Buttons takes on this notion of the camera as a networked object. It is a camera that will capture a moment at the press of a button. However, unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn't have any optical parts. It allows you to capture your moment but in doing so, it effectively seperates it from the subject. Instead, as you will memorize the moment, the camera memorizes only the time and starts to continuously search on the net for other photos that have been taken in the very same moment.So this young person thinks that a camera that doesn't take your picture, but looks for something that someone else took is, like, way cool. Really.
Sascha Pohflepp is a new media artist based in Berlin. He also writes on this blog and rumours had it that his graduation project at the University of the Art in Berlin was kind of awesome.Yeah, that's cool... What I bristle at is this is now being called 'new media'. Aaahhh. I just call it, well, lame, inappropriate appropriation, and just, well, stupid. It is far different to have a widget on your site that looks for an image that would match a date or instant - sounds like kinda fun. But to make a box that resembles a camera, remove the lens and then do what a Flickr badge does is, well...His Buttons (aka the "Blind Camera") captures a moment at the press of a button. However, the device doesn't have any optical part. The camera memorizes only the time of the picture and immediately searches the net for other photos that have been taken in the same moment.
Essentially, it is a camera that only takes photos that were created by someone who pressed a button somewhere else at that very time as its own button was pressed.
So what happens is that the customer sees your website and thinks it is what it is according to thier reality. And you never know why you didn't capture that client, or keep the visitor or close the sale. Some folks have websites that only demonstrate the knowledge of their own reality, never looking into what their visitors bring with them."People make their own realities. If Bill thought he was first, then in his mind, he was. When he started using it, it began to exist. When he stops going back, it will disappear.
Every person who encounters your organization for the first time comes with beginner's mind. She knows nothing about yesterday or how hard you worked or your financing or what it took to build it. She's here now, she's first, let's go."
We’re because the internet has changed our lives. We’re here because the potential of the web to help people solve problems together, play together and work together online is overwhelming. We’re here because we’re really proud of Wikipedia and craigslist and OhmyNews.
Because the web runs on machines, people forget that it’s fundamentally a social, human place. OneWebDay is about remembering that, and not taking the web for granted. The web is a wonderful resource that we need to respect, defend, and celebrate.
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There are plenty of good ideas in the Web 2.0 world, and an even greater number of bad ones. In the interest of brevity, I've chosen five sites from each category. The web services industry certainly has more than five winners and five losers, so we've only highlighted the exemplars.
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/Talk Like a Pirate Day, September 19, 2006
You are quite welcome, Suzanne. Keep me posted on your work."Hi Don,This is Suzanne of Las Vegas. I would like to thank you for the VERY INFORMATIVE WORKSHOP you conducted. You're awesome. This is the best $299 I've ever spent. You shared your knowledge and expertise wholeheartedly and your enthusiasm is very inspiring. You just made photography sound so simple during lectures rather than getting into the "technical jargon" that other photo expert wannabee's love to throw at their students. The GOODIES are by itself worth more than $299. I spent 3 days straight trying out the frames and actions on it, with barely a sleep because of my excitement. I thought everything stops there until I got the Lighting DVD you sent to me.You had certainly boost my confidence and would be keeping in touch."
The key here is going to be the workflow between designers and developers and making sure that the tools support both types of content creators. Creating world class RIAs simply will not be possible without an efficient workflow between the two areas. Adobe has focused a lot on incorporating Adobe and Macromedia products, making sure that designers can easily move between both companies software. But they haven't quite perfected the designer/developer workflow, and I think Microsoft has a bit of a head start here. The Expression Suite seems built from the ground up to work well with their developer tools. The question will be whether or not designers will use these new tools.
