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Bob Cauthorn Re Mainstream Media Blogging

Posted in PARTICIPATORY MEDIA, REPORTAGE on July 30, 2005 | Comments Off

Bob Cauthorn over at Corante explains it very nicely, mainstream media doesn’t get to blog.
The DNA of blogging is a complicated matter that touches on being outside voices and taking personal control of the media. But at minimum the DNA of blogging has to do with distributing the conversation. Contrary to that, the DNA of [...]

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Bill Viola’s The Passions

Posted in ARCHITECTURE & ART, PEEPS, REPORTAGE on July 28, 2005 | Comments Off

On an antipodean note, The Age posted a chat with video artist Bill Viola re his current show, The Passions.
The slowness of Viola’s work also has a political dimension. It is an antidote to what he sees as one of the greatest dangers of our age – the speed with which we receive information and [...]

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Six Feet Above, Seyed Alavi’s Flying Carpet

Posted in ARCHITECTURE & ART, GEEKDOM, PEEPS on July 24, 2005 | Comments Off

One theme of 2005 appears to be online mapping, something I’m very into. Google’s maps product arrived on the scene with amazing operability incorporating a clever tiling scheme to quickly render both traditional and satellite images with anchors at numerous levels of zoom and with dragability. And Google have included an API that even I [...]

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Solar Raycers Reach Winnipeg

Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, GEEKDOM on July 22, 2005 | Comments Off

Raycers in the 2005 North American Solar Challenge (the ~2500 mile solar-powered cars rayce from Austin, Texas to Calgary, Alberta) have made it to Winnipeg. Follow the race via GPS tracking here. For you scorekeepers, University of Minnesota arrived first in Winnipeg, MIT second, and University of Michigan arrived third. I heart this kind of [...]

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Google Moon Map

Posted in GEEKDOM on July 20, 2005 | Comments Off

The inhabitants of the Googleplex have an out-of-this-world sense of humour. Some thirty-six years after Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong stomped footprints on the moon, the map team published a moon map, extending their earthy interests into space. I only spy one easter egg, you need to be zoomed into the closest view (go ahead, [...]

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Hans Nyberg’s Moon Walk Panoramas

Posted in PEEPS, PHOTOGRAPHY on July 20, 2005 | Comments Off

It’s the anniversary today (20 July) of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. Check out Hans Nyberg’s photos, he stitched together the high res scans of the original NASA images and prepared an interactive Quicktime.
Stitching these images to make 360 degree panoramas is a difficult task as the astronauts did not know anything about interactive panoramas and [...]

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Evan “evhead” Williams Conversation (podcast)

Posted in 24x7 FILM EXPERIMENT, GEEKDOM, PEEPS, Podcasts on July 18, 2005 | 1 Comment »

I mentioned in an earlier post some of the footage shot for the film experiment would be posted as podcasts. Well, here’s Evan Williams in the first podcast for the film experiment.
We showed up in the bay area to film and invited Evan in for a chat. Given Ev’s launch of ODEO (with biz partner [...]

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Michel Gondry, Chemical Brothers 1999

Posted in PEEPS, VIDEO DU JOUR on July 18, 2005 | Comments Off

Heard Let Forever Be someplace this weekend, woke up this morning and felt the need to google for the Gondry video from 1999. Really great eye candy, got me in the mood to dig around to watch his other vids.

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VC Hacks Movie Theatre

Posted in SECURITY & PRIVACY on July 16, 2005 | Comments Off

I’m not sure it was necessary to actually perform this hack, we all knew that it would work. Before I read Cowan’s blog entry I literally was just explaining to someone how we got into a security mess as complex as we are in today, so I had a really good chuckle when I read [...]

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Fingertips Of Desire

Posted in ARCHITECTURE & ART, GEEKDOM, SHINY on July 15, 2005 | Comments Off

This is not only practical, it’s beautiful. I switch between apps all day long and would love to have a visual for key remaps.

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A Few G-Men

Posted in VIDEO DU JOUR on July 14, 2005 | Comments Off

via: waxy
Guy decides to do his first machinima using HL2 engine, does a brilliant job. And speaking of jobs, it appears he’s looking for one so email him if you think this ani is as good as I do.

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Go Long Shorts

Posted in DISTRIBUTION, ECONOMICS & FINANCE, FILM, TV & RADIO on July 12, 2005 | Comments Off

Bill Gurley said a few words re DVD distribution, earnings surprises and disruptive technologies in his Above The Crowd piece DVD Glut today.
This seems like a 1980 problem raising its head 25 years late.
Methinks he’s correct, it’s not only the “inventory” problem, which can be made to go away pretty easily given widening broadband availability. [...]

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