NotesThis is an admittedly very simple example of a green screen but you can use this little template to manipulate your webcamās live video stream and build all kinds of fancy demos with it.FeedUnfurl
NotesStations haven't been playing "Mrs. Robinson" for 32 years just because everyone likes Simon & Garfunkel (although I really do love them!). It's because 80% of stations' playlists match all across the country. So much for thinking that media exposes us to new and different ideas, eh?Unfurl
NotesIt is far past due that the copyright industry is stripped of its nobility benefits, every part of its governmental weekly allowance, and gets kicked out of its comfy chair to get a damn job and learn to compete on a free and honest market.Unfurl
Notes Sharing and recommendation shouldn't be passive. It should be conscious, thoughtful, and amusing--we are tickled by a story, picture, or video and we choose to share it, and if a startling number of Internet users also find that thing amusing, we, together, consciously create a tidal wave of meme that elevates that piece of media to viral status. We choose these gems from the noise. Open Graph will fill our feeds with noise, burying the gems. FeedUnfurl
Notes<blockquote>A new Pew study finds news outlets using Twitter almost exclusively for one-way distribution ā of their own content.</blockquote>
And this is why I only follow live human beings on Twitter, for the most part. That, and funny bots.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesBezos runs through the features that will soon set the tech world ablazeāthe $199 price tag, the easy-to-hold size, the seamless access to Amazonās rich and growing collection of digital media. When the Fire is introduced, analysts will declare it the strongest competitor yet to the iPad. Yet the Fire is not just a rival gadget, but something essentially different. The iPad is the flagship of the post-PC eraāin which the desktop is replaced by lean, portable, gesture-driven tablets. As people will learn when Amazon ships it today, November 14, the Fire is an emblem of a post-web world, in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someoneās data center.Unfurl
NotesIn a Monday court filing, Warner Brothers admitted that it has issued takedown notices for files without looking at them first. The studio also acknowledged that it issued takedown notices for a number of URLs that its adversary, the locker site Hotfile, says were obviously not Warner Brothers' content.Unfurl
NotesIf all they do is make a really nice TV set like everyone elseās, itāll probably be as interesting as the Airport Extreme: a nice product in its category, but not exciting or scaring the crap out of anyone.
But if theyāve managed to pull off something more interesting, Iād hate to be in the TV business when itās released.FeedUnfurl
Notes"The Echo Nest is a music intelligence company founded by Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman, who met at the MIT Media Lab while they were both getting their PhDs in music understanding and synthesis research. The company has since grown to a small but insane team of developers, designers, musicians and business people all housed in a cozy office in Davis Square, Somerville, MA, USA. We grow an intelligence platform that automatically reads about and listens to the entire world of music for developers to build search, personalization and interactive music applications. "Unfurl
Notes"This weekĀend, I did someĀthing really cool (for me). I got to watch a March MadĀness game on my TV that CBS wasnāt showĀing in my local marĀket on my TV, withĀout payĀing the cable comĀpany. Life is full of short vicĀtoĀries, and this is one of mine. More imporĀtantly, I realĀized Iām livĀing in the heavĀenly jukeĀbox I used to talk about in my preĀsenĀtaĀtions years ago."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"But what is NPR doing differently thatās causing their listener numbers to swell? They basically have a three-pronged strategy that is helping them not only grow now, but also prepare for the future media landscape where traditional methods of consumption (TV, radio, print) could be greatly marginalized in favor of digital distribution."Unfurl
Notes"This is it folks. If McCain takes power we fade and become Australia in the seventies: a backwoods country with occasional flashes of relevance. Except we've got a way bigger military and we're angrier. People will get hurt and we'll pay the bill for the bullets. I'm telling you, unless we wake up, we're gonna lose this frickin' thing."Unfurl
Notes"Netflix subscribers, if you've got an Xbox 360 and a Windows Vista PC, you don't have to shell out $99 for Roku's Netflix Player box to get your Watch Instantly library on your TV screenāyou already have everything you need."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Companies that control various DRM schemes, as well as the content providers themselves, can yank your ability to play the content which you lawfully purchased (and now, videos) at any momentāno matter what your expectation was when you bought it."Unfurl
Notes"The Yahoo! Media Player enhances your web site or blog by creating an embedded player for each audio link. All the links can be played with one click, turning the page into a playlist."Unfurl
Notes"I am just, I guess, well and truly tired of being told what "Middle America" wants, when Middle America is my age and lives in a goddam city, just like I have for my entire life."Unfurl
Notes"A network engineer going by the hacker handle 'Deviant Ollam' has taken it upon himself to send care packages of a different sort to troops serving overseas, with him ditching the usual goods in favor of hard drives filled with movies, music and other coUnfurl
Notes"There is not a single fact that is "fudged" in the film. No one has proven a single fact in the film wrong. We expect CNN to correct their mistakes on the air and to apologize to their viewers."Unfurl
Notes"The Lancet isn't just any medical journal ... It is not noted for publishing random speculation, agitprop, and crank letters ā it's the top journal of record in its field."FeedUnfurl
Notes'Digg is a great site and a great service, and someday it may be worth a big pile of actual dollars, and many of those dollars may end up in Kevin Rose's pocket. But until then he has simply not "made" millions of dollars.'Unfurl
Notes"Users can purchase a Multi-Pass to either show for US$9.99 and receive the next 16 episodes just as if they had purchased them individually, but at a substantial discount off the $31.84 they would cost if purchased one at a time. "Unfurl
Notes"The Internet has undercut the businesses of newspapers, book publishers and magazines for years and now these media are looking for ways to fight back." ...and in so doing, will cut their own throats.Unfurl
Notes"Advertisers and media and technology companies, mindful that young consumers have migrated away from the traditional carriers of their messages, have begun to find new ways to reach them."Unfurl
Notes"Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans."Unfurl
Notes"WCBS in New York may have just hit on the final solution to the Doppler Wars, inventing an utterly unbeatable, unstoppable, and unmatchable Doppler Radar technology:"Unfurl
Notes"Both have issued apologies Fox in a one-line statement to the Los Angeles Times and Loftus in an e-mail to the family after being contacted by the newspaper. The Voricks say they have yet to see or hear a correction."Unfurl
Notes"I am your most difficult target audience to reach. I not only proactively chose my content, I actively avoid your advertising and have the technology and mind-set to do so."Unfurl
Notes"Will it have typical time history, or might it get picked up by popular blogs and given a new lease of life? Nature will monitor its fate and reveal the results in a week's time. Watch this space."Unfurl
Notes"Ever play a game of chess and your opponent makes a move and you realize the game is over?" I've definitely been outside the Microsoft Media ecology.Unfurl
NotesSensationalist morons. Headline should be updated to 'State education website accidentally linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to pornography.'Unfurl
Notes"By randomly choosing a story a week to fact-check after it's published, the paper wants to simultaneously dissuade potential corner-cutters while proving to readers its commitment to honesty."Unfurl
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