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June 30, 2006
Checkout David Lynch's Daily Weather Report
Too bad he doesn't put it in an RSS feed..
Posted by vanevery at 06:27 PM | TrackBack
Updated QuickTime Embedding Plugin
Due to overwhelming demand (1 person), I updated my QuickTime Embedding Plugin for WordPress to support Auto Play and Hiding the movie controller.
Just thought you might like to know.. ;-)
Oh yeah, John has been very hard at work on the next version of our Video Commenting Plugin. Prepare to be impressed (I am). It should be released over the weekend.
Posted by vanevery at 05:15 PM | TrackBack
June 24, 2006
Video Comments, Video Comments, Video Comments
mobvcasting >> Blog Archive >> Interactive Video Blogging Session at Vloggercon
At this session at Vloggercon 2006, I presented the video comments plugin which this video is using.. Check it out. Click on "Watch Video" after the jump. (Warning, the video is long and big)
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June 22, 2006
Split Screen Video Blog
Split Screen
I love this (v)blog. All split screen video art. Now complete w/RSS and Enclosures..
From the site:
Split Screen is a weblog dedicated to the art of the split screen and multi-layered visuals, as seen in movies, music videos, commercials and other media based on moving images
Posted by vanevery at 10:08 PM | TrackBack
make TV
makeTV
Despite that I absolutely loathe people calling webcasting, streaming and the like "TV" this site is interesting.
From the site:
MakeTV to Watch TV: MakeTV is a live broadcast channel open to both viewers and producers. (Wish I could copy & paste but they used Flash for the site so I can't. Oh well..)
Essentially, anyone can plugin and stream to anyone watching the content from this site.
Strange that the stats show 0 Total Broadcasts and 0 Viewable Archives.. Wonder what the deal is..
Posted by vanevery at 10:02 PM | TrackBack
British community webcasting
Webcast Guide: Home
From the site:
The webcast guide is a central interactive hub for webcasting users, viewers and suppliers in the United Kingdom. The site has been funded by the Local e-Democracy National Project and aims to help civic leaders discover webcasting and guide them to appropriate solutions.
What's Offered:
What's Live: Links to webcasts currently broadcast in the public sector
Equipment Exchange: A place where people can rent out equipment
Ideas Exchange: A place where people can swap ideas
Resources: Research documents and guides about webcasting
Guide: An interactive needs analysis engine with automatic PID generator
Solutions: Links to vendor webcasting solutions with customer reviews
Posted by vanevery at 09:37 PM | TrackBack
What is Participatory Media?
Clay asked me, what my working definition of Participatory Media is. Since I didn't think he would like my riff on his jello and nails comment, I came up with this:
Broad definition:
A participatory medium is one which encourages audience participation in the creation, distribution and consumption of itself.
My specific spin:
A medium with similar properties to mass media (audio and video) with the addition of social interaction interwoven into the creation, distribution and consumption of it.
Even better might be how Wikipedia defines it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_Media
I suppose that after having taught a course called "Producing Participatory Media" a couple of times, a definition should just roll off of my tongue. Fortunately, the concept itself has changed and grown quite a bit since then (ahh, the sweet pace of change in this interwebbed world).
Perhaps one of my former students would be better at answering this question?
Posted by vanevery at 07:23 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 16, 2006
Videoblogging, The Book
Amazon.com: Videoblogging: Books: Jay Dedman,Joshua Kinberg,Joshua Paul
Jay, Josh and Josh's book, up on Amazon..
From the description:
Amazing, isn't it? You're on equal footing with multibillion-dollar TVand movie producers. Videoblogging lets your audience see your cause,your story, or your personal creations—and you can distribute your showto anyone with Internet access. And since the videobloggingcommunity is all about sharing, more than 20 expertshave kicked in tips and ideasto make this book the ultimatevideoblogging crash course. So head for the checkout, grabfresh batteries for your videocamera, and let's get started!
