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Archives for November 2005
Indefensible shit
BBC NEWS | Health | Romantic love ‘lasts just a year’
For shame BBC for posting this kind of nonsense.
This is a article about how some bunch of Italian scientists has apparently proven that “romantic love” (what a scientific phrase that is) only lasts a year.
From the article it seems that what they really found was [...]
OMDS
This week’s Earshot was a holiday special put together from interviews I did during the Open Media Development Summit last month.
Chris, Mo, Mouna and Sean all came by while I aired it. Good times.
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Fallacy of Market-Based Solutions to Privacy Problems
I just read chapters 5 & 6 of Solove’s The Digital Person. It’s about the limitations of the idea of the market providing adequate protection to people’s privacy. The idea that people don’t care about their personal information because they are prepared to sign it away for free is one of those disingenuous arguments that [...]
RSS
RSS is so cool. The more I find out about it the more amazing I think it is. I’ve been happily getting news and video by RSS for a year now but I’m only now thinking about how versatile a way it is to distribute media. I read earlier that is is a new media [...]
Flickr and the Return of the Real
So for our group assignment this week Sean, David, Monica and I had to do a group study of Flickr. I’ve never used Flickr, except to look at other people’s pictures, mostly of TNO, so it was really interesting for me.
We were looking at how Flickr interacts with the “real world”, or the incursion of [...]
A VC: The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed)
A VC: The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed)
Community Broadband
This week’s Earshot was about Community Broadband. I spoke to Ben Scott from Free Press, and also to Mo SantRam, my friend who is part of Neighbornode.
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Sound and Vision
NeuroPop White Paper - this is the White Paper of a company that claims to be able to affect your brain with their sound design. Sciency.
Sonic Weapons - an interesting Fortean Times article about the myths related to the use of sound as a weapon.
Neural Noise Synthesiser - another company that claims to be able [...]
Making Money
In season 3 of Primetime it’s impossible for the Networks not to lose money. You can’t get enough money from the advertisers to come even close to covering even an A show.
Our response has been to create the cheapest TV possible - 3 hours of DV footage shot by a homeless person and edited [...]
VideoBlog Directory
I signed up to VLOGDIR The Videoblog Directory
I guess my blog only has videos occasionally, but I’m working on changing that.
Still and all, it’s pretty cool. I’ll probably find a few new feeds to subscribe to on FireANT. Hurrah!
