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    O'Reilly Digital Media

  • CarTunes

    Peter Drescher
    Green Technologies and Interactive Audio are two fields not generally considered related, but a new trend may change that: "Generated Sounds for Electric Vehicles", aka "EV Audio", aka "CarTunes". When I first heard that "electric cars are so quiet, manufacturers want them to make noise", I had a strong memory flashback to 1995, when I was contracted to produce my first ringtone (Fur Elise for Sprint PCS). At the time, I thought "mobile phone plays melody when it rings" was the stupidest idea I'd ever heard of; now, it's a multi-billion dollar industry. If you think audio personalization of…

  • Four short links: 18 November 2009 - Web Time Travel, UK Map Data Liberation, Streetview Mashups, 3D Retail

    Nat Torkington
    Mapsicle -- Is an open source Javascript library to create mashups and application on Google Streetview, from NZ developers Project X. It has been released by Google as part of the Maps Utility library. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

  • The iPhone: Tricorder Version 1.0?

    James Turner
    The iPhone, in addition to revolutionizing how people thought about mobile phone user interfaces, also was one of the first devices to offer a suite of sensors measuring everything from the visual environment to position to acceleration, all in a package that could fit in your shirt pocket. On December 3rd, O'Reilly will be offering a one-day online edition of the Where 2.0 conference, focusing on the iPhone sensors, and what you can do with them.

  • The War For the Web

    Tim O'Reilly
    It is becoming clear to me that we are heading into a bloody period of competition that could be extremely unfriendly to the interoperable web as we know it today. If you've followed my thinking about Web 2.0 from the beginning, you know that I believe we are engaged in a long term project to build an internet operating system. I've outlined a few of the ways that big players like Facebook, Apple, and News Corp are potentially breaking the "small pieces loosely joined" model of the Internet. But perhaps most threatening of all are the natural monopolies created by Web 2.0 network effects.

  • What's Hot in O'Reilly Answers - iPhone, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, MS Project

    O'Reilly Media
    How to support older versions of the iPhone SDK HTML/CSS/JavaScript or Objective-C/Cocoa for iPhone app development? How to Work with Roman Numerals in Perl How to calibrate the iPhone Accelerometer for optimal use When can I try MS Project 2010? Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.
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    TED Blog

  • LHC back in action

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:24 pm
    Tonight scientists at CERN are rebooting the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) in an attempt to recreate conditions fractions of a second after the Big Bang by crashing opposing proton beams, traveling at nearly the speed of light, into one another. Shortly after the LHC’s debut last September, a manufacturing glitch in wiring led to a liquid helium explosion that left the surrounding equipment damaged and ice-coated. The LHC faced another (albeit more humorous) setback earlier this month when a bird dropped a piece of baguette into the machine, causing a short circuit. Now that repairs are…

  • Meet Anwar Dafa-Alla, TED translator

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:56 am
    In the next weeks, the TED Blog will shine the spotlight on the fantastic TED volunteer translators -- offering a glimpse of the people whose efforts continue to enrich the Open Translation Project. Today, we'd like you to meet Anwar Dafa-Alla. Tell us about yourself. My full name is Anwar Fatihelrahman Ahmed Dafa-Alla. I was born in Port Sudan, Sudan on January 23, 1978, and got my early education there. Graduated from the AASTMT as a Computer Engineer in 2003. I'm married and have a small Sudanese family, my beloved wife Salma and my lovely daughter Egabl, the most valuable people in my…

  • TEDxNASA and TEDxAmsterdam stream live tomorrow!

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:57 am
    Tomorrow, Friday November 20th, two of our most exciting TEDx events so far will be streamed live. TEDxNASA was organized by NASA's Langley Research Center and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA). It's a full day of talks on science, technology, entertainment and the arts. Speakers include author Mitch Albom, experimental artist Chakaia Booker innovation coach Gregg Fraley, robotics inventor Dr. Dennis Hong and Oprah & Friends radio host John St. Augustine. TEDxAmsterdam is another day-long experience, with a string of fascinating speakers. The program will be opened by the Mayor of…

  • East vs. West -- the myths that mystify: Devdutt Pattanaik on TED.com

    19 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    At TEDIndia, Devdutt Pattanaik takes an eye-opening look at the myths of India and of the West, and shows how these two fundamentally different sets of beliefs about gods, death and heaven help us consistently misunderstand one another. His goal is to help us all understand these founding beliefs -- and use them to understand one another better. (Recorded at TEDIndia, November 2009, Mysore, India. Duration: 18:26) Watch Devdutt Pattanaik's talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 550+ TEDTalks.

  • Jim Fallon on CBS' Criminal Minds tonight!

    18 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    Via the TEDActive Blog: At last year's Palm Springs experience, neuroscientist Jim Fallon gave a chilling talk on the biology of psychopathic killers. Tonight he will appear in an episode of the popular CBS series Criminal Minds, playing himself and addressing the potential for genetic tragedy in chronically war-torn areas of the world. The episode, "Outfoxed," airs at 9 pm EST. If you haven't yet seen his talk, it's definitely worth a look:
 
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    Digital Media Wire

  • Sony to Launch Online Entertainment Store in 2010

    Mark Hefflinger
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:23 pm
    Tokyo - Sony (NYSE: SNE) announced plans on Friday to launch a new online store next year that will sell books, music and movies next year, and deliver content to networked televisions and other devices. The company did not provide many details about the "Sony Online Service," as it is tentatively being called, but is expected to be positioned as a competitor to Apple's iTunes Store.read more

  • Google Book Settlement Gets Preliminary Approval; Hearing in 2010

    Mark Hefflinger
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:02 pm
    New York - The judge overseeing the settlement agreement between Google (NASD: GOOG) and authors and publishers over the direction of its massive book-scanning project has pushed a hearing on a revised settlement back to Feb. 18, while at the same time granted preliminary approval to the new deal. "The preliminary approval order sends a positive initial message; this agreement promises to benefit readers and researchers, and enhance the ability of authors and publishers to distribute their content in digital form," Google said in a statement.read more

  • Nokia Lays Off 330 Research and Development Staff

    Mark Hefflinger
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:23 pm
    Espoo, Finland - Cell phone maker Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced on Friday that it will lay off up to 330 employees from its research and development operations, representing about 2% of its global research and development staff of 17,000.read more

  • Report: Video Viewing on Social Media Sites Doubles in Year

    Mark Hefflinger
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:56 pm
    New York - Internet users now spend nearly double the amount of time watching videos on social networking sites than they did just one year ago, according to newly released figures from Nielsen.read more

  • Details Emerge About AOL's Massive Workforce Reductions

    Mark Hefflinger
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:50 pm
    New York - A day after AOL announced plans to cut one-third of its workforce -- up to 2,500 employees -- details are beginning to emerge about specifics of the plan.read more
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    Inside Digital Media

  • It’s the Stoopid Economy

    pleigh1@tampabay.rr.com (Phil Leigh | Podcasting & Blogging Consultant)
    14 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    Phil Leigh During the first three decades of the twentieth century the most promising invention was radio. Scientists could see a clear evolutionary path for the technology that would revolutionize everyday life. The trip from the dots-and-dashes of Morse code, to audio transmission, and eventually to television, was all a matter of learning how to manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum. Unlike a fanciful speculation like teleportation, such things were undeniably possible within the theory underlying Maxwell’s equations. In 1912 the day following the rescue efforts prompted by Titanic’s…

  • Will Consumers Pay for Hulu.com Videos?

    pleigh1@tampabay.rr.com (Phil Leigh | Podcasting & Blogging Consultant)
    7 Nov 2009 | 3:00 am
    Phil Leigh Will consumers pay to watch TV shows and movies at the hulu.com website? Hulu.com’s website hosts popular TV shows and movies after they have been released normally. Owners include Disney, NBC-Universal, and News Corporation (Fox). Viewers can watch shows for free but in exchange must also watch commercials since the videos are streamed and not downloaded. Last month, Chase Carey who is the President of News Corporation said that Hulu should start charging fees sometime next year. Presumably he envisions a premium subscription service providing more content or viewing time in…

  • How to use Google AdWords

    pleigh1@tampabay.rr.com (Phil Leigh | Podcasting & Blogging Consultant)
    31 Oct 2009 | 4:00 am
    Download to iPhone or iPod If you want to learn how to set-up a Google AdWords account and start placing ads to sell merchandise from your website, this video is for you. Perhaps the best way to teach others how to use Google AdWords is by concrete example. Thus, today’s video shows how we set-up an AdWords campaign to sell copies of our market research report, Future Developments in Video Advertising. First, we show you what the report for sale looks like. Second, we illustrate the difference between Google AdWords links and Google Organic search results. Third, we demonstrate how to…

  • Stories Abide

    pleigh1@tampabay.rr.com (Phil Leigh | Podcasting & Blogging Consultant)
    24 Oct 2009 | 7:00 am
    Phil Leigh Inexorable expansion of the Internet results in a lockstep growth in anxiety about threatened obsolescence among incumbent media participants. Yet whatever the changes affecting media, storytelling remains the timeless value. Even before humanity learned how to record them, the Greek Myths were passed down from generation-to-generation by oral repetition. Itinerate poets travelled around the Eastern Mediterranean retelling the stories of The Iliad and The Odyssey before Homer wrote them down about 3,000 years ago. While the media changed from spoken word to written text, the public…

  • Public Reaction to Targeted Advertising

    pleigh1@tampabay.rr.com (Phil Leigh | Podcasting & Blogging Consultant)
    17 Oct 2009 | 7:00 am
    Dr. Joseph Turow, University of Pennsylvania If you would like to learn what the public says about their attitudes toward behaviorally-targeted advertising, this audio interview is for you. A recent study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California at Berkeley concludes that a two-to-one majority of Americans do not want marketers to tailor advertisements to their interests. The 1,000-person survey further indicates that nearly 90% of us particularly object to anonymous tracking of our Web-surfing for purposes of creating behaviorally-targeted ads. Our…
 
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    CNET: Digital Media News

  • Can Facebook group change World Cup game result?

