And He Blogs

Do you recognize this place? Let me give you a hint. Still don’t recognize the place? Maybe you’re not a Windows XP user, but if you are, the chances are good that you’ve considered putting this scene on your computer desktop. The place depicted in this photograph, called Autumn Lane, was the subject of an [...]

Several months ago I was working on specifying a computer to serve as our video editing workstation. I wound up ordering a Dell with dual Xeon processors, 2GB of RAM, 1TB of hard disk space, etc. Horsepower (baby) is what you need to do video editing, and the more the better. Which is why it [...]

Lawrence Lessig is doing some great online presentations (again) with a whole series of Internet Policy “videos”. The first presentation, featured above, talks about a little-known subject regarding copyright called “Orphan Works”. Lessig’s presentations are always informative, and the presentation style is highly engaging. I look forward to this whole series dealing with subjects like, [...]

I’ve been holding a post in my Bloglines account for a couple months now about news of a new version of the “Levelator“. In the above video, from Robert Scoble, Doug Kaye talks about some other gizmos that make a podcaster’s life easier. Get The Levelator at Gigavox.com.

One of the challenges I and my colleagues face on a daily basis is answering the question “what are blogs?”, and “what are they good for?”. Blogumentary (now available on Google Video) is an attempt to show the importance of blogs by showcasing their inherent ability to facilitate conversations in our daily life. Chuck Olsen [...]

OK. I got my silliness out. On the serious side, this new service from Netflix has got some potential. When I first discovered that my “Watch Now” tab had appeared and played some video, I was impressed with the quality. However, the selection was lacking. Now just a few days later and new movies are [...]

I’m Somebody Now!

It’s worth a quick mention (and showing) what the new Mojiti service is capable of. Martha pointed to the Mojiti interpretation of the viral Web 2.0 The Machine is Us video, which inspired me to investigate further. The service does depend on a third-party service like YouTube to host the video. The above example uses [...]

Sometimes I need to see things twice before they get my attention. I first saw Picnik at Tim Lauer’s site, but it didn’t register until Will Richardson posted about it today. Picnik is a “Flashy” type online app that covers the basics like resizing, color touchups, cropping, and saving. It’s real power comes from it’s [...]

Quite a brave attempt to emulate the OK GO “treadmill” video that was a favorite of mine. This video was found thanks to the connection I made with the Digital Ethnography folks.