Posted by vanevery at 12:16 AM | TrackBack
June 15, 2006
10 Commandments for Java Developers
10 Commandments for Java Developers
Good rules.. Unfortunately, for me, I don't follow them ;-)
"There are many standards and best practices for Java Developers out there. This article outlines ten most basic rules that every developer must adhere to and the disastrous outcomes that can follow if these rules are not followed.
Posted by vanevery at 04:07 PM | TrackBack
The "Other" Video Comments System
In-side Video Comments
Josh Paul demonstrated his Video Comments system at Vloggercon right after I demonstrated ITP's. His is a system for stringing together videos that are direct responses to the original.
Pretty interesting.. The vloggers love the idea!
Posted by vanevery at 02:29 AM | TrackBack
The Good and The Bad regarding the new 770 firmware
Nokia 770 Linux tablet firmware update beta draws praise, fire
I am particularly impressed by the "Good" list:
VoIP capabilities
IM and Google Talk messaging client
Integrated addressbook with presence information
Better performance, as well as a control-panel option for setting up a swap partition on the rs-mmc card
Better memory recovery when applications are closed
Google search bar available in home screen
Browser URL input field has partial matching
Home screen items now can be rearranged
Thumb keyboard is "input method of choice"
Package manager handles package feeds, and allows custom menu placement
Posted by vanevery at 02:16 AM | TrackBack
Pepper Pad get's an update
Device Profile: Pepper Pad 3 web tablet
The Pepper Pad, a very interesting Linux Tablet with some serious entertainment center control is getting a design update.
One very notable addition is a "VGA (640x480) video camera".
We are using an earlier version of the Pepper Pad in a research project
Posted by vanevery at 02:14 AM | TrackBack
June 14, 2006
Click.TV video comments
TechCrunch >> Blog Archive >> Click.tv Moves Video Ideas Forward
Had an interesting experience at Vloggercon this past weekend. Although Josh pointed this out to me in the past, I was surprised to find a company pitching similar video commenting concepts that we have been working on.
So.. Perhaps my focus should now shift to getting start-up funding ;-) Any takers?
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The Saddest Thing I Own
The title says it all.
Posted by vanevery at 08:35 PM | TrackBack
dsj - DirectShow <> Java wrapper
DirectShow Java Wrapper: humatic - dsj
Very Nice..
From the site:
Need to play Windows Media files and streams, DivX video or DVDs in java? Access WDM capture devices? Control a firewire DVCam? Then maybe this can help you. dsj is an ongoing project to provide a java wrapper around Microsoft's DirectShow API. It offers a set of high level classes that give java easy access to functionality widely missed by java programmers and also lets you dive deeper into the interiors of Windows' core api for 2D media. On the java side dsj tries to keep things open as possible - you may use it standalone or let it feed data into JMF or other APIs.
They also point to a bunch of Open Source projects that are of interest:
Related projects (dsj does not use OpenSource, GPL or LGPL licensed code, but - as you are here - these projects may be of interest, too) :
JMDS - DirectShow Capture api Java wrapper: jmds.dev.java.net - fobs4jmf - ffmpeg c++ & java bindings: http://fobs.sourceforge.net
java VLC - VideoLan java bindings: http://jvlc.ihack.it - DXInput - DirectInput Java wrapper: www.hardcode.de
jARToolkit - ARToolkit java bindings: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jartoolkit/ - jFFmpeg - JMF codec pack: http://jffmpeg.sourceforge.net/
Posted by vanevery at 08:29 PM | TrackBack
Remixing Fashion
Takes concepts of software development, deconstruction and open source and creates a playground for remixing fashion. Awesome!
