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Asia Quake Relief Efforts
This interactive from the BBC shows the different ways food and water is being delivered to the survivors. From elearningpost on January 5, 2005 at 9:46 p.m..

Full Web Conferencing Feature Set Is Not Good Enough: Netspoke Conferencing
The marketplace for Web conferencing products, aimed at mid-sized to large companies, is becoming increasingly crowded. If you want to stand out from that crowd, your product needs to offer something very special and using that measure, Netspoke Conferencing does... From Kolabora.com on January 5, 2005 at 8:54 p.m..

Data Sharing Via Lazy Susan
The lazy Susan -- a platter that turns, making everything it holds accessible to anyone in any position around the platter -- is an eminently practical interface. Researchers from Keio University in Japan have tapped the concept with an information-sharing... From Kolabora.com on January 5, 2005 at 7:55 p.m..

Current infrastructure and tools s*ck for sharing experiences from mobile phones
Yes, the current infrastructure (GPRS) and the current tools (MMS, post via email) to share mobile experiences like photos and audio from your phone s*ck! But look beyond to what's around the corner. We are already seeing with the advent of next gen infrastructure like 3G (Edge, EV DO, ubiquitious WiFi, WiMax) and next gen tools customised for the mobile experience (e.g. Simon's flickrLive - check out Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 5, 2005 at 7:52 p.m..

Another David Davies
Welcome to another David Davies, Welsh Assembly Member for Monmouthshire and now weblogger! From David Davies: Edtech on January 5, 2005 at 7:46 p.m..

Moving Image Contest Finalists at the Center for the Study of the Public Domain
I've written before (here and here ) about Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain and their Arts Project Moving Image Contest, where entrants were asked to "create short films demonstrating some of the tensions between art and intellectual property law, and the intellectual property issues artists face, focusing on either music or documentary film." Jennifer Je From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 5, 2005 at 7:01 p.m..

Portals to the nth degree
We'll be looking at a small-scale pilot of our new University portal later this semester. I've long been excited about the arrival of our portal, in which the user can customize his or her graphic relation to local intranets and the Internet. The result is a set of channels, some ... From Gardner Writes on January 5, 2005 at 7:01 p.m..

Farewell, Amigo
Sam Adkins, the Seattle-based researcher who first articulated the lion's share of the concepts now known as workflow learning, is no longer associated with the Workflow Institute. We no longer offer his reports. We wish Sam all the best in his new endeavors. You may reach him at sam (at) samadico.com.... From The Workflow Institute Blog on January 5, 2005 at 6:53 p.m..

Internet Edges Out Family Time More Than TV Time
Yet Web users spend twice as much time online as watching TV. A detailed look at U.S. Internet usage and demographics. From ClickZ Stats on January 5, 2005 at 6:45 p.m..

Why Disagreement is Good
One pioneer of the podcasting world is Dave Slusher, creator of "Evil Genius Chronicles." In his Jan 4 show, Dave strongly disagreed with the main theme of my Jan 1 audio edition: That the term "podcast" is problematic if this new medium is to appeal to a mass audience. Personally, I treasure disagreement and dissent -- even when presented strongly. Such discussions can be exceptionally instructive and beneficial, even it they aren't comfortable... From Contentious Weblog on January 5, 2005 at 5:55 p.m..

Fixing a racing heart
Modern medicine has crossed into magic. My wife Ann went into the Brigham and Women's Hospital today at 6AM to have her tachycardia -- episodes of a racing heartbeat -- fixed. A little before 10AM, they threaded five wires up through her arteries (veins?), from her groin directly into her heart. Ann says the procedure was basically painless. Once the catheters were in her heart, the doctors stimulated a tachycardia episode and used that to figure out which circuit was going astray. They heated the tip of one of the wires and burned a square millimeter or so of her... From Joho the Blog on January 5, 2005 at 5:48 p.m..

Can Many Agents Answer Questions Better Than One?
James Surowiecki, in The Wisdom of Crowds, proposes that a group of people answering a question emsemble can produce a better answer than an expert answering a question on his or her own. This could be a quirk of people, but the theory says it shouldn't be. Enter this paper, in which the author (without reference to Surowiecki) asks whether a group of computer agents can answer a natural language question better than a single agent. The answer is yes, because different agents operate in different domains and may ther From OLDaily on January 5, 2005 at 5:45 p.m..

Jon Udell: Interactive Demo first, marketing later
Agreed 100%. I have tried the marketing first, demo second approach and it doesn't work. Either you run out of time or you lose the audience if you start off with marketing. If I want to know the marketing stuff, I can get it from your blog and website or as a link AFTER the demo. From Jon Udell: Screencast guidelines.: QUOTEShow, don't tell. I've been on the receiving end of a great many WebEx-style demos over the years. The usual pattern is slides first, explaining From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 5, 2005 at 4:52 p.m..

flickr is my favourite game du jour!
Yes indeed, flickr is a game on many levels, here are just a few (omitting most notably the use of RSS and flickr apps like 1001 for more fun games!):' You can choose not to participate by not making your photos public. If you choose to make your photos public, then people will find out about your photos by seeing them in real time as they upload through the browser. If you choose to go one step further and tag your photos, then this is another From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 5, 2005 at 4:52 p.m..

