Slate\'s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of Feb. 8, 2010.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Listen to Hang Up and Listen with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca by clicking the arrow on the audio player below: [ more ... ] Podcast - Slate - Mike Pesca - Recreation - Stefan Fatsis .. read more..
The largest American charitable contributions of 2009.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Slate 60 Introduction | Donor Bios | Interactive Feature | Searchable Database [ more ... ] Charitable contribution - United States - Business and Economy - Philanthropy - Donation .. read more..
Why Google Chrome is better than Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Friday, February 5, 2010
I like to think of myself as the Dick Cheney of the Browser Wars—an unyielding proponent of greater and greater hostilities between the developers working on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera. As all these programmers compete with one another to make faster, more stable, and mor.. .. read more..
Rewriting Apple\'s History
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
As Mark Twain put it, \"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest don\'t happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" Normally the winners write history, but Apple\'s success and lofty stock price has given a number of media executives a bad case of P/E envy. The.. .. read more..
VAST 2.0 To Bring Order -- But Not The Kind We Might Think
Monday, February 1, 2010
The legacy of friction that existed during the first frontier of online video may have been put on notice last November, when the Interactive Advertising Bureau released VAST 2.0, an update to the Digital Video Ad Serving Template that it created in July 2008. The video industry had been in never-en.. .. read more..
We Just Can\'t Boil The Video Ocean
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
I tend to lump video viewership into traditional \"offline\" and \"online\" buckets. My rule of thumb over the years has been that the more complex the video delivery solution, the larger the audience it serves. For instance, when watching broadcast television, the video signal is transmitted via satell.. .. read more..
My latest read – Our Choice
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Al Gore\'s latest book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis should be considered by anyone interested in learning how the world can conserve resources with next generation technologies to reduce the globe\'s carbon footprint. Its easy to think this book is a political sequel to An Inconveni.. .. read more..
Large Hadron Collider’s big network
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
15 petabytes of data a year will be generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a particle physics project running at CERN and that requires a very robust network. Data generated by LHC is being distributed to over 7,000 scientists worldwide and travels across the US Midwest via BoreasNet . In th.. .. read more..
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Movable Type\'s just released version 5 looks like an exact theft copy of WordPress: Tags: Movable Type , WordPress , imitation , Design , trends Related Blog Posts: The new iMac makes a leap Advertising with Google Maps Designers: Core Animation Moving digital saves trees Visual plagiarism .. read more..
Fortune: Apple’s next Newton
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Fortune\'s TechMate segment about Apple\'s upcoming tablet (referred to as the next Newton ) proves to me that Michael Copeland has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. The TechMate video automatically starts when the page loads — and their embed tag does not permit a video to begin whe.. .. read more..
Google Web Toolkit 2.0
Sunday, December 20, 2009
An overview of Google\'s Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.0, a tool with new updates that empower developers to write highly optimized, browser-specific JavaScript for their apps. Pretty cool stuff. Click here to view the embedded video. Tags: Web Toolkit , Google , Developers , datasets , innovation , technolo.. .. read more..
Post-Mortem Conference Mashup: The Internet as Playground and Factory
Saturday, December 19, 2009
by Trebor Scholz &.. .. read more..
GeekSouth July – Thunderdome\'s and amateur HDR
Thursday, July 23, 2009
UPDATE: Some additions from the presentation Explore: Flickr Group: flickr.com/groups/hdr/ Dave Hill photography: davehillphoto.com Local photo group: phototricities.com Learn: Youtube tutorial (CS3): youtube.com/watch?v=CVuDbcAfN_I Photoshop Cafe tutorial: photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/HDR_ps/hdr-ps.. .. read more..
On MTurk, Some Examples of Exploitation
Thursday, June 11, 2009
I wrote the following text some time ago. It is part of a much longer piece. I\'m posting it now as it relates to an ongoing discussion on the iDC list . = Today, the means of communication are in the hands of Internet users but the environments in which those tools reside are privately owned. Is th.. .. read more..
A short spring note
Saturday, January 31, 2009
It has been a while since I wrote here last. In the meantime we had a baby and spent three months in Northampton where I very much enjoyed research time in the library at pictoresque Smith College . I was tenured in Media Study at SUNY Buffalo and almost simulatenously hired by Eugene Lang College .. .. read more..
NYU and UCI: Songs of Sorrow, Songs of Hope
Friday, December 5, 2008
In September 2001 as performing artists and collaborative arts engineers were working on a joint performance about Cassandra between the two institutions, the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed. This was a devastating blow and for a few weeks the collaborators at NYU felt they were in a w.. .. read more..
Collaborative Process
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
The nature of a new medium is the absorption of previous media and their contents. At least that is what seems to be one of the tenants of Marshall McLuhan\'s discoveries in Understanding Media. As startling as that claim might have seemed, how could it be otherwise? It almost seems to be a confirmat.. .. read more..
Improve Your Recordings and Mixes, on the Cheap
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Some of the easiest ways to improve your recordings are also the cheapest. In fact, the most effective techniques require no money at all. Here\'s a collection of tips you might find helpful the next time a pricey piece of gear stands between you and great recordings. Help from others Have a friend .. .. read more..
Beth Coleman, Free Culture, and the Network Effect
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
About two weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking at MIT\'s Zones of Emergency . Like at previous occasions I tremendously enjoyed discussions there; what an inspiring intellectual community. | View | After the presentation I had an email exchange with Dr. Beth Coleman who is professor in Writing a.. .. read more..
Latest Posts on The Kinetic Interface Blog
Friday, April 25, 2008
Just a reminder that I\'m now blogging on my new blog on Great Dance The Kinetic Interface . Here are links for and summaries of my latest posts: Gestures Control Life-Sized Holograms Tokyo-based LM3Labs created AirStrike, which lets you use gestures and hand motions to interact with life-sized holo.. .. read more..