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April 28, 2006
Find your fortune!
Drop Spots
Nice.. Retrieve and leave gifts!
From the site:
Just near the Oriental Pavillion in Prospect Park (looks like a bandstand) , there's a statue of Beethoven. Stand underneath Ludwig and look in the same direction he is. Look at the concrete border to the flowerbed in front of you. There's a broken piece of concrete. Walk over to it, pull it out... that's the spot!
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April 27, 2006
Open media statement of principles
Open media statement of principles We believe in the creative power of the individual. We all
have meaningful stories to tell. Individual lives and opinions are
interesting, important and worth sharing.
Media is not just something done to us by big media and
the entertainment companies. People are hungry for authentic voices and
the immediacy and intimacy of personal media. We want to encourage the
public to take up the tools of personal publishing.
We support open media, open standards and interoperability.
It's not about walled gardens. The Web is about openness, connectedness
and participation.
We support open source. In addition, we support any project or
company that supports the Commons, community and the public interest.
Quality matters. We support efforts that encourage and teach
people how to create high-value grassroots media that offers meaning
and context.
The public benefits from long-term archives that preserve grassroots media for future generations.
We support remix culture. We believe in the idea of giving
people access to video, audio, music and images for them to mash up and
remix in a way that's easy, convenient and legal.
We believe in fair use and sensible copyright laws. Creative
Commons and the GNU Public License enrich the culture while preserving
creators' rights.
We support the right of long-tail artists, like all artists,
to profit from their creations. We do not support unfettered file
sharing of others' works without their permission.
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Online video via RSS comes to Linux
Democracy: Internet TV
Now supports Linux..!
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April 22, 2006
Film subtitling and translation by the community
Looks to be a great resource for getting a film subtitled and translated..
dotSUB is a resource and gathering place for subtitling films
from one language into many languages using our unique subtitling tools.
These tools expand the power and reach of films by making it possible for
people to view and enjoy films in their native languages.
dotSUB provides free browser based tools that allow anyone to
translate films from one language into countless other languages.
dotSUB locates and obtains appropriate permissions from
filmmakers and rights-holders around the world who seek a wider audience for
their work.
At dotSUB, filmmakers, distributors, professional and volunteer
translators work together in a variety of ways to create a great wealth of
multi-lingual moving image content, leveraging the potential of film to
communicate, educate and entertain.
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April 20, 2006
Busker Du has launched!
Busker Du
One of the project from my class, a service for recording and distributing Busker performance has launched.. It is great, I love the podcast!
From the site:
Busker Du (dial-up) is a recording service for buskers through the telephone (preferably public payphones hidden in subway stations).
Audio recorded will be posted to this audio-blog and made available to all who cherish lo-fi original music. Try it out at your favorite subway station or street corner.
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April 19, 2006
Vloggercon 2006
Vloggercon
VLOGGERCON 2006 is the intersection between media-makers and technology. A space for dialog and interaction. Of creation and collaboration. A media village born on the internet, and making camp for one weekend in San Francisco.
Coming up quick!
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ITP End of Year Events - Thesis Presentations and End of Semester Show
ITP Spring Show 2006
A two day exhibition of interactive sight, sound and physical objects from the student artists of ITP.
This event is free and open to the public. No need to RSVP.
ITP Thesis Presentations 2006
ITP's graduating students will be presenting a wide variety of highly creative and interactive projects that they have constructed over the course of their final project seminars.
Students have been encouraged to undertake projects that bring together the conceptual and design issues that they have engaged in during their two years of study at ITP.
Projects will include installation based work, digital video and audio pieces, interactive 3D, games and educational applications, to name only a few.
ITP will be providing a live webcast of all the thesis presentations.
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April 09, 2006
Media 3.0
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer
A new show to air on NYC TV. I scheduled the recording of the first one which is to air Monday at 11PM. I will give a better report after watching but it sounds interesting:
Media 3.0 is a weekly half-hour news/talk show about the media & technology business hosted by award-winning inventor, technologist, composer, author and producer, Shelly Palmer. The business and technology of media industry are changing at an ever increasing rate. As chairman of the Advanced Media Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences NY, Palmer is one of the experts leading the industry’s rapid evolution.
From PVRs to PDAs, from IP Video to VOD ... Technology changes everyday, but business rules and our legal system don’t always keep up. Is it a parlor trick or a paradigm shift? Shelly Palmer, along with lead analyst Lydia Loizides, and subject matter experts focus on the issues that dominate the front pages of today’s business journals.
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer is a show for consumers, media execs, investors and just about anyone interested in this exciting arena where the business of media meets technology. Fast-paced and combative, Media 3.0 doesn’t pull any punches. Interviews with senior management, opinions from respected business leaders and smart people who will make even the most complicated issues seem simple ... It’s Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer.
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April 07, 2006
Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture
Beyond Broadcast, May 12-13 2006 — Beyond Broadcast 2006: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture Archive
Beyond Broadcast, a conference being put on at the Berkman Center is coming up in a bit more than a month. The conference second day will be a second convening of the Open Media Developers Summit and is shaping up nicely.
Please feel free to visit the blog and wiki, attend and participate.
From the blog:
You are invited to an open convening at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. We will explore the thesis that traditional public media — public broadcasting, cable access television, etc — face a unique opportunity to embrace new participatory web-based media models — podcasting, video blogs, social software, etc — and create a stronger and more vital public service.
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April 03, 2006
Podcasting WordPress Plugin
Mighty Seek - Web Application Security Podcast and Blog PodPress
Looks like a nice and fully featured WP plugin..
Features
Full featured and automatic feed generation (RSS2, iTunes and ATOM)
Auto Generation of enclosure tag
Preview of what your Podcast will look like on iTunes
Podcast Download stats
Support for Premium Content (Pay Only)
Makes adding a Podcast to a Post very simple
View MP3 Files ID3 tags when your Posting
Control over where the player will display within your post.
Support for various formats, including Video Podcasting
Supports unlimited number of media files.
Automatic Media player for MP3, MP4, MOV, FLV, ASF, WMV, AVI, and more, with inline and Popup Window support.
Preview image for videos
Easy way to link to your podcast within iTunes