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December 22, 2004

Article from Apple about running MySQL on Mac OS X

MySQL on Mac OS X

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December 21, 2004

Acacia wants to bleed the internet dry

Acacia to Acquire Patent Portfolios
Branching out on from their Streaming patents to just about everything else.
From the article: Among the acquired patents are those covering technology related to broadcast equipment, credit card receipt processing, peer to peer network communications, spreadsheet programs, datamatrix bar codes and image resolution or enhancements.

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New forms of media delivery


Santa Delivers New Forms of Media Delivery

Nice summation of some of the interesting going-on's over the past year. Podcasting, iPods, Digital Media Servers/Centers, Juice boxes and more.. It has definitely been an interesting one.

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BitTorrent based distribution services under fire


MPAA to serve lawsuits on BitTorrent servers | The Register

The title is a bit misleading. These aren't BitTorrent servers but websites hosting Torrents to illegal (copyrighted) material. It is good news that the MPAA is differentiating the technology used from the content. In some strange twisted way I think that this will be a boost for independent media bittorrent distribution as the popular content just won't be available. Perhaps people might even open their eyes.

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Make Windows Media on a Mac

Flip4Mac - Digital Media Tools for the Mac

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Find those podcasts

PodcastAlley.com -- The place to find Podcasts

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Interesting way to checkout Pop-Culture

Google Press Center: Zeitgeist
Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google

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AOL's A/V Search

Singingfish - the audio/video search engine
I think I have linked to this in the past but in light of Yahoo's new video search, I figured I should mention it again. Been around a while but they recently did a relaunch. I like the ability to see the recent searches and the most popular searches. Seems people are searching for standard TV like content still.. Perhaps this will change over time...?

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TV via AIM

AOL Streams IM Video
I can't find it on AOL's AIM site but it sounds interesting. Will they open it up to independent producers or will this just be another example of oooh, we can put TV on the internet.
From the article:
America Online has launched a preview of a streaming online video service designed for its 36 million Instant Messenger users.

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I am addicted to this game

12-18

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Phasors Built My Hot Rod

NIME documentary, 'Phasors Built My Hot Rod" Fall 2003
NIME, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, is a class at ITP taught by Gideon D'Arcangelo. NIME2 is an offshoot of people from that class and anyone else that is interested. They have been playing individually and as a group around world. Evan did a great documentary about some of the instruments, performances and the concepts of NIME in general.

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December 20, 2004

Simple Image Manipulation Wrapper

Java(TM) Boutique - Poor Man's Imaging Wrapper

Looks pretty easy to use, might be good for integration with Processing.

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December 19, 2004

Archive.org - Movies

Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
Everything from the Prelinger Archives to Open Source Movies (created and uploaded by the community).
From the site:
About the Movie Archive
This collection is free and open for everyone to use.
Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films.
By providing near-unrestricted access to these films, we hope to encourage widespread use of moving images in new contexts by people who might not have used them before.

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Jay has it going on...!

Momentshowing: VIDEO: Videobloggers invade the TV box
Video bloggers from around the country live on TV using iChat AV.. Nice job Jay. Really illustrates the possibilities.

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December 17, 2004

Linksys WVC11B Redux

In an earlier post here and on unmediated I talked about how I hoped that Linksys WVC11B and WVC54G wireless cameras that claim MPEG-4 support lived up to their promises.

Well, I was given one as a gift and sadly out of the box they don't support true MPEG-4 streaming. What they have is an Active X control that displays some variant of Microsoft's MPEG-4 codec. After doing some port scans, as suggested in the comments of one of the posts, I can confirm that they do not have any network services running other than httpd (port 80). Also strange is that I am unable to view the streams from Windows Media Player on the Mac or PC but I am able to view the stream via mPlayer on the Mac.. Otherwise, IE on the PC is the only other way to view the streams (no Mac support for the ActiveX control).

Thankfully the firmware is open source! Let the hacking begin!

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Zend Studio, Zend Development Environment Personal Review

Zend, a great force in the world of PHP development has what I think is the only IDE for PHP related development. All in all I think this is great and I am glad that this company offers such a product. It certainly helps the PHP cause and probably drives adoption in the corporate world. It also has features that I am sure can't be found elsewhere in the PHP development world such as debugging with variable watching and break points and so on.

