I wasn´t aware of this seminar which discussed different aspects of social software. Fortunately most of it is documented on video, which is accessible from the website.
On this day, one way of giving tribute to Susan Sontag would be to advocate books like On Photography (1977) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003) and the related article ”Regarding the Torture of Others”.
Update 20.01.04: ”Putting the photos in perspective” by Josie Appleton.
”Research is a dreary, dismal task, characterized by monotonous reading and constantly scribbling down where appropriate sources are found. It would be really helpful to have a secretary that noted all the interesting papers a student read, remembering the important paragraphs from each one, and putting the citations into appropriate format.”
The solution: Research Buddy, a plug-in to Firefox.
Sign the “Thank you, Poland!” letter
Guardian writes about Rock Player, a company that has developed technology allowing users of cell-phones with MMC slots to watch full-length films and TV shows. ”Because the content is stored on the card and not transmitted over the phone network, customers can watch the shows as many times as they like and are not thwarted by the lack of a phone signal.”
Which seems to work all right. It may turn out to be the best way to photoblog in the future. Had to do some minor editing, like changing the category, but that´s ok.
I´ve used Fotolog for quite some time, and I still believe their system for adding Friends & Favourites is very good. I still like Fotolog, but that doesn´t help much as long as I´ve been unable to upload photos to Fotolog on several occasions. Time to move on ….
Have to check Blog Torrent asap. Written in PHP the software promise to make it easier to share and download files using the bittorrent protocol. Blog Torrent don’t use MySQL one only have to upload a folder to the web host. Sounds like something I might manage :-)
KnoppMyth is an attempt at making the Linux and MythTV installation as trivial as possible. The current release is Release 4 and runs directly form the CD!
Version 1.5 enables easy online sharing from mobile phones and PCs. Nokia has joined forces with SixApart, but accordning to Nokia any blogging service providers can support Lifeblog by using Atom. Lifeblog 1.5 also has the ability to back-up to CD or DVD.
Lots of discussion over at dailykos.com about the failure of the Kerry campaign to use the Net as a p2p tool. (via M2M)
”BlogTelevision.net mines over three million blogs daily to find videos for your entertainment. We find and highlight the videos that people are talking (read: blogging) about! Nothing is censored and we update at least six times a day so check back frequently.
This is a perhaps one possible future of video-conferencing. Lip-synched avartars sounds like a good idea.