Six Apart to buy Live Journal
A seismic event in the blogsphere, Six Apart - the company that produces Moveable Type, a popular blogging software, is about to acquire Live Journal (at least according to this report), one of the largest blog hosting companies in the world with about 6.5 million users. Pundits will talk about the user base - but what I look at are the features unique to Live Journal, and specifically, the social networking aspect to the site that is quite unlike Blogger or any other such service. By Om Malik, Om Malik on Broadband, January 4, 2004 [OLDaily on January 5, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Putting Context Into Context
According to the author, design requires an understanding of context, and context has to do with more than just information about the current user and the current interface: the user may use the same tool in different situations, creating different contexts. For example, the user will have different goals at different times, be playing a different role, have different background resources and information, be in a different physical environment, and more. The article suggests that designers should anticipate these different contexts and design for them. By Jared M. Spool, User Interface Engine From OLDaily on January 5, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Open Content and Access for Digital Scholarship
Not sure how long this has been available, but it just passed before my eyes on a mailing list and was well worth the look (and somewhat lengthy download). This long, detailed and image-rich powerpoint presentation is mostly a discussion of the Open Archives Initiative (though other services, such as Cite-Seer, are also mentioned). It provides a detailed look at the purpose of OAI, OAI search requests and data formats, available software and online archives. By Gerry McKiernan, WiLSWorld Conference 2004, July 27, 2004 [OLDaily on January 5, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Blogging from the Bottom: A Cautionary Tale
The most recent edition of Lore, a journal for teachers of writing, is online and features a section on blogging in education consisting of a baker's dozen short articles. Consisting of first person reflections of the blogging experience, the quality is, um, spotty. But there are nuggets that make the list worth reading, such as this bit from Eric Mason: "Blogging has allowed me a degree of control over my professional persona and has put me in touch with colleagues with whom I can discuss disciplinary issues." Will Richardson offers a time-saving OLDaily on January 5, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

[CSG-Winter-2005] Ben Teitelbaum (Internet2) - VoIP Service Opportunities
Ben Teitelbaum is talking about "From Ma Bell to Your Bell: voice, VoIP, and the Potential Role of Internet2" The slides are available on the CSG web site. Ben notes that Voice is the dominant real-time communications medium among homo sapiens - that's a good and worthy observation! VoIP is not just a cost-saving hack - open standards and the Internet are revolutionizing telecom, forcing new industry structures, architectures, services and applications. The trends are toward greater empowerment not just of campuses and institutions, but of end users. < From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 5, 2005 at 4:05 p.m..

Can you here me now? (Alert Retreival Cache)
Alert Retreival Cache Is a system of collecting, sorting and routing SMS messages for the purposes of alerts and relay communication. I heard about it on NPR today and of it's importance in the wake of the recent Tsunami. I thought it was a pretty neat idea and was especially pleased to hear how fellow geeks are working together to solve real world problems. More here (World Changing) and here (Audio). From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

A Guide To Media Monitoring with RSS
hyku has put together by far the best guide for using RSS to monitor media that I have ever seen. Listening/monitoring is the the single most critical discipline that any 21st Century PR professional needs to practice regularly. RSS makes it a snap.  Josh R. Hallett gives you at a glance all you need to know to get started. Great work, Josh. From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

Community News Photography
WestportNow is a "citizen journalism" website (published in blog format) serving a tony Connecticut community of 26,000. Run part-time by Gordon Joseloff, the site puts special emphasis on photography by community members. You can see the work of more than 50 citizen photographers in the site's "Year In Pictures 2004" feature. (Alas, there are no captions, but it will give you an idea of the contributions the site receives.)While most of the images that run on WestportNo From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

2005 Content Business Models
John Blossom of Shore breaks it down for us...he sees four key areas in which the rapidly shifting action will unfold in creating and expanding these new models: cooperation, commercialization, containerization and consolidation. Cut through the consultant jargon and it is good stuff...I'm personally most interested in the consolidation "stuff", the behind the scenes power plays which gets journalist's juices flowing... It would be interesting to see all of this play out in a month at the unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

The Truth About Convergence
Ramesh Jain: Most new technology is initially used using the legacy approaches. Thus when CD ROM first appeared, people started scanning and putting books on CD ROMs and called it multimedia. Much of the talk about convergence is about communication and computing and really does not go beyond putting them together. When we throw content also in this convergence equation, the situation changes dramatically. This convergence will result in more potent technology and approache From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

LG's Digital MultiMedia Broadcast Phone
LG has introduced what is arguably the first digital multimedia broadband phone, which can receive terrestrial television signals. The phone also has a mega-pixel camera and MP3 player functions. Apparently the company spent nearly $9 billion and two years developing this phone and has filed 150 patents including one for H.264 video decoder enabling technology. What LG has done is essentially put a whole lot of functions on a “system on a chip& From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

'Distributed Journalism' and the Sleaze Boss
Dan Gillmor credits "distributed journalism" -- as applied by two prominent blogs -- for the success in convincing House Republicans to reverse a rule change that would have allowed Texas sleaze boss Tom Delay to retain his position even if indicted. From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

Join the dots
I’ll pick on two of David Isenberg’s recent entries, but there are many others that illustrate the same point. First quote: The Death of Distance first appeared in The Economist about a decade ago. In that decade we’ve seen international telephony prices fall from dollars per minute to Skype-free, while we think nothing, nothing, nothing of accessing a website halfway around the world. Minutes are dead. Area codes mean nothing. Country codes are fading. From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

