Friday, March 31, 2006
Meez

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Forbes: Express Yourself--For A Fee
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Om Malik: Dial Meez To Pimp Your Virtual Self
We Media: The Personal Media Revolution


Paul Schmelzer from The Walker Art Center's Off Center blog also put up a spot about this class today. "Personal media engulfs us, from our cellphones and blogs to iPods and ever-present wifi, but some Carleton College students are diving in even deeper..."
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Gizoogle: find yo shiznit

For example, check out tha textilized Declarizzle of Independance: We hold these truths ta be self-evizzles tizzy all men is created equal, that They is endowed by they Creator wit certain unalienable Rights, thizzat among These is Life, Liberty n tha pursuit of Happiness . Boo-Yaa!
Weekly Webinars
NewsGator has started holding Webinars to discuss Enterprise RSS and demonstrate the capabilities of their Enterprise Server.
Samsung SCH-V850

Everything-Phone:"Samsung announced the SCH-V850, a versatile cellphone that has GPS, a 1.3-megapixel camera, plays MP3s, can do EVDO data transfer, and records and plays back video. Oh, yeah, and it can make phone calls, too."
web-surfers like short videos
..one in four people online watch a video each week...Short clips are also the most popular content, and so is content that's exclusive to the Internet...[will] the preference for short clips always be the case? (Green)
Total Solar Eclipse over Africa and the Mediterranean

Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Recycle Old Electronics!!!
Toshiba Offers USB Flash Drives for Laptops, LCDs, PDAs: "Everyone knows that electronic equipment will cause the downfall of humanity. Luckily we have people like Toshiba trying to do something about it. Their latest project, TERRE — Toshiba's Environmental Recovery and Recycling Effort — is offering an incentive for turning over electronic equipment to them for safe and proper recycling. They will send a free courier service to your pad to pick up the busted equipment, and then in four to six weeks, they will send you a new USB flash drive in the mail. "
Google Patents for Free Wi-Fi

Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet
Google's Three Wireless Advertising Patent Applications
Google patents free Wi-Fi
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
5 Years For Nation Wide WiFi
In five years, most major metros and suburbs will have ubiquitous Wi-Fi based broadband coverage.
Monday, March 27, 2006
Spy On That Cell Phone
FlexiSPY Pro: Spy On That Cell Phone: "The software allows a sickening amount of privacy-invading features. Not content to just let you eavesdrop on phone calls and SMS messages, FlexiSPY can also let you activate the phone's microphone remotely so you can listen in even if the phone isn't in use."
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Google Reader learns to share
"Google Reader, which keeps track of websites you like to read regularly, just added the ability to share what you like to read with your friends." g-blog
Blogging Delivered

"If you're a blogger, you, er, already have Net access. But if you're someone who doesn't know anything about blogging, are you supposed to think that AT&T will be your gateway to the blogosphere?"
Thursday, March 23, 2006
the 4th wave
In an interview with Mark Glaser, William Jeakle explains the 4th wave.
"The first wave was television. The second wave was cable, allowing choice. The third wave being time-shifting, like TiVo, having what you want when you want it. The fourth wave is having the programming completely unfettered, having it when you want it and where you want it. And once you take the elephant off the chain, it takes a while for the elephant to realize he’s not on a chain."
"The first wave was television. The second wave was cable, allowing choice. The third wave being time-shifting, like TiVo, having what you want when you want it. The fourth wave is having the programming completely unfettered, having it when you want it and where you want it. And once you take the elephant off the chain, it takes a while for the elephant to realize he’s not on a chain."

