just visiting...
Catching up on all my blogs to read lately. Lots of cool things to play with. Let's begin, shall we?
Remeber podcasting?
Yes Chen thats podcasting, thats the ipod and people creating audio broadcasts on their pcs and then releasing them to the web and then other people can subscribe to your broadcast, or your file. Make sense? Its basically like you create yer own radio show kinda thing. Personally I havent paid too much attention to it, I was "podcasting" long before we had to create a word to describe it as podcasting. I wasnt doing the RSS part of it, but still, geeze, thanks internet for yet again tellin me how it is.
Anyways, in regards to podcasting, ODEO is out in beta. Hopefully I'll get on the fast track to making my own content/radio/like shows on there soon. I checked out this nifty podcast generating piece of software called Propaganda too, maybe Bob should check out that. In fact, I dont know if anyone I know is even into podcasting other than Bob. Yesterday was the first day I really sat down and listened to a show, did that while playing World of Warcraft. Actually made for a nice combination. I should have a few podcasts out soon. Stay tuned!
Shuffle Me
I've been thinking about picking up an ipod shuffle FM transmitter lately too. Ya know, for in car goodness.
Location Based Services
I've got alot of ground to catch up on in regards to this emerging field of interest. Location based services such as chat and social networking are on the rise. Heck google gobbled up dodgeball awhile back, we know we'll see more activity in this sector. Check out Mates, a project from the university of michigan.
Reality Mining
We've done data mining, or text mining in research before, the idea of reality mining, right now especially with much of todays youth and "connected" culture exploring the world of tags in such applications as flickr and delicious not to mention the whole camera conencted phone masses exploding and this is no doubt one of the longest sentences on this journal entry and all, well anywas its all going to be very exciting. Theres alot to be gained right now as researcher, alot of could be fake of course as well, is the web a true representative equall to our own form? Probably not however that wont stop people wondering. We're getting closer and closer to the people far more now than we've ever had before. Seeing people thru pictures, blog entries, music selections, you name it, we're tuned in.
Trendspotting
One of my favorite all consuming activities is reading, watching, spotting, seeking, diving, absorbing, mentioning, following, providing, provoking, starting, and remixing the wonder of trends. They are everywhere and like anything else I need them, and I find groovy somewhat related online tools for them as well, like urltrends, check it!
Video blogging
I don't want to burden Troy's servers with my excessive video blogging so i've been checking out a few the video host like services on the web. Theres a few out there. Currently i'm experiementing with Vimeo, however, the clip i just uploaded, straight from my Sony DSC-M1, doesnt appear to be playing back...WAIT.. FIXED, now plays back fine.. thanks Quicktime! I'll be sure to add more to viemo as time goes on, or find alternate hosting services for my clips. I like the idea of tagging the files like I do with photos on flickr, I wish flickr just did video as well really.
I need to upgrade the Avid at work, I want mixed resolutions, and mp4 editing.. Currently i'm just DV, but that Xpress is growin on me. Course I could just get final cut pro for the mac mini and try that route really.
A few good links.
check out this, searchscapes, or newsmap,
Best products of 2005, i see alot of JBL and Apple in there, and tap into the tech 100 while yer there, if interested
since i've got china on the brain I keep running into more and more interesting reads online about it, concerns of the pollution which is one of the big issues over there, whether or not they can build their own silicon valley, possible but they need to protect the copyright holders i think, and a word about the boys coming of age, very true, some big concerns over that as well.