RSS feeds of your Now Playing and ToDo lists
Years ago, fellow weblogger Matt Kingston was one of the first people I ever saw that hacked his TiVo to do all sorts of amazing stuff like output his now showing list to his website (his hacking also inspired me to dip into my TiVo's case). Another TiVo Hacker and weblogger named Dave Wild came along and wanted to do the same thing for his site, so he hacked together some RSS output feeds for TiVos running TiVoWebPlu From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

ffmpeg-php
ffmpeg-php is an extension for PHP that adds an easy to use, object-oriented API for accessing and retrieving information from movies and audio files. It has methods for returning frames from movie files as images. From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN (was Re: [videoblogging] Re: Vloggercon 2005)
I just added a link to a registration page, so all of you who are planning on going to vloggercon on Jan 22 in NYC can register now. The blog also has a link that lets you see who is registered. The blog is at: http://vloggercon.blogspot.com We've added a video blog post in the first post. Let us know what you think. Jay is finishing up the information on all the sessions and should have those sections updated later this afternoon. He's doing a great job contacting all the session From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

Hate blogging the tsunami
Tim Karr [via] leads us to a blog*spot-hosted site where someone has chosen to express themselves in a hateful manner towards tsunami victims in southern Asia and India. As a commenter on Karr's site states, I'm curious to see if Google looks at this site as hateful, and in violation of the blog*spot terms of service. I'm guessing that the following from the Blogger TOS: Member agree From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:58 p.m..

the commercialized citizen
Stars are a necessary part of the economy. If citizen media is going to supplant that old style, citizen commercialization is going to have to supplant that old style of commercialization. My paid blogging for Marqui is citizen commercialization. In a Marqui-sponsored blog entry, Textura design looks at paid blogging for Marqui as an entangling of personal and business agendas: David Byrne, writing about agents in his blog (December 6 pos From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:57 p.m..

Node Explorer
A little "postcard sized" portable, embedded Linux piece of spatial annotation hardware - and the operation here seems to have some smart things to say about why spatial annotation is a promising activity..cool stuff.. Location aware computers and the content and services that run on these devices, will change the way that society experiences the real world. Node is a world leader in developing both the tech From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 3:57 p.m..

From one lock-in to the next
Dare Obasanjo, Social Software is the Platform of the Future: "data lock-in is migrating from local machines to various servers on the World Wide Web." Yes, but is this unavoidable? Could the absence of lock-in become a key factor in users' decision to pick one service over another? Maybe after we've all been burned once or twice? From Seb's Open Research on January 5, 2005 at 3:47 p.m..

Knowledge is survival, too, sometimes
"... on Maikhao beach in Thailand, a 10 year old British girl, Tilly Smith, recognised the signs when the tide rushed out and boats on the horizon began bobbing violently. She told her mother she had just been studying tsunami in geography at school and that they should leave the beach. Her parents warned others on the beach and so this was one of the few areas where no-one was reported killed or seriously injured Seb's Open Research on January 5, 2005 at 3:47 p.m..

Consumer Electronics Show 2005
The annual International Consumer Electronics Show (or "CES," as Doctor Evil might put it) is back for 2005: in Vegas, and in full swing tomorrow. Here's a Washington Post "blog" (can a newspaper blog within the newspaper? am I being too strict? let's not always see the same hands) ... From Gardner Writes on January 5, 2005 at 3:02 p.m..

RSS and blogs as a disruptive idea in journalism
I appreciated these observations about the need for increased editorial quality in Jay Rosen's PressThink's Top Ten Ideas of 2004. In Idea 6, "Content will be more important than its container," Rosen emphasizes a "disruptive idea in journalism" in which mainstream media's monopoly is coming to an end thanks to RSS which is detaching news from "brand." He cites Tom Curley, CEO of the Associated Press who says, "The f From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

Technologies for Online Public Engagement
Lars Hasselblad Torres of AmericaSpeaks, shares this fantastic grid of Technologies for Online Public Engagement (PDF). Entitled “Approaches to Online Public Engagement”, the grid summarizes 17 organizations that offer tools for online public engagement. Some are familiar, like Weblab. Others are unique tools developed by local and national government. One question I had for Lars was an indi From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

Open Source Journalism Comes a Step Closer in Greensboro: A Plan is Shown
Jay Rosen: "In Greensboro we find a newspaper awakening to the culture of the Web. " From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

Vonage WiFi Phone
Engadget says the Vonage F-1000 WiFi phone, made by UTStarcom, will let you make VoIP calls from any WiFi hotspot using your Vonage account. Vonage plans to market their phone around $100, and release it sometime between April and June of this year. From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

Mobile and Open: A Manifesto
Howard Rheingold: "The devices that most people on earth will carry or wear in coming decades could become platforms for technical and entrepreneurial innovation, foundations for industries that don't exist yet, enablers of social and political change. However, it is far from certain that mobile media will go the route of the PC, where teenage dropouts like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and millions of others actively shaped the technology, or the Internet, where search engines were invented in dorm rooms and innovators like Tim Berners-Lee gave away the World Wide Web for free without ask From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

Citizen Journalism gets the real story
9:37 AMI post this message to the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group regarding today's Wall Street Journal story on video blogging:I found it interesting that the newspaper got the $20k instead of the original videographer. Probably because he just gave the video away without any Creative Commons license on it."The video, which shows an elderly couple overpower From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

Orb Networks
Start-up beams TV to your hand. Orb Networks lets consumers view live TV though cell phones or PDAs, and big-name companies are paying attention. From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

