Diablog August2005

Trying vided.org

Still some quircks, but Åsmund seems to have done a lot of work with vided.org. I´m just trying if I´m able to post in my own blog too:
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Business and Open Source

Paul Graham on What Business Can Learn from Open Source:
”…the biggest thing business has to learn from open source is not about Linux or Firefox, but about the forces that produced them. Ultimately these will affect a lot more than what software you use.”

AutoStitch

Played a little with AutoStitch. This panorama software automatically recognise and stitch panaoramas without user input. It is free, and works really well.

These small images does not do justice to the software, but hopefully it give you an idea of what it is possible to achive using AutoStitch.

Participatoryculture.org

DTV is a new, free and open-source platform for internet television and video.

”An intuitive interface lets users subscribe to channels, watch video, and build a video library. Our publishing software lets you broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost. The project is non-profit, free and open source, and built on open standards.”

Wikiwyg

Wikiwyg is ”the simple way to add Wysiwyg editing to your existing social software project”. There are probably still some bugs in the current version (0.10), but this project seems to be worth following

Fair? Balanced? It Does Not Matter

Many people believe that biased reporting influences who wins or loses elections. A new study by Stefano DellaVigna of the University of California, Berkeley, and Ethan Kaplan of the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University, however, casts doubt on this view.

Specifically, the economists ask whether the advent of the Fox News Channel affected voter behavior. They found that Fox had no detectable effect on which party people voted for, or whether they voted at all. (via NYT)

Participators or citizens?

Samantha Henig in Colombia Journalism Review attempts to define and draw a distinction between participatory journalism and citizens’ journalism.

State of the Blogosphere

Summary:

iChat AV experiment

CNN uses iChat AV to conduct face-to-face interviews in a new US show ”The Situation Room” which aims to mix traditional reporting with new online technologies:

”Assembles top CNN correspondents, analysts, contributors and guests for complete, up-to-the minute coverage of the day’s events. Modeled on the concept of the White House Situation Room, the programme combines traditional reporting methods with the newest innovative online resources, making the entire process of newsgathering more transparent and placing the latest news and information at the viewers’ fingertips.”

Joichi Ito have written about his experience as an interviewee.

iChat.

Shoots film on mobile phone

Shane Meadows has made a short film on a mobile phone. The 15-second short was created to attract young film-makers to the Nokia Shorts competition for films made on mobile phones. Competition organisers say Meadows is the first established director to make a short film on a mobile phone.

Trust in media

CNN’s Chris Cramer writes in The Independent:

”… research tells us that these days audiences and readers have a pretty low opinion of journalists. They blame a catalogue of errors, misjudgements and plain bad journalism. But as we saw in the days after the tsunami and most recently in London, there is a new readiness by the public to embrace the media as an outlet for pictures and video footage which they themselves have shot.”

BBC backstage

backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC’s developer network to encourage innovation and support new talent. Some of the protoypes seems interesting.

Aesthetics of Play

Aesthetics of Play aims to address the diversity of cultural meanings as they are expressed in computer game technology and software. The conference is hosted by the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the Univeristy of Bergen.

Check out the programme.