She was a freedom fighter to her core, having descended from a proud line of such people. She had an anarchist grandfather and an anti-fascist father (once scheduled for execution) and a mother tough as nails. Orianna ran secret missions for the anti-fascist resistance inTuscany, while still a teenager. I have no doubt that she spent her entire adult life carrying out a very well defined mission to prove herself worthy of her name. She certainly succeeded. She was one of the all-time great nonconformists, she fought tyranny wherever she saw it and she challenged evil, especially in the hands of hypocrites, as soon as she detected its rotten odor. She had a rare mixture of that amazing feminine sixth sense for phonies, and a ruthless objectivity that forced her to recognize positive qualities in even the most evil people, as when she spotted a kind of elegance and brilliance in the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Now when you click on a picture, a new browser window opens, and people can see the pictures without a download and installation. The primary use of the downloaded client is the creation of the loop, not the viewing of it.UPDATE: I have added a filmloop header to my homepage. I think this kind of technology is very slick and can be a huge boon to photographers.
(updated... scroll down)A VC: NBBC: "Anway, back to NBC (or NBBC as they are calling it). Randy Falco, NBC Universal Television Group president and chief operating officer, said:Update: From Tech Crunch
'We're going back into the broadcasting business - on the Internet'
Indeed they are.
NBBC will syndicate video clips--produced by NBC as well as other companies--to a variety of Web sites, including those owned by NBC competitors.
NBBC is selling pre-roll ads to accompany the clips, and will share revenue with the sites that distribute the video clips and the companies or individuals who license them. If individual Web sites wish to run their own ads instead of ones sold by NBC, they can do so, but must agree to pay NBC a flat fee that will be shared with the clips' owners.
I am going to go back to the four rules I outlined in my Future of Media post:
Here is the future of media:
1 - Microchunk it - Reduce the content to its simplest form.
2 - Free it - Put it out there without walls around it or strings on it.
3 - Syndicate it - Let anyone take it and run with it.
4 - Monetize it - Put the monetization and tracking systems into the microchunk."
"The race to put TV on the internet continues with an announcement today from NBC that all of their new prime time shows will stream for free this fall. Each show will have a cast member, creator or producer “host a live blog immediately after the premiere episode,” according to the episode. Does this mean a live chat or several blog posts with comments enabled and responded to? One way or the other, it’s an interesting attempt to turn a streaming broadcast into a public event."When major media starts putting content out there for free, you have to know that they have finally figured a way to make money out of it. Commercials are embedded, and the addition of the live 'blog' thing kinda cool. I think we will see lots more of this.
Oh yeah.... gotta get me one of these. perfect for doing headshots... in another county! I am just guessing, but this thing should probably not be handheld at slower shutter speeds. Well, since it weighs in at a portly 564.383391 pounds... probably! My buddy David is going to want one of these to shoot his sports stuff. I love the fact that we can build that sort of thing. (How long before we see one on EBay?)At 1700 mm focal length and a speed of f/4 this lens put requirements on optical glas, lens assembly and quality assurance methods, never before encountered in photo lens manufacture. This 256 kg behemoth also required Carl Zeiss to develop totally new ways of operating a telephoto lens, including servo controlled aiming and focusing.See one at Photokina.
Within hours, the online community of 9/11 conspiracy buffs - which calls itself the "9/11 Truth Movement" - was aflame with wild fantasies about me, my staff and the article we had published. Conspiracy Web sites labeled Popular Mechanics a "CIA front organization" and compared us to Nazis and war criminals.Popular Mechanics? Really? Just because they point to reality instead of hysteria. True facts instead of highly cropped and edited snips? Come on guys, attacking PM is, well to use a phrase that is popular, jumping the shark bigtime. Your attack on that venerable magazine shows that you have no arguement. Conspiracies always make me want to ask... you really think that the huge 'brocracy' could organize something as tedious as your claims? Really?
The point is that your business could suffer the same nuttiness unless you are careful with what you do, how you do it and how you deal with situations. And still, one bad transaction and the internet can unleash with a fury. Whether or not it would pass the stink test. Truth won't matter. Research won't matter. All it would take is a swarm of critically-dead-thinkers to attack as a swarm. Like ants. Following the leader. Without flinching or questioning.In every single case, we found that the very facts used by conspiracy theorists to support their fantasies are mistaken, misunderstood or deliberately falsified.