Om Malik on Broadband > Six Apart to buy Live Journal
Hopefully Six Apart would devote some designers to LJ From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

New tutorials for Creative Commons Tools, plus P2P
While we've been testing out CC Publisher betas over the past few weeks, we've recently gone 1.0 on the application and figured it was a good time to create an easy to follow tutorial for using CC Publisher. We've also created one for CC Lookup, our audio file verification app. In addition to both new tutorials, we've also added one that highlig From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

2004 CODEC shoot-out
Popular encoding/guide/news site doom9.org has published its CODEC shoot-out for 2004, comparing file-compression software: 3ivx 5.0, Divx Fusion 5.9 (prerelease 6.0), Nero Digital Main Profile and High Profile, RealVideo 10, On2 VP6, VideoSoft's VSS, Xvid 1.0, MS's WMV9 and, last, newcomer Jomingo's HDX4. The comparison covers the speed, accuracy, target-file-size-adherence and other aspects of the CODECs &ampmdash; but also lets you compare via high– and low–bandwidth framegrabs of each From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

Samsung shows off 21" OLED display
Samsung's new 21" OLED display raises hopes that large screen displays will be mass producible before the close of the decade. From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

CES: Seagate to launch CF form-factor hard-disk
Seagate Technologies LLC will begin offering a Compact Flash (CF) card form-factor hard-disk drive from February this year, the company said at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, on Tuesday. From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 2:56 p.m..

Academic Blogging
Talk about mixed emotions...a seemingly great list of 13 blogging articles from Lore: An E-Journal for Teachers of Writing with no time to read them all. In the past few years, blogging has become something of a national pastime, and academics are becoming a core group using blogs for personal and professional reasons. Yet even though many people embrace blogging, many others have no idea what it is or why anyone would do it. In this issue of Lore, we explore the role that blogging plays for academics both in From weblogged News on January 5, 2005 at 2:47 p.m..

Podcasting's transcription dilemma
I owe a huge thank-you to Eleanor Kruszewski, who has transcribed my audio interview with Intervoice's Ron Owens. And we should all thank her for raising the uncomfortable issue of podcast transcriptions which, for the most part, are missing in action. ... From Jon's Radio on January 5, 2005 at 2:46 p.m..

[CSG-Winter-2005] VOIP - Denis Baron on SIP
Denis Baron SIP (IETF RFC 3261) - is a Voice Over IP protocol that runs over http. It's an application layer protocol for session initiation and management. SIP components include User Agents (the usual clients and servers). Gatewaother addresses, like ISDN or H.323. Gateways also tend to translate audio. SIP is very lightweight to set up conversations, which can then enable SIP agents to communicate directly with each other. Session Description Protocol (IETF RFC 2327) describes sessions - used for bodi From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 5, 2005 at 2:01 p.m..

Googling unsecured webcams
Xeni Jardin: Cleverly-aliased BoingBoing reader numlok whispers: This is both very cool and very scary. Use this search string below with Google, and you will find dozens (hundreds?) of unsecured webcam feeds (most seem to be security cams). inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode=" Link. More background here. BoingBoing reader Nickunmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 p.m..

[no title]
Another chapter in the future of radio : Fred Wilson blogs the big announcement that radio companies have committed converting 2,000 stations to HD. Now if we can just get the FCC out of the radio business. From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 p.m..

Bringing the press into the story
Yesterday, walking on the beach, I had a minor epiphany about the press that I thought I should share asap. Talking to a reporter recently, about the difference between bloggers and pros, I tell a story I often tell, the interchange between David Weinberger and Walter Mears at the blogger's breakfast at the Democratic National Convention in July. Weinberger asked Mears who he planned to vote for in the presidential election. Mears said he couldn't say because that would bring his biases into the discussion, and he writes objectively, his biases are irrelevant. This was From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 p.m..

Missing Persons Photos on Flickr
The Southeast Asia Tsunami-MISSING PERSONS offers If you are looking for someone missing in any country affected by the earthquake and tsunami on December 26, 2004, please post a photo of the person FOLLOWING THIS FORMAT: 1.POST PHOTO--PLEASE USE PERSON'S NAME AS PHOTO TITLE 2. In description, list COUNTRY AND LOCATION WHERE LAST SEEN. 3. In comment section, add any other information you think is RELEVANT. 4. TAG your photos with the following: missing, tsunami, From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 p.m..

Aware
Aware: The Aware Platform-New locative platform developed in conjunction with UIAH Helsinki "Working from the lowest common technological denominator to maintain flexibility and inclusiveness, a person can use whatever media capture-device they have available. More important is, what contextual information is associated - such as proximity, location, temporality, theme and event. Aware focuses upon bundling these relationships, both automatic and given, to the media. Contribu From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 p.m..

Technologies for videoblogging
When I wrote my initial paper about videoblogging last summer I was looking for a number of technical solutions in order to make sharing and co-creation of video more feasible. A lot of people seem to be interested in videoblogging and a number of new services and ideas have emerged during the last six months (By the way: Those living close to New York should attend Vloggercon 2005 at 22. January). BitTorrent has been around for quite s From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 p.m..

