Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Tools for Participatory Culture (Donna Wentworth). Downhill Battle: "The project is a free, open source set of software tools for watching and distributing high quality, full screen videos over the internet at almost no cost to the publisher (BitTorrent, baby). For viewers, this means you can elegantly and simply subscribe to your friends' channels, a channel for your zipcode, or organizations and watch a truckload of videos that you can't get on regular TV. For videomakers, you'll finally have a publishing tool for all your videos -- it will be as easy as blogging -- just upload your files and you have a channel." Google: "At present, Google Video allows you to search within an expanding archive of TV content -- sports, docs, and news, mostly. But today, with the launch of the company's Video Upload Program, Google has begun accepting video content from anyone who cares to upload it." [Copyfight] 11:17:30 PM    comment []

R.I.P., Johnnie Johnsons: Johnnie B. Gone. On E! Online [NewsIsFree: Popular Items] 11:09:11 PM    comment []

Mid-afternoon prank break. Midafternoon prank break: The production value of college pranks has defintely increased since my generation. (via yewknee.com) [rexblog: Rex Hammock's Weblog] 11:08:49 PM    comment []

Mark shares his thoughts on The end of an era - The Desktop PC -- where we are now, what's exciting, and what to expect next. [Blog Maverick] 11:08:33 PM    comment []

Bluetooth Sniper Rifle. We've all known that you can intercept Bluetooth communications from up to a mile away. What's new is the step-by-step instructions necessary to build an interceptor for yourself for less than $400. Be the first on your block to build one. Is there anyone who can make a reasonable argument that RFID won't be similarly interceptable? [Schneier on Security] 3:31:21 PM    comment []

Sound like anyone you know? Yeah. Me, too.  Love Me, Love My iPod Playlist (Alan Wexelblat). Interesting report out of Beki Grinter's lab at Georgia Tech showing that co-workers sharing digital music in the workplace form impressions based on others' musical libraries. Whta's interesting is not just that this happens, but there's an awareness of this process. People are consciously shaping what they share in an effort to build a favorable portrait of themselves, even with coworkers they don't know and don't interact with that much. As part of a conscious process, music-sharing is acting as part of the community-building practice in the workplace. Once again, this is an example of user repurposing devices. Apple built in the sharing features so that people in a home setting - a family - could share music off an iPod. I doubt they intended people to set up image-building jukeboxes in the workplace. [Copyfight] 3:28:35 PM    comment []

Beer giant threatens boycott over GM grain. On CNN [NewsIsFree: Popular Items] 7:31:56 AM    comment []