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Rosa Parks

Posted in HEH, PEEPS, PHOTOGRAPHY on October 27, 2005 | Comments Off

Mike Evangelist (what a great name, eh) had a good idea. On his blog he tells the story of how he suggested to Steve Jobs that Apple pay tribute to George Harrison upon his passing and Jobs’ response.
Apple again paid tribute to another star, Rosa Parks (4 February 1913 – 24 October 2005), a key [...]

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Rob Malda And Jeff Bates

Posted in 24x7 FILM EXPERIMENT, GEEKDOM, PEEPS, Vlogs on October 20, 2005 | 3 Comments »

Rob CmdrTaco Malda and Jeff Hemos Bates joined us for the 24×7 film experiment, and an all around fun afternoon it was. You know them from Slashdot, or if you don’t you should, Slashdot provide the geek community with an online venue for exchanging news and ideas.
We did their shoot in Ann Arbor, the meat-space [...]

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Taguchi Google

Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, GEEKDOM on October 19, 2005 | Comments Off

There’s an interesting bit in Cringely’s 13 October 2005 piece re Google AdWords. Scroll down past his video iPod conversation and read the AdWords study and the quote from Google:
We are not intentionally introducing “noise factors” or any other perturbations in the style the proposed theory suggests to affect near-term or long-term revenues.
I know it’s [...]

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Jon Lech Johansen

Posted in DISTRIBUTION, PEEPS, SECURITY & PRIVACY on October 18, 2005 | Comments Off

Jon Lech Johansen (a/k/a DVD Jon) is moving to Cali to work for Michael Robertson.
Wired Says:
Jon Lech Johansen, the 21-year-old Norwegian media hacker nicknamed DVD Jon, is moving to San Diego to work for maverick tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson in what can only be described as the most portentous team-up since Butch met Sundance.
More re [...]

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EFF Uncovers Hidden Codes

Posted in SECURITY & PRIVACY on October 17, 2005 | Comments Off

When you print on certain (all?) colour laser printers it appears the manufacturer of your printer may have secretively built in a way for tracking a document back to you. I guess if someone is printing counterfeit money this could be useful however this sort of tracking is also somewhat creepy.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [...]

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Bram Cohen

Posted in 24x7 FILM EXPERIMENT, BANDWIDTH, DISTRIBUTION, PEEPS, Vlogs on October 11, 2005 | 6 Comments »

Distributing large files such as the movies we all make has become more efficient thanks to people like Bram Cohen.
Bram is the guy behind BitTorrent, a program that enables our audiences to receive our productions whilst reducing the burden on our own bandwidth by sharing the distribution task. BitTorrent is making a bit of history [...]

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Postcards From VLOGeurope

Posted in HEH, Vlogs on October 8, 2005 | 4 Comments »

The first VLOGeurope meet-up was held this past September in Amsterdam. I’m finally getting around to posting a few images, the runtime is about one minute. As I assembled this piece I became aware again of the fondness I developed for the peeps I met and secondarily the assorted charms of the city. Can’t [...]

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Creative Commons Launches Fund Raising Campaign

Posted in DISTRIBUTION, PARTICIPATORY MEDIA on October 6, 2005 | Comments Off

Time to open our wallets for Creative Commons. Larry Lessig posts:

Photo by Kathryn Yu, licensed under by-nc-sa.
Today, Creative Commons launches a fund raising campaign. The trigger is some bizarrely complicated requirement of the IRS that nonprofits demonstrate not just support from some large, wise, foundations, but also “public support.” So we’ve got an (urgent) need [...]

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Kiki Smith & Bill T. Jones

Posted in 24x7 FILM EXPERIMENT, PEEPS, Podcasts on October 3, 2005 | Comments Off

The 24×7 film experiment (working title iCollaborated) continues to be a huge amount of both work and fun. As those of you who are following our progress know, we are in edit and have only a small amount of shooting to complete before we go into a final edit.
And time permitting, as we progress in [...]

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Randy Glass’ Warthog Jump

Posted in PEEPS, VIDEO DU JOUR on October 1, 2005 | Comments Off

It’s been a few weeks since I posted a video du jour and today’s tribute is to Randy Glass for his machinima (Halo) production Warthog Jump. If the link doesn’t work check here. Randy created Warthog Jump in early 2002 on an unhacked Xbox. And yes, I realise Randy has already had a video du [...]

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