Bringing video playback to the iPod
Beating Apple to the punch, little-known peripheral manufacturer Nyko has unveiled an iPod accessory which enables the popular audio player to play back videos on a 3.5" display. At the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nyko Technologies has announced the MoviePlayer, an iPod peripheral which gives owners the ability to play back video stored on an iPod on a 3.5" display. Currently at the prototype stage, the company says the accessory is slated for release in the spring 2005, utilizing a portable cradle concept to connect the accessory to an iPod. From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 p.m..

Hated Online Advertising
Web naysayer extraordinaire Jakob Nielsen has an interesting "Alertbox" about online ads titled "The Most Hated Advertising." Drawing from a presentation by Yahoo! and eBay at a User Experience conference, Nielsen points out that the vast majority of what passes as advertising on news websites "negatively or very negatively" affects readers. While the findings in this short piece are sparse and conjectural, it is worth a look.Reading it left me with one question: Is there any advertising that is loved? There are always Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 5, 2005 at 1:54 p.m..

Wikipedia: Me on boyd on Sanger on Wales (Clay Shirky)
My response to danah’s response about the Wikipedia/anti-elitism debate: First, some background. I have the same “yes, but” reaction over and over to Wikipedia detractors — much of what both Sanger and boyd say is wrong with the Wikipedia is... From Corante: Social Software on January 5, 2005 at 1:49 p.m..

[CSG-Winter-2005] CSG at Stanford
I'm down at Stanford for the winter meeting of the Common Solutions Group. Last night Bob Morgan and I went to see the UW Huskies play the Stanford Cardinals in women's basketball. Our colleague Bruce Vincent from Stanford somehow finagled us great courtside seats - unfortunately the UW lost, 74-61. Kayla Burt, one the Huskies stars, sprained her ankle in the second half, and was back playing a few minutes later - how do they do that? Today's long workshop topic is Voice over IP. I'll be blogging bits I find interesting, but for those who are really inte From Oren Sreebny's Weblog on January 5, 2005 at 1:01 p.m..

Sirius to launch video service
Their target audience is kids in cars. From Reuters/Yahoo: The satellite radio company's former chief executive, Joseph Clayton, said in May that Sirius would introduce four and possibly as many as eight video channels for children riding in the back seats of cars. Too bad there's no video upload service from the car! From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..

Our Bloggers' Book Recommendations
To see our names on the esteemed Poynter website makes us grateful as is, but to top it off, we E-Media Tidbits contributors received a nice Amazon gift certificate for our labors last week. What did we buy? A quick survey of my fellow blog writers proves that we are a dedicated lot. Not only do we blog for free at night, we then proceed to read ourselves asleep with media-related books. Here are the top picks: "The Vanishing Newspaper: S From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 5, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..

An Army of Low-Res 'Photojournalists'
If you don't already believe that photo phones are taking over the world, here's more evidence. IDC notes (via the Center for Media Research daily briefing) that in Western Europe, about three-quarters of all new mobile phones sold now include digital cameras. The resulting images from a population armed with photo phones will surely further energize the trend of "citizen photojournali From Poynter E-Media Tidbits on January 5, 2005 at 12:54 p.m..

Networking Grant for Organizations (Nancy White)
Lisa Kimball just pointed me to a networking award her company, GroupJazz, has created in honor of online networking pioneer Frank Burns. Act now: the 2005 deadline is January 7th!The Group Jazz Meta Networking Award in honor of Frank Burns:... From Corante: Social Software on January 5, 2005 at 12:49 p.m..

Low blogging day
I have very limited Web access today, so I won't be doing much (= any?) blogging. Try to carry on without me. I did, however, give blood this morning, the first time in several years. I used to give a few times a year when it was convenient, e.g., when a bloodmobile would drive up to the doors of the building where I worked. Now that I have to get off my fat ass to drive 10 minutes to the blood clinic, I don't do it. If only I could give blood over the Web...... From Joho the Blog on January 5, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

Hope
This picture says so much. It shows how vulnerable the human race is when it has to confront nature's wrath. It also portrays the resilience of the human sprit. The hope that emanates from the lone house is within each one of us. Life will go on. We will survive. From elearningpost on January 5, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..

Essence of Podcasts
Yes, I may be grumpy. No I did not get an iPod for Christmas. Despite this extreme hinderance, I have sampled a few more, and am still feeling a yawn reflex or hearing the strumming of lowdown 12-bar blues. I was thinking of the old (and still alive) Movie-A-Minute site: Let's face it. There's a lot of movies out there and very little time to watch them in. Well sit From cogdogblog on January 5, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

Having Fun
Last night I added a 30-second message to the start of one of my seven-year-old daughter's favorite songs, loaded in on my iPod, and "surprised" her with it when I got home. It was easy. It was fast. It was fun. Sometimes I really marvel at how fun this all is. It's fun to: be almost constantly learning, not only by pushing my limited envelope with the tools but reading and thinking about intruiging ideas from really smart people. watch the tools evolve in ways that teachers and students can put them to good use without spending hours and hours to master them. be a par From weblogged News on January 5, 2005 at 10:48 a.m..

Upcoming talks: Montreal, Vancouver
On January 21 I will give a talk at the Montreal Conference on e-Technologies. The title is "Distributed Taxonomies in Open Systems" and it presents and compares del.icio.us and the Internet Topic Exchange through the lens of public, bottom-up metadata. Here's the abstract: Efforts at standardizing and organizing knowledge into taxonomies and ontologies in a centralized, controlled fashion help bring order and provide a c From Seb's Open Research on January 5, 2005 at 10:47 a.m..

