Microsoft Vs Yahoo, Round 100, believe it or not. Beaverton Woman Beats Record Industry and we look at Paulo Coelho The Pirate. Mormon Church Attacks Wikileaks - not just Scientology and Swiss bankers then.And unfortunately, another Blogger Jailed
Download iPod ~ embedding options @ Revver A Los Angeles press conference on May 10, 2008, Alan Breslauer of HotPotatoMash asks presidential candidate Ralph Nader if he sees the upcoming election ending any differently than in 2004 (stolen by the Republicans) and 2000 (decided by the Supreme Court). Related Links ::: Hot Potato Mash, The Brad Blog ~ Sustainability would be nice. ~
The fans take over the Meth Minute in episode 34. We asked you, the viewer to create and submit short cartoons of any MM39 character doing anything. nMan, you guys are weird! Taped together by Dan Meth.nRate This Short:nFeatures work by :nKidney John Paine, Avi Tuchman, Jenn Steffey, Al Pardo, Dan Heyer, James Sugrue, Fabian Dores Pais, Dave Lebow, Dennis Mullin, Niko Anesti, Mitchell Wright, Nathan Malone, Rob Fay, Jordan Fickel, Demetrius Seger, Sergio Dominguez, Spencer, Marc Tyler, TR Remsen, Alan KaufmannnCall our toll-free hotline: 1-866-575-1384 nFor more Meth Minute see: http://www.methminute39.com
PNME 2007 #19: Simple Post-Production Techniques to Get Professional-Sounding Podcasts Podcast and New Media Expo 2007: Bruce is the inventor of The Levelator, a free tool used by thousands of podcasters to make better-sounding shows. It takes more than just compelling content to attract and keep a podcast audience. Good quality sound will make your shows easier to listen to and help them rise above the crowd. A little judicious editing can make you and your podcast guests sound smarter. And paying attention to basics such as levels will help you achieve a consistent, professional sound. The good news is that the techniques for doing all of the above are not hard to master and there are lots of free tools to help. They have been developed based on the experience of producing hundreds of podcasts for IT Conversations. This session will take you through the techniques step-by-step using free tools like Audacity and The Levelator. There will be lots of examples. No particular expertise is assumed or required, just a desire to make great-sounding podcasts. Insructor: Bruce Sharpe of Singular Software. Download mp3: Simple Post-Production Techniques to Get Professional-Sounding Podcasts (1:04:59 min 29.8 MB) Want all 53 PNME 2007 Episodes immediately? Purchase them now.
The fans take over the Meth Minute in episode 34. We asked you, the viewer to create and submit short cartoons of any MM39 character doing anything. nMan, you guys are weird! Taped together by Dan Meth.nRate This Short:nFeatures work by :nKidney John Paine, Avi Tuchman, Jenn Steffey, Al Pardo, Dan Heyer, James Sugrue, Fabian Dores Pais, Dave Lebow, Dennis Mullin, Niko Anesti, Mitchell Wright, Nathan Malone, Rob Fay, Jordan Fickel, Demetrius Seger, Sergio Dominguez, Spencer, Marc Tyler, TR Remsen, Alan KaufmannnCall our toll-free hotline: 1-866-575-1384 nFor more Meth Minute see: http://www.methminute39.com
Techies Turn Detective and now you can get HBO On iTunes . The Swiss iPhone is now here and NYC Wants To Punish You For Your Online Crime - Twice .The Force Is With The Drunk Welshman and soon you will be Jabbering With Facebook Chat
To watch the show CLICK HERE Come Par-tay with Shireen Mitchell (digitalsista on twitter), the founder and director of Digital Sisters, a DC based nonprofit which promotes and provides tech education and enrichment for women and their children who are traditionally underserved. We are going to look at how gender, class, and color factor into the digital divide, why we should care, and what we can do to create a society where the benefits of technological literacy are available to all. Shireen has been a geek since back in the Atari days, learning to program at age 14 and never looking back. She uses her powers for good, speaking, writing, teaching, and leading: all with the goal of helping women from underserved communities and their families reap the benefits of technology. Par-tay Bonus: We will also unveil, the Jonny s Par-tay theme rap in all it s lyrical splendor. Super Double Par-tay Bonus: We will introduce our first Jonny s Par-tay contest. The prize, a collectible mimobot a designer collectible USB flash drive. Remember when I said that I would try to make the world a better place for puppies and children? This contest is where I try to tackle the puppies part. Here are the rules: Jonny s Par-tay Adopt a Puppy at Your Local Shelter Haiku Contest, Here s how you participate: Just write an original haiku. Remember those