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Clever use of video

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I’m at home tonight, working my way through my inbox which is about at attractive as a coastal USA beach after the spring breakers have been partying there all day. But I will get to the bottom of it, I’m going to do it! Anyway, I’m not going to post anything half clever here tonight [...]

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Twitter

Heh. The noise in the room re Twitter is pretty high at the moment. Everyone seems to have an opinion whether Twitter has an exit or how Obvious will monetise their business, it’s all somewhat amusing. Anyway, I just got around to viewing Ev’s talk at Le Web 3 2007, here’s the vid if you’re [...]

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Newsvine

Today I started playing around with Newsvine (private beta), my initial impressions are as follows: 1) The UI is really well done. 2) Their search scheme wherein you can search tags or full text is simple, elegant and effective. 3) It’s not clear to me if the incentives to publish are quite right. They pay [...]

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Fair Use

Documentary filmmakers should be pleased about this bit of progress, The Center For Social Media have put together a report articulating suggestions for guidelines regarding “fair use” of copyrighted assets. Their statement of best practices in fair use (.pdf) looks like it’s intended to make clear what documentary filmmakers currently regard as reasonable application of [...]

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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 [...]

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Bob Cauthorn Re Mainstream Media Blogging

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 [...]

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Salon Article Sums Up CurrentTV

Farhad Manjoo asks good questions re CurrentTV in a Salon Article. It’s worth a read, the bottom line is why do we need television for this type of reportage when we have the web? Methinks the broadcast model is trying to be something it isn’t in this case which will leave the good vloggers solidly [...]

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130 Lumière Films

The Anthology Film Archives last night provided a showing of 130 Lumière Films; it was an amazing show. The show opened with the famous Lumière Factory scene of workers pouring out of the gates at quitting time, obviously instructed not to look at the camera, followed by an assortment of train, steamship, swimming, petanque and [...]

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Vlog Wild

AlterNet reported today on the increasing popularity and social benefits of vlogging: Last fall, approximately 2.5 million Americans watched Jon Stewart call Tucker Carlson a “dick”; not because CNN’s Crossfire had such a large viewing audience (only a half million tuned into the show itself), but because they could access Stewart’s uproarious appearance on a [...]

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Mary Hodder vlogged Nathan Eagle‘s talk at Where 2.0 wherein he discussed MIT Media Lab’s Reality Mining Experiment. RME is presence information analysis using mobile phone data. The dynamics of individual and group behaviour are modelled and extrapolated.

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IP Connectivity On Planes

This is cool, Jason Calacanis vlogs from an SAS plane on his way to Reboot. In the vlog, is addition to introducing his audience to one of the flight attendants, mentions the speed feels like a T1 and also chats about his success using Skype and iChatting. For the 30 buck fee you gain a [...]

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