Unfortunately, (speaking as a MacOS X user) this software has not lived up to my expectations. It is just a bit too rough around the edges for me to get to the point where I am willing to try the more advanced features.

Here is a list of what is wrong which I will update as find problems:

  • The pop-up menus that are shown when launching the program (Auto-Update and Tip of the Day) have checkboxes which seem to allow you to choose whether or not you would like the program continue showing them, or not. Unfortunately, no matter what I do, they always show.

  • I am unable to create a new file by choosing the File::New File command. The only way I am able to create a new file is by pressing the new file icon at the top of the IDE.

  • I am unable to save a project file of any sort. This causes me to have to reload each and every file in a project each and every time I start the program to work on that project.

  • The application does not maintain it's appearance settings. The windows that I have hidden are back each time I launch. Not a program that I am happy about quitting and starting up again.
  • Of course the program has many good points as well. The syntax highlighting is great. The error underlining as you code is very worthwhile and the command completetion is great.

    Overall, it seems to be beta quality software on the Mac. I may continue to use the free version (despite the ugly messages about not being able to do things in this version) but unless the edges are more polished, I can't justify paying more than $200.

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    December 16, 2004

    Creative Commons RSS license element

    creativeCommons RSS Module
    From the site:
    A RSS module that adds an element at the or level that specifies which Creative Commons license applies.

    Posted by vanevery at 07:25 PM | TrackBack

    Yahoo! Launches a standard for Media RSS Syndication

    Yahoo! Search Services and Tools
    To go hand in hand with their Video Search engine.
    Very nice...

    Posted by vanevery at 07:23 PM | TrackBack

    Encryption

    Public Key Cryptography 101 Using Java
    Public Key Cryptography Using Java

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    December 14, 2004

    Vector Math API


    vecmath: The Vecmath API

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    Command line I/O Tips

    Linux I/O Redirection
    [root@server /root]# cmd 2>&1 1>&1
    Writes a file "stdout" with the stdout and "stderr" with the stderr output.
    Lots more helpful commands on the page.

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    December 13, 2004

    Not sure what to say other than to echo Joi: WOW!

    Google Suggest

    From the Developers Fingers

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    Clay will love this one..

    Boing Boing: Starbucks barristas as living software processes
    From the article/paper:
    Starbucks barristas as living software processes
    Really cool paper examines the underlying software design principles that are rendered in the meatspace protocols for Starbucks barristas.

    <snide remark>can this process be copywritten?</snide remark>

    Posted by vanevery at 01:59 AM | TrackBack

    Some fun with FM and your Mac

    MacDevCenter.com: Hacking Radio on the Mac
    Features a couple of low-cost audio editing apps, the Griffin RadioShark and the Griffin RoadTrip.
    The comments list some notable ommisions: Audio Hijack (record from any source, including the computer), RadioTime.com (TiVo for Radio) and Audacity (open source audio capture, editing and encoding)
    More are sure to come.. Ahh the power of the blog..

    Posted by vanevery at 01:55 AM | TrackBack

    Vonage goes after Video Conferencing

    Gizmodo : Vonage and Viseon Unveil Videochat
    From the post: Vonage has announced today a team-up with Viseon to provide a Videophone-over-IP service that will be shown in beta form at CES.

    Posted by vanevery at 01:45 AM | TrackBack

    The Betamax case of the digital age

    Wired News: File Sharing Goes to High Court
    I have my fingers crossed on this one. If these file-sharing services can be held responsible for the actions of their users, what does that mean for any company developing software that allows people to connect via public networks? What about ISP's and common-carrier laws? What about FTP, IM, Email and so on?
    The devil in this one may be that the media companies will renew vigor in lobbying congress for legislation like the INDUCE act.

    Posted by vanevery at 01:40 AM | TrackBack

    December 12, 2004

    Not sure what to make of this but I think it is real

    ShitBegone Toilet Paper
    Honest copy with real information. Not at all like other toilet paper advertisers that resort to animatronic stuffed animals. Very interesting, art and product and social commentary and ... Ok, I like it a lot!!!

