RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter RAIN gives a nice compilation of information and some pointers to articles concerning this and what it might mean for Apple’s store.
(Also of interest is the story on Philly wanting to be the first 100% wireless city, WiFi everywhere)
Tech Digest: Microsoft’s Portable Media Center on its way
TechDigest gives a nice run down on the positive and negative aspects of this new gadget.
What I would like to hear about it authoring of interactive content for these types of devices. Anyone know?
PhotoStamps: Home
Pretty interesting.. You can create your own custom stamp for your snail mail. Pretty nice idea.
Konscious.TV Konscious Convention
A bit of blatant self promotion. Monday and Tuesday night we will be broadcasting on MNN (Time Warner channel 34 in Manhattan) and streaming online from within Madison Square Garden during the Republican National Convention as well as from a couple of spots around the city. All of the camera people will be using the Interactive Tele-Journalism system for a truely engaging interactive television experience. Check it out!!!
NYC IMC: feature/106015
Josh arrested while demonstrating his polictically motivated bicycle to Ron Reagan. Talk about ridiculous arrests, his bike sprays chalk messages on the street/sidewalk. A little water and the message is erased. Are they going to start arresting kids who draw hopscotch squares on the sidewalk?
NYC IMC: feature/104892
It turned ugly as the police used excessive force and trapped many of us at various spots. It was a good ride and I am proud to have participated.
The video from IMC is particularly disturbing.
Diver
Diver looks to be an interesting tool for navigating around the frame in video and allows the user to create a “path” through the video. Very interesting. Uses QuickTime and also available via the web. Created by the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning.
From the site:
DIVER is a tool for authoring and sharing DIVES. A DIVE is an annotated perspective on any video record. Content can be captured by equipment ranging from basic consumer video cameras to specially built, high-resolution 360-degree panoramic cameras with a multi-microphone array.
Sprint Picks Apple for Content
Basically a press release but interesting developments regarding QuickTime streaming to Sprint mobile phones.
E-Evidence Information Center – Organizations, etc
So, of course, with the power of organized communication networks (like the internet) comes the potential for misuse. Lately I have grown fed up with the recent rise in spoofing of financial sites that is occurring through email and on the web. A couple of days ago a I received a very official notice from what claimed to be PayPal. This email included a link to fill out a form located on their website dealing specifically with security concerns. So, immediately, since this was an HTML email, I looked at the source and determined that the link wouldn’t take me to PayPal’s site but one with a domain of mycitisecure.com .. Visiting that site (without the rest of the URL) reveals a spoof of the Citibank site complete with the proper url in the location bar. Going to the actual URL that they sent reveals a replica of a PayPal site in the same manner. Now THAT is BAD NEWS.
In any case, I want to do something about this and am looking for a place to start. Perhaps the link above will yield something worthwhile.
Rhizome.org: Net Art News: Here’s Lookin’ at you, George!
Great news.. Good Job Ahmi and Ophra!
For readers that don’t know, the CoDeck is a collaborative project between myself, Ahmi Wolf, Dan Melinger and Mark Argo that allows a community of users to upload and share videos that they have created. It has a web interface for information about the works and for commenting on them. The most interesting part of it (IMHO) is that it takes the form of a vintage Betamax with a single board computer running linux and all the fixins. We utilized the controls on the deck to implement skipping to the next video (Fast Forward), watching the previous one (Rewind) and so on. You can also create a video response to any video that is currently playing by changing the channel and using the built in camera and microphone to create a response video right then and there.