I am the campus rep for the SSHRC Trasnformation exercise. (See my blog at Transforming Knowledge. Here is a flyer that was designed for the discussions here at Mac. (Download file) It is an example of how I am trying to move away from PowerPoint presentations following Tufte, “Cognitive Style of PowerPoint”. A well designed handout really works better (but it costs more.)
Linguistica Annotation
Linguistic Annotation is a list of tools and formats for annotating and studying linguistic features. Included are things like TEI and Multitext. We need to review these tools against what we hope to have on TAPoR.
Annotating Web Pages, Survey
A Survey of Web Annotation Systems is a good short review of various systems for annotating web pages. The question I have is whether blogs are a type of web annotation that organizes around the annotation rather than the site?
POST VIDEO ARt
POST VIDEO ART | Video Art & Experimental Films Video Streaming is a site dedicated to video art. It has lists of festivals (for 2003?), lists of galleries, and posted works. The interface scrolls right rather than down as if an opening CD insert. You can submit works.
Christmas Crackers and Blogs
BBC Arts – Books – Christmas Cracker – Stale Pudding is a site about Christmas Crackers as collections of readings. My father used to get personally printed Christmas Crackers books which contained the most wonderful collection of excerpts of readings. Blogs (at least the good ones) bring that tradition to the net.
Audio Blogs: audblog
audblog : sounding out is a service for which you play that allows you to add to your blog audio entries entered from a phone (anywhere.) For $3 a month you can record from a phone up to 12 four minute audio blog entries a month. The audio (I think) is stored on their server, but the system enters a blog entry in your blog if it is supported. (Movable Type is!)
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ambientTV and The Spy School
: : : a m b i e n t t v . n e t : : : is home to interesting video and surveillance projects. See The Spy School, especially exercise # 4 which uses CCTV cameras. With streaming one could imagine interesting live performances around cameras.
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Blog Binders – Blog to Book
BlogBinders.com (Turn your blog into reality) is a company that will (for a fee) print and bind a blog. Could this be used for Christmas Cracker-like chapbooks? Could one write a thesis this way?
SENT: Phonecam Show
SENT claims to be “America’s first phonecam art show”. They have an exhibit space in LA and a plan a massive blog of cam shots sent in. Neat idea for participatory art. Looks well planned.
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RSS for Mac OS X: Shrook
Shrook 2 – RSS and Atom for Mac OS X is a cool aggregator tool for surfing your feeds. Works with a free account from shrook.com.