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- iTunes Digital 45s = Lame Ass
Another lame idea from major music big wigs. If the decision was a screenplay, it would read something like this: (exhale cigar smoke) “I KNOW, LET’S RECYCLE AN OLD IDEA…WHAT ABOUT THEM 45s THINGS, WORKED GREAT UP UNTIL 1985, WHY DON’T WE TRY IT AGAIN BUT SELL THEM AS COMPRESSED MP3 FILES. WE’RE BRILLIANT!” [...]
- Cultural Analytics :: Mark Rothko Paintings
Overview by Jeremy Douglass at the 287-Megapixel HIPerSpace Wall at Calit2.
- Gebrauchsgraphik Magazine Covers
Covers from German graphic design magazine “Gebrauchsgraphik – International Advertising Art” circa 1950s / 1960s. The magazine is now called “Novum“. Via: allerleirau’s flikr stream.
- How To Turn Off open_basedir Restriction For a Specific Domain in Plesk
I just spent way too much time this afternoon trying to get this simple task figured out and thought I would post this to help anyone else who needs to edit the open base directory value for a specific domain on a LAMP server. I found out that I was barking up the wrong tree [...]
- Fix Your Face: Twitter for Music Marketing
This is what Twitter can be. Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and turntablist DJ-AM (Adam Goldstein) are offering a free download of their mix-tape in exchange for a Tweet plug. It’s a simple concept, first visit this page: http://twitter.trvsdjam.com , using OAuth the site will prompt you to tweet the following message to your [...]
- YouTube Downloader: Farkie
Oh I like this – Farkie is an easy to use, web-based media downloader: IE: YouTube videos, MySpace content, etc. To date, it’s the best one I’ve used. Let’s see how quickly Google and MySpace crack down on this, in the mean time, enjoy!
- Twitter Sucks
According to Tech Crunch, Apple is wanting to buy Twitter for $700 millionz. Not bad for a platform that’s fueled by narcissism! I still don’t understand Twitter, I really don’t. It’s a social experiment beyond my grasp of comprehension. My spotty participation in Tweeting has been as a result of peer pressure…and curiosity I suppose. [...]
- Documentary Film Modes – Genres – Types
Author Bill Nichols (Introduction to Documentary) breaks down documentary film modes as such:
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Documentary Mode
Chief Characteristic
[Deficiences]
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Hollywood Fiction (1910s)
Fictional narratives of imaginary worlds
[absence of reality]
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Poetic Documentary (1920s)
Reassemble fragments of the world poetically
[lack of specificity, too abstract]
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Expository Documentary (1920s)
Directly addresses issues in the historical world
[overly didactic]
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Observational Documentary (1960s)
Eschew commentary and reenactment, observe things as they happen
[lack [...]
- Wordle : Smart Looking Tag Clouds
Cool examples of terms of service mock-ups from Facebook, Google and Twitter. Check it out, try it with any text: http://www.wordle.net/. Via Tech Crunch.
- CRTC Regulation of Online Content
Watch Clip One – Colin Mochrie
Watch Clip 2 – Ira Wagman, an assistant professor at Carleton
Should CRTC programming regualtions apply to content that’s delivered online? Representatives from the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (led by Actor Colin Mochrie) argue that Canadian content is getting burried under foreign content as more and [...]
- Gmail Sync for iPhone and/or Windows Mobile Phones
Over the air, two-way sync bliss of email, contacts, calendar and tasks: https://www.nuevasync.com – works great!
- We Feel Fine
We Feel Fine is the brain child of Jonathan Harris and Sep Kawvar. Harris describes the project as “a combination of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling”. The web-based application harvests blog posts for the terms “I feel” and “I Am Feeling” and then collects, stores and analyzes the entire sentence that the terms [...]
- Ubiquity :: Mozilla Labs
I’m super impressed with this new service launched today from Mozilla Labs. Uniquity combines natural language commands i.e.: “map the Sunrise Cafe in Calgary” with everyday uses of email / web / calendar tasks, etc. Expanding on the above command, I could tell Ubiquity: “map the Sunrise Cafe in Calgary, email Joe S. the link [...]
- 1 Bit :: Tristan Perich
Tristan Perich is an artist and musician who explores the asethetics of low-fi technology. He’s designed a circuit that plays back music at 1 bit (the lowest possible resolution). To put this into context, most digital recording today is done at 32 bit, in other words 32 times the amount of information. When you purchase [...]
