My good friend Derryl (blog) just pinged this article at me…
It seems Ben Kinsley and Robin Hewlett teamed up with Google to get the temporal and spatial details regarding Google’s camera-equipped motor vehicles’ recording of street view images on Pittsburgh’s Sampsonia Way. Naturally, they staged an assortment of “outlandish scenes, including a 17th century sword [...]
…been meaning to post this interesting NYT article – it provides an inside look at the Discovery Channel’s process for digitizing content and repackaging it for Discovery.com and YouTube. Josh Freeman, Discovery’s executive vice president for digital media, is confident that advertisers’ demand for ad space on Internet video channels is only beginning to achieve [...]
from the epicenter…
This WIRED article lists five ways the cellphone will change how you listen to music. I know I’ve been using my T-Mobile G1 to tune into imeem in the gym. Not only does “tuning into the cloud” save me the time, effort, and memory involved with storing mp3’s on my phone, it also [...]
President Barack Obama’s inauguration today marks the beginning of what he promises to be the most transparent and accountable administration in American history. After all of the viral, grassroots digital media campaigning that got his message into social networks, SMS alerts, e-mail list servs and video games, President Obama has brought change to WhiteHouse.gov. The [...]
It looks like YouTube has a three strike policy for uploaders who attract DMCA takedown notices. Film critic Kevin Lee used his YouTube channel to make critical comments on films in the form of video essays. Of course, one would think that this kind of expression would be protected by the “fair use” section of [...]
“The Message” (*note: creator MadV took this video down; it’s been reposted by others…)
“What exactly is this? What do you call MadV’s project? It isn’t quite a documentary; it isn’t exactly a conversation or a commentary, either. It’s some curious mongrel form. And it would have been inconceivable before the Internet and cheap webcams—prohibitively expensive [...]
I’m not a “Twitterer” myself – I tried it for a while and just couldn’t get into it. However, I do belive this WSJ article about a woman who found employment through Twitter is an interesting piece on one obviously beneficial functionality of Twitter. Check it…
Snapter is a pretty cool shareware that allows you to take photos with your digital camera and convert them to legible scans. Snapter automatically rotates to a legible orientation, corrects curvature distortion of book page photos, and enhances the images to make them easier to read.
Check out Damien Oh’s pictures of the conversion from a [...]