Digital Lives


The Maximum Net
In Imagining the Maximum Net, Doc Searls says, "Slow Net connections are to industry tradeshows what traffic tie-ups are to Los Angeles."
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
HDTV Salesman Stalker
Education In the HD Era
by Brian L. Clark
Brian has a habit of trolling around television sections at consumer electronics and department stores, listening to what salesmen tell customers shopping for HDTVs. Check out this edition of Tuning Fork to read what people are being told.
by Brian L. Clark
Brian has a habit of trolling around television sections at consumer electronics and department stores, listening to what salesmen tell customers shopping for HDTVs. Check out this edition of Tuning Fork to read what people are being told.
Brightcove Acquires MetaStories
Official Press Release - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BRIGHTCOVE ACQUIRES METASTORIES EXPANDING ITS INTERNET TV SERVICE WITH POWERFUL RICH-MEDIA PUBLISHING CAPABILITIES
The Acquisition Promises Consumers Richer Internet TV Experiences by Giving Media Companies Powerful New Production Tools for Video, Audio and Rich Media.
BRIGHTCOVE ACQUIRES METASTORIES EXPANDING ITS INTERNET TV SERVICE WITH POWERFUL RICH-MEDIA PUBLISHING CAPABILITIES
The Acquisition Promises Consumers Richer Internet TV Experiences by Giving Media Companies Powerful New Production Tools for Video, Audio and Rich Media.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Amateurs run Windows XP on a Mac
"A couple of amateur programmers have managed to do what Apple Computer didn't want them to: get Microsoft's Windows operating system to run on the Macintosh.
The two unidentified programmers won an unofficial online contest organized by Colin Nederkoorn. Nederkoorn's Web site said the winners' code had been tested and was available for downloading at www.onmac.net. He said he expected they would make it available as open source software."
New Media Musings
San Jose Mercury News
The two unidentified programmers won an unofficial online contest organized by Colin Nederkoorn. Nederkoorn's Web site said the winners' code had been tested and was available for downloading at www.onmac.net. He said he expected they would make it available as open source software."
New Media Musings
San Jose Mercury News
You Are What You Post
You Are What You Post
Bosses are using Google to peer into places job interviews can't take them
Josh Santangelo " fears for the MySpacing, YouTubing, Facebooking masses -- the bloggers and vloggers who fail to realize that there is no such thing as an eraser on the Internet."
Bosses are using Google to peer into places job interviews can't take them
Josh Santangelo " fears for the MySpacing, YouTubing, Facebooking masses -- the bloggers and vloggers who fail to realize that there is no such thing as an eraser on the Internet."
Friday, March 17, 2006
Big media and the Internet
Net Dreams
"Traditional media companies are making a huge push onto the internet."
"MARCH Madness starts this week in America and this year, as well as broadcasting the games on TV, CBS is streaming them live over the internet free of charge, accompanied by advertisements..."
"Shifting onto the internet will take time, because powerful forces are lined up against changes to video distribution, says Josh Bernoff..."
"Traditional media companies are making a huge push onto the internet."
"MARCH Madness starts this week in America and this year, as well as broadcasting the games on TV, CBS is streaming them live over the internet free of charge, accompanied by advertisements..."
"Shifting onto the internet will take time, because powerful forces are lined up against changes to video distribution, says Josh Bernoff..."
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Gates knocks the $100 laptop

Monday, March 13, 2006
Internet Video vs the TV Star

We have been savoring the sweet taste of digital revolution for a few years now. This time, the flavor is Internet video and everyone wants a lick. This podcast will discuss the rise in online video and whether or not it is killing the TV star. Come on, have a listen and see what Aaron Flores, Amanda Congdon, Denis Foo Kune, Josh Kinberg, and Michael Verdi have to say about it.
Length: 6 minutos. References: del.icio.us.
Check out this podcast in the context of We Media podcasts created at Carleton College in Northfield Minnesota.
Friday, March 10, 2006
Sisters in Law

This documentary takes place in Kumba, Cameroon, where there have been no convictions in spousal abuse cases for 17 years. It shows the tough-minded state prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Court President Beatrice Ntuba start to change things for the better. A 10-year old girl accuses a man of rape, a 6-year old child is rescued from abuse, and women are freed from brutal marriages in a society where divorce is taboo. I agree with the Sydney Film Festival that said, "You'll feel like cheering when justice is served."
Nyango Melissa Naubangi, Executive Director of the Minnesota African Women’s Association and sister of Beatrice honored us with a post-screening discussion.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Type Your Mind

This will be on exhibit at CeBIT this week.
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Elentec iubi blue Compact Bluetooth PMP

Monday, March 06, 2006
Melody Gilbert

"Melody Gilbert is a documentary rock star. A force of nature. And yet, many of us know her first as a teacher. From her days teaching documentary at the University of Minnesota to MN Docuclub and her infamous IFP Documentary bootcamps, many dozens of camera-weilding truth-seekers have been inspired by Melody's words and deeds.
This video follows her critically acclaimed film A Life Without Pain from it's premiere at the SXSW Film Festival last year, to it's Sundance Channel premiere a few days ago." (from MN Stories)
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Wikipedia on your iPod

Encyclopodia can be installed on iPod genarations one to four, as well as on iPod Minis and Photo iPods. Install
Friday, March 03, 2006
Syndication Icon overload

Refering to a recent Yahoo study (pdf) that reported 4% of Internet users are subscribing to syndicated feeds, Cadenhead observes that "considering the number of ways that web publishers show their readers they offer feeds, it's amazing we've gotten that many."
The Race for Movie Downloads

Creative is asking us "What's on?" and says we'll find the answer on March 30th, one day before a scheduled Apple event. What could it be? "On pense facilement à un vidéo Store pour pouvoir remplir son baladeur de films en tout genre... Surtout qu'une annonce se profile du côté d'Apple et dans le même secteur pour le 1er avril."
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