    Posted by vanevery at 08:01 PM | TrackBack

    December 10, 2004

    Ooooh, What's he going to do?!?!

    Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - A Transition
    Dan Gillmor is leaving his job as a writer for the San Jose Mercury News to "work on a citizen-journalism project". Others have said it is a venture with seed money. Interesting.. Can't wait for the details!

    Posted by vanevery at 02:11 PM | TrackBack

    December 08, 2004

    Java to Native


    GCJ: The GNU Compiler for Java
    - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

    Compile Java to native code.
    From the site:
    GCJ is a portable, optimizing, ahead-of-time compiler for the Java Programming Language. It can compile:
    Java source code directly to native machine code.
    Java source code to Java bytecode (class files).
    Java bytecode to native machine code.

    Posted by vanevery at 04:17 PM | TrackBack

    An Open Source P2P Web Cache for large files

    Dijjer
    Nice concept in many ways easier and better than BitTorrent but for it to be useful it should be an infrastructure component which would require that it be installed on a web server. Perhaps the best direction for this is to include it as an Apache module.

    Posted by vanevery at 04:13 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack

    BroadSnatching - Get that Content

    HOW-TO: BroadSnatching to a Portable Media Center - Engadget - www.engadget.com
    From the article:
    Getting video on a Portable Media Center is a fairly complicated task, but not because it’s all that hard, it’s just because no one has ever shown folks how. It’s a lot easier if you have a Media Center PC (MCE), but even if you don’t have an MCE, we showed you how to put DVDs on your Portable Media Center when we reviewed the Creative Zen.

    Posted by vanevery at 03:45 AM | TrackBack

    ANTs Not Television

    ANT | ANTs Not Television
    Go Jay and Josh GO!

    ANT helps you download and watch video published on the Internet.

    ANT allows you to organize and manage video playlists

    ANT is a video aggregator that allows you to subscribe to RSS 2.0 feeds with video enclosures

    ANT seeks to build opensource software tools to enable an emergent, grassroots, bottom-up, video distribution network based on exisiting technology such as weblogs and RSS.

    ANT is about FREE VIDEO -- not free as in price, but free as in freedom.

    Posted by vanevery at 03:38 AM | TrackBack

    Art Mobs

    Art Mobs
    Opens tonight.. Cool, I thought I missed it already. They are pulling together some fun social and emerging technologies, Text Messaging, PodCasting and more.

    From the site:
    Guests are invited to share their experience of student artworks by text messaging on their mobile phones. View the work while reading the most recent 4 text messages left by others—then leave your own message for the next guests. Guests may also download podcasts of interviews with several of the artists about their works. View the work while listening to the podcast on your iPod or other mp3 player

    Posted by vanevery at 03:24 AM | TrackBack

    December 07, 2004

    Looking for a teaching job?

    Academic Careers Online: Research, Scientific & Academic Vacancies. Positions advertised by employers, search for jobs, employment, academia.
    Looks like a good place to look for jobs in academia.

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    BeyondTV - Keeping my eye on this one!

    BeyondTV: BeyondTV - An offline internet TV project

    This is an undercurrents project to create a real alternative to the centralization of media by narrow corporate power. Its not an Indymedia project as quality control is too much of an issues- TV with out quality control is not open to normal people to watch. Most activist media is made for a tiny minority of popule and is un-intelligible/un-whatebal outside this minority.

    The project will work in a number of stages the first being a functional full screen activist TV channel, based on MPG1 and MPG4 content from the current archive of ruffcuts and euro/US Indymedia newsreal CD‚Äôs (we have over 20 hour of programming encoded and access to at least another 20 hours). Secondly stage we add ‚Äúautomatic functionality‚Ä? and some user input into viewing choices. Third stage a re-write to create a decentralized user rated P2P universal TV network when we have good experiences of the idea working in a practical way. I feel it is paramount that we start at the beginning using simple, thus reliable, tools and techniques.

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    Stooopid website registrations gotcha down, here's the solution

    BugMeNot.com
    Complete with bookmarklet as well as ie and firefox extensions.

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    December 06, 2004

    ITP Winter Show 2004

    ITP Winter Show 2004
    Sunday, December 19 from 2 to 6pm
    Monday, December 20 from 5 to 9pm

    A two-day explosion of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP.

