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Watch on Youtube or download the iPhone version (10min / 70mb).Watch previous episodes on Blip.tv or subscribe to theorycast via iTunes.What is real space electronic art?Emerging media artist and associate professor Paul Vanouse explains that it is equivalent of “computing outside the box”, that is, interaction with information without the conventions of an …
If you’re a hardcore twitter user, what tricks do you have up your sleeve?For me I trick out Tweetdeck as seen above.Flickr your screenshots and tag them tweetdeck!Similar Posts:Buffalo Tweetup #3: Making a living thru video podcastingFlock: The coming of the social web browserFlickr video and Twitter: Is ultra-short media the new black?Chart: Twitter Users ...
Participatory governance in Singapore is finally reaching a new milestone, thanks to a newly released report from the Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (AIMS). Pooling together the expertise of bloggers in the civil and academic sectors, this open report is intended for the core government body to review and implement ...
MC Meow Meow calls for your attention!Just today I received this distressing email:Dear Kevin:Your web hosting account for isthereason.com has been deactivated (reason: site causing performance problems). Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for up to 15 days, after which it will be deleted.If you feel this deactivation ...
This ancient business card was sent to me courtesy of Nicholas Chan. Though I barely recalled ever meeting him, he said he knew me from long before and even managed to email me a forgotten piece of personal history: A calling card from the first business I ever started in July 1995. Back in the ...
This year’s Thanksgiving was a low-key affair… a few friends, smaller proportions of food, still fun nonetheless. I made my upgrade version of the Sweet Potato Casserole, which was well-received last year. Using the recipe from AllRecipes.com, this time I added glazed pecans under the marshmellows to top it off.Ingredients for Sweet Potato Casserole (Serves ...
China’s Andy Rooney Has Some Funny Opinions About How Great The Chinese Government IsAs I write about the Internet censorship practices of China, the methods of circumvention by dissidents, and the netizens caught in between yet empowered by being online, every step of the way is filled with a bitter sense of irony. China is ...
Watch on Blip.tv or download the iPhone version (35min / 250mb).Watch previous episodes on Blip.tv or subscribe to theorycast via iTunes.As the fourth presenter at the “The Wisdom (and Vicissitudes) of Crowds: Web 2.0, Social Networking, and Higher Education” held at the University at Buffalo, I gave an updated version of my fun crowdsourcing presentation ...
Youtube recently gave recognition to their amateur video celebrities with Youtube Live!, so it’s rather fitting that Howard Rheingold pointed out this mind-numbingly awesome anthropological introduction to Youtube. Dr. Michael Wesch, who deservedly won the “U.S. Professor of the Year Award” for 2008, presented his fun investigation into the Youtube video …
Click images to enlarge…In my earlier post, I showed you how you could capture and process panoramas automatically on your iPhone.Elia Diodati reminds me that for the rest of us without iPhones or wish for higher quality panoramas, try using the open-source panorama stitcher, Hugin. Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.Above is a panorama I ...
Sure, only after my third or fourth try did I manage to finally capture a panorama on the iPhone without crashing, but as I explore alternative modes of capturing the moment, panoramas are still pretty neat. What’s even neater is how this entire image was shot and automatically stitched with “Panorama” by the iFone guys. ...
Watch on Youtube or download the iPhone version (7:43min / 55mb).Watch previous episodes on Blip.tv or subscribe to theorycast via iTunes.In this 50th episode of theorycast, I caught up with Jesper Juul, a video game theorist at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. He just spoke at the University at Buffalo as part of the Visual ...
While today’s newspapers were flying off the rack, the New York Times in particular commands US$600 on eBay right now. For all the obvious reasons, this is super-duper history in the making. I took a photo of it instead of keeping a copy. Here’s my favorite quote from CNN…At New York’s Port Authority bus terminal, ...
TimePurposeActivity2:00 - 2:10Bridget, Karen, KevinWelcome & IntroductionsWelcome ParticipantsSelf Introductions2:10 - 2:25KevinWhat do we do on Facebook?- Share statistics- Validate significance of FacebookAlexa Top 100[Facebook = 7th place]Facebook Activity [Compete.com]Facebook [General Statistics]02:10 - 02:25Karen UB presence on Facebook- UB Libraries- Media …
Watch on blip.tv or download the iPhone version (mpeg4 / 98.4mb).Watch previous episodes on Blip.tv or subscribe to theorycast via iTunes.With Nov 4th 2008 being Election Day, I chat with friends who voted around the University at Buffalo. I listened to their personal experiences at the polling stations, how they tracked the U.S. elections, and ...
When my colleague Derek Lackaff and I conducted the “COM125: Intro to the Internet” class simultaneously in Singapore and Buffalo, New York (Spring 2007), we decided to do something completely different… We ran a social learning experiment of the “funnest” proportion (watch video). Given the positive feedback we’ve gotten from students in …
Watch on Vimeo or download the iPhone version (mpeg4 / 137.7mb).Watch previous episodes on Blip.tv or subscribe to theorycast via iTunes.Netbooks have amazingly dominated Amazon’s laptop sales charts for the past month. Small, lightweight and relatively cheap… just what are netbooks truly about, why are they so popular and what does it mean for the ...
Got a sweet mp3 player, but tired of listening to someone else’s music?The tools for music creation has become more accessible thanks to affordable applications such as Garageband, but they still tend to be relatively complex to learn. In comes another mode of music production… the one that pre-packages auditory possibilities, and lets you unleash ...
The new Apple lineup, including the 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pros might be impressive, but the simplest innovation I’ve seen comes the new Apple 24″ LCD screen.Apparently Apple’s 24″ LCD has a symbiotic relationship with the MBP. It’s turns the MBP into a “desktop” setup just by joining three cables from the LCD, namely the ...
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