poems you wrote in 5th grade? Yeah, one of those. It must have the word Puppy and Shelter in it, and encourage people to adopt a puppy from a shelter. Then you need to record yourself reciting the haiku onto utterz.com. Utterz is a free service which lets you record audio from your phone to the web. Once you have written the poem, send me an email at jonny.goldstein@gmail(dot)com by Sunday, May 18, 10PM Eastern. Here is my sample adopt a puppy haiku: Here is my sample haiku: Puppies are four legged/joy dispensers, find delight/at local shelter Listen to it here: A haiku is simply a 3 line poem with this structure: 1st line: 5 syllables 2nd line: 7 syllables 3d line: 5 syllables. Be sure to email me at jonny.goldstein@gmail.com to send me the link to your poem by 10PM Eastern, Sunday, May 18. People will vote on their favorite poems on the jonnyspartay.com website until 5 PM Eastern Wednesday, May 21. The winner will receive a designer collectible USB flash drive generously donated by the fine folks at mimoco.com The winner will be announced on this coming Wednesday s, May 21, show. And if you write and record a haiku to utterz and email me the link at jonny.goldstein@gmail(dot)com by Sunday, May 19, 10PM Eastern, I will link to your haiku whether your haiku is selected as the winner or not. Thanks for participating! And thanks for helping raise awareness around the issue of puppy adoption from shelters. What: Jonny’s Par-tay, the interactive online TV talk show, with featured guest Shireen Mitchell, host Jonny Goldstein, super-producer Scott Stead. and of course our most important guests, you. When: Weds, May 14, 9-10PM Eastern. Where: jonnyspartay.com Interactivity: As always, you are invited to text chat us and each other live. It’s a Par-tay!
#758 Daily Source Code for Wednesday May 14th 2008 drop.io: simple private sharing We're only have way through the week and already the chuckleheads are making history with a new energy brand, cumcing for cancer and you know that when Charles The Drunken Londoner lives up to his name, it's usually a 5 alarm fire :) Several follow-ups on recent conversations as well. Want to learn mre? Play me! Current Prostate Cancer Prevention Quota is 1 Music in this episode: The Reveals - Want You Back Dunproofin' - Loaded Epic Mystery Podcaster - Summer Wind Here[base ']s the DSC Demographics survey link Get up to 70% discount on life insurance with AccuQuote.com give them a call: 1800-410-7214 Get 35 Free Songs at eMusic.com, no obligation, yours to keep! Call Anytime: +12016256357 or +442076813753 or email me: adam@mevio.com Direct Link to the show. Comment
SpoolCast: Creating a Web Experience from Scratch with Sean Kane Recorded: December 7th, 2007 from the studios at UIE. Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer Duration: 33m | File size: 17.5 MB [ Subscribe to our podcast via iTunes. This link will launch the iTunes application.] [ Subscribe with other podcast applications.] [ Text Transcript ] In this podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Sean Kane. Sean helped build one of the world’s most successful web applications as the Director of UI Engineering at Netflix. Last year, Sean left Netflix to co-found Get Listed, a start-up that is going to revolutionize the job search business. Moving from a mature organization that understands the role of experience design to a brand-new start-up environment without any of the same infrastructure or support can be a real challenge. A challenge that is not unlike the challenge that many UX practitioners face when trying to bootstrap their user experience efforts in a growing organization. I asked Sean to reflect a little on his previous experience at Netflix and about the challenges he s facing at Get Listed. We started by talking about Netflix s culture of metrics and the impact it has on their design. We then discussed the culture shock he s experienced as he moved to this new gig. Finally, we talked about building both a web app and and a web app team from scratch. It was interesting to see how the impact of his experience at Netflix is reflecting the decisions he’s making while shaping his new startup environment. I believe anyone who is building out their own user experience efforts will find Sean s thoughts inspiring. I think you’ll enjoy this podcast. We look forward to your questions and thoughts. Let us know what you think in the comments! [Note: We had prepared this podcast to be released earlier this year, but due to schedule conflicts, its release was delayed. As a result, the intro mentions the very successful 2008 Web App Summit as if it's still to come. But don't worry: we'll have another one next year, so stay tuned!]
