Written by amedeo on November 29th, 2007
With some creative use of your Web cam, Seesmic might provide another means of quick info updates from breaking-news scenes. Webware reviewed it.
Here’s a part of the service’s description that indicates the Web is becoming your Web site, my favorite song:
Users can link their Seesmic account to a Twitter account, if they have one, and [...]
Written by amedeo on November 27th, 2007
Vidmetrix, like TubeMogul, enables multi-site uploading for your video via one interface (via makeuseof.com).
Written by amedeo on November 26th, 2007
The challenge for librarians (from PVLD Director’s Blog found via Everything is Miscellaneous):
A fundamental shortcoming of the library catalog is that it doesn’t (and as currently designed can’t) know the why for any given search.
The folks at Bibliocommons understand this dilemma and are finding real, practical ways to harness social networking concepts to transform the [...]
Written by amedeo on November 25th, 2007
The Web is like Canada
The Web is like life, where good and evil co-exist
In the great sea of human knowledge, the Web is like a coastal swamp - shallow and chaotic, full of debris and rotting matter, and often stagnant and murky, if nonetheless always crowded and busy with life
…the Web is like the [...]
Written by amedeo on November 23rd, 2007
Information experience micro-culture is my somewhat academic attempt to create a term encapsulating the rituals, behaviors, expectations and experiences involving humans and our interactions with information, which includes the concept of story, one way of many (and one of my favorite ways) to organize data.
Why this is important: To make long-term, effective decisions about serving [...]
Written by amedeo on November 21st, 2007
If a disaster strikes in your city, why not go beyond Twittering like KPBS and add 8 other micro blogging services to your network of news-nugget displays? Because it takes too long to update that many sites?
Nein, non y no! Not with HelloTxt.com.
Here are the supported micro blog services:
tumblr.
twitter
jaiku
Pownce
Meemi (Italian)
frazr (French, German)
beemood
yappd
gozub (Spanish)
Once again, thanks [...]
Written by amedeo on November 21st, 2007
Creating embeddable, audio versions of stories with Web-based software
A drama in 5 acts
1. Read Emily Chang’s mention of vozMe.
2. Play with vozMe and plug in some Shakespeare.
3. Use Emily Chang to track down a free way to host an MP3 on an external site and play it with an embeddable player.
4. Use BoomMP3 to [...]
Written by amedeo on November 20th, 2007
Google grabs a patent for producing printed publications from Web content [via Dan Blank, Online Journalism Blog and TechCrunch].
This puts a damper on the idea that journalism organizations could chase after a Web tool allowing customers to assemble news and information into custom books that could be printed, much like many recipe sites allow brave [...]
Written by amedeo on November 20th, 2007
Seamus McCauley (Virtual Economics) offers a perspective on consumer/user-generated content through the lens of a book, This Other Eden, by Ben Elton. Here’s an excerpt of an excerpt from the book that McCauley pulled:
“The public always had the technology to get involved with the action if it wanted to. Right back to the Greeks. All [...]
Written by amedeo on November 15th, 2007
So you’ve given up trying to maintain your own Web site, gone nuts and become a network publication. Now if only you had 1 million producers to manage all those sites or…or…Lifestrea.ms?
I don’t know if the service will perform as promised. Read/WriteWeb has some concerns, but there’s nothing like finding out for yourself, especially when [...]