    Chris Matyszczyk
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:43 pm
    The World Cup elimination game between France and Ireland was decided by a piece of blatant cheating. A Facebook group, more than 250,000 strong, wants it replayed. Originally posted at Technically Incorrect

  • Techmeme Mobile launches for iPhone, Pre, Droid

    Harrison Hoffman
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:03 pm
    Popular tech news aggregator Techmeme has launched a new mobile version of the site for the Apple iPhone, Palm Pre, and Motorola Droid. Originally posted at The Web Services Report

  • Sony planning new online store

    Lance Whitney
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:51 pm
    Taking a page from Apple's iTunes, Sony is devising an online store offering music, movies, books, and other downloadable content for its various devices.

  • HDMI products to get meaningful labels

    Dong Ngo
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:49 pm
    HDMI Licensing releases guidelines that enforce meaningful labeling to different versions of HDMI cables. Originally posted at Crave

  • eBay sets Skype loose at $2.75 billion valuation

    Caroline McCarthy
    19 Nov 2009 | 3:40 pm
    The auction site has sold off its telephony unit, finally, after plans to take it public and a legal dispute with the company's founders.
 
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    Topix: Digital Media

  • Today's racing tips

    18 Nov 2009 | 7:38 pm
    BEV SWINGELL is the principal tipster for the Daily Express and Sunday Express, and for the last 20 years he has been acknowledged as one of the top private handicappers in England.

  • Ohio's Rap Star Kenny Ali Unleashes a Monsta

    16 Nov 2009 | 3:17 pm
    November 16, 2009 New York, NY- Oscar Sanchez CEO of NYC#1 Urban Digital Record Label powerhouse Affluent Records is proud to announce the release worldwide online of Ohio's top rap star Kenny Ali 's new singles "MONSTA" & "CLUB TYPE" featuring Rufus Blaq.

  • CJP Premieres Landmark Fourth Season of Spherion-Sponsored Comedy Web Series: The Temp Life

    16 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    The Temp Life, sponsored by recruiting and staffing firm Spherion , is the latest original Web series to be released by CJP's digital entertainment studio.The Temp Life was created in 2006 by CJP Director of Digital Media, series executive producer and co-star Wilson Cleveland as an alternative marketing vehicle for Spherion aimed at building brand ...

  • Vivicast Media and Digital Direct Networks Announce Major Move into VOD Market

    12 Nov 2009 | 3:40 pm
    ViviCast Media and Digital Direct Networks announce a significant expansion of their ongoing partnership by adding hundreds of classic movies, series, action sports, and male-oriented, underground programming to their distribution pact.

  • Wins Nine MMPA Awards

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:53 pm
    Minnesota Monthly Magazine received nine awards at the 12th annual Minnesota Magazine & Publications Association Excellence Awards ceremony on November 5, 2009, including gold awards for Overall Excellence, Best Overall Design, and Best Feature Article.
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    VentureBeat: Digital Media

  • Now anyone can try Brizzly’s app for Facebook and Twitter

    Anthony Ha
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:28 pm
    Brizzly, an application for managing messages in Twitter and Facebook, expanded its beta test today — now you don’t need an invite code, so anyone can use it. The application was created by San Francisco-based Thing Labs, and includes features like expanding links and photos, the ability to “mute” people who you want to stop seeing updates from temporarily, and recently-added support for Twitter Lists. In addition to opening the beta, Brizzly also added a new feature today, the ability to translate tweets with a single click using Google Translate. Thing Labs also…

  • Tweetmeme launches buttons for re-tweetable advertising

    Kim-Mai Cutler
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:14 pm
    Twitter said it’s planning a large-scale advertising network soon, but U.K.-based Tweetmeme beat them to the punch with a monetization effort of its own today. The startup, which creates those green ‘Retweet’ buttons you see everywhere (including on this site), is rolling out the same feature for ads. They’re partnering with Federated Media to insert retweet buttons into their advertising two weeks from now, enabling people to share compelling ads with others. Advertising in social streams has historically been a touchy issue (see: Facebook Beacon in 2007). Users…

  • LaDiDa brings reverse karaoke to your iPhone

    Anthony Ha
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:55 pm
    There are tons of karaoke applications for the iPhone, but a startup called Khu.sh is introducing a twist on the concept, “reverse karaoke,” to the App Store. There have been other reverse karaoke products, most notably Microsoft Songsmith, a Windows application that lets you record your singing, then automatically generates musical accompaniment. Songsmith even prompted a series of YouTube videos highlighting the hilarious badness of many of the resulting songs. Khu.sh’s iPhone app, LaDiDa, lets you do something similar on your iPhone. You choose a style (such as E Piano…

  • Hot Potato launches event streaming, storytelling in real-time

    Kim-Mai Cutler
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:26 pm
    Expect big things from this location-based service. Brooklyn-based Hot Potato launched a site and iPhone app today that lets groups of people share and create streams of content around events. You can create an event like a concert or a football watching session and let other people check in to it. Everyone “checked in” at an event can post their thoughts, photos and videos about what’s going on, creating a stream of activity for others to see. All the content is curated by “likes” and “comments”, so Hot Potato case surface the most engaging posts.

  • Google search marketing gets all touchy-feely

    Kim-Mai Cutler
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:21 am
    Google hasn’t traditionally engaged in large-scale advertising campaigns. Instead, it has relied mainly on word of mouth to become the $180 billion company it is today. However in the last year, the company has rolled out bigger and bigger paid advertising efforts (as many mature brands start to do). That includes the Go Google campaign back in August, promoting Google apps as a reliable alternative to Microsoft Office for businesses. Yesterday, Google rolled out a series of videos with the slogan “Search On” promoting Googling! They include an adorable one about falling in…
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    Online Media Cultist

  • Blog Focus: “What’s Happening?” @ Twitter

    Eric Berlin
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:15 am
    It was a little thing but a much debated thing nonetheless for quite a little spell. Twitter asked its teeming tweeting millions "What are you doing?" though for a great long time that questions was somewhat and then completely irrelevant. From breaking news coverage on the ground to summing up political courage of the oppressed to gossiping about the latest crappy hip hop drop to nervously conversing via DMs and RTs and @s on your private account whilst at work, Twitter has morphed and evolved and transformed into so much more than What are you doing? It became a happening, which…

  • Jason Calacanis, Mahalo CEO: Interview

    Eric Berlin
    17 Nov 2009 | 9:05 am
    Jason Calacanis is the CEO of Mahalo.com, "a human powered search engine," as well as the former co-founder of Weblogs, Inc. and GM of Netscape. His latest mission (quest?) is to ensure that entrepreneurs are never forced to pay to pitch to angel investment firms. Jason was kind enough to provide his take via e-mail on a wide range of topics, including his involvement with Open Angel Forum, the latest doings at Mahalo and in the blogosphere, and the future of the New York Knicks. What is Open Angel Forum, and what’s your involvement with it? Open Angel Forum is a movement to…

  • Blog Focus: Xbox Live Goes Super Social Media

    Eric Berlin
    15 Nov 2009 | 12:10 pm
    You’re blasting monsters back to the depths of hell, or watching seasons 8-14 of South Park straight through, or doing some kind of special black ops mission behind the beaches of Normandy circa late spring ’44, let’s say. You know, a typical Saturday afternoon on the couch. Now, here comes the dilemma: you already have your hands on your Xbox controller, so it’s a huge inconvenience to move over to your laptop, Blackberry, or iPhone so that you can tweet and Facebook Connect and social network at the same time, right? Well, now you’re all set! Marc Whitten, Xbox…

  • Google/YouTube Tests “Skippable” Video Ads

    Eric Berlin
    12 Nov 2009 | 12:24 pm
    Online advertising is “booming,” according to The New York Times… if they’re running before, after, or during a video, that is. Therefore, many bloggers and industry observers are going to be keeping a close eye on Google’s experimentation with “skippable” online video ads, or advertising that can be “clicked off” to skip the ad and immediately get into the non-advertisement video content. Meanwhile, prolific and respected blogger Steven Hodson laments just today that “indie bloggers” do not have a bright future due to the…

  • Duran Duran Bassist Says Twitter “Dilutes Creative Powers”

    Eric Berlin
    11 Nov 2009 | 5:17 pm
    These darned kids, what with their Twittering and Interwebs tubing and all. All of this social media tom foolery is enough to dilute creative powers and potency from the artistic genius. At least that's what John Taylor, Duran Duran bassist (and '80s hair master) would have us believe. "When artists today are asked to Twitter their every thought, their every action, to record on video their every breath, their every performance, I believe they're diluting their creative powers, their creative potency and the durability of their work," Taylor writes. I'm reminded of a…
 
 
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    Exec Digital

  • Rio's Cloud Peak down in debut, others fare better

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:34 pm
    Investors bet on growth in the IPOs of a Chinese hotel chain and an online education company on Friday, but were less enthusiastic about a spin-off of mining giant Rio Tinto.

