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February 28, 2005
Snow
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February 27, 2005
This is a vlog
This is a vlog
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I just discovered Google Maps..!
Google Maps
The click and drag is amazing.. Google developers are truely amazing..
Thanks Andrew!
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What are these little video posts all about?
So, you may have noticed that I started posting little videos to this blog. I have always been interested in video blogging but could never find the time to create vlog posts on a regular basis. A couple of nights ago I couldn't sleep so I worked out a process to help me out.
Ingredients:1 Cell Phone with Camera
1 Dedicated Email Account
1 Weblog
1 Unix Cron Utility
1 Perl Script
1 MT-Enclosures Plugin
Put it together:
So, I admit cell phones don't produce high quality video but what follows does work and can be somewhat decent especially considering how easy it is to post videos to your blog once it is setup.
You need a cell phone with a camera that takes video and can do MMS messaging and furthermore send MMS via email. Most modern cell phones have and can do all of the above. I am using both the Nokia 6820 and the Nokia 6630. Both models shoot video in 3GPP format a standard and therefore pretty via to a wide variety of media players.
On my phones, I simply shoot the video (and sometimes edit it on the 6630) and send it via Multimedia Messaging to a specific email address that I have setup for this purpose. Of course, I haven't yet received a bill for all of this from my phone service provider so I am not sure of the repercussions here but I hope it won't be prohibitively expensive to continue.
On my server, I utilize the above perl script (which I originally wrote for picture messages but have recently modified for video and automatic blog posting) run every minute via a cron job. If you take a look at the script, it utilizes the email subject for the blog post title and any text in the body of the message as the body of the blog post. Furthermore, it utilizes an embedded a QuickTime player set to the source of the video that is parsed from the email/MMS message.
Last, I did a slight modification to the MT-Enclosures plugin script so that it would automatically create RSS 2.0 enclosures with pointers to the 3GPP videos. This way folks who subscribe to my feed with ANT or another video aggregator will get my videos.
Here are the lines I added to the MT-Enclosures Plugin:
elsif ( $url =~ /^.*\.3gp$/i )
{
$mime = 'video/3gpp';
}
Right after the existing lines:
elsif ( $url =~ /^.*\.png$/i )
{
$mime = 'image/png';
}
Viola.. Automatic Video Blog Posts from my cell phone...
(These instructions are a bit incomplete, I know, but they should get you started on the right path. Also, if you have any mods or bug fixes for the perl script, please send'em to me).
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Movies were meant to be watched together.
Tryst: Home
WOW!!!
From the site:
Finally, high-quality streaming for the rest of us. Using Apple's revolutionary Rendezvous technology, you can make your movies available on the network for everyone to watch together, or even password protect them for private showings. Broadcast family movies, student films, or class lectures without ever having to worry about multicast addresses, SLP announces, or port numbers: Tryst puts all the power of streaming at the touch of a button.
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Photos of Starbucks in NYC
Starbucks in New York City
Strange..
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February 26, 2005
Gates
Gates
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Subway
Subway
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Mobile Vlog: Day 1
It's cold out...
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First Video Blog Piece - from my cellphone..
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Podcasting by Phone
slapcast.com (beta) | Podcasting for everyone... by phone and by upload
Podcasting for everyone... by phone and by upload
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February 25, 2005
Webcasting and Multimedia in the Public Sector
Webcasting - DoWire.Org
A new community of folks involved in webcasting in the public sector (non-profits, government and so on).
They are building a prototype for a low cost audio webcasting system with images.
Very interesting...
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A great new bittorrent hosting service
Prodigem Hosting Service
From the site:
Prodigem is a content hosting service. It uses Bit Torrent peer to peer (p2p) filesharing to enable you to distribute extraordinarily large media files at an extraordinarily low cost. In fact, the service is currently free.
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Looks like a nice Java Newsreader/Aggregator
RSSOwl - A Java RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader | May the owl be with you
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Want to know what your representatives are voting for?
GovTrack.us: Track Federal Legislation
From the site:
GovTrack is one step in a process that will change the way we deal with information about our government. The next steps are to create more tools, based on free & open information, for participating in politics, and from there creating a semantic web of political information.
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February 24, 2005
decrypt iTunes and iPod music / unprotect AAC files
hymn -- decrypt iTunes and iPod music / unprotect AAC files
(m4p --> m4a)
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Get that DVD's Content
Doom9.net - The Definitive DVD Backup Resource
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P2P Audio Streaming
PeerCast P2P Radio
From the site:
PeerCast is a new, free way to listen to radio and watch video on the Internet. It uses P2P technology to let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of traditional streaming. This means you get to hear and watch stations not normally found on commercially funded sites.
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The podcast network
the podcast network
As the name states, a network of podcasts..
