vlog 4.0 [a blog about vogs]

Bookmarks for May 20th through May 24th

These are my links for May 20th through May 24th:

• Team Based-Learning – Canadian project site for team based learning which looks like it is a very useful way to approach collaborative work and reflective practice.
• [Beta] How do you design? – Web project come prototype of a book all about design. Well, a collection of articles. Looks very interesting and a lot of very good material.
• MERLin: Constellations 2.6 – A hypercard stack/tool that was developed to let you annotate and tag video. Comes from anthropology. An oldie but a goodie.
• Leighton Pierce – Someone who concentrates/specialises in only making beautiful, semi-abstract (affective, impressionistic) short works.
• Narrative Exploration in Expanded Cinema – Video documentation from a major recent conference on expanded cinema. With the web and all expanded cinema is finding new legs (rather than sprocket holes).

Roos and Ryanne

Ryanne has put up the video she shot last Saturday. Seth and I took her and Jay out to Westerfolds as they wanted to see some kangaroos. It’s a metropolitan park only a few k’s out of the city, on the river, and I mountain bike there quite a bit so knew we’d have a good chance of seeing the local mob. Struck gold. Not the usual small group but I think the entire local mob of 40 or 50 were all together lolling around out of the wind. They were toey, so we couldn’t get that close. Reckon might be the highlight of Ryanne’s Australian adventure.

Bookmarks for May 18th through May 20th

These are my links for May 18th through May 20th:

• The Substance of Style, Pt 1 by Matt Zoller Seitz – Moving Image Source – Part one of five video essays. I think each is about Wes Anderson. Sort of micro academic essayist documentary online?
• An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country. – By Chris Wilson – Slate Magazine –
• CINER-G — Concordia Interactive Narrative Experimentation and Research Group – Interactive narrative experimentation group. Out of Concordia. Interesting cinema based research.
• Pods : WordPress CMS Plugin – WordPress plugin that offers CCK like functionality (apparently). Suspect not for the faint hearted.
• Synchronous Objects : Counterpoint Tool – Visualising choreography from dance to data. Haven't played with this yet but on the surface… intriguing

Bookmarks for May 13th through May 17th

These are my links for May 13th through May 17th:

• YouTube Bibliography | Watching YouTube – Large, detailed and ongoing bibliography of academic material related to YouTube. Must.
• P2P File Sharing Browser Plugin LittleShoot BitTorrent Gnutella – Web based p2p service/tool. Sort of torrents via browser….(I think).
• WordPress › WordPress Video Solution Framework « WordPress Plugins – This is the backend that wpmu uses for transcoding, etc. Requires a dedicated server for transcoding, webhosting, and so on. But cool that it is made available.
• The Root Of The Matter: Emily Bell on The Future of Journalism – Notes from audience member of a talk on the future of journalism. Has some really nice observations from someone who actually knows the network, journalism, and journalism as a business.
• The Interaction Design Pilot Year – One of those Danish things that make you drool. A collaboration between two institutions where students get to explore aa broad variety of significant problems for and through design.
• RMIT – GPA – Grade Point Average –

Bookmarks for May 7th through May 12th

These are my links for May 7th through May 12th:

• in Bb 2.0 – a collaborative music/spoken word project – Music and spoken work project that uses YouTube to build a video quilt. Not sure what the fuss is about.
• Vernacular Video In Culture and Education – Howard Rheingold with a farily pedestrian (and horribly direct to camera) intro. to vernacular video. Not sure if this seeded by Sherman's essay, or just convergent evolution….
• SFMOMA | Explore Modern Art | SFMOMA ArtScope – SF museum of modern art have developed a viewer for approx. 3,500 images from their permanent collection.
• The 100 Million Views Club: The Most Watched Viral Videos of All-Time? – blog post about the top 18 most watched videos. This data is apparently collected from a variety of sites, not just YouTube. The top has had a claimed (staggering) 350 million plus views.
• YouTube – An anthropological introduction to YouTube – Mike Wesch doing his now familiar but very informative anthropological take on YouTube

Venture

Melissa documents the tenor of rejection for a book project. Perhaps with the realisation that in spite of publisher’s self congratulatory trumpeting of their importance to ensure quality, rigour and can best disseminate knowledge they are, at the end of the day, an older form of venture capitalism. Sales always trumps content, which is why it is best to remain bemused that we want to use commercial publication as a benchmark for quality.

Bookmarks for May 6th through May 7th

These are my links for May 6th through May 7th:

• Best Vlog Ever: The ultimate video blogging destination – Aggregation come portal site that lets you vote on video from video blogs. Not sure if voting on individual videos or video blogs….
• Free Stanford course on developing iPhone software – Stanford made available programming course on making iPhone apps. Will also be distributed via iTunes U.
• YouTube Research – Two papers on dissemination/uptake/viewership of YouTube videos using, I think, models that come from epidemic modelling.
• in Bb 2.0 – a collaborative music/spoken word project – This is a soft video piece that uses YouTube to do what I do in LiveStage in QuickTime. Nice garage quality come sticky tape feel to it.
• Bloomsbury Academic – Lessig's book on relation of art and commerce in the 'hybrid economy' available as pdf download under CC.

Bookmarks for May 5th through May 6th

These are my links for May 5th through May 6th:

• Camcorder – Very brief history and overview of the camcorder but has a nice list of references about the impact of the camcorder on tv and documentary practice.
• Regular Guy (RegularGuyAus) on Twitter – Twitter user who posts YouTube hosted videos of themselves narrating what I think are customer service reviews of what I think are Melbourne businesses.
• happn.in melbs (happn_in_melbs) on Twitter – not sure what exactly this is, I think it is using twitter to filter twitter content about what is being discussed by twitterers who are Melbourne based. Don't know if this is autoamted, clever mice, or a person. Dominated by celeb, pop media stuff and links to a related web site.
• Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonian Film Project –
• Open Video Conference: June 19-20 – Conference in New York in June 2009 about open video.

Hyperwords

Hyperwords is a firefox extension that provides a contextual menu for webpages. The things are like look up a term (dictionary, wikipedia, etc), or to share something via twitter, blog, email and so on. It is now taken for granted but the way we can now weave pieces of software into the network really is extraordinary.