  • Black Friday deals may not signal retail comeback

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:34 pm
    When the U.S. holiday shopping season kicks off on the day after Thanksgiving, retailers can expect to see millions of less frightened but even more bargain hungry customers cross their thresholds.

  • Paulson's golden investors have to commit $10 million

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:34 pm
    Investors tempted to put money into star hedge fund manager John Paulson's new gold portfolio will have to commit at least $10 million and leave the money locked up for at least one year, according to a prospectus.

  • Delta says SkyTeam could invest more in JAL: report

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:34 pm
    The chief executive of Delta Air Lines Inc says the SkyTeam alliance of global carriers would be willing to invest more than its proposed $1.02 billion in Japan Airlines , the Wall Street Journal reported.

  • U.S. Q3 seen revised down on widening trade deficit

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:34 pm
    The U.S. economy's return to growth in the third quarter was less brisk than previously thought as the trade deficit worsened and companies still aggressively cut inventories, a Reuters survey predicted.
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    Digital Media Law

  • No More Sounds of Silence on the Music Composition Front?

    18 Nov 2009 | 9:37 pm
    Everyone knows that composers and lyricists make scales ... now they want to make scale as well. Union scale, that is (or, even better, above scale). One of the few non-unionized sectors of Hollywood, composers and lyricists - the people who write music (as opposed to musicians, the people who perform it) - are now in talks with the Teamsters for representation.It's not as strange as it seems: the macho union of dock workers and Hollywood truck drivers (Teamsters Local 399 on the West coast and Local 817 in New York) also represents casting directors, location managers, and various other…

  • Book review: "Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars" by William Patry

    24 Oct 2009 | 1:28 pm
    The content and technology businesses are at war, as is well-known and as I discuss in a recent article. It’s a struggle that focuses on unauthorized file sharing and new business models—in other words, a copyright war. Undeniably, the entertainment industry often battles demand rather than trying to satisfy it, and copyright laws have taken a corporate turn. Who better to write about this conflict, one would think—and point the way to solutions, one would hope—than an author with 27 years experience in copyright law as a professor, practitioner and government attorney? That author is…

  • SAG Interim Nat'l Exec Director Hired as Permanent

    18 Oct 2009 | 1:14 pm
    SAG's Interim National Executive Director David White just got the permanent gig and can drop "Interim" from his title. The vote on today SAG's national board, which began meeting yesterday and is still meeting today for a little while longer, was 70.91% in favor, I'm told, which suggests that a few of the Membership First directors joined the moderate coalition in appointing White to the job.The appointment is well-deserved: Not only is White a calming and smart presence, but also he, John McGuire, Ray Rodriguez and others on the SAG team have built a record of accomplishment over the last 8…

  • Rosenberg v. SAG: Court of Appeal Implies Appeal May be Moot

    12 Oct 2009 | 7:41 am
    Alan Rosenberg is no longer president of SAG, nor even a national board member, but his lawsuit against his own union drags on pointlessly. Believe it or not, he’s still trying to undo Doug Allen’s firing, the appointment of David White, the ratification of the TV/theatrical contract and, no doubt, the discovery of a new ring around Saturn. That last is probably a particularly bitter blow for the ex-president. Rosenberg and his fellow Membership First plaintiffs 1st VP Anne-Marie-Johnson and board members Diane Ladd and Kent McCord might see some reason to continue the charade, but the…

  • Handel appointed Adjunct Professor at UCLA School of Law to teach entertainment unions & guilds course

    2 Oct 2009 | 4:45 pm
    On a personal note, I've been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at UCLA School of Law. I'll be teaching a course on entertainment unions and guilds starting in January. I also continue as of counsel at TroyGould. Below and attached is the press release from TroyGould. Subscribe to my blog (jhandel.com) for more about entertainment law and digital media law. Go to the blog itself to subscribe via RSS or email. Or, follow me on Twitter, friend me on Facebook, or subscribe to my Huffington Post articles. If you work in tech, check out my book How to Write LOIs and Term Sheets. TroyGould’s…
 
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    The Napster Blog

  • Freeland, Cope Remixed

    Electronica Staff
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:03 pm
    Adam Freeland is one of the pioneers behind the nu skool breaks movement and the founder of the Marine Parade label. We first brought you news of Freeland’s new musical project and album back in June; well, now he's breaking new ground yet again with a totally remixed version of the release linked to his latest side project. How is a remix album breaking any new ground? Simply put, we can’t remember the last time someone brought together such a variety of artists from different genres to work on a single project.The double-length album includes a new and exciting exploration of the…

  • Music Inspired by the Berlin Wall

    Rock Staff
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:23 pm
    With the recent 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in mind, we've been taking a look back at some of the more memorable songs that were either inspired by or later dedicated to the infamous Cold War creation. Here's what we've found:"99 Luftballons" by Nena: This song was conceived when Carlo Karges, Nena's guitarist, saw a bunch of balloons released at a Rolling Stones concert in Berlin and wondered what would happen if they crossed over the Wall into East Germany. The German-language song, later recorded in English, is one of the highest-charting…

  • Big Kenny, The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy

    Country Staff
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:51 am
    Kenny Alphin (better known as Big Kenny) has long had an artistic flair for taking his music in unexpected directions. The Big half of Big & Rich (John Rich being the Rich half, of course) actively defies genre labeling, and his new album, The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy, finds his rogue tendencies intact, if not growing. This is an odd record. Like his 2005 solo album, Live a Little (which was actually recorded in 1999, long before Big & Rich became famous), Big Kenny veers wildly from influence to influence. Quiet Times features modern pseudo-country mixed with…

  • Electronica Staff Picks

    Electronica Staff
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:52 pm
    Experience trance at its finest under the command of the world’s biggest mix DJ, Tiesto. In Search of Sunrise 4—Latin America is the 2005 album inspired by Tiesto’s tour through South America. Check out the last two tracks for nonstop mixes (each over an hour) of the included tunes.   Nu Skool breaks innovators and stars of the Finger Lickin’ label, the Plump DJs were featured in 2009’s Coachella music festival. Their newest joint is the single “My Hi Tops,” released this week. As fresh as ever, it features break-beat snippets with a focused bass line. House remixes of the…

  • Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds, & Ghanaian Blues

    World/Reggae Staff
    19 Nov 2009 | 2:59 pm
    As on his previous anthologies, Ghana Soundz and Nigeria Special, anthologist and Soundways label chief Miles Claret has assembled a complete picture of a short-lived era in West African music with Ghana Special. The set covers the years 1968-1981, which, despite the political unrest in Ghana, were a fertile time for pop music there; many influences, including highlife, Nigerian afrobeat, jazz, soul, funk, and other forms of American and European rock can all be heard throughout. Claret spent years tracking down musicians in and around the cities of Takoradi, Accra, Cape Coast,…
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    Google Blog Search: Digital Media

  • Zune 30 GB Digital Media Player (Brown)

    admin
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:51 pm
    That's the Zune 30 GB Digital Media Player. The Zune plays music and videos, displays images, and unlike the iPod, it even receives FM radio so you can stay on top of local news or sports. Designed around the principles of sharing, ...

  • Digital Media Planner / Buyer... (Chinwag Jobs) » TechNews.AM

    unknown
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:26 am
    Digital Media Planner / Buyer required to work with a fast growing, exciting...

  • Peter Pilgrim Java Champion Enterprise Weblog

    Peter Pilgrim
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:54 am
    However, I do think that the new digital media taking advantage of these technologies is the correct way to go. I attempted to do this on Tuesday night with a live link up with the JAVAWUG in London. Richard Gomes was hosting our very ...