Posted by vanevery at 08:09 PM | TrackBack
wallco jr. opening at Serimony
events at serimony
wallco jr. opening at Serimony:
Posted by vanevery at 07:50 PM | TrackBack
TiVo hopping on the IPTV bandwagon
www.StreamingMedia.com
Why do I find this quote hilarious:
"The range and quality of broadband video is exploding on the Web, but it's not TV until it is on the TV," said Tom Rogers, CEO of TiVo. "With the TiVoCast service, we are once again transforming the television experience by bringing the rapidly expanding array of video content on the Internet into the living room."
All big names. Sadly, nothing about independent voices/video.. Actually, I do see a couple of new media brands in there: Heavy and Rocketboom.. It's a start.
Posted by vanevery at 07:46 PM | TrackBack
VLC to Darwin
Archive de streaming
How to stream a file from VLC to Darwin/QuickTime Streaming Server. Don't know why I couldn't find this information in the past:
vlc my_movie.mp4 --sout '#rtp{dst=127.0.0.1,port=1234,sdp=file:///path/to/DSS/movies/my_sdp.sdp}'
Posted by vanevery at 05:09 PM | TrackBack
Serial Video Display Board
Spark Fun Electronics: Serial Video Display Board
A little bit like the PICTV project I worked on at ITP back in the day.
I love Sparkfun..!
Thanks Jeff.
Posted by vanevery at 05:07 PM | TrackBack
Nathan pulls the dirt on YouTube's EULA
People With Ideas >> Blog Archive >> YouTube: ALL YOUR VIDEOS ARE BELONG TO US
"YouTube: ALL YOUR VIDEOS ARE BELONG TO US"
Got picked up by The Register as well:
YouTube owns YourStuff | The Register
Posted by vanevery at 02:39 PM | TrackBack
June 11, 2006
Video Comments, WordPress Plugin
ITP Research >> Video Comments, a WordPress Plugin
Keeping the conversation alive in media blogs
Video Blogging, Vlogging or what ever you want to call it was born into a tradition of self publishing on the internet and benefits greatly from the infrastructure developed for blogging. The tools to create media and now to distribute media online are accessible and affordable. Furthermore, video blogging is often considered participatory and socially interactive. Much of this is due to what blogs have done, enabled true two-way conversation through comments and loose networking through trackbacks.
Unfortunately, while video blogging benefits from these, it doesn't really do much to improve or enhance this capability with video.
At ITP Research, myself and a couple of others have been working to change this or at least push commenting and trackbacks a bit further. We have created a Video Commenting plugin for WordPress that allows people to leave comments in-time with a video. This, we believe is one of the first steps to allowing conversation to happen around video and furthermore enable richer conversation with video.
Check it out, download it, modify it, use it... Video Comments, WordPress Plugin
From the site:
It’s really exciting to see the number of blogs that exist today, thousands of voices are talking about every possible topic. Blog syndication and commenting allows readers to subscribe, discuss and carry the conversation further, however, with the different forms of media becoming a normal part of many blogs there’s a need to keep this open communication open. Audio and video blogs are forming communities and to encourage conversation the viewers must be able to respond, so we developed a plug-in for WordPress called Video Comments.
Posted by vanevery at 01:48 PM | Comments (4) | TrackBack
June 06, 2006
Mobile Image and Video Posting
Where.com - WHERE Mobile 2.0 API
From the site:
The WHERE Mobile 2.0 API allows developers to add mobile pictures and mobile video clips to web sites with a few simple steps
Very similar to what I have been planning on doing with my Video and Image Moblogging with a (video enabled) Camera Phone Scripts
-Thanks Jenny!
Posted by vanevery at 01:43 PM | TrackBack
June 05, 2006
American Inventor - Auditions
A M E R I C A N I N V E N TO R
Accepting submissions for the next season.. ;-)
The big question is which invention should I submit?
Posted by vanevery at 01:39 PM | TrackBack
June 01, 2006
Sun Java ME Device Table Updated
Jave ME Device Table
Sun has updated their Java ME (Jave ?) device listings.. Finally!
J2Me would be the key word here..