Monday, December 15, 2008
Seesmic is a recent sharing platform that has been developed around using online video for commenting. Background on wikipedia including the person behind this venture. It has been seen as a version of twitter video and is directed towards webcams. A flash interface is being used with a MySQL database.
1.Set up a blog for reblogging using the http://media.rmit.edu.au/ address i.e. mog
2. Free download NetNewsWire a desktop RSS and ATOM reader.
3. To make it an easier process purchase a copy of ecto a desktop blogging client.
4. In the preferences of NetNewsWire choose to publish to ecto directly.
5. Add the RSS feeds from each of [...]
Chris let me know recently about a online documentary that he made titled ‘Thumb Candy’ on SMS text culture in the Philipphines that he put together within a blog. He gives Videodefunct a plug on the More about the project page as being an influence on using tagging and a blog to classify the video [...]
Sunday, November 18, 2007
I attended Melbourne wordcamp and caught a couple of presentations. Christine Davis the producer of the ultimate tag warrior did a presentation titles ‘Tags, Categories, Taxonomies, Folksonomies, Oh My!’. Tags where a hot topic of discussion with James Farmer pointing out that wordpress had been slow to include tags as part of the WP CMS [...]
Thursday, November 15, 2007
A Vienna media group CONT3XT.NET contacted me to see about putting an rss feed from net-video in their sidebar. They are getting up a project called MOVING.IMG About:
CONT3XT.NET is a Vienna-based organisation founded in 2006 as a collaborative platform for the discussion and presentation of issues related to Media Art. Against the background of [...]
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
I keep leaving the archive backup for long periods and of course I forget the procedure so this is a note to come back to. WordPress backups on the codex. The step-by-step instructions. First up transfer the server blog folder to my desktop then onto the external. Next the archives accessed mySQL through phpMyAdmin. In [...]
Another video download from Beyond Broadcast 2006 Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture. The panel session ‘The future of digital community.’ The first speaker Brendan Greeley talking about radio open source.… about:
Open Source is a conversation, four times a week on the radio and any time you like on the blog. We designed [...]
Beyond Broadcast 2006‘Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture’. The panel session ‘The future of digital community.’ Speaker Tom Geraco gather.com How do you work with user created content in public media on the Internet? He states that the issue in the blogosphere is that “good content is hard to find because it is lost [...]
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Tom Worthington notes on Stephen Mayne’s (Crikey.com founder), talk on journalism and the role blogs could play in media.
Stephen argues that Web 2.0 user generated content is not new. Letters to the editor and talkback radio are old forms of user generated journalism. Unfiltered anonymous online forums quickly generate into a mess. Bloggers don’t [...]
Creative Commons have a tool ccPublisher for tagging video and audio with a creative commons license:
“ccPublisher is a tool that does two things: it will help you tag your audio and video files with information about your license and it allows you to upload Creative Commons-licensed audio and video works to the Internet [...]
