Author: vanevery

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Decide where your money will go


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

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