Paolo Valdemarin Weblog: "the idea of doing an interview with iChat and post it to the web is great in its simplicity." Easy is good. We're getting to a level where things truly are easy.

# Apr 22, 2004

WackoWiki: Release 4 (previous was 3.5) is in beta.

# Apr 22, 2004

I added some new companies to Companies That Do Ethnography. Feel free to add yours if you offer true ethnography services.

# Apr 22, 2004

urlgreyhot : Video of Lorenzo at the BMA fountain Michael started videoblogging :)

# Apr 22, 2004

Jim Moore is blogging on the political use of TV, video and the internet.

# Apr 22, 2004

Jim Moore's cybernetics, politics, emergence, etc. :: "This afternoon Dave Winer and I were talking and he told me about his coinage of the term "Personal Television Networks"--PTNs."

# Apr 22, 2004

Knowspam.net: How knowspam.net works: looks interesting. A lot of people contact me out of the blue though, I wonder how many of them this will scare away?

# Apr 22, 2004

pOWL - Semantic Web Development Plattform: a PHP and web-based ontology editor.

# Apr 22, 2004

Video about shipping 100s of computers to ecuador (Real Video). Good video, personal story in interview format. I like it, and I'm figuring out how to link. If you click CTRL-I in Real Player, you get a popup with the URL.

# Apr 22, 2004

Autometa RPXP: I don't pretend to entirely understand this, but this might make it possible (right now) to link to a certain point within a video stream.

# Apr 22, 2004

Like an RSS feed for video

Alan from demandmedia.net has a SMIL powered videofeed. The good part is: it addresses the scanning problem (video is hard to scan).

It works like a TV channel with a forward button: if you get tired of a particular video, just click the next >| button and you are taken to the next video within seconds. I like how he uses SMIL to add some text above the videos within Realplayer.

It's kinda like an RSS feed for video, but it's called a playlist because the words "videofeed" should probably be reserved for RSS with enclosed video (or not?): DemandMedia SMIL Playlist DemandMedia SMIL Playlist

(PS: feel free to copy this button if you like it.)

The third video right now is a short history of the internet. Kinda cool. Jay just told me that every time you click the link you get a random selection, so forget that "third video right now" comment.

# Apr 22, 2004

My commute goes through some great industrial landscapes around Newark. The shot below is from the train window - 106K. Didn't take long to optimize or upload - I used my default settings.