Month: November 2005
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Has mass media slipped the surly bonds of programming?
Terry Heaton has been laying down some serious thoughts on the future of television as unbundled bits of media, and his model scales to newspapers easily enough. One of the features of the “pull” technology deployed in everything being called Web 2.0 is the natural-but-new condition of the separation of program and schedule. We think…
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Intelligent Machine Debate at King Library this afternoon
I must have missed this in the SJSU Events feed, but Rudy Rucker debates Noam Cook today on the question of “Will Computers Ever be Alive or Intelligent?” 430-600pm in 225B at the King Library. If I get lots and lots of work done this morning, maybe I’ll duck in for a few minutes. Maybe.…
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Meet My K2 Mod, Deviance at PaulStamatiou.com
css, images for a hot k2 style Meet My K2 Mod, Deviance at PaulStamatiou.com
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Columbia J-School launches multiclass multimedia news site
The Columbia Journalist went live yesterday with election news from New York City. The site aggregates stories covered by Columbia J-School students, including radio, photo, and text elements. Check out the “Browse by Class” menu to get an idea of how many different classes are involved. Columbia J-School Dean of Students Sreenath Sreenivasan announced the…
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Odeo Studio Test
Testing Odeo’s audio recording tool out this morning. It doesn’t do much yet – just lets you record directly into the computer and spits out an mp3 file. Actually, that skips the whole Ourmedia.org step in my theoretical podcasting workflow, so that’s nice. I don’t know how long a recording Odeo allows for now, but…
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Sphere beta launches
Sphere has been promised as a Technorati-killer of sorts in the crowded but mostly-inefficient arena of blog search. I just got into the beta, so what follows are first impressions: FAST. Whoa. Very Fast. Cool – you can choose whether to search by relevance or time, and separately, you can set how far back in…
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Where to vote
Heads up – it’s election day. If you don’t know where you’re supposed to go, you can look it up here. [tags]california special election, california, elections[/tags]