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January 31, 2005
Clever geeky sound bite of the month:
"The old way creates a tree. The new rakes leaves together."Oh, the things that make me chuckle nowadays....
Posted by yatta at 5:46 PM
January 30, 2005
dan, jeff, and jay @ 9.44p
Posted by yatta at 2:21 AM
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Reuters.com - Soviet-era Missile Deleted from eBay But Launcher Remains: A man listed a Soviet-era Zil 135 Free Range Over Ground rocket with launcher on eBay, and was promptly asked to remove it -- not because it's a WMD but because the rocket and launcher are separate items and, according to eBay terms of service, must be listed separately
true looks: " true looks takes over a store's webcam system, intended as a marketing ploy for online clients to check out their collection of smart Italian furniture." (Go Isabelle!)
Broadcasting & Cable - Turner Compares Fox's Popularity to Hitler: Ted Turner called Fox a propaganda tool of the Bush administration and indirectly compared Fox News Channel's popularity to Adolf Hitler's popular election to run Germany before World War II. (chuckle)
socanews.com: Daily news about soca and calypso.
oss4lib -- home -- Open Source Systems for Libraries: "we maintain a listing of free software and systems designed for libraries (the physical, books-on-shelves kind), and we track news about project updates or related issues of interest."
Perl Tutorial: Getting started with Perl/CGI scripting: "how to avoid common problems beginners have when writing their first scripts"
Using the .Mac SDK: This article introduces you to the .Mac SDK from a developer's perspective. We'll cover the components of the .Mac SDK, how it works, why you want to use it, and how you use it to build applications integrated with .Mac services
Perl CGI Script Debugging: Solving a 500 Internal Server Error (thesitewizard.com): This article attempts to give you some concrete, practical steps that you can take to narrow down the problem and hopefully eliminate it.
Driver, 10, runs into trouble and cop car: East Grand Rapids Deputy Chief Mark Herald said the father "wanted his kid to drive the car home. I don't know why a guy would do that."
Posted by yatta at 2:07 AM
January 25, 2005
multi-user Vimeo...
According to his development blog, Jakob's working on multi-user support for Vimeo.
Vimeo was a big hit at the Vloggercon Tools panel.
Posted by yatta at 8:26 AM
January 24, 2005
Providing Awareness and Alternatives to Hot 97 Radio (A Citizens' Tsunami.)
Last night, someone told me about the racist Hot97 skit mocking the Tsunami victims and referring to Asians as "chinks" and "little chinamen." It's an obvious ploy to get the station some play while their former star personalities move to the competing Clear Channel station but it's also inappropriate behavior for any media with that much marketshare and so few alternatives.
But even so, people have been doing their part to make them realize that they won't tolerate their intolerance.
Folks are starting sponsor petitions and boycott campaigns against both the parent corporation, Emmis Communications, and their sponsors. I commend and support these campaigns (I'm in the process of having my entire family cancel their SprintPCS and Nextel phone services of eight years), but like Tim Karr, I question whether they'll be effective enough. (Doesn't mean I'm gonna ignore it either, tho.)
In the above link to MediaCitizen, Tim suggests that folks file a "Petition to Deny" license renewal with the FCC. I'm not a fan of takedowns, but I do agree that both the sponsor and FCC petitions are good ways of taking charge of one's media. The other way is to show people (or give them) an alternative.
So first off, I'm going to start a list of "Alternatives to Hot 97", a list of hip-hop radio stations and radio shows, both mainstream and underground in the greater New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area. It'll take a couple of days to get this list into any real significant form, since I don't really listen to radio anymore, but I know folks who do. So I'm getting them to do what they can. (If you come across a non-commercial college radio or community radio hip-hop show in NYC, del.icio.us it and tag it "fuckhot97")
Second, I'm looking into legal ways to provide a radio alternative for my neighborhood. Right now a couple of strategically placed 100mW Ramseys with letters of consent from my neighbors sounds like an interesting idea.
In the meantime, here's the list...
(And remember, Hot 97's parent, Emmis Communications has sister stations throughout the country.)
Radio Alternatives to Hot 97:
99.5FM WBAI - Saturday nights, 12.00a-2.00a - The Underground Railroad
Net Radio Alternatives to Hot 97:
Smoothbeats.com
Hip Hop Podcasting:
iPodder.org hip hop podcast directory
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January 18, 2005
kenyattacheese will be down as we start moving servers again.
We're picking up stakes and moving kenyattacheese, unmediated, rocketboom, sheilacallaghan, and everyone else hosted on my server to a new host. Expect them all to go down and reappear over the next couple of days.
Posted by yatta at 10:55 AM
For Apple repairs in NYC, go to Tekserve
Wow. I just heard two different horror stories about getting your Powerbook or iBook repaired in New York City. And not to name names, but both stories involved some random Mac Store on Prince Street. The service was lousy, the lines were long, and the prices were exorbitant.
I've said it to people time and time again in everything but my blog so here it goes: If you have to get your *Mac or *Book fixed in New York, in or out of warranty, go to Tekserve.
May I never hear a bad Apple service story again.
Posted by yatta at 10:28 AM | Comments (2)
January 17, 2005
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HD For Indies: Thoughts on Art & the evolution of tools: So one professional says to the other, "As if anyone with Photoshop could do what we do."
Media is a Plural - Rory O'Connor's Blog » Metro Racism: The blog story (cross posted to mediachannel.org) that led to the resignations of two Metro executives for their racist remarks.