This week, Christine (aka iheartmoustaches) breaks it on down and shows us how to use #6 plastic to create miniature moustaches! (Christine has made a bunch of these in the past, as she is a lover of the moustache in all its various forms.) #6 plastic is not recyclable in New York and so this is a great way to upcycle those strawberry containers and Chinese take out containers and keep them out of the landfill. This project is awesome for people who need a moustache on the go. MP4 | Youtube | Blip.tv | Subscribe in iTunes She s also open sourcing two of her moustache designs. You can download The Professor and The Lady s Man in this pdf We did some measuring and the moustaches started out 6 inches wide and ended up 2 1/4 inches wide. That means it shrunk to almost 1/3 its original size! Music by Barry London
There is something special about video that you can t get from writing or photographs. Seeing someone on video is more personal. I really want to see more links to videos on the Etsy site, so I m starting up this tutorial series to get you started making your own videos. Making videos gives the world a chance to see the personality and process behind the things you make. Let s start with some super cheap cameras. If you re wanting to make video on a budget, you have a few options. The simplest option is to use what you ve got. You may already have a video camera. Did you know that most digital photography cameras have a movie mode that takes great video? If you ve got one of these, you re done looking, start shooting! A lot of time you can even set these to 640 480 resolution which is good enough to make great web videos. If you re buying something, the cheapest option is to use a flip camera. These are pretty inexpensive and they are easy to use. The resolution isn t fantastic, but they are small and light and easy to carry around and shoot things with. If you re looking to step it up, the next level of video camera is a DV camera.You can find these for around 200-300 dollars. When you re looking for a camera, check to make sure that it s got a microphone jack and a headphone jack so that you can hook up an external mic and listen to the level of the sound as it s recording. Make sure your computer has a firewire port before getting one of these or you won t be able to transfer the video over. If you re feeling fancy, you can get an HD camera. You can get a camera like the Sony HC1 which records HD video to DV tape (little mini digital video cassette tapes). But my recommendation is that you skip recording to tape. I m in favor of using cameras that record straight to an SD Card, which is similar to the little card your digital still camera uses. If you ve got somewhere between $600 and $1000 to spend, I d recommend, the Sanyo Xacti HD2 which is a great little 720P camera or the Canon Vixia HF10. I ve also played around with this Panasonic HSC1UP camera which is a bit more expensive, but has 3 chips in it which means the colors are a little snazzier. All of these record to SD cards. If you are going to be using iMovie (the video editing software that comes free with Macs), you ll want to get the Sanyo Xacti which records to an easily convertable MP4 format. The Panasonic and Canon SD cams both record to AVCHD which is a wonderful format allowing a lot of hi-res info to fit on a card, but it s not compatible with iMovie 7 at this time. If you ve got a serious budget and you re thinking about shooting broadcast HD, you can get the Panasonic HVX200. We shoot our Handmade Video Portraits on this. This is a professional level camera and it s awesome.There s a bit of a learning curve to dealing with P2 cards though, so be prepared to spend a day or two reading the manual.A great place to go and learn more about cameras is creativecow.net. The forums there are really helpful and the community is great. No matter what camera you get, I recommend getting an extra battery and separate battery charger.There is nothing worse than running out of batteries when you are shooting something special. If a wide-angle lens is available for your camera, get it! I love wide-angle shots to be able to show lots of a room in your frame. Again, the best thing to get started with is what you ve got. In the forums I asked for camera recommendations and got this message. My next video is about tips for shooting video. If you ve got an idea you can leave a comment, or leave a note in the forums or leave a message at 917-720-4197 and maybe I ll post it with the next video.