The Demise of Slashdot
I love the web. Christian Wagner, from City University of Hong Kong, presents this interesting bit of thinking called The Demise of Slashdot, or why the wiki way is better. Good argument. I believe there is still something to say for good old-fashioned, turn-taking conversation when learning support is what we're after. However, I completely agree that if the goal is long-term value maximization of a set of "knowledge assets," the wiki way is obviously better. Why can't we have both? Imagine the value autounfocus on January 5, 2005 at 10:45 a.m..

Six Apart to buy Live Journal
They really want to be big. Om Malik on Broadband » Six Apart to buy Live Journal: "Folks have been predicting a big year for mergers and acquisitions in 2005, and we are starting the year with a bang. I have learnt exclusively that Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad, and Moveable Type is about to acquire Live Journal, for an undisclosed amount." From thomas n. burg | randgänge on January 5, 2005 at 9:47 a.m..

Hope: "Opening My Eyes"
Opening My Eyes is a compelling entry that reveals rich insight into the power of learning. Hope's Our General Store is a weblog focused on Building a community- based food network on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Yet as I... From Experience Designer Network on January 5, 2005 at 8:58 a.m..

Vonage Gives Wi-Fi a Voice - Colin C. Haley, Internet News
VoIP upstart Vonage and networking specialist UTStarcom have partnered to bring a portable Wi-Fi handset to market by summer. The phones are aimed at giving Vonage an edge over AT&T , Verizon and others by offering callers the convenience of a cell From Techno-News Blog on January 5, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

Blog creation, readership rise in 2004 - ANICK JESDANUN, AP
Readership of online journals known as blogs grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased awareness of them during the presidential campaign and other major news events, according to a study released Sunday. Twenty-seven percent of online adults i From Techno-News Blog on January 5, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

Wi-Fi goes (West) Hollywood - Ben Charny, CNET News
The city of West Hollywood, home of the renowned Sunset Strip, wants to join the growing ranks of municipalities making free wireless broadband available to anyone. The city plans to choose an equipment supplier by late February. Construction of an in From Techno-News Blog on January 5, 2005 at 8:49 a.m..

RSS Feeds for Monitoring Patents
This is a custom hack creates RSS feeds to monitor the USPTO patent application process. These pre-made feeds will monitor major players patent applications. From RSS Blog on January 5, 2005 at 7:59 a.m..

MasterMind Explorer - Issue 79 - For Independent Publishers and Change Agents
MasterMind Explorer - Issue 79 - For Independent Publishers and Change Agents From MasterMind Explorer on January 5, 2005 at 7:52 a.m..

From CILIP: Freedom of Information Web Resources - The Freedom of Information Act (2000) came into f ...
From CILIP: Freedom of Information Web Resources - The Freedom of Information Act (2000) came into force on 1 January 2005. This list provides signposts to FOI-related internet resources From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 5, 2005 at 7:48 a.m..

The Boloto Group has introduced a free software called the Library Card, an electronic pass that con ...
The Boloto Group has introduced a free software called the Library Card, an electronic pass that consumers use to access features of the Web by filling out a registration. With the Library Card, users have access to products, services, and entertainment ranging from online dating to career connections, personal finance to multi-lingual communications, and media From Peter Scott's Library Blog on January 5, 2005 at 7:48 a.m..

Campus Services for Adult Students
By Carlette Jackson Hardin - Colleges provide lots of support services designed to meet your specific needs as an adult student. Check them out, early!... From Adult/Continuing Education on January 5, 2005 at 6:51 a.m..

Did Quake Speed Earth's Spin?
A NASA scientist says the devastating Dec. 26 earthquake off Sumatra may have caused the planet to spin 3 millionths of a second faster and wobble about an inch on its axis. But scientists don't think such tiny shifts will have long-term effects. From Wired News on January 5, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Laser Wielder Faces Big Penalties
The feds use the Patriot Act to charge a New Jersey man who allegedly admits flashing a green light beam at overhead aircraft. The FBI says there's no terror connection, but the man faces a 25-year prison sentence and fines of up to $500,000. From Wired News on January 5, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Instant Detox
Kick heroin in 24 hours -- no willpower, withdrawal or preaching required. Call it a cure. Call it junk science. Call it the one-step program. By Joshua Davis from Wired magazine. From Wired News on January 5, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

India's Odd Couple: Cops and Tech
The country has a sterling reputation as a hotbed of technological know-how, but that knowledge doesn't always run deep, particularly in law enforcement. Manu Joseph reports from Mumbai, India. From Wired News on January 5, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

The Business of Fighting Terror
No Place to Hide tells how a nationwide obsession with preventing a terrorist attack has drawn lobbyists, cutting-edge technologists and government officials into a new industry. By Ryan Singel. From Wired News on January 5, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

Tech Gives It Up for Asia
Websites and tech companies get customers and employees to pitch in and help victims of the Southeast Asian tsunami. By Rachel Metz. From Wired News on January 5, 2005 at 6:46 a.m..

If Six Apart acquires Live Journal.... (danah boyd)
As Ross noted earlier, there is gossip in the air that Six Apart will acquire LiveJournal. I’m concerned about the cultural effects of this, some of which i’ve addressed in a rather verbose entry entitled The Cultural Divide Between LiveJournal... From Corante: Social Software on January 5, 2005 at 5:49 a.m..