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Mac meets Telephone
OVOLAB - Phlink
Very nice application integrating voice mail, caller id, address book, faxes and more...
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Next Generation JavaHMO for TiVo
Galleon - Home Page
Galleon is a free media server for TiVo® which allows you to enjoy many kinds of content and interactive applications right on your TV. The server runs on your home computer and organizes your media collection so that they can be viewed on your home network. Galleon also brings Internet content and applications to your TV.
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More TiVo Enhancements
JavaHMO
Java Home Media Option
JavaHMO implements a media server for the Home Media Option from TiVo® and adds new innovative features beyond the existing functionality provided by TiVo's implementation.
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Today's New York Times: Bloggers Add Moving Images to Their Musings
The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Basics: Bloggers Add Moving Images to Their Musings
From the article:
Web logs - the personal online journals better known as blogs - use text to dissect nearly every conceivable topic, and now video blogs, or vlogs, which incorporate moving images, are on the rise. Mobile blogs, or moblogs, have brought blogging into the cellular age by allowing people to post video and photos taken with camera phones to a blog, or to call in an audio posting.
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Write SWF with Java
Welcome to http://jswf.sourceforge.net
Still in the planning stages but could be nice set of classes.. Looks like it has been dormant for a bit but perhaps can be kick-started..
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February 23, 2005
Books on MP3 - Free..
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February 21, 2005
Concrete T.V.
Concrete TV
An interesting streaming and public access show: all found footage with fast editing.. Perhaps this is a video mashup ;-)
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February 20, 2005
Dept of Ed vs. Buster the Bunny
Ryanne's Video Blog
Ryanne's Video Blog has an interesting interview piece regarding the recent issues that have come up between the show and the Department of Education over an episode that included a segment with a that has same sex parents. This could perhaps be the pivitol piece that kicks citizen journalism via video blogs into high gear.
Check it out: Dept of Ed vs. Buster the Bunny
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February 19, 2005
Nice home movie posting and viewing site...
MedicineFilms > Posting Video to the Internet, Sharing your life with the World, Upload Your Home Movies, Watch Home Movies
Vlogs are to Blogs as this site is to Friendster.. Make sense..?
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February 16, 2005
Stay Free! now has a blog
Stay Free! Daily
The tag line:
Periodic ramblings from Stay Free!, a Brooklyn magazine focused on American media and culture
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February 14, 2005
New ASCAP Internet Related Licenses
ASCAP Internet License Agreements
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February 12, 2005
Corante: Broadcatching..
Corante > The Importance of... > Broadcatching
All about RSS + BitTorrent + Media.. Nice compilation of articles.
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Find those TV Shows online
not to be confused with Google's new TV search.
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4 Minutes About Podcasting (Video)
Learning The Lessons of Nixon » 4 Minutes About Podcasting
From the site:
Four Minutes about Podcasting is a short film tells you why podcasting can make your life better, and shows you everything you need to know to set up a simple program to have new podcasts downloaded automatically. In only four minutes!
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Java Chess Game that shows you what the computer is thinking.. CRAZY
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Nice Flickr interface - Flash, Springs and Social Connections
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February 11, 2005
What the feeds are saying... Images and keywords
10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris
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Podcating with Skype
Unbound Spiral: Skype Podcast Recorder = SkypeCasters
From the site:
Introducing instructions for SkypeCasting. The front-end solution for podcasters to create great sounding audio recordings from interviews and conference calls using Skype.
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Web based audio and video blogging service
Userplane: AV Mail
Uses Flash Communication server and so on.. Interesting.
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TiVo To Go enables some Fair Use
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February 10, 2005
NBC, starting to get it...?
NBC Career Opportunities - Job Opportunities
An interesting listing for a "Product Development Leader, Broadband Video" at NBC.
What interests me the most about this ad is the line:
* Build key capabilities for broadband video: (eg. video archive, searchable video, free video/ad supported (stream/download), paid video, PVR-like functionality/personalization ... personalized storage area, wireless component ... feeding/cashing video to portable devices from online "docking station", video blogging and chat capability, allow for hosting/posting/archiving/search of video submitted by consumers)
although the "consumer" word bugs me out.
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NYTimes on WikiNews
The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > The Unassociated Press
I love the title...
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February 08, 2005
Windows Podcast aggregator
Doppler : Podcasting redefined
Looks like a pretty nice Windows Podcast aggregator.
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Introduction to JOGL (Java API for OpenGL)
Core Java Technologies Technical Tips
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Mind Maps Mind Maps
Using Mind Maps as a Software Design Tool
Jonny's are better (even though he doesn't post them to his blog like he should).
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Email from PHP
Sending Email from your PHP Applications
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Gone Fishin'
bluefish
Ian's BlueTooth Project:
Bluefish is a surveillance system which tracks the presence of Bluetooth devices, and their users.