  • Zune 30 GB Digital Media Player (White) « The Collage

    admin
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:23 pm
    Zune 30 GB Digital Media Player (White). The Microsoft Zune will NOT play Microsoft `Plays for Sure' files purchased in the past! Nor, will it play iTunes purchased files or anything other than Zune Marketplace DRM files. ...

  • Why I Don't Buy Digital Media

    Lazy Man
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:10 pm
    Yesterday, I touched on the Legality of IPodMeister's digitizer service. Bringing up the First-Sale doctrine opened up a can of worms in my mind. I love.
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    HomeMediaMagazine

  • Keyes: Blockbuster Streams Better Than Netflix

    Erik Gruenwedel
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:18 pm
    Blockbuster chairman and CEO Jim Keyes Nov. 20 said he eagerly anticipates the day when consumers with Internet-enabled devices and televisions are confronted with the option to either stream movie rentals from Blockbuster or Netflix.

  • Lower Holiday Spending Prompts ‘Black Friday,’ Mobile Focus

    Erik Gruenwedel
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:03 pm
    With about 63% of U.S. shoppers intending to spend less this holiday season compared to last year, nearly 66% of shoppers plan to navigate anticipated crowded stores to purchase gifts on Black Friday — slightly up from last year, according to reports.

  • Report: Blu-ray to Lift Packaged Media In 2010

    Chris Tribbey
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:01 pm
    Thanks to an estimated 45.4 million Blu-ray Disc players (18.4 million standalone, 27 million PlayStation 3s) in homes worldwide by the end of the year, Blu-ray Disc should help offset any decline in DVD in 2010, according to research from Screen Digest.

  • Rosy Forecast for 2010

    Thomas K. Arnold
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:55 pm
    Screen Digest, a respected research firm, predicts that Blu-ray Disc sales will grow enough in the coming year to offset any further declines in DVD and send consumer spending on packaged media back into positive territory.

  • Netflix, IFC Sign Streaming Deal

    Erik Gruenwedel
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:23 pm
    Netflix subscribers beginning Nov. 20 will have free access to 53 independent movies from IFC Entertainment.
 
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    iHollywood Forum

  • iPhone Profits Top Nokia

    Michael Stroud
    11 Nov 2009 | 11:26 am
    If anyone doubted the smartphones are the future, iPhone profits should set those doubts to rest.  Apple became the most profitable handset vendor in the world in the third quarter of 2009, surpassing Nokia for the first time, according to Strategy Analytics. Apple logged an estimated $1.6 billion in iPhone sales, compared with $1.2 billion for Nokia. The figures validate two points: first, consumers are clearly willing to pay premiums on their phones if they feel they’re getting value (Nokia typically services the lower-end market); second, that value derives from the ability to…

  • L.A. Times Staples Redux

    Michael Stroud
    21 Oct 2009 | 10:26 am
    Some of us still remember ten years ago, when then-Los Angeles Times publisher Mark Willes (aka “the cereal killer” ) had the Staples Center pay for the paper’s reporting about said center’s launch. Happily, Willes is no longer at the newspaper, and this time, the L.A. Times’ special section advertising writers penned articles about Staples’ 10 year anniversary. The L.A. Times is still suffering financially, but it’s no longer sacrificing journalistic ethics to survive.

  • Don’t Try This at Home

    Michael Stroud
    21 Sep 2009 | 9:19 am
    This guy came shimmying down to my 27th floor window within minutes of my arriving in my hotel in China. One small misstep would send him hurtling to his death. You can see Beijing’s Western business district behind him. A good metaphor for the widening chasm between China’s upper class and the low-paid workers who are creating the wealth.

  • Vampires and Jamie Lee Have What in Common?

    Michael Stroud
    11 Sep 2009 | 12:57 pm
    Kind of bizarre that Vampire Diaries promotes the Red Cross one week, and Jamie Lee Curtis another. Seems like I should be able to spy a trend here, but damned if I can figure it out.

  • Vampire Diarrhea

    Michael Stroud
    11 Sep 2009 | 12:41 pm
    CW’s teen vampire play “Vampire Diaries”  appears off to a decent start, scoring the network’s best season premiere ever: 4.84 million screaming young women. Whether the show can hold on to them remains to be seen. The network’s launch of sophomore show 90210 this week attracted nearly 2 million less than last year’s premiere of about 2.6 million viewers. And Diaries also runs the risk of giving viewers vampire diarrhea as ”True Blood”, the “Twilight” movie series, and reanimated “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and…
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    Digital Media Jobs Blog

  • Web Architect

    Betaville.ca
    9 Nov 2009 | 9:38 am
    Subcategories: Ontario Company Pearson Canada City Toronto Job Category Programming Job Title or Project Web Architect Job Type Full-Time Permanent Minimum Education Required Certification/Licence/Diploma Minimum Experience Required 3+ Years Contact E-Mail joann.dsouza@pearsoncanada.com Description Pearson is an international media company with world-leading businesses in education, consumer publishing and business information, focusing on education in the broadest sense of the word. It has more than 29,000 employees based in 60 countries, including 650 people in three locations across…

  • Web Architect

    Betaville.ca
    17 Sep 2009 | 10:00 am
    Subcategories: Ontario Job Category Information Technology (IT) Job Title or Project Web Architect Job Type Full-Time Permanent Minimum Education Required College Diploma Minimum Experience Required 3+ Years Contact E-Mail joann.dsouza@pearsoncanada.com Contact Fax 416-447-0598 Description Pearson is an international media company with world-leading businesses in education, consumer publishing and business information, focusing on education in the broadest sense of the word. It has more than 29,000 employees based in 60 countries, including 650 people in three locations across Canada. Pearson…

  • Copywriter

    Betaville.ca
    15 Sep 2009 | 1:00 pm
    Subcategories: Ontario Company Gap Adventures City Toronto Job Category Creative & Design Job Title or Project Copywriter Job Type Full-Time Permanent Minimum Education Required Post Secondary Education OR Equivalent Experience Minimum Experience Required 5+ Years Contact E-Mail employment@gap.ca Contact Fax 416 260 1888 Description Gap Adventures, the leader in small group Adventure Travel has been awarded one of Canada’s Top 50 Best Managed Companies and was voted the #1 “Do-It-All” Tour Operator on Earth by National Geographic Adventure Magazine. We strive to show our travellers…

  • Front End Developer

    Betaville.ca
    10 Sep 2009 | 3:30 pm
    Subcategories: Ontario City Toronto Job Category Programming Job Title or Project FRONT END DEVELOPER Job Type Full-Time Permanent Description Front End DeveloperIf you are a Front End Developer with 4+ years of experience developing rich interactive applications who is passionate about building user friendly interfaces from diverse creative that no browser can trip - read on!What are the requirements:• Has 4+ years of demonstrated development experience with hand-coding standards compliant XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, AJAX and ActionScript (AS2, AS3)• Intimate knowledge of…

  • Junior Project Manager

    Betaville.ca
    28 Aug 2009 | 10:00 am
    Subcategories: Ontario Company Decode Entertainment City Toronto, Ontario Job Category Project Management Job Title or Project Jr. Project Manager Job Type Other Minimum Education Required College Diploma Minimum Experience Required 1+ Years Contact E-Mail humanresources@decode-ent.com Contact Fax 416-363-8919 Description DECODE Entertainment Inc. has grown to become one of the largest and most important international suppliers of television and interactive programming for children and youth. You will be responsible for overseeing aspects of project management including resource allocation,…
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    WordPress Tag: Digital Media

  • Social Media drives political change. Or not?

    davewjon
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:36 pm
    Twitter For those of you familiar with Twitter, you probably know what a hashtag is, and how it’s used. If not, a hashtag is a convention used to organize commentary around specific topics. The way it works it that a hashtag is created by adding the # sign in front of the specific topic (e.g. #swineflu). Then if you want to follow or comment on that topic, you simply include the hashtag as a part of your tweet. Word cloud of Top 50 Tweet Trends According to TweetStats, the hashtag for the presidential election in Iran between conservative hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and reformist Mir…

  • Confessions of a Digital Immigrant: Reflections on mainstream and new media

    Nalaka Gunawardene
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:07 pm
    The Digital Native: Was there a life before the Internet, Dad? In early August 2009, I talked to a c

  • Even terrorists blog

    Dan
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:50 pm
    Okay, so in the instance I am about to refer to it wasn’t an actual terrorist, at least not one who has performed an attack himself, but simply an Islamic extremist who could arguably be the inspiration for Major Nidal Hasan’s attack on the Fort Hood army base. In all of the recent articles that I have read about Hasan, it seems that the evidence may point to some type of religious motivation originating from Islamic sources, but I am not going to make a conclusive claim about that yet. Anwar al-Awlaki What I am getting at is the extremist that he was in contact with prior to the…

  • Sharing in Sport

    Keith Lyons
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:11 pm
    I attended the IASI World Congress earlier this year (March 2009). My presentation to the Congress was recorded. Although I do try to link to other people’s presentations in this talk and address members of the audience I do hope this video gives a feel for how my ideas about sharing in sport are developing and how they form the basis of my response to the David Crawford report and my fascination with Public Sphere. done This is the SlideShare presentation that I used at the presentation.