    An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs, rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are ITP -- the Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded in 1979 as the first graduate education program in alternative media, ITP has grown into a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers, designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach to experimentation, production and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun house a creative home not only to its 230 students, but also to an extended network of the technology industry's most daring and prolific practitioners.

    Interactive Telecommunications Program
    Tisch School of the Arts
    New York University
    721 Broadway, 4th Floor South
    New York NY 10003

    Take the left elevators to the 4th Floor
    This event is free and open to the public

    No need to RSVP

    For questions: 212-998-1880
    email: itp.inquiries@nyu.edu
    http://itp.nyu.edu/show

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    Over-the-air Radio stations may now come back to the world of streaming

    Web radio gets $1.7 billion boost | CNET News.com
    From the article:
    The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers announced Monday that it has reached a $1.7 billion deal with the Radio Music License Committee to let stations legally stream their on-air content over the Internet.

    Posted by vanevery at 05:57 PM | TrackBack

    AT&T Wireless/Cingular can not route calls to Vonage?!?

    After 45 minutes on the phone with AT&T Wireless/Cingular and conversations with Vonage, I have determined that these two companies are incompetent and can not successfully route calls between each other's networks.

    Update: After threatening to cancel my service, I was informed by the customer care (yeah right) that my contract explicitly states that they can not guarantee interoperability with any other network, including the international phone network. Pretty interesting considering they are selling me phone service.

    Posted by vanevery at 05:35 PM | TrackBack

    Decide where your money will go


    Choose The Blue

    ChooseTheBlue tells you what corporations donated to political parties.
    Here is a quick example:

    BrandParent Company% to Dem% to Rep$ to Dem$ to RepOther Brands of Parent
    Gap IncGap Inc 61% 38% $144,621 $90,092None Known
    Barnes & NobleBarnes & Noble 98% 2% $101,283 $2,067None Known
    Bed Bath & BeyondBed Bath & Beyond 93% 7% $76,725 $5,775None Known
    Bigg's
    Circuit City StoresCircuit City Stores 3% 97% $3,496 $113,053None Known
    Costco CompaniesCostco Companies 98% 2% $196,296 $4,006None Known
    Home DepotHome Depot 6% 94% $40,642 $636,727None Known
    JC Penney CoJC Penney Co 18% 81% $17,921 $80,647None Known
    Saks IncSaks Inc 5% 95% $5,830 $110,770None Known
    Sam's ClubWal-Mart Stores 19% 81% $356,355 $1,519,201Wal-Mart Stores, others...
    Sears, Roebuck & CoSears, Roebuck & Co 24% 76% $63,706 $201,737None Known
    Staples IncStaples Inc 42% 58% $46,819 $64,655None Known
    Target CorpTarget Corp 28% 72% $81,133 $208,629None Known
    Wal-Mart StoresWal-Mart Stores 19% 81% $356,355 $1,519,201Sam's Club, others...
    Walgreen CoWalgreen Co 47% 53% $59,671 $67,289None Known
    Wax CoWax Co 0%100% $0 $77,000None Known

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    An interesting looking live video mixing instrument


    Anyone tried it?

    How does this compare with Max/MSP/Jitter with custom controllers?

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    Lofts in Redhook

    www.central-brokerage.com
    The pictures and listings seem better than the reality of these lofts. They are nice though.

    Posted by vanevery at 02:48 PM | TrackBack

    Some vogbrowsers - web based browsers for video blogs

    me-tv: Browse video

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    audioblog.com releases a videoblogging tool

    Audioblog.com - News
    From the site:

    November 14, 2004

    Introducing our Videoblog tool

    Audioblog.com subscribers now have access to the beta version of our streaming videoblog recording/publishing tool, which works with the same ease-of-use as our Flash-based BlogRecorder. Record. Save. Publish. It's that easy.

    Initially, it will be available to all of our customers during our beta period (approximately a month). After that time, it will be available as a feature upgrade for all new subscribers.

    What a deal! By acting now, you can have audioblogging and videoblogging for just $4.95 per month (includes 1GB of bandwidth, and each additional GB billed at $1.95 each).