Bluefish constantly scans for Bluetooth-enabled devices, such as phones, PDA's, and wireless peripherals. When a new device is found, Bluefish takes a picture of the area in which the device is discovered and catalogues all retrievable information about the device. If the device is ever discovered again, the user will be sent the last image captured of them via Bluetooth. All images are tagged with the device's name and the time it was last observed.
Over time, a profile is built for each discovered device, making it possible to track individual users who frequent the scanning area.
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Digital Signatures and Encryption in Java
Digital Signatures 101 using Java
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Vloggercon Video Archives are up..
vloggercon: VloggerCon 05: Conference Sessions Online
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February 07, 2005
NY Public Access - Open for all
New York Daily News - City Life - You could be a star
From the article:
Community-access television gives ordinary New Yorkers
a chance to be the next Jay, Dave or Oprah
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February 05, 2005
New Podcast Aggregator
www.podcasttuner.com
From the site:
There's a new kid in town. A podcasting tool that does everything you wish the others did...
-Subscribe to podcasts with a single click
-Tell you at a glance what shows have new content available
-Listen to podcats without launching another app
-Display OPML show notes without launching a browser
-Send only content you designate to iTunes
-Send individual episodes to iTunes with a single click
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February 03, 2005
Synch your Mac with PocketPC or MS Smartphone
PocketMac - The Original Mac-to-Pocket PC Sync Solution(TM)
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NYTimes rounds up the WiFi phone scene
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State of the Union Parsing Tool
style.org > State of the Union Parsing Tool
Fun.. Almost
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Ok, now I wish I was going to E-Tech this year..
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005
Will somebody please give me a view through iChatAV?
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Taking Back Television: An Open Approach to the Development and Deployment of Next Generation Media
Tim Halle, Director, The Project for Open Source Media (POSM)
Date: Tuesday, March 15
Time: 4:40pm - 5:25pm
Location: California Ballroom B
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List of ITV Companies, Manufacturers and Organizations
Interactive TV List of Companies, Manufacturers, and Organizations
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Open Media Platform
The Project for Open Source Media
Open Source ITV platform under development..
From the site:
The Project for Open Source Media is an independent research and development company doing business in three primary areas.
The construction and distribution of the Open Media Platform, an open source platform for the development and distribution of next generation television technologies.
Providing consulting services to entities wishing to develop next generation television content and applications either on the Open Media Platform or on proprietary platforms such as TiVo and Open TV.
The development of next generation television content and applications either on the Open Media Platform or on proprietary platforms.
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PIC Microcontroller Programming for Macintosh
SciSpot: PIC Microcontroller Programming for Macintosh
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Apple, QuickTime, Standards, H.264 and why Microsoft is evil
MacCentral: Apple: Video's future is Tiger, QuickTime 7, H.264
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QuickTime for Java A Developer's Notebook has been released
oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook
and it was worth the wait..!
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February 02, 2005
The missing QTJ chapter -- STREAMING
ONJava.com: Streaming QuickTime with Java
An online suppliment to Chris Adamson's recent QuickTime for Java A Developer's Notebook.
From the article:
In this article, I'll introduce the basics of simple webcasting with QTJ.
AWESOME!!!!!
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Intro to Java TV programming
Introduction to Digital TV Applications Programming
From the article:
Television viewers with Java-enabled digital television receivers will be able to receive and interact with Java TV applications while watching network programming. The tool for interacting with Java TV applications is the viewer's television remote.
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Open Source MHP
OpenMHP - OpenMHP is a Free implementation of MHP classes.
An open source implementation of The Multimedia Home Platform, a standard in Europe (?) for set top boxes and interactive media is now available..
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Home Media Devices
Streamium wireless home entertainment - PC link your home entertainment system.
Philips and several other companies have taken the idea of streaming radio tuners one step further and created devices that allow you to view media content from your PC and the internet (photos, music, videos) on your TV.
The interesting thing is that these devices seem to be conforming to a standard called UPNP which I believe has to do with Zeroconf/Rendezvous.
It also looks like TiVo is going in this direction as well with their Home Media Option.
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Filkers... Huh..?
The Dandelion Report: FilkFAQ
Science fiction topics put to folk music... :-)
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February 01, 2005
TiVo releases Java based Open Source Platform for building applications
TiVo Home Media Engine SDK
I am sold.. Unfortuantely things are looking bad for the company. I think I will bite anyway.. This is the kind of thing that I think can turn a company around.
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cat to the network
The GNU Netcat -- Official homepage
From the site:
Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.
It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.
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NetBeans for J2ME and MIDP Development
J2ME MIDP Development for NetBeans 4.0
Nice... Unfortunately, still not a solution for us Mac developers.
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Sustainable/Green Building and Urban Environments
green ground zero
GGZ just launched a new website.. Looks good!