Archive for the 'New Media' Category

Jan 08 2010

I Love This Time of Year – Part II

Published by Andy Rush under New Media, Technology, umwnewmedia

So CES is in full swing and there is varying opinion when the question “did you see anything cool at CES” gets asked. Some of the gadget blogs that I mentioned in the last post make it sound like everything is cool. So here is my take on what I’ve read about so far. By [...]

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Jan 07 2010

I Love This Time of Year – Part I

Published by Andy Rush under New Media, Technology, umwnewmedia

There’s no question that a new year brings a sense of anticipation for better things. The whole resolution thing is a great indicator that people at least psychologically want to make things better and are excited about what is to come. 2009 in particular seems to be a year that people are more than pleased [...]

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Nov 16 2009

Whistleblowing Via YouTube

Published by Andy Rush under New Media, YouTube

The Read Write Web brought to my attention the plight of a Russian police officer who, rather than surrender to the rampant system of corruption, decided to go public and expose it. Now, corruption in Russia is hardly a surprise, and one can imagine that in a world before Internet video, anyone who tried to [...]

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Jul 31 2009

Macs and PCs can play nice

Published by Andy Rush under New Media, umwnewmedia

New Media can mean working with huge files. Moving them from one computer to another has gotten easier with large capacity USB powered hard drives ( I like the Western Digital Passport drives). However, trying to move files from a PC to a Mac, or vice-versa can cause some issues. One of the problems is [...]

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Jul 30 2009

Blogo Away

I recently switched from Windows to Mac, and one of the things I miss is the Windows Live Writer software that allowed me to write a post in a word processor-like program on my desktop and then send the finalized post to my blog. This allowed me to be more spontaneous with my posts, and [...]

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Jul 01 2009

All sun and no clouds makes for six more weeks of winter

I was getting nostalgic about my blogs (as nostalgic as I can get with something that started in 2004). I wondered how I could get an easy view of my blog posts, and review where I had gone over the last 5 years. I decided to use a plugin that I used at the New [...]

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May 27 2009

Giro Heroes

Published by Andy Rush under Audio & Video, Blogging, New Media

Lance and Levi Postrace Recap After Giro’s Stage 15 — powered by http://www.livestrong.com

I’ve got lots of things on the burners right now, but along with the Hockey play-offs, I’m watching unprecedented coverage of the Giro d’Italia (even as I write this). The Tour de France has gotten lots of play over the years, with the [...]

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May 14 2009

New Media Faculty Academy

This is just a quick post that will be used as an introduction to my New Media Buffet presentation. Actually this is old, new media, but the Video Toaster/Webcam Max/Ustream.tv was put into service once again this year to stream the events. We also recorded the video so that we can post them online for [...]

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Mar 16 2009

Small Pieces Constantly Changing

Published by Andy Rush under Blogging, New Media, umwnewmedia

An interesting thing happened on the way to, and from, our presentation on “Small Pieces To-Go” at the ACCS 2009 conference. Change. Alright, change isn’t a big deal in our world, but it’s one that I found very exciting and it’s a pretty good indication of where things are going in the mobile computing environment. [...]

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Jan 21 2009

Ubiquitous YouTube

Sarcasm notwithstanding, the sentiment in the above video is held by many people – “YouTube is a site of millions of sucky videos.” I have, in the past, argued against that statement here, here, here, and here. Until recently, a valid argument for YouTube’s suckiness would have been that high quality video was not an [...]

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