century. The use of SMS for political action is only in its infancy, but has already enabled citizens to topple governments and tip elections from Manila to Madrid. The electoral power of texting could be an early indicator of future social upheaval: whenever people gain the power to organize collective action on new scales, in new places, at new tempos, with groups they had not been able to organize before, societies and civilizations change.

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September 29, 2004

Nicebots opening in NICE

n i c e b o t s
Daniel, Mark, Ann and Jean-Marc put together this great exhibition in Nice France.

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Making the Every-person's Bit Torrent

Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs - Blog Torrent

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September 23, 2004

I love Jonny's blog

jonnygoldstein.com

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Mobile Phone Dev Nirvana

Benhui.net the harmony of mobile development
Great information on Bluetooth, J2ME, MIDP 2 and more.

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Oooh, ahhhh.. An SLR WiFi Camera

Gizmodo : Nikon D2X, 12.4-Megapixel DSLR
If only I could afford it. This is networked photography the way it should be! Throw away that stinky camera phone and join the WiFi revolution (just kidding, really)

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September 22, 2004

Bye bye LaunchBar, Hello QuickSilver


Quicksilver

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Some nice free utilities from Apple for QuickTime

QuickTime Development Resources - Tools
A set of utilities from Apple for QuickTime authoring and development. Notable are the QTPlayer Streaming Info Plug-in tool and the MakeRefMovie tool.

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September 20, 2004

Check your users bandwidth

Bandwidthmeter - a speed test script

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Encode Windows Media on the Mac

Windows Media Format for Mac
Doesn't Cleaner do this? This seems to integrate with QuickTime and therefore it's capabilities should be available in any QuickTime app. This would be better than only being able to use Cleaner. Anyone have experience with it?

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There is quite a bit that is interesting about this "art stream"

Park 4DTV - 24/7 art stream

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September 15, 2004

Media Arts Fellowships

Program for Media Artists
The Program for Media Artists offers some very nice Media Arts Fellowships.

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September 13, 2004

Run MIDP 2 on your Mac

mpowerplayer
From the site:
mpowerplayer is a MIDP runtime written in pure Java.
Think of it as an appletviewer for midlets. If you know why that's useful, then this tool is for you.
With mpowerplayer you can run J2ME applications on your desktop computer. If you like, you can play the same games that run on your phone on your desktop.

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IBM Open Sources Voice Code

IBM Donates Voice Code to Apache
Very nice.. Looks as though you use it via standard JSP tags.

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September 11, 2004

Alan's Site has a new Newsletter

Spreading The Love and Peace: The Alan Van Every Update

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September 10, 2004

Ask The Robot: RNC (Robot Nautical Convention)

Robot Nautical Convention
On Monday, Pursue the Pulse is putting on another Ask The Robot! I will be there showing mGen and Alan will be there too. Come check it out.

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Engadget gives some info on Song's in air Linux system

Song Airlines' Linux-based distributed media system - Engadget - www.engadget.com

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September 07, 2004

Macromedia entering into video conferencing services arena

Macromedia Looks to Make Web Conferencing a Breeze
1 cent cheaper per minute than WebEx.. Funny

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Processing Images (pixel by pixel)

Processing Image Pixels using Java, Getting Started
A nice article/lesson from Developer.com.

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Skype now available on MacOS X

Skype - Download Skype for Mac OS X
The peer to peer voice over IP client is now available on the Mac. Anyone tried it?

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Gizmodo reports on a Newsweek article that shows some companies have a clue

Gizmodo : TiVo and Netflix to Partner for Downloadable Content?
If it really is in the works, this could be BIG

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September 04, 2004

Open Media: The Open Source Media Project

Open Media
An interesting new project from JD Lasica and Marc Canter.
From the site:
Coming soon: A site, affiliated with the Internet Archive, devoted to advancing the cause of personal media.

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September 03, 2004

In related news: Microsoft launches it's music store

RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter RAIN gives a nice compilation of information and some pointers to articles concerning this and what it might mean for Apple's store.

(Also of interest is the story on Philly wanting to be the first 100% wireless city, WiFi everywhere)

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Microsoft unveils it's Portable Media Center

Tech Digest: Microsoft's Portable Media Center on its way
TechDigest gives a nice run down on the positive and negative aspects of this new gadget.
What I would like to hear about it authoring of interactive content for these types of devices. Anyone know?

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September 01, 2004

Make your own stamps

PhotoStamps: Home
Pretty interesting.. You can create your own custom stamp for your snail mail. Pretty nice idea.

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