    Audioblog.com works with most major blogging software and hosting providers such as Blogware, TypePad, Blogger, Movable Type, Wordpress and more. Broadband connections strongly recommended to record video.

    Posted by vanevery at 02:31 PM | TrackBack

    Open Access Directory Of RSS News Feeds

    Open Access Directory Of RSS News Feeds: Who Is For It? - Robin Good's Latest News
    Of course, THIS site is for it and already has a CC license that supports such.

    Posted by vanevery at 02:22 PM | TrackBack

    Hillary support's The INDUCE Act

    I was dismayed to learn that Senator Hillary Clinton has come out and in fact co-sponsored Senator Hatch's Induce Act. What follows is a draft of a letter that I am writing to Sen. Clinton to express my concern. I hope that others will do the same.

    Here is some background material:
    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.2560:
    http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64315,00.html
    http://techlawadvisor.com/induce/
    http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/004563.html
    http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20040618-3906.html
    http://www.futureofmusic.org/articles/INDUCEanalysis.cfm
    http://action.eff.org/site/pp.asp?c=esJNJ5OWF&b=164928

    Like your iPod, read this:
    http://www.eff.org/IP/Apple_Complaint.php

    Please comment on the letter as you see fit.


    Dear Senator Clinton,

    I was dismayed to learn that you have come out in support of Senator Hatch's Induce Act. I hope that on further consideration of the issues that this bill covers that you change your stance to better reflect the opinions of your constituents and for the betterment of our society.

    The Induce act as it currently is written does much to stifle free-speech, artistic and fair uses of media. Imposing legal responsibility on the makers of devices and software for illegal use such device or software will create a burden so great on manufacturers and creators of such programs that they will not develop or offer products that have potential for misuse.

    I fear that by trying to curb the theft of copyrighted material you will instead be curbing the ability for individuals and groups with legitimate uses for the technology that enables such to use it. Being thoroughly immersed in an academic and artistic atmosphere, I am witness every day to fair uses of technology that would not exist today were such a law in existence. In fact I feel that the software that I am using to write this letter would not have been developed simply because it includes the ability to cut and paste text from any source into the document.

    I believe that should this Bill become law that it will undo much of the progress of free-speech and alternative media creation that has been enabled by the internet, personal electronic devices, computers, tape recorders and so on. Furthermore it will be a giant step backwards and lead to increased power by the media and further relegate citizens to the role of consumer without a voice.

    I hope that you will reconsider your position on this matter.

    Thank you for your time.

    Sincerely,
    Shawn Van Every

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    Using Java to Compile Java

    Java Tip 131: Make a statement with javac!
    From the article:
    Many developers do not realize that an application can access javac programmatically. A class called com.sun.tools.javac.Main acts as the main entry point. If you know how to use javac on the command line, you already know how to use this class: its compile() method takes the familiar command-line input arguments.

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    CANADA CHARGES PRESIDENT FOR WAR CRIMES - BUSH ARRESTED

    CNN.com
    ;-)

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    Solar powered batteries, on your back..

    Voltaic Backpack, Solar Backpack, Solar Bag
    Now when you are out on the street and your laptop (I haven't verified that this will power a laptop) is running out of juice, you can plug it into your back and keep on going. Looks heavy but I guess we are stuck with this type of thing until some miraculous battery technology breakthrough comes.

    From the site:
    The Voltaic backpack is a mobile power source, designed to charge your gadgets without tying you to a power outlet.

    Thanks to Betsy for the link.

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    Why I LOVE the direction of this country - This is ridiculous

    Boston.com / News / Nation / Aid cuts threatened by US over tribunal
    From the article:
    The US government is quietly threatening to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign aid aimed at combating terrorism, resolving conflicts, and building democracy unless countries agree to shield Americans from prosecution at the UN permanent war crimes tribunal.

    Thanks to Ann for the Link.

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    Internet Archive Hosting Creative Commons licensed audio and video

    Killer CC App: The Publisher, beta version
    Bye bye bandwidth bills for *free* media (maybe because I don't think bandwidth and disk space is really that cheap that it can just be given away in large quantities, yet).

    Oh yeah, the link above is for their nice tool in support of this.

