Aviary Could Rival Photoshop
2008-02-20 02:07:38 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
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2008-02-16 00:33:54 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Technology
With this year's TED conference starting in just over a week, it's worth noting that they've been posting videos of some of the talks given by Net luminaries over the years. [from Social Media.Biz ] More here. UPDATE |
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2008-02-14 21:13:36 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
When you're dealing with a flooding emergency in the middle of the worst drought for many years, the last thing you need is barriers to the sharing of geographical and meteorological information.
Yet that's the situation faced by Australia. The authorities' response is to consider the widespread adoption of Creative Commons licences for public-sector information.
Last month, the government of Queensland approved the use of Creative Commons, which allows free re-use of copyright material subject to certain conditions, as part of a new licensing framework. Meanwhile, the Commonwealth (federal) government is expected to give the green light to creative commons in a new set of guidelines for the management of the government's intellectual property.
The new Australian policy will be watched with interest by Britain's free-data movement. Historically, Australia is a pioneer of free data: a 1968 law exempted most data produced by the federal government from copyright protection. [by Michael Cross - The Guardian]
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2008-02-13 23:28:47 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
Mark C. Marino wanted to respond to a scholar’s video that was causing a buzz on YouTube. So he made a video of his own, remixing the original as a critique. The dueling videos might point to a future in which scholarly arguments take place in visual rather than written form.
The four-and-a-half-minute video that sparked the discussion was produced by Michael L. Wesch and the 200 students in his cultural-anthropology class at Kansas State University (which we wrote about back in October). The work presents startling statistics about college life; students hold up signs that read, “I bring my laptop to class, but I’m not working on class stuff,” “I spend 2 hours on my cellphone” per day, and “I will be $20,000 in debt after graduation.” The statistics were drawn from a survey of the 200 class members—a small sample for a video titled “A Vision of Students Today.”
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2008-02-12 19:27:27 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Politics
Professor Lawrence Lessig gives an informative piece debating whether or not Hillary Clinton can win the upcoming presidential election... UPDATE |
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2008-02-11 18:18:24 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Technology
It's a big week coming up in the Mobile Web world. The annual Mobile World Congress is being held in Barcelona, 11-14 February. The early buzz is around Google's much (and oft) rumored GPhone. According to the Times Online, Google "is expected to produce a prototype mobile handset" at the show. Even if Google itself doesn't unveil a phone, there will be plenty of Android prototypes on display (Google's open source Mobile Operating System). [by Richard McManus - Read/Write Web] UPDATE |
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2008-02-08 22:42:06 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Politics
Professor Lessig recently created a video clip outlining his reasons for supporting Senator Obama in the upcoming presidential elections. Makes for very interesting viewing... UPDATE |
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2008-02-07 19:26:44 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
More often than not companies in similar positions have similar views. But when Hollywood asked the two big phone companies to help with its fight against piracy, they responded in opposite ways. AT&T, as we wrote, is talking about developing a system that would identify and block illicitly copied material being sent over its broadband network.
Verizon, however, opposes the concept. Tom Tauke, Verizon’s executive vice president for public affairs, said the company’s view combines a concern for the privacy of its customers with self interest. It may be costly for it to get into the business of policing the traffic on its network. Indeed, phone companies have largely spent a century trying not to be liable for what people say over their lines.
“We generally are reluctant to get into the business of examining content that flows across our networks and taking some action as a result of that content,” he said. [by Saul Hansell, New York Times]
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2008-02-07 19:17:58 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Politics
Obama Wins Clear Majority of Super Tuesday States
Barack Obama won a clear majority of the Super Tuesday states...
In the closest thing to a national primary we’ve ever seen, Barack Obama overcame double-digit leads by Senator Clinton in 8 of the largest 10 states to win a majority of states, defeating Senator Clinton 13-8 – with New Mexico still undeclared.
Obama also won Red States by a margin of more than two-to-one and leads Senator Clinton by nearly 50 delegates going into California.
Obama won his home state by 67 delegates (110-43; 153 total). Clinton won her home state by 52 delegates (142-90; 232 total). Among home states, Obama won a net delegate margin of 15. That’s a good number – but even more impressive when you consider that New York had 79 more delegates up for grabs than Illinois.
Barack Obama performed especially well in those states he visited in recent weeks, including Minnesota, Utah, Idaho, Delaware, and Connecticut. He also won his home state by 67 delegates, 15 more than Senator Clinton won her home state of New York by. This is further proof that the more voters get to know Barack Obama and hear his message, the more they support him. And this bodes well for the contests coming in the next few weeks, where Obama will have more time to campaign aggressively in individual states.
Of the seven caucus states that were decided tonight, Obama won six (New Mexico is still undeclared).
Caucuses test the enthusiasm of supporters in a way that primaries do not. And Obama’s near-sweep of these contests shows why he’s the candidate who’s generating the most excitement in this race and bringing new people into politics for the first time.
Barack Obama won the support of Americans of every race and gender in every region of the country. From Hillary Clinton’s backyard in Connecticut to Georgia, where Obama won nearly 40% of the white vote and eliminated the gender gap by winning 64% of the women’s vote, Obama demonstrated that he’s the one candidate who can transform the electoral map. That’s why he is the Democrat who’s most likely to win in November. UPDATE |
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2008-02-05 18:41:25 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Politics
Music Video Created by Bob Dylan's son, director Jesse Dylan. Celebrities featured include: Jesse Dylan, Will.i.am, Common, Scarlett Johansson, Tatyana Ali, John Legend, Herbie Hancock, Kate Walsh, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Adam Rodriquez, Kelly Hu, Adam Rodriquez, Amber Valetta, Eric Balfour, Aisha Tyler, Nicole Scherzinger and Nick Cannon UPDATE |
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