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• Niko Tonks


• Sam Chotiner-Gardner


• Sam Lowry


• Sarah Jones


• Scott Vignos


• Seth Lin

Meez

Express yourself with Meez, 3D ID's that you create! Be sure to view their Flash preview.

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We Media: The Personal Media Revolution

This winter, I took advantage of one of the perks of working at Carleton and decided to dive head first into something I'd been consciously avoiding for a few years (cause I knew I'd get sucked in). I enrolled in We Media: The Personal Media Revolution with Prof. John Schott. To my delight, my fear was realized. I was completely drawn into the v/blogosphere and all things new and we media (that's when I started digImashaghen). There is a lot of cool stuff going on and new things are popping up every day.

Chuck Olsen featured John talking about We Media @ Carleton on today's Minnesota Stories. "I sometimes take for granted how easily anybody can create and distribute words, sounds, and images across the globe. It's no doubt transforming the way we live and the way we learn..."

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..."

Gizoogle: find yo shiznit

Gizoogle wizzy help you pimp out yo text into smooth rapping jizzy.

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

The Meteosat-8 geostationary satellite captured this total solar eclipse sequence on March 29, 2006. The fuzzy black spot moving from west to east across the globe is the shadow of the moon. The pitch-black central area, about 160 kilometers across, is the region of totality, where the Moon was completely eclipsing the Sun. (NASA: Unique Imagery)

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

"Google's next step to taking over the world is slowly becoming a reality as they have filed for three patents relating to wireless internet access. Coincidentally these patents deal with branding, advertising and subsidizing. The rumors of free Wi-Fi from Google began circulating late last year and now it seems this may become a reality." (Google Gets Their Patent on for Free Wi-Fi)

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5 Years For Nation Wide WiFi

In five years, most major metros and suburbs will have ubiquitous Wi-Fi based broadband coverage.

Milan Hosts Electronic Culture Gathering

ELITA | Electronic entertainment event, Italia | 6,7,8 april 2006

Elita (electronic italia) is a digital music and culture meeting debuting during the next Salone del Mobile (Design week) in Milan. This cornucopia of events surrounds digital music, culture and technology.

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."

iPod From Orbit

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

We've probably all wondered at one time or another if something was too good to be true, but Heather Green is now wondering if AT&T's "Blogging Delivered" is too funny to be true.

"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?"

Mobber

shows you who's on a particular web page, allowing you to chat with them privately or in a group. They make the web a two-way real-time medium. Got a site, or online profile? Add Mobber to it in under 5 seconds. Go on… mob the web!

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."

Digital Lives

My one minute movie on Video Use at Carleton has been added to Digital Lives, a collection of reflections on livin' digital by students in We Media: The Personal Media Revolution at Carleton College, Winter 2006.

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."

data injection

Not only for data junkies, also in the event of a virus, or simply for your daily data rations!

löscheimer

plastik, blech und glas. wohin mit den daten? ein icon erlangt seine physische gestalt wieder.

plastic, steel and glass. where should the data go? an icon regains its physical form.

peer-to-peer

communication is spontaneous, direct, and works best between two individuals. is digital a serious alternative?

komunikation ist spontan, direkt und funktioniert am besten zwischen zwei menschen. ist digital hier wirklich eine alternative?

objects between analogue and digital

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.

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.

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

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."

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..."

Flickrize Your TiVo

CozmoTV: Welcome to Television 2.0, Time to Supercharge the TiVo Part of Your Digital Lifestyle

Gates knocks the $100 laptop

After introducing an "ultra-mobile computer" with a seven-inch touch screen for his "One Laptop per Child" project, Bill Gates criticized MIT's $100 laptop project. He said, "If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type," (Reuters)

Internet Video vs the TV Star

Listen to Podcast (mp3)
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.

Sisters in Law

Last night, I went to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis for the screening of Sisters in Law, a film by Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi that screened as part of the Women With Vision Film Festival.

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.

Type Your Mind

The Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology (English, Deutsch) and the Department of Neurology at the Charité hospital have come up with the Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (BBCI), a sort of mental typwriter that allows direct dialogue between man and machine. Electrodes attached to the scalp measure the brain’s electrical signals in the form of an electroencephalogram (EEG). The signals are trans-mitted to a computer and converted into technical control signals. The Mail & Guardian who interviewed BBCI researchers says that the long-term objective of this project is to create a brain-controlled device that could allow people with severe disabilities to communicate with the outside world.

This will be on exhibit at CeBIT this week.

Gordon Parks: 1912-2006

Play this Gordon Parks interview clip from MN Stories

Elentec iubi blue Compact Bluetooth PMP

"Now that we know Origami is nothing but a glorified media player with DRM slathered all over it, it’s time for other media players to come out of the woodwork, such as the Elentec iubi blue Compact Bluetooth PMP. This one has a 4.3-inch LCD (take that, video iPod), and it claims to support music and even video files wirelessly with its Bluetooth compatibility. Plus, you can plug in an optional TV tuner and then you’ll be carrying around a personal video recorder that can timeshift your favorite programs. At just a half an inch thick and weighing 10 ounces, it might just slip into an oversized pocket. It reportedly plays eight hours of video on a battery charge and 15 hours of music. Look for it to be showing at CeBIT in Hannover this week." (Gizmodo)

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)

Wikipedia on your iPod

"Free, open source software Encyclopodia brings the vast knowledge-base of Wikipedia to your iPod." (lifehacker)

Encyclopodia can be installed on iPod genarations one to four, as well as on iPod Minis and Photo iPods. Install

Syndication Icon overload

Rogers Cadenhead discusses efforts to make the concept of syndication easier for mainstream users.

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

Will Creative or Apple be the first to Launch 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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