While Etsy engineer Jorge Lopez coded Alchemy, he was daydreaming of the his ultimate Alchemy request. As soon as we released the new site feature on Etsy, he was the first one to post a request! He ended up choosing artist Emily Balivet s bid and getting the most amazing painting. Watch the video to learn more
Today I m on Blip on Blip which is Blip.tv s video program about the creative folks who publish videos there. We were going to shoot it in a white room, but decided instead to keep it fresh and show you NYC! Thanks to Justin for the interview and Bill for the awesome shooting and editing! MP4 Link
You ve got a video camera what next? The basic idea is to put something in front of the camera and push the red button, but there s a lot more. This video is just a few tips and tricks to get you on your way. The main thing is to just start making videos and then each one will get better and better. If you re going to go handheld, you can improve your stability by holding your elbows in. A tripod will keep the camera steady. If possible have the camera at eyeline or above because people just look more beautiful from above. You don t need to see up my nose. Jump cuts are when you see lots of cuts without a change in camera position. I use these a lot. It also helps to plan some things out. I make a bullet list of things that I want to make sure I say. When working with other people, I find it s easier to ask them to talk about a list of topics rather than memorize things. Don t be afraid to shoot it again and again and again. A few people called in today and I m going to respond to their questions in future videos. If you ve got tips for shooting video, leave a note in the comments or leave me a voicemail at 917-720-4197 and I might post your message in a future post! MP4 Link
So you ve got your camera and you re shooting some special footage. How can you make it sound good? MP4 | Youtube | Blip.tv | Subscribe in iTunes If you keep your subject within arm s length, you can use the onboard (built in) mic to get passable audio. If you re recording to tape, you ll get some tape sound, but it s likely that it will be usable audio. Photograpy cameras in movie mode sometimes have decent audio. Test what you ve got and see how it sounds! If your camera has audio monitoring levels, you ll want to watch those as you record, too. Improving your audio is as easy as getting a microphone. Even a $10 computer condenser microphone will improve your audio. A small mic gets closer to the subject and that s always good. As far as sources for audio options, I shop at B ve got another spot you like to shop, leave a note in the comments. Here s the breakdown of some of the microphones we use for the Storque. Lavaliers: Here on the Etsy Media Awesome Team, we use a wired Audio Technica Pro 70 and a wireless Sony mic and they both work well. They are XLR, so if your camera doesn t have an XLR input you re going to have to get a converter cord or a Beachtek adapter. XLR is a way of hooking up mics that gives better quality sound than 1/8 inch jacks. Shotgun: We use two Sennheissers. One is tiny and one is big. They both work great. (The price I quoted for the big Sennheiser in the video is wrong. It s more like $450. If you need a cheaper shotgun, I ve shot with the Azden, and it s fine, too.) To learn more about shotgun mics, check out this article. Although it s not in this video, if you re looking for a basic old-skool handheld mic, I ve had a good experience with this Shure. If you ve got a mic you re happy with, make sure to leave a note in the comments! For more videos about making videos, keep reading our Getting Started in Video series!
Gabe Molnar of 1AEON says his designs often come from his dreams. The fantastical imagery includes lions, dragons, skulls and owls. Working non-stop in his small kitchen in Brooklyn, this Hungarian-born artist is driven to be the best at whatever he does and to push the boundaries. But his passion and ambition hasn t made Gabe lose sight of his humble beginnings. We were very inspired to meet the maker behind 1AEON and hear his story. MP4 | Youtube | Blip.tv | Subscribe in iTunes I love this video. This shoot really came together magically. Shooting at Coney Island was surreal. Watch our other Handmade Video Portraits and make sure to subscribe to our Youtube Channel and Subscribe in iTunes. If you re interested in all things Hungarian, check out this post on traditional and contemporary Hungarian crafts.
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9 min. ~ Download iPod ~ Bandwidth Challengedembedding options @ RevverChris explains his major platform positions. Related Links ::: Chris4Senate.org, David Rovics, Mobile Broadcast News ~ Sustainability would be nice. ~
This is a short video that shows how to use Drupal's advanced search feature on Drupal.org. Many people find searching on d.o overwhelming and often overlook a few easy ways to narrow down searches. This is the second video in a series about getting involved with Drupal and utilizing community resources that started with getting an account on Drupal.org.
Microsoft Gives Us Messenger TV while Google gives us Google Friend Connect. We devote the second half of the show to Lars Hinrichs, who talks about Networking With Xing
Microsoft Gives Us Messenger TV while Google gives us Google Friend Connect. We devote the second half of the show to Lars Hinrichs, who talks about Networking With Xing
The Kid from S.C.H.O.O.L. Submitted by Bob Boyle & Bill RilingRATE THIS SHORT:nKevin Likes Coffee Submitted by Lenny BoudreauRATE THIS SHORT:nnDid you ever think there was a big conspiracy going on at school? The Kid from S.C.H.O.O.L. can help! Kevin Loves Coffee. You will Love Kevin and Coffee too! At least, you'll love him more when he shuts up...
Gabe Molnar of 1AEON says his designs often come from his dreams. The fantastical imagery includes lions, dragons, skulls and owls. Working non-stop in his small kitchen in Brooklyn, this Hungarian-born artist is driven to be the best at whatever he does and to push the boundaries. But his passion and ambition hasn t made Gabe lose sight of his humble beginnings. We were very inspired to meet the maker behind 1AEON and hear his story. MP4 | Youtube | Blip.tv | Subscribe in iTunes I love this video. This shoot really came together magically. Shooting at Coney Island was surreal. Watch our other Handmade Video Portraits and make sure to subscribe to our Youtube Channel and Subscribe in iTunes. If you re interested in all things Hungarian, check out this post on traditional and contemporary Hungarian crafts.