Dooogle - The Doogie Howser (only) Search Engine: Another quality product from Cory Arcangel, Mike Frumin, and Eyebeam R&D
Lost Remote: Tiger tags camera at 60 yards: Tiger Woods drove a golf ball through a film camera at a Nike commercial shoot
Plasma and LCD Flat Panel Displays - AVS Forum: AVS Forum on plasma displays
TVNewser: "E! Plans Daily Jackson Trial Re-Enactments": "Viewers around the world are interested in this trial and with no cameras in the courtroom, this series will be an excellent way to keep up with the day's events and bring the trial to life," E! prez Ted Harbert says.
Posted by yatta at 8:23 PM
January 15, 2005
DV Guide is rockin...
Drazen's been posting some great video over on DV Guide as of late. Anyone going through post-Suprnova BitTorrent withdrawl should hop on over to DV-G.
Posted by yatta at 2:18 PM
January 13, 2005
Investigating HDTV as a consumer end user
My only interaction with HD content has been in acquisition and post production. So I decided to save up my lunch money for an EyeTV 500. It arrived yesterday. I'll start playing with it after the weekend.
Posted by yatta at 11:36 PM
Offline prep.
Has anyone noticed the funky rhythm of unmediated lately? That instead of 10-12 consistent reblogged posts a day, instead you're seeing 20-30 posts every two days? And check out those post times: 2.30a, 3.30a. 4.15a! It's been ridiculous.
My daylight hours have been spent installing the Works In Process show which opens at Eyebeam next Thursday. Here's the roster:
Beeoff
Knowear
Mariam Ghani
Jenny Marketou
neuroTransmitter
Bec Stupak
As the tech guy, I usually judge how good a show is gonna be by how draining the installation process becomes. So far, this one is a keeper.
I've also been ankle deep in doing logistical planning for vloggercon. While Ryan, Jay, Steve and crew hold the important stuff down, I'm making sure we have enough napkins and name badges. (Just learned that the Konscious are on board to help Shawn and Dan handle live streaming. Right on!)
We're anticipating 100 people, but I think we're underestimating the crowd we'll get at the door. Last night I had one of those waking premonitions that makes me sketch out contingency plans in the margins of my subway reading. I was on iChat with Cally when she says, "Oh yeah, I'm going to this vloggercon thing next weekend. I saw something on Tony Pierce the other day. It sounds interesting."
If I had a glass of water, I would have done a spittake. Instead, I started dialing Jay's numbre. When friends at least two-times-removed from the distributed media thing start showing interest, you know you need to increase your capacity.
Posted by yatta at 10:37 PM
January 10, 2005
Jay sees things.
And they are fantastic..
Posted by yatta at 1:28 AM
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FirmTek 4 channel Serial ATA Host Adapter: Review of hot swappable SATA adapter for Mac/XP
Terry Heaton: The blogosphere's copyright secret: "I think we need to look at rewriting copyright laws, because once one of these things is posted on the Web, it becomes a free-for-all in terms of swiping and using."
CodeCon 2005: Program: Program of workshops for CodeCon 2005
CTHEORY.NET > Operational Media by Jordan Crandall: As a conceptual and material apparatus of engagement, operational mediation has always been about the detection and strategic codification of movement, and the development of maneuvers of strategic positionality
Posted by yatta at 1:25 AM
January 8, 2005
foosball in jersey @ 2.10a
Posted by yatta at 2:56 AM
January 7, 2005
Saving Face in Sundance.
Alice is in Sundance this year. I'm okay with receiving most of my news through blogs. But what does it mean when you find out what's going on with your friends through third-party blogs?
Posted by yatta at 2:44 PM | Comments (1)
January 5, 2005
Wherein the blogosphere discovers Concrete TV
Looks like Fleshbot and BoingBoing have found Ron Rocheleau's Concrete TV, perhaps my most favorite show on MNN ever. Created on two VCRs with worn out 'Record' and 'Pause' buttons, it was The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin channeled through video (I think he's moved on to digital tools since I last saw him.) It was collage that could make Nam June Paik quiver. It was montage that could make Eisenstein cry. It mixed good porn, bad movies and even badder music videos in a way that made pre-ritalin MTV look like the work of hacks. Concrete TV was mashup before most of those folks were out of grade school.
And if you haven't guessed, I thought it was pretty cool. Go check it out if you can.
Posted by yatta at 1:03 PM | Comments (2)
bunny has a blog.
bunny riedel, the executive director of the alliance for community media, that is.
welcome to the neighborhood.
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January 2, 2005
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Choire Sicha: Perhaps Some Of This Morning's Front Page Headlines Are True: Is relief "pouring" in? "Trickling" in? Bound up in "red tape"? Is it a "tidal wave" of assistance? Is it "building"? Do survivors "fight for aid amid corpses"?
Tire Sizing: How to decipher different bicycle tire sizing systems
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: The America I Wish We'd Been This Week: This is a personal essay, likely to make some people angry but perhaps to many others seem worth the read. It’s about the kind of nation I wish the United States had shown itself to be this week.
This Magazine: The Rebel Sell: What we see in films like American Beauty and Fight Club is not actually a critique of consumerism; it’s merely a restatement of the “critique of mass society” that has been around since the 1950s.
Posted by yatta at 11:43 PM
January 1, 2005
kelly @ 2.55a
Posted by yatta at 1:47 PM