  • The gift of music, children and digital technology to mankind

    jmanasse
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:58 pm
    My wife and I had a baby girl (Devin) the first week of November and it has reminded me of so many things in life that are great, and so many things in life that are less important. We could debate and go on about this forever, but I think music is much less appreciated than it should be, and following is why music is great for me, and almost my religion. For those of you that have had newborns, you may remember that all they do is sleep, cry, poop, and eat, in some ratio of one to another. What you do in between is what makes dealing with the constant changes in a newborns like easier. For…
 
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    CD DVD Duplication & Replication Blog

  • Taiyo Yuden CD/DVD Media Will Adopt JVC Name

    USDM
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:57 pm
    Since the very beginning, Taiyo Yuden has been at the top of the game when it comes to optical storage. Their engineers and researchers developed the first recordable compact disc back in 1988. This revolutionary technology paved the way for the DVD and Blu-ray discs we have today. For decades, Taiyo Yuden has been recognized as the best brand of recordable media in the world. Their blank recordable CD and blank DVD media is second to none in terms of quality and performance. The secret to their success is a patented “super-cyanine” dye that is more stable and reliable than…

  • Meet the New Eco DVD Case from US Digital Media!

    USDM
    18 Nov 2009 | 4:46 am
    The DVD case has been the standard package for distributing DVD video discs since it was first introduced in the late 1990s. Over the years, manufacturers have introduced variations of the case such as thin single DVD cases, multi-disc DVD cases, and more. The latest innovation in DVD packaging comes from US Digital Media, and it’s called the Eco DVD case. What is the Eco DVD case? It looks just like a standard DVD case but with one major difference: it weighs a whole lot less! A standard DVD case weighs in at approximately 6.8 grams, whereas the USDM Eco DVD case weighs just 4.53…

  • 5 Ways to Save Money on Primera Bravo Ink Cartridges

    USDM
    17 Nov 2009 | 2:37 am
    When it comes to automated disc printing, nothing is easier to use than a Primera Bravo! Whether you print 10 discs a month or 10,000, it will eventually come time to replace your Bravo ink cartridges. So how can you get the best deal on Primera Bravo cartridges? Just follow these five tips: 5. Buy a Combo Pack of Bravo Ink Cartridges CDROM2GO carries Primera ink cartridges in combo packs for your convenience. These are especially useful for high volume users who produce dozens to hundreds of discs per year. By ordering ink in bulk quantities, you can save big with our volume discount…

  • Primera Debuts New Line of BravoPro Xi DVD/CD Duplicators

    USDM
    11 Nov 2009 | 11:40 pm
    In the world of disc printers and publishers, it’s hard to ignore Minnesota-based Primera Technology. Over the years, their family of Bravo disc printers and publishers has earned a reputation for reliability and performance. Primera continues this tradition of excellence with the introduction of its new BravoPro Xi series machines. The Primera Bravo Xi family consists of five new models: the BravoPro Xi Autoprinter, the BravoPro Xi Disc Publisher, the BravoPro Xi2 Disc Publisher, the Xi Blu-ray Publisher, and the Xi2 Blu-ray Publisher. Let’s take a look at each of these machines…

  • Accutower DVD/CD Duplicators Now Feature SATA Drives

    USDM
    11 Nov 2009 | 3:01 am
    The past several years have brought tremendous improvements to standalone DVD/CD duplicator towers. Drives are quieter, write speeds are faster, and towers are packed with more features than ever before. This is also true of our Accutower duplicators. In fact, the whole line of them has recently switched over to SATA drives! As recently as the 1990s, a duplicator tower was a very expensive machine to own. If you could get one for under $2,000 it was a great deal! Most duplicators at the time were CD-only because that was all the SCSI burners could handle. These older machines had complex…
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    Cynopsis Digital

  • Cynopsis Digital 11/20/09

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:00 am
    Sony is taking on iTunes? The electronics and content giant confirmed plans to launch an online content outlet (with a working title of Sony Online Service) that will sell music, movies, TV shows, books and apps that will play across not only the PlayStation Network, but also on computers and a myriad of Sony devices. Plans include enabling photo and video sharing as well. Sony has gained experience with downloadable content with its growing PlayStation Network, which has over 33 million registered users, of which about 5.4 million sign on daily. (The company has been reaching out to more…

  • Cynopsis Digital 11/19/09

    19 Nov 2009 | 1:00 am
    As YouTube continues to fill out its music catalogue, Hulu announced a partnership with EMI to showcase music video and concert footage on the site. As an example of what to expect, a minisite devoted to Norah Jones has been created, featuring video clips and excerpts from live performances. Hulu will also utilize such music pages to drive viewers to music-themed TV episodes and movies, such as this documentary on the Flaming Lips. Meanwhile the highly anticipated Vevo music video site, a joint venture between Sony, Universal and YouTube, has set a launch date of Dec. 8.

  • Cynopsis Digital 11/18/09

    18 Nov 2009 | 1:00 am
    Mobile advertising start-up AdMob is launching a brand new interactive ad unit designed exclusively for the iPhone. Billed as the first unit to bring true interactivity to mobile video advertising, it accommodates in-player actions that enable users to browse web sites, view additional videos, and respond to polls while the video is playing. The unit will be sold primarily as an interstitial that will automatically play on AT&T's EDGE or 3G network or via WiFi while a user waits for an application to load. The first ads will start running this week in select apps across AdMob's iPhone ad…

  • Cynopsis Digital 11/17/09

    17 Nov 2009 | 1:00 am
    Time Warner finally set a date of Dec. 9 to spin off AOL, a portal left over from the days of dial-up that has proved to be an albatross around the neck of the one of the world's largest media companies. Time Warner stockholders of record as of 5 p.m. on Nov. 27, 2009 will receive one share of AOL common stock for every 11 shares of Time Warner common stock they hold. The pricing structure pegs the value of AOL at about $3.4 billion - about 1/11th of Time Warner's current value. AOL was valued at $5.7 billion less than 6 months ago when Google unloaded its 5% stake in the company to Time…

  • Cynopsis Digital 11/16/09

    16 Nov 2009 | 1:00 am
    Literally minutes before a court-imposed deadline, Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers have returned with a revised settlement agreement that establishes a framework to allow Google to distribute millions of out-of-print book online. The changes address concerns from rights holders and authors - scaling back the number of countries covered by the pact to include only books either registered with the U.S. Copyright Office or published in the U.K., Australia, or Canada ¬- while establishing new protections for potential rights-holders and authors. Google has…
 
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    SubHub

  • 15 Ways To Make Your Blog or Site More Appealing To Advertisers

    19 Nov 2009 | 6:04 am
    Today advertisers are much more focused on reaching relevant audiences than they ever have been in the past. This favours niche website owners. However you need to be proactive in making your blog or site attractive to advertisers to get yourself in the position where they are approaching you, rather than you having to chase them.

  • Are You Using Email to Communicate Effectively With Your Blog or Website Audience?

    16 Nov 2009 | 7:43 am
    With ever increasing numbers of influential bloggers and online writers focusing their attention on using email as a way to communicate with their readers, it's safe to say you should be doing the same.

  • Website Grader - The Best Website SEO Performance Tool

    12 Nov 2009 | 10:02 am
    There are dozens of tools for analyzing your website’s performance, but there is one free tool that brings a lot of the data into a single report; Website Grader.

  • Top 10 Techniques for Finding the Perfect Subject For Your Blog Or Content Website

    9 Nov 2009 | 1:40 am
    The most important decision that you will make when setting up a blog or content website is what subject to cover. Here are a few useful ways of narrowing down a broad subject area or researching how popular a niche is.