Here's one example: Meyssan and hundreds of Web sites cite an eyewitness who said the craft that hit the Pentagon looked "like a cruise missile with wings." Here's what that witness, a Washington, D.C., broadcaster named Mike Walter, actually told CNN: "I looked out my window and I saw this plane, this jet, an American Airlines jet, coming. And I thought, 'This doesn't add up. It's really low.' And I saw it. I mean, it was like a cruise missile with wings. It went right there and slammed right into the Pentagon."
...5 years ago this day. And yes, I am still angry.
I am a designer. A photographer. I make web sites. I thought what I did was important. It was on September 10, 2001. Next day at noon... didn't mean a damn thing. Not in comparison to what we saw and heard about the heroes of that day. Scott and the guys on 93... Barbra and the others on the Pentagon plane... firefighters, cops, emergency workers, volunteers... people helping others out of the debris... amazing stories of heroism and sacrifice. Some lived on another day... some didn't. The children on the left were some of the ones left behind.
He was an eternal optimist and had an unforgettable passion for life. But Joe always measured his own success on how good he was to his family. And he was an exceptional husband and father. He taught them to embrace life, take on new challenges and to love the outdoors as much as he did. In their early years together, Joe introduced Irene to the city and took her on long strolls in Central Park. On Fire Island, Joe taught his children how to swim out past the break, how to stay on top and out in front of the ocean's barrels. He coached his children's basketball teams, sat proudly on the sidelines at Joseph's crew regattas, and never missed an opportunity to play the back nine with Elizabeth.Joe attended Binghamton where he earned an MBA '76. This is what the Alumni Memorial Page said about Joe:
Joseph Dermot Dickey, Jr., MBA '76, was a managing director in the interest rate swaps department of Cantor Fitzgerald. He worked on the 105th floor of Tower 1 at the World Trade Center, directly above where the first plane hit. He is survived by his wife, Irene, children, Joseph and Elizabeth, and brothers, William and Walter. "Joe always measured his own success on how good he was to his family," reads his obituary in the New York Times. ". . . He taught them to embrace life, take on new challenges and to love the outdoors as much as he did."He taught them to embrace life. Ironic, and yet a reflection of a man who was devoted to life and all that it can bring. This brief memorial from inmemorium online says so much.
Joseph Dermot Dickey Jr. grew up with two older brothers in the Bronx, and the three siblings became more competitive the older they got. They sparred in tennis, basketball, volleyball and golf. Mr. Dickey, 50, who had settled down in Manhasset, was not only the best basketball player, his oldest brother admits, but was probably also the best liked of the three.Joseph will be missed, is missed... by his wife and his children and friends family. And some of us who now will never have a chance to meet him, and the others who died that day, we miss him as well. Joe was an American, a husband, a father, a brother, a son and a friend.
"He was extremely sociable," said Bill Dickey, 58. "Frankly, he was more easygoing and personable than me or my brother."
A managing director with Cantor Fitzgerald, Joe Dickey was also successful on Wall Street. But in his tight-knit Irish-American family, attributes as a husband and father Ð in Joe Dickey's case to his wife, Irene, son Joseph, 17, and daughter Liz, 15 Ð were "the mark by which we judge each other," Bill Dickey said.
His family's verdict was that Joe Dickey was exceptional on both counts, especially with the children. The last big family gathering, which also drew Walter, 55, the middle brother, was at the wedding of Bill Dickey's daughter last August in Adare Manor, Ireland. "We had a great time, all of us," Bill Dickey said. "We spent a lot of time playing golf."
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The sounds of 9/11, beyond the metallic roar.
Everyone remembers the pictures, but I think more and more about the sounds. I always ask people what they heard that day in New York. We've all seen the film and videotape, but the sound equipment of television crews didn't always catch what people have described as the deep metallic roar.
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