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January 28, 2004
del.icio.us social bookmarking.
the brilliant app with the clever domain name. you keep your bookmarks online through a simple link on your bookmark bar. the advantage of keeping your bookmarks online is that you have access to your bookmarks where ever you are. the brilliance comes in rather slyly after you post - you go to the front page and your link along with the number of other people who've also bookmarked the same thing. ha. love it.Posted by yatta at 3:08 AM | TrackBack
January 21, 2004
samsung's 25fps streaming video phone
sprintpcsinfo has posted some general specs on samsung's next interesting cameraphone - the a700. this one is truly special b/c it's a videophone. it records 25fps or streams 15fps with support for 3gpp, 3gpp2, and the h.263 codecs.i'm expecting a streaming video phone to eventually do for community television what cell phones in general did for community radio - they allowed these stations to compete with the big bois by enabling them to deliver live reports from the field at a much cheaper cost. even if public access doesn't picks up on this, i'm sure cnn will. either way, i think i found my next camcorder. damn. just when i was about to switch away from sprint, too!
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
monday night i was watching coverage of the iowa caucus on c-span when i saw howard dean get up on stage. i thought that i had seen enough so when i turned away, i missed the howard dean as the hulk impression. fortunately, kind souls andrea and jonah proceeded to fill me in on mr angry's spectacle that i now have some context for forwarding this ditty: the howard dean goes nuts remix.updated: here are a couple more links: version 2, version 3 - both fun but not as clever.
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January 15, 2004
yatta's list of cafes with free wifi access in new york city
okay. this will be an always changing post. every couple of weeks, cally calls me up from the street, asking me to give her the name and location of a cafe with free internet access that's close to her. like i'm supposed to know all of this off of the top of my head.
but i try to accommodate her anyway. whenever i do a google search for free wifi hotspots in new york, i usually get a list of useless access points only acceessibl from the street. either that or a list of every verizon and starbucks/t-mobile location in manhattan. the nycwireless/nodedb list is extensive but a little too overwhelming (geeky data-centric) for most folks i send that way. rarely do i get a simple list of (open) APs in places that are actually usable for any reasonable amount of time (accessible from some place other than a sidewalk.)
so to better facilitate cally and anyone else searching for free wifi hotspots in nyc here is my list of cafe's i've confirmed have free wireless internet access in new york, along with any other possibly useful information i can find. i'm going to link this entry from the front page so that people like cally and i can refer to it before leaving the house. (or rather, i can refer to it when cally calls me from the street asking for help again.)
i know the table prolly formats strange on the front page so click on the permalink for better legibility.
if you've found a cafe in 212 or 718 with a free wifi node (meaning: you've actually confirmed the network's existence), email me and i'll add it to the list.
tricia suggested that i also provide this as a pdf for people to keep on their desktop. i think that was a good idea.
name | type | location | train stop | hours | ssid | notes |
| 275 Grand | Cafe | 275 Grand Ave, Bklyn (@ Lafayette) | G to Classon Ave. | 11.00a-1.00a | Boingo | First 1/2 hr free, $7 for rest of day afterwards. (Didn't realize it was Boingo) |
| The Apple Store | Retail | 103 Prince Street (@ Greene St) | N, R, W to Prince St. | 10.00a-8.00p | Apple Store | Just sit upstairs like you're waiting to be helped at the Genius Bar. |
Big Cup | Cafe | 228 8th Avenue (@ 22nd Street) | C, E Train to 23rd Street | 7.00a-1.00a | bigcup | is anyone in here not a male model? |
| Cafe Cafe | Cafe | 470-b Broome Street (Enter on Greene) | C Train to Spring St, N, R, W to Prince St. | 8.00a-7.00p | ? | there are 3 ssids in the area, two of them are open. |
Retail | Ninth Avenue (Between 15th and 16th Streets) | A, C, E Train to 14th Street |
| ? | lots of tables to sit at | |
Cafe | 41 Avenue B (Between 3rd & 4th Street) | F Train to 2nd Avenue | 08.00a-12.00a | dtut | decor feels like a Park Ridge, NJ living room. :) | |
| Esperanto Cafe | Cafe | 114 Macdougal St (@ Minetta) | A/C/E/B/D/F/V to West 4th St. | 24 hours | WiFi is a little weak, but they have ethernet hookups(!) | |
| Fix Cafe | Cafe | North 11th & Bedford, Bklyn | L Train to Bedford Ave | ? | fixlounge | Instructions listed. DNS Server: 204.254.224.2 |
| Full City | Cafe | 409 Grand Street (@ Clinton) | F, J, M, Z Train to Delancy St. | cally: what info do you have on this? | ||
| MNN | Community Org | 537 W. 59th St (Between 10th & 11th Ave) | A, C, B, D, 1, 9 to 59th Street Columbus Circle | 10.00a-12.00a | mnn.public.wifi | 2nd floor "edit" lounge. |
| open@ir | Bar | 121 St. Mark's Pl (@ Ave A) | F Train to 2nd Ave, L Train to 3rd Ave | 7.00p-2.00a | open@ir | Folks sit at bar w/laptops out. Check out share on Sundays. |
Soy Luck Club | Restaurant | 115 greenwish Ave (@ Jane St) | A, C, E Train to 14th Street | 8.30a-9.30p |
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January 12, 2004
panasonic introduces the $700 3-ccd camcorder
how did i miss this in all of the ces coverage last week? thank you camcorderinfo. and a special thank you to you, panasonic!Posted by yatta at 9:49 PM
January 11, 2004
the 2004 ces show.
every january i lament the fact that no one will pay to send me to the consumer electronics show in las vegas. not b/c i have some need for a lap dance but b/c i believe that community media organizations shouldn't be looking for warez at pro teevee conventions. the consumer gear is getting just as good as the pro schtuff, and more importantly, if you want to know where media distribution is heading (isn't that the point?) you've gotta look at what sony and philips are doing b/c it's going to have a greater impact on a distributor's livelihood than acquisition formats will. this TV sh!t is about to change big and people have to start reading the signs. so although i didn't get to go, i've been following the blogs of several folk who did get to go, and this is what i found indicative:philips announces a TV that streams content from the web.
morgan freeman is releasing a first run film online.
while siemens announces the st60 videophone for europe, samsung gets closer to releasing the sch-v410.
ViXS introduces wireless HDTV.
Linksys releases a wireless DVD player.
sony releases a tv that receives it's signal via a wifi connection to a base station.
all of our content is getting networked and that's just the easy part. :)
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gabe on tour.
although i'd rather have him around town discussing all things film, radio, and cell phones, it's good to see gabe leave town for a while just to see him blog. he's on tour with the army, handing out pamphlets and condoms to unsuspecting teenage recruits, and getting in trouble with his superiors. as long as it keeps him off of the subway.Posted by yatta at 8:19 PM
happy new year.
first, a happy new year is in order. although half of me is waiting a few weeks for the year of the monkey. i've kept the braintag quiet for a couple of weeks as i concentrated on the holidays, new family (my first nephew) and my transition from mnn to eyebeam.oh yeah, i forgot to mention: i've switched life funding providers.
after seven years of working in public access television, i've left to join the staff at eyebeam, a new media artists workshop here in nyc. i'm still working on the same distributed media production projects that i started while at mnn. (and i'm still hosting my teevee show.) but i'm moving to a place where i'll have a lot more kenyatta time to work on the projects i enjoy. (working 60 hours a week for 350+ weeks can take it's toll on a fella.) i've known of and had great respect for the work of eyebeam artists and staff for a while. this should be a good team.
blah blah blah. enough with the chatter. let's get on with the year....
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