  • 5 Top Tips for New Authors

    4 Nov 2009 | 5:27 am
    Mindy Gibbins-Klein is a leading writing and publishing consultant better known as The Book Midwife.  A coach for over 18 years, Mindy has enabled hundreds of aspiring authors to start, and more importantly, finish their books.  She believes that everyone is capable of writing and publishing their best possible book if they get in touch with their true purpose and work with a proven process.
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    YouTube: Entertainment

  • New Moon Cast On Entertainment Weekly Cover

    clevverTV
    18 Nov 2009 | 2:59 pm
    New Moon Cast On Entertainment Weekly Cover The Twilight trio take over yet another magazine cover. But the worst co-star is revealed in the article. You don't want to miss this story! Hey guys. Dana Ward here for Clevver TV with the Twilight cover story. So, this round, our favorite Saga stars take over the cover of 'Entertainment Weekly' in anticipation of the New Moon movie release. It's a great photo with Kristen in between her two co-stars, Taylor and Robert, with all of the actors looking uber-stylish in an alternative-chic look ... From: clevverTV Views: 9269 213…

  • C2E2 (Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo) 2010 Video #1

    ItsJustSomeRandomGuy
    29 Oct 2009 | 3:58 pm
    C2E2 (Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo) 2010 Video #1 Visit www.C2E2.com for more info on C2E2, the 2010 Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, April 16-18! This is the first of four videos I made for the 2010 C2E2, with more to follow! Visit http for more videos!! Follow the Randoms!- www.twitter.com Random Note From Random Guy: No, we're not changing our action figures. We're just complying with Marvel's request that we not use Spider-Man character action figures from the movies in these C2E2 videos. From: ItsJustSomeRandomGuy Views: 113519 1838 ratings Time: 01:40 More in…

  • Kim Bum on Entertainment Live! October 3, 2009 *with English subs*

    4jpz
    3 Oct 2009 | 5:10 pm
    Kim Bum on Entertainment Live! October 3, 2009 *with English subs* This is a cut from abs-cbn's Entertainment Live! aired last October 3, 2009 wherein Kim Bum of the Boys Over Flowers fame is interviewed by Bianca Gonzales, Toni Gonzaga and Mariel Rodriguez Filipino to English translations by 4jpz Korean to English translations courtesy of ehnalove For more news, images, tidbits: www.ampedasia.com Video credit: Entertainment Live! and abs-cbn Raw video credit: Linyx From: 4jpz Views: 61585 180 ratings Time: 07:39 More in Entertainment

  • Akshay Kumar's Duplicate on Entertainment ke liye aur bhi kuch karega

    swati003
    2 Oct 2009 | 6:34 pm
    Akshay Kumar's Duplicate on Entertainment ke liye aur bhi kuch karega From: swati003 Views: 19641 33 ratings Time: 06:14 More in Entertainment

  • Young Turks 9/15/09 Entertainment Hour

    TheYoungTurks
    15 Sep 2009 | 10:32 pm
    Young Turks 9/15/09 Entertainment Hour Find out more at www.theyoungturks.com From: TheYoungTurks Views: 14801 475 ratings Time: 47:19 More in Entertainment
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    Howard Weaver

  • Should government policy affect news? Come on, it already does

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    I guess Jim Barnett must trust rich people a lot more than I do. Don’t get me wrong: some of my best friends, yada-yada, and I certainly wouldn’t mind if my sister married one. (If I had a sister). But why on earth does he think putting media decisions in the hands of the richest few Americans is the best way to go? I hope Jim and everybody else understands my own preference: journalism needs

  • Looking toward one future for local civic journalism

    18 Nov 2009 | 10:18 am
    If you’re a reader of this blog, chances are you’ve already heard about the new online news organization being formed in Hawaii by Peer News. The brainchild of Pierre Omidyar and Randy Ching, this next-generation news service will bring a lot of web cred to an issue of considerable current interest: the future of local accountability journalism. I’ve spent some time with them as an advisor, and

  • What if internet advertising is a foundation made of sand?

    13 Nov 2009 | 8:13 pm
    I spotted a pithy, insightful notion early on while reading Ethan Zuckerman's post What if they stop clicking? , paused and sent it out as a Tweet right then. Moments later, I came across a second and Tweeted it, too. When I Tweeted a third too-good-to-pass-up nugget, I realized I should just encourage people to read the whole post. It's a cohesive, carefully sequenced contemplation and will

  • Jerks, tweets and news

    8 Nov 2009 | 8:15 am
    A TechCrunch article by Paul Carr (NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth) stirred up a good bit of Twitter discussion for a Sunday morning. To me, the important question is not whether non-professional news reporting will be available or whether "jerks with cellphone" will run amok, but rather how we learn to handle that and incorporate it

  • Enduring truths and narrative coherence

    6 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    Let us start with Plato and finish with Dave Pell, with a little Jeff Jarvis mixed in to help bind it all together. Sometime around 370 BC Plato held forth against the invention of writing, a mere crutch that would cause memory to atrophy while offering only a pale reflection of discourse in its place. The fact is that this invention will produce forgetfulness in the souls of those who have
 
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    On the Media

  • Online and Isolated? (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:19 pm
    Social scientists have long suspected that the internet contributes to our growing isolation. But Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, set out to test that assumption. He says they found that Americans aren't as isolated as we thought and that being active on the internet might actually help prevent social isolation.

  • Waiting for Info (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:12 pm
    In 1989, The National Security Archive requested documents from the CIA regarding the Iran-Contra affair. This year, the CIA released them. President Barack Obama promised a new era of transparency and adherence to the Freedom of Information Act, but has he followed through? Yvette Chin, FOIA coordinator for the NSA, tells the story behind the long, long wait for information.

  • Count Down (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:08 pm
    When Republican Senator David Vitter introduced an amendment that would require the U.S. Census Bureau to ask residents whether or not they are citizens, the Senate voted it down along party lines. As former Washington Post reporter D’Vera Cohn told us, controversy has often followed the count.

  • Obama In China (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:58 pm
    The President returned from his first trip to China on Thursday. The Atlantic’s James Fallows talks about the trip, and the mostly negative U.S. press coverage it received.

  • Letters (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:54 pm
    Brooke and Bob read a few of your comments.
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    Boxee Blog

  • MyPlay Music Videos Come To Boxee

    andrew
    17 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    I’m a music guy.  I have it playing 24/7 through headphones, laptops, speakers, and TVs.  So when MyPlay came to Boxee I was stoked because while I listen to music all day long, I rarely take the time or have the chance to actually see it.  It’s easy to forget all the “other” creative stuff our favorite musicians create in addition to their music… MyPlay makes it easy to get access to thousands of music videos from mainstream/underground artists on Boxee.  From the Ting Tings to Alkaline Trio, from Weird Al to Wu Tang Clan, MyPlay has music videos old and…

  • a Boxee Box is coming!

    avner ronen
    12 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    We launched our public alpha for Mac/Linux in January at CES. During the show we met with several device manufactures interested in embedding Boxee into their existing devices or building a dedicated Boxee device. I am very happy to announce we have signed our first partnership with a CE company. At this point we can not say more about the partner or the specs of the device, but we can tell you we are working closely with them to make sure we deliver a great Boxee experience on it. We will show mockups of the box and share more details at our upcoming Boxee Beta Unveiling event in Brooklyn,…

  • Unveiling the Boxee Beta in NYC on Dec 7th

    avner ronen
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:30 am
    The date is set for the release of the Boxee Beta. On December 7th at 7pm we are going to have an unveiling event at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. At the event we will demo the new Beta, launch new applications from partners and start a 4-weeks early-access for users to test the Beta before we release it to the public at CES on Jan 7th. The Boxee Beta will look, feel and behave differently from the Alpha. It takes into account many of the requests and feedback we received from users in the past year. The Beta will feature: new user interface improved navigation search TV Shows and Movies a…

  • Boxee helps Universal promote the new film The Fourth Kind

    andrew
    3 Nov 2009 | 11:42 am
    Set in modern-day Nome, Alaska, The Fourth Kind (in theaters this Friday) is a thriller that integrates never-before-seen archival footage into the film to tell the story of psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich). While conducting a sleep disorder study, Dr. Tyler began videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.  Just watching the trailer freaks me out (click on the movie poster to see it). To get people excited for the movie, Boxee’s in-house App Guru Shawn built The Fourth…

  • Watching the Foo Fighters concert on Boxee

    avner ronen
    30 Oct 2009 | 6:24 pm
    Last week U2 and YouTube have partnered to provide a live broadcast of the U2 concert in the Rose Bowl (watch it here), which attracted ~ 10 million viewers. Tonight Facebook/Livestream are broadcasting the Foo Fighters concert from Studio 606. This is great for fans of U2 and Foo Fighters, great for YouTube and Facebook and great for the Music industry. In both cases you could watch these concerts live on Boxee, or tune in later and watch it on demand later. There is an app for the Foo Fighters concert on the App Box (screenshot below), and the U2 concert is available through the YouTube…
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    MediaMemo by Peter Kafka

  • YouTube Says Popcorn Hour Is Over

    Peter Kafka
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:53 pm
    Want to watch YouTube on your TV? There are plenty of devices and services that let you do that, with more on the way. But starting next month, at least one gadget is getting its YouTube feed shut down. Syabas Technology, which makes a line of set-top boxes called “Popcorn Hour,” says Google’s (GOOG) video site has told it to remove YouTube content beginning December 2. This one is a straight he said/he said: Syabas, via a blog post from COO Alex Limberis, says it has an agreement to use YouTube’s clips, but that YouTube had changed the terms of the agreement recently.