    Posted by vanevery at 01:30 AM | TrackBack

    December 05, 2004

    Make your own media

    New York Community Access Television Links
    If you don't know about Public Access, you should.

    Here is a good article about Public Access from the Museum of Broadcast Communication

    Posted by vanevery at 11:46 PM | TrackBack

    NYC Government DOITT

    Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications
    The Cities department responsible for mobile phone services, cable services, NYC TV, pay phones and more..

    Posted by vanevery at 11:41 PM | TrackBack

    Draft Chapters (with comments, blog style) of Dan Gillmor's We the Media (Making the News)

    Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - Making the News: Draft of Chapter 1
    I have had this link sitting around for a while now, it is certainly less relevant now that the book is out but I think it is valuable to see how the book progressed. Dan of course must agree, hence the posting of the chapters in the first place and the fact that he has left them up.

    Oh yeah, the book has a Creative Commons license (Kenyatta should be glad to note that an audio version is up at Archive.org). In fact the whole thing can be downloaded at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/index.csp and the book website is available online at: http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/.

    Posted by vanevery at 09:58 PM | TrackBack

    National Weather Service XML Feeds

    NOAA - National Weather Service - National Digital Forecast Database XML/SOAP Service
    Thanks Ann..

    Posted by vanevery at 04:33 PM | TrackBack

    December 03, 2004

    Nice J2ME Networking Article

    Master Networking in J2ME for Well-connected Mobile Apps

    Posted by vanevery at 04:18 PM | TrackBack

    Create Postscript Files with PHP

    WeberDev.com -> Pear Manual -> PostScript document creation

    Posted by vanevery at 02:24 PM | TrackBack

    Java Yahoo instant messenger libraries

    Build Your Own Messaging Application in Java with jYMSG
    From the article:
    jYMSG is released under the GNU General Public License. It is a SourceForge.net project that has gained a significant following due to the ease of use of its API. However, it is not endorsed or supported by Yahoo! Inc. It abstracts the more complex underlying interaction with Yahoo's publicly released API.

    Posted by vanevery at 02:17 AM | TrackBack

    3rd in a very nice series - Image/Pixel manipulation with Java

    Processing Image Pixels using Java, Controlling Contrast and Brightness by Modifying the Color Distribution

    This is the third lesson in a series designed to teach you how to use Java to create special effects with images by directly manipulating the pixels in the images.

    Posted by vanevery at 02:13 AM | TrackBack

    December 02, 2004

    A thought..

    An email exchange:

    Maybe we can list our debts as assets and purposely get sued..
    Oooh.. That is a really good idea.. Ok, how do I get sued?

    On Dec 2, 2004, at 1:53 PM, JG wrote:
    just in case they do clamp down, i'm making sure i
    have absolutely no assets to go after, only debts.

    Posted by vanevery at 02:06 PM | TrackBack

    Here we go again...

    Wi-Fi Acacia's next patent target | CNET News.com
    Acacia, a representation of all that is wrong with our patent system, having successfully extorted companies using streaming technologies has turned to companies using WiFi, attempting to enforce another patent that they apparently have purchased.
    I heard a while ago that they Acacia was short on money. Hopefully a couple of high-profile legal battles will drain them and we can sing good night Acacia, good night (until they sell their patent portfolio to another company willing to sue sue sue).

    Posted by vanevery at 01:21 PM | TrackBack

    Nice overview on getting setup to do web development on Mac OS X

    CGI Programming With Apache and Perl on Mac OS X

    Posted by vanevery at 01:15 PM | TrackBack

    December 01, 2004

    Asterisk is available for the Mac

    Apple - Downloads - UNIX & Open Source - Asterisk install package for Mac OS X CVS 10-28-03
    The Open Source PBX (Voicemail, VoIP, Voice Response and all the rest) comes to the Mac complete with AppleScripts.

    Posted by vanevery at 08:49 AM | TrackBack

    Collection of links is taken from Dan Gillmor's book, We The Media ISBN: 0-596-00733-7

    We The Media: Web Site Directory
    Kevin McAllister did a nice job!

    Posted by vanevery at 03:34 AM | TrackBack

    Sun re-implements MP3 (Decoding only..?)

    JMF MP3 Plugin

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