Mark (his blog) is into google apps including google reader an online rss client, along with google mash up editor.
Archive for the 'Tools' Category
In the still/open workshop Mark Whiting introduced us to the mapping tool compendium which we he used to map the discussion in the first workshop project. The mind map is viewable on the post ‘Source of Openness, an Image of the Face to Global’.
Free tool offers ‘easy’ coding
By Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News
A free programming tool that allows anyone to create their own animated stories, video games and interactive artworks has been developed.
Primarily aimed at children, Scratch does not require prior knowledge of complex computer languages.
Instead, it uses a simple graphical interface that allows programs to be assembled like building blocks.
I prepared this link resource for the course Networked Media which grew into other affliated resources that make up this post. Most of the online video preparation and publication that we do is in QuickTime with a .mov result. Some of the resources referred to here also touch on other media players and file types.
Media players (context): QuickTime wikipedia QuickTime definition; real player; wikipedia real player definition; Windows Media Player - wikipedia WMP definition; Flip4mac - home website; Flash; VLC (open source) wikipedia VLC definition
QuickTime, WHY?: QuickTime apple website - why quicktime?; Why QuickTime? dvblog
Streaming Video: wikipedia streaming media;webcast; The streaming suitcase; video on streaming viddler - rin Jansen, author of “NetLingo The Internet Dictionary” and founder of NetLingo.com,
Compressing Video:CompressingH264 media wiki (miki); H.264 compression; quicktime tutorials apple H.264 apple information; video for ipod; quicktime tutorials apple freevlog - 4.1 Compress For The Web (iMovie); Make Internet TV: Exporting video (video clip explanation)
Applying a Creative Commons License onto video clips - marking video
Video sharing and embedding:; blip tv; Wordpress - vPIP plug-in; uploading video freelog (includes blip.tv)
video tutorial sites: our media; current TV
In the still/open workshop we are getting into the following open source apps:
arduino - The open-source Arduino environment makes it easy to write code and upload it to the i/o board. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The environment is written in Java and based on Processing, avr-gcc, and other open source software.
processing - Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions.
Video Networks; Garrett Lynch and Frédérique Santune
Video Networks is a research project consisting of the development of an electronic interface system for enabling the creation of networked or connected video based art works and the works produced with this system. It’s purpose is to explore the potential of creating works which are cinematic in nature yet break away from fixed linear narratives to explore concepts such as montage, collage, mixing, rhythm, looping, non-linearity in combination with simple interactivity in real time.
Engage Media release open source video sharing software.
Plumi is a Free Software video sharing Content Management System based on Plone and produced by the EngageMedia collective. Plumi enables you to create your own sophisticated video sharing site; by adding it to an existing Plone instance you can quickly have a wide array of functionality to facilitate video distribution and community creation.
interview Andrew - Engage Media on release of plumi - audio on Indymedia Opening question for the interview on Indymedia:
With video.indymedia currently dead and googlevideo, youtube etc dominating the upload your own online video sector, what is the realistic future of truly independent video online?
Saw this as a useful tool to record skype interviews. From the web site:
Audio Hijack is the perfect tool to record any audio on your computer. With Audio Hijack, you can quickly and easily save audio from almost any application to an AIFF file. This file can then be burned to a CD, or played in any software audio player like iTunes or any hardware audio player like an iPod.
In my search for the private/public view option (like on flickr) for video, I discovered that blip.Tv require a paid subscription for this service. On google video it is available Can I restrict who sees my video? with more information What are “unlisted” videos?. Samson and Goliath.
There is an extensive audiovisual resource on the p2p foundation wiki, which has an audiovisual category. The supporting article ‘The construction of an alternative media infrastructure’ provides the ideology behind the initiative.