  • Why Broadcast TV Won't Miss Oprah

    Peter Kafka
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:38 am
    You can debate whether Oprah Winfrey’s plans to shut down her broadcast show–in 2011–and move to cable constitutes “news.” Ditto for what it means for the culture. But what do Oprah’s plans mean for the TV business? Not that much, argues JP Morgan (JPM) analyst Michael Meltz. Short version of his note published this morning: It’s not bad for OWN, the cable network Oprah co-owns with Discovery (DISCA). But it’s also not terrible for CBS (CBS) and Disney’s (DIS) ABC, the two broadcasters currently in the “Oprah” business.

  • Consumers: We Don't Absolutely Hate Mobile Ads

    Peter Kafka
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:58 am
    Here’s your half-empty/half-full stat for the day: Four in 10 consumers don’t want to see ads on their phones. Is that good or bad for the nascent mobile ad business? Call me Professor Positive if you must, but I don’t think that’s terrible: It means that 60 percent of phone users are okay with ads. And I suspect the number will be higher once the ads move from the theoretical/novelty realm into something you see whenever you use your phone or in exchange for getting something of value. (And yes, I understand that a vocal minority absolutely hates advertising of all…

  • Can Adobe and Apple Play Nicely When–And If–The Tablet Shows Up?

    Peter Kafka
    19 Nov 2009 | 3:33 pm
    Brief-ish follow-up to yesterday’s story about Condé Nast’s plan to create tablet-friendly editions of its magazines with the help of Adobe: As many readers noted, one big problem–potentially–with the plan is that Adobe (ADBE) and Apple (AAPL) generally don’t play well together. And in the case of Apple’s iPhone, they don’t play at all: Adobe’s flash platform doesn’t work in the iPhone, which is why many video sites, which depend on flash, don’t work well on the gadget. So what if this happens again with Apple’s tablet,…

  • How to See a Handball: Watch France Cheat Its Way Into the World Cup

    Peter Kafka
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:51 am
    In the U.S., this is no big deal, but in much of the world this is now the sports equivalent of the Zapruder film: French soccer star Thierry Henry cheating, via a handball, and propelling his team past Ireland and into next year’s World Cup. The Web is full of chatter about yesterday’s game, but video is hard to come by. Again, this appears to be a case of Google’s (GOOG) YouTube flexing its ContentID system on behalf of copyright owners, in this case the European sports marketing company Sportfive. This is a theoretical victory for content creators, who want to be able to…
 
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    TradePub: Multimedia

  • Balancing the Quality and Cost of Online Video

    10 Nov 2009 | 3:50 pm
    Looking to host, format, and deliver high-quality Internet video—and make it profitable? You need the capacity to handle traffic spikes, the know-how to maintain a superior viewing experience, and the ability to measure results to attract advertisers and assess areas for improvement. By outsourcing your content delivery to a qualified CDN partner, you'll deliver high-quality Internet video—while saving on capital and operational expenditures.Benny Fischer is a Senior Architect for Limelight Networks with more than 15 years of experience in Internet networking technologies. Get tips from…

  • Successful Live Event Streaming

    10 Nov 2009 | 3:50 pm
    Live event streaming on the web has grown in popularity over the last year, led in part by major national and international events like the Olympics and President Obama's inauguration. Internet users watch billions of videos every month, and content producers like you recognize the strength of the medium. But this emerging opportunity also raises some important questions:How do you go about creating a successful live online event?How big is your audience? (How big do you want it to be?)What kind of player should you use?How can you ensure high-quality playback when your viewers have different…

  • Determine the ROI of Streaming Your Media Content

    10 Nov 2009 | 3:50 pm
    Reduce the cost of delivering secure, dynamic media over the Internet. This new Forrester Consulting report, The TEI of Content Delivery Using Adobe Flash Media Server, includes a multi-company analysis that explains how media streaming improves: EfficiencyEffectivenessEnd-user experience What's the bottom line? This report gives you the information, calculations, and tools you need to evaluate the potential financial impact of your investment in a media streaming platform. With this support, you can easily build a business case for increasing your investment and see new gains from true…

  • Church Production Magazine

    5 Nov 2009 | 9:50 am
    Church Production Magazine is the leading resource and educational guide for those involved in making decisions about their church's use of audio, video and lighting equipment. Each issue of Church Production Magazine focuses on helping you enhance your worship services by bringing you the latest news updates, new production announcements and trends in live sound, video projection, audio and video recording, lighting technologies and more.Request Free!

  • AV Technology

    1 Nov 2009 | 12:20 am
    AV Technology provides instructional, problem solving content to AV/IT professionals in the education, corporate, hospitality, entertainment, medical, gaming, worship, and government markets. The magazine helps readers navigate their jobs better and therefore generate more revenue for their employers.Request Free!
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    TradePub: Network / Communications

  • InfoStor

    19 Nov 2009 | 4:20 pm
    InfoStor is the leading source for storage professionals, covering the latest thinking on how storage technology is changing and the companies that are taking it to the next level. Its editorial is 100% storage, featuring topics including NAS and File Virtualization, FCoE, Virtual Servers and Storage, Storage Optimization, SSD Drives, Data Deduplication, Green Storage, iSCSI-based IP SANs, Cloud Storage, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Email Archiving and e-Discovery.Request Free!

  • Business VoIP Comparison Guide

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:50 am
    Recently updated with new provider info! Find out what company is right for you. Compare VoIP companies like AT&T, Aptela, Vocalocity, Packet8 and more. Get all the information you need to compare these leading service providers in one place. To learn more get your free Comparison Guide now.Request Free!

  • The Top 10 Reports for Managing Vulnerabilities

    18 Nov 2009 | 11:50 am
    New network vulnerabilities appear constantly and the ability for IT security professionals to handle new flaws, fix misconfigurations and protect against threats requires constant attention. However, with shrinking budgets and growing responsibilities, time and resources are at constrained. Therefore, sifting through pages of raw vulnerability information yields few results and makes it impossible to accurately measure your security posture.This paper cuts through the data overload generated by some vulnerability detection solutions and introduces The Top 10 Reports for Managing…

  • The New Approach to Protect Against Evolving Malware

    17 Nov 2009 | 5:50 pm
    Managing and protecting against endpoint security threats continues to get more difficult for most organizations regardless of their size. Malware of all types are becoming more virulent, their authors are becoming better at getting around current defenses, and the profits generated by malware are funding new and more dangerous threats. Traditional approaches just don't work as well as they used to.This Osterman Research white paper examines why older, traditional antivirus approaches don't work and why a new approach to endpoint security is required to better protect your users, your data…

  • Evaluating Scalable Storage Solutions: Top Considerations

    17 Nov 2009 | 2:50 pm
    This informative report offers useful, insight from their highly-experienced analysts on the latest IT storage solutions. The free brief, IT Management—Evaluating Scalable Storage Solutions: Top Considerations will help you to understand what you should best do to help to ensure that your business-critical information and content are always available, accessible and secure to maximize IT ROI and minimize TCO in your company.Download the free report and learn:Introduction to what you need to know about Network Storage solutionsAnalyzing your business needsInformation availability, quality…
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    Digital Media Academy

  • DMA’s Maya Certification Program – An Accelerated, Immersive Experience

    David
    28 Oct 2009 | 1:02 pm
    DMA’s Maya Certification program centers on its series of 3d modeling and animation courses. These courses are broad and deep and tackle some of the most complex problems and powerful tools in Maya, Autodesk’s industry standard software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visual effects. From a beginning of how to create basic shapes in Maya I, to a finalized piece with finished facial animations, body rigging, and narrative based story  – the series of courses provides an intense submersion into the Maya toolkit and workflow. Paul Randall and Karen Laszkiewicz –…

  • Surfing and Filmmaking

    Margaret Lim
    31 Jul 2009 | 1:15 pm
    This summer the Digital Media Academy is proud to announce another exciting sports action course – surfing and filmmaking! Held only at UC San Diego, this new course is offered in partnership with La Jolla Surf Academy, based in La Jolla, CA. In this “hybrid” course, students spend the morning gaining new or improving surfing skills, under the guidance of certified instructors of the La Jolla Surf Academy. In the afternoon, students return to the UC San Diego campus and to DMA’s studio classroom to view and edit video footage taken earlier in the day or week. By the end of the week,…

  • Music & Video Production at UCLA

    Margaret Lim
    27 Jul 2009 | 3:12 pm
    Among the many new Digital Media Academy courses featured this summer is Music and Video Production, taught in partnership with the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus. This course provides teens with an experience in the entire music video production process – from mixing music with Apple’s Logic Studio, to writing lyrics, to editing video footage with Apple’s Final Cut Pro. I recently sat down with students taking Music Video Production at DMA’s UCLA location. Several of these students came from outside of California to participate in this very unique course. When asked what they…

  • Advanced Filmmaking for Teens

    Travis
    26 Jul 2009 | 8:20 pm
    The Stanford 2009 Hands-on Digital filmmaking for teens beginning and advanced courses have been a huge success.We have had students make comedy, suspense, horror, extreme sports, and even music videos.Basically, we have covered ever genre you can think of in these classes. The Advanced class gives students with some filmmaking experience to step there skills up a notch.During the camera operation portion of the class we work with Sony HDV cameras and teach advanced techniques to achieve a shallow or deep depth of field and really begin to control the image captured on the camera. We also…

  • “Come Together” Music & Video Production

    Travis
    26 Jul 2009 | 8:18 pm
    I’m very proud to have been a part of DMA’s 1st “come together” music and video production class.  Three groups of four or five students, from all different backgrounds, got together recorded a song and made a music video. The class was awesome! We recorded songs using an electric Roland drum kit, and midi controllers that triggered the software instruments within Logic Studio Pro.  The first 2 days were spent learning Logic, recording our songs, using loops, and mixing down our songs.  When the songs were complete, we got to learn camera operation with the new Sony Z5U…
 
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    vfxblog

  • Vanity Fair on Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Ian Failes
    13 Nov 2009 | 10:54 am
    How the Puppets from Fantastic Mr. Fox Were Made, at Vanity Fair. And check out this MakingOf video.