Lo más buscado durante 2004
En Google: 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist: 1. Britney Spears 2. Paris Hilton 3. Christina Aguilera 4. Pamela Anderson 5. chat 6. games 7. Carmen Electra 8. Orlando Bloom 9. Harry Potter 10. mp3 En Yahoo!: Top Yahoo! Searches 2004: 1.... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 5, 2005 at 4:52 a.m..

thoughts on last.FM (danah boyd)
I’m never quite sure when some of my more random posts are of value to Many-To-Many readers so i don’t always post everything here. That said, i’ve written three entries as of late concerning Last.FM and i think that collectively,... From Corante: Social Software on January 5, 2005 at 4:49 a.m..

GuruNet launches free search site
Online reference provider GuruNet has launched Answers.com, an ad-funded reference site. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 5, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..

Inphase Technologies unveils holographic drive prototype
Holographic data storage developer Inphase Technologies has launched a prototype of a holographic storage drive, with data capacities that range from 200GB to 1.6TB on a single disk. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 5, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..

Eurotel Praha rolls out push-to-talk
Czech mobile operator Eurotel Praha has launched the Czech Republic's first push-to-talk over cellular technology. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 5, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..

Mesh networking next step for wi-fi development in Western Europe – report
European interest in mesh topology for creating large wireless networks has just started to take off, with most deployments still in their early stages. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 5, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..

Turkcell launches push-to-talk
Turkcell has begun offering its business customers a commercial push-to-talk service, deployed by mobile solutions provider Nokia. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 5, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..

Tiscali transfers businesses in Italy to Tiscali Italia
Italian ISP Tiscali has begun transferring its internal consumer, business, media and technology activities and Italian network infrastructure, entirely over to Tiscali Italia. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 5, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..

Sigmatel launches two-channel high definition audio codec
Semiconductor company Sigmatel has introduced the STAC9200 two-channel codec for PC applications. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 5, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..

Philips introduces reference design for integrated HD digital television
Philips' Nexperia enables consumers to import and display or play back MP3, JPEG and other media files from their personal media players or PC through connectivity options such as USB 2.0 or 802.11. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 5, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..

EA to buy stake in French game maker
US gaming company Electronic Arts is to buy a fifth of Ubisoft shares from European investment firm Talpa Beheer. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 5, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..

Nokia to sell Nextrom Holding shares
Finnish mobile handset maker Nokia is to sell its 3.2m Nextrom Holding shares, which represent approximately 80 per cent of the outstanding share capital. From Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe on January 5, 2005 at 3:55 a.m..

How Refreshing... Anders is GIVING money (to Tsunami Victims) For Blogging
Anders is doing something link worthy- offering to dotate $1 for every blogger who posts a list of relief agencies and posts it on a public blog. That's right, just post some links and/or make your own dontation, blog about it, and he chips in to the relief fund. I'd already Amazon-ed a contribution last week, but here's Anders' requested links: International aid organizati From cogdogblog on January 5, 2005 at 3:48 a.m..

Wednesday, January 05, 2005
The Top 5 Albums Released in 2004 in RHPT.com's iPod* (in no particular order)Flutterby  Butterfly Boucher How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb  U2 Feels Like Home  Norah Jones Finally Woken  Jem Smile  Brian WilsonHonorable Mention Hot Fuss  The Killers Runner Up Mind, Body & Soul  Joss Stone Although Released in 2003, So Good It's Worth Another Mention Life for Rent  Dido * As I do not have the means or the time to listen to every single album released in the past year, I limited my selection to those albums I actually acquir From RHPT.com on January 5, 2005 at 2:57 a.m..

U.S. Accounts for Half of P2P
The United States accounts for more than half of the world's file traders, according to a new study spotlighted at p2pNet. Using data collected from Big Champagne, the OECD reports Europe and Canada are experiencing the fastest p2p growth, and overall traffic has increased some 30% since last year. From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 2:55 a.m..

Pulling Back The Curtain...
On the Media - December 31, 2004 On The Media's John Solomon illuminates a few aspects of the radio production process that might come as a surprise to some listeners. A very entertaining piece from the NPR program On The Media detailing how pieces that are heard on NPR are edited. As the guy says, I always wondered how everyone sounded so articulate on those shows... the secrets are revealed... Podcasters take note... You too can learn to cut out the "uh, um's," and "you know's" Also the show itself is available as a MP3 download and as an RSS... From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 5, 2005 at 2:50 a.m..

Writing Teachers Describe Blogging
Yes, the blog bubble is mushrooming. Soon we may see less quizzical looks generated by the word. (remember when you had to explain what a mouse was or what a URL really provided?). I just skimmed some nice perspectives on blogs ppublished in LORE: An E-Journal for Teachers of Writing. The Digressions section features the words of mostly graduate students and adjunct faculty, with the current issue on the "B" word: In the past few years, blogging has become som From cogdogblog on January 5, 2005 at 2:48 a.m..

Putting context into context
Jared M. Spool has written an article on the importance of context, when designing sites or systems. To quote: Design happens at the intersection of the user, the interface, and their context. It's essential for interface designers to understand the... From Column Two on January 5, 2005 at 2:47 a.m..

BURST! Media Offers Blog Focused Network (Advertising) Channel
BURST! Media, an ad network, has launched an weblog sub-channel which includes Gawker Media sites Gawker, Wonkette and Defamer as well as the blogs BlueLemur, CelebCourthouse and 2WallsWebzine. Kyocera Wireless is the first advertiser to to use the channel. From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 a.m..