  • November CGW

    Ian Failes
    13 Nov 2009 | 10:38 am
    November 2009 CGW covers 2012 and Coraline.

  • 2012 vfx

    Ian Failes
    13 Nov 2009 | 10:32 am
    Millimeter step by step article on DD's vfx for 2012 fxpodcast: vfx from 2012 with Double Negative's Alex Wuttke.How visual effects turned Yellowstone into a supervolcano in 2012, at Yahoo Movies.Popular Mechanics on 2012 LA earthquake limo scene and an interview with Roland Emmerich.fxguide on DD and Imageworks' sequences from 2012.

  • Mnet "Magic Studios" breakdowns

    Ian Failes
    13 Nov 2009 | 10:26 am
    Mnet "Magic Studios" VFX breakdowns.

  • fxguidetv on Image Engine's Nuke D9 work

    Ian Failes
    13 Nov 2009 | 10:26 am
    Shervin Shoghian of Image Engine shows off Nuke tricks from work on District 9.
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    MediaSlap blog

  • Help a Genius Who Paints Sound

    mediaslap
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:40 am
     As many of you may know, the DREAM Fund was developed to assist people in advertising, public relations and media industries whose lives have hit unexpected difficulties.  Today, we have a special need in the Houston Area; a need that requires immediate assistance. Mark Meyer works as an audio engineer at SoundWorks.  He has been diagnosed [...]

  • Unfriend Is the Word Of the Year!

    mediaslap
    17 Nov 2009 | 8:58 am
    Unfriend is the New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year. If you use Facebook or some other Social media this is not a new word. New Oxford American Dictionary has announced today that they have selected Unfriend as their word of the year. Unfriend essentially means remove someone from your Friend’s list on [...]

  • The Science of Great Tasting Wine

    mediaslap
    17 Nov 2009 | 8:34 am
    I occasionally like a glass of red wine and I am amazed at how one can find a good wine at an inexpensive price. But unless one gets guidance you have to go through a lot of experimentation before you find a good tasting cheap wine. Now after watching the Science Channel and reading some [...]

  • How to make your batteries last

    mediaslap
    9 Nov 2009 | 12:15 pm
    There are so many electronic items with batteries these days. It seems like I am always having to replace them or recharge them. Just yesterday I pulled out an air compressor and the batteries would no longer take a charge. So the challenge is how can you extend the life of your [...]

  • Are TV Commercials Too Loud?

    mediaslap
    27 Oct 2009 | 8:20 am
    Why is the volume of TV commercials so much greater than the program? I get this question all the time.  Would you be surprised if I said there is no difference, they are the same volume.  With audio there is a difference between loudness and volume.  Although the volume is the same, the apparent [...]
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    Digital Tonto

  • The Importance of Branding in the Digital Age

    Greg
    18 Nov 2009 | 4:23 am
    Many believe that brands will become less important as digital technology marches onward.  They will surely be disappointed. In fact, it is likely that branding will become more important in the digital age.  With more media and more brands, consumers have to more to filter out.  In order to cut through the clutter, marketers will have to work harder to build brands that inspire loyalty. To understand why, let’s start at the beginning… Creative Kings in a Consumer Age After World War II, most of the globe went through several decades of seemingly boundless economic expansion. …

  • How to Compete in a Global Age

    Greg
    15 Nov 2009 | 1:54 am
    Tom Friedman insists that the “The World is Flat.”  Richard Florida says that it isn’t; in fact the world is “spiky” with towers of activity and flatlands of obscurity.  Both offer compelling, but seemingly polar opposite views of the way our world is changing around us and what we need to do to compete. Who is right and how should it affect the way we run our businesses? To be honest, both men have their detractors and I myself find both a bit too in love with their own conclusions for my taste.  However, their ideas do have some merit.  The business and marketing…

  • Private Language and Marketing-Speak

    Greg
    11 Nov 2009 | 9:29 pm
    Marketing is, to a large extent, about communication.  Consumer desire needs to be translated into a product and, in turn, the consumer has to understand how the product will make his life better in some way.  A good marketer is a communication professional. Many marketers often use their own private language, marketing-speak, to communicate among their own tribe and with others. They shouldn’t.  The marketing process is complex already and there’s no point in confusing everybody with opaque terminology that nobody understands. Moreover, the often indecipherable babble obscures meaning…

  • How Ideas Spread

    Greg
    8 Nov 2009 | 5:22 am
    In 1865, Gregor Mendel published the paper that established him as the father of genetics. However, it went largely unnoticed until it was rediscovered decades later and became widely recognized as one of the great discoveries in the history of science. Why do some ideas quickly spread far and wide while others go nowhere at all? Now that we are in the midst of a communication revolution, the problem of understanding how ideas spread has taken on greater significance.  Some serious thinking has been done about it and important insights have been gained.  It’s worth some time and effort to…

  • How to Solve 5 Common Web Publishing Mistakes

    Greg
    5 Nov 2009 | 4:54 am
    Leo Tolstoy wrote, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”  It’s a similar story for web sites.  To be successful you have to get the basics right. Web Publishing is not solely the domain of media companies anymore.  Inbound marketing is becoming crucial for customer acquisition and retention.  The ability to make engaging content that creates interest and informs consumers is becoming a core competency for an increasingly diverse group of companies in a variety of industries. However, most web sites fail to attract a following. There is more…
 
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    Digital Cortex

  • Links for November 16th

    Tom Saunter
    16 Nov 2009 | 3:01 am
    These are my del.icio.us links for November 16th 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die…in Spotify – This guy has found 785 of the 1001 albums we're all meant to hear before we die (according to a recent book), as Spotify links. Awesome. thiscyborglife – Gizmodo – This week, Gizmodo is exploring the enhanced human future in a segment we call This Cyborg Life. It's about what happens when we treat our body less as a sacred object and more as what it is: Nature's ultimate machine. Joomla Developer’s Toolbox – Smashing Magazine – My new…

  • MIT Propose A Digital Cloud for London

    Tom Saunter
    12 Nov 2009 | 8:03 am
    London invited the world to build them an addition to their skyline, in time for the Olympics in 2012. Their request has been answered by researchers from MIT. Here are some details of their brave response: The structure, dubbed “the Cloud”, would consist of two 400-foot towers and a number of interconnected, LED-filled bubbles, including an observation deck and a series of digital displays relaying statistical information from the Olympics. A clean-powered entity, solar panels would provide much of the power needed. It is proposed that other running costs would be covered by its…

  • Self-Pixellation

    Tom Saunter
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:37 am
    In his recent work “Papercraft Self Portrait”, 3D artist Eric Testrole did something really cool for Halloween. He pixellated his own head! It was kind of inspired by big-head mode seen in videogames. I really wanted to get the faceted geosphere look with wireframe. He’s been a character designer in the video game industry for nine years, so this is a case of life now mimicking his art, as his skills having now ‘absorbed’ his very being. Very spooky. Here’s how it happened: A model was created from a blocky 370 polygons Texture was added to match his…

  • Massive Change Coming to Foundations of the Internet

    Tom Saunter
    4 Nov 2009 | 2:25 am
    Last Friday ICANN approved a change to the URL domain name scheme that allows for the use of non-Latin characters. ICANN is the organization that’s responsible for managing identifying codes on the Internet including domains and country codes. The change goes into effect on November 16, and domain names using characters from other alphabets are expected to be online shortly after. ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush states that: “The coming introduction of non-Latin characters represents the biggest technical change to the Internet since it was created four decades ago. Right now…

  • Watch the Trailer for Universal’s 9 in Unbelievable Silverlight HD

    Tom Saunter
    30 Oct 2009 | 8:27 am
    Just in time for Halloween! Related Posts:Pixar - UpColour Picker by Jinsun ParkYouTube Goes 3DQR codesSelf-Pixellation Share This:
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