Good Piece on Folksonomies
Good piece by Adam Mathes, Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata: Perhaps the most important strength of a folksonomy is that it directly reflects the vocabulary of users. In an information retrieval system, there are at least two, and possibly many more vocabularies present (Buckland, 1999). These could include that of the user of the system, the designer of the system, the author of the material, the creators of the classification sch From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 a.m..

The five stages of media death
Clay Shirky responds to the article complaining about Wikipedia by one of its ex-founders with a point-by-point refutation and the observation that Wikipedia's detractors are going through the Kubler-Ross stages of death: It s been fascinating to watch the Kubler-Ross stages of people committed to Wikipedia s failure: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Denial was simple; people who didn t think it was possible simply dis-believed. But the numbers kept going From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 a.m..

2Wire MediaPortal
There's an opportunity for set-top manufacturing companies like Moxi and 2Wire to really outclass TiVo, simply because they designing devices around a very specific set of, well, specifications. The newly announced 2Wire MediaPortal, for instance, isn't just a satellite receiver. It's also an internet/Ethernet-enabled media streamer with a built-in 250GB hard drive, designed to provide all the PVR f From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 a.m..

There's a new beta of NetNewsWire 2 out
Which includes a more polished interface which feels more responsive and support for podcasting and the like From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 a.m..

INdTV considers show called 'That's F*&#ed Up'
I'd watch. Other shows under consideration for Al Gore's new cable network: INdTV Paparazzi, Citizen Reporter, All-Nighter and Addicted. Edgy stuff, just "no X-rated content" allowed. ('Edgy' lineup sounds like daytime public access to me. ;) -kc.) From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 a.m..

MSNBC's Citizen Journalist Report
Readers on why the deadly tsunami was the biggest story of 2004. From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 a.m..

AMD Alchemy Au1200 Processor, New Era of Portable Multimedia
Au1200 processor offers ability to store, manage and play fresh multimedia content on the goAMD today announced availability of the AMD Alchemy Au1200 processor, a low-power, high-performance, system-on-chip solution designed to provide living-room quality video entertainment for consumers on the go. The Au1200 processor has been optimized for personal media players (PMP) and enables a new generation of conveniences and features, including scalable DVD-quality displays, effortless video content From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 a.m..

The rise of personal media
As we kick off 2005 in the mediasphere, expect to see the winds of fundamental change whip harder. Rarely can those in periods of major transition see past the fog of the here and now. But let's try. Clues and foreshadowings abound. Dan Gillmor left his job as tech columnist for the San Jose Mercury News on Saturday, after 10 years in the high-profile post. In his new life as an independent agent, he says his new task From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 a.m..

Videora - BitTorrent RSS Reader
Like TiVo for BitTorrent, in that it has "Season Passes" and "Wishlists" From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 a.m..

Podcasting vs. Clear Channel
Podcasting is DIY radio for programmers and listeners alike. Will it save us from corporate radio? Or further isolate us inside our own miniature media worlds? BY DAN KENNEDY. The Boston Phoenix, January 3, 2005. Thanks to MediaCitizen From unmediated on January 5, 2005 at 1:55 a.m..

OM Malik - Six Apart to buy Live Journal !?!
Amazing! 2005! The year blogs, RSS and dynamic, easy to use web publishing become truly mainstream begins with a bang. From Six Apart to buy Live Journal.: QUOTEEXCLUSIVE: Folks have been predicting a big year for mergers and acquisitions in 2005, and we are starting the year with a bang. I have learnt exclusively that Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad, and Moveable Type is about to acquire Live Journal, for an undisclosed amount. The deal is a mi From Roland Tanglao's Weblog on January 5, 2005 at 1:52 a.m..

Strategies for information gathering
D. Keith Robinson has written a blog entry on information gathering approaches, in the context of web design projects. To quote: One of the areas in which I and my coworkers can see room for improvement is with information gathering.... From Column Two on January 5, 2005 at 1:47 a.m..

Tuesday, January 04, 2005
The missus and I finally managed to watch Shaun of the Dead, and I believe  I do not speak for the missus  that it is the most realistic zombie movie ever made. From RHPT.com on January 5, 2005 at 12:57 a.m..

Did the tsunami swerve around Burma?
Ethan has a fascinating post about the growing skepticism about the reports from the Burmese government that the tsunami caused only minor damage. The Myanmar government continues to refuse aid.... From Joho the Blog on January 5, 2005 at 12:49 a.m..

Navigation blindness
Henrik Olsen has written an article on the issue of navigation blindness, where global navigation is routinely ignored (filtered-out) by users of sites. To quote: Most web development projects put a lot of effort into the design of navigation tools.... From Column Two on January 5, 2005 at 12:47 a.m..

6A Acquires LJ (Ross Mayfield)
Six Apart is acquiring LiveJournal, according to Om Malik. The result is the largest blog vendor (6.5 million users), and a fairly independent one at that.... From Corante: Social Software on January 4, 2005 at 11:49 p.m..

Putting Context Into Context
This is a nice article that tries to analyze context, or elements of context that can influence design outcomes. Goals: What is the user trying to accomplish? How do the user's actions fit into the objectives of the organization? Process: What are the steps the user will follow? How does information flow from one step to the next? What are the various roles (such as creator, contributor, editor, or approver) that are involved? Inputs &#3 From elearningpost on January 4, 2005 at 11:47 p.m..