We have added to the The Face of Text web site a section on Media – from there you can launch a Quicktime application that lets you see streaming video of selected talks at the conference with synchronized slides and text. The application was developed with LiveStage Pro – an interesting authoring environment for Quicktime applications. You can also hear podcasts/MP3 audio of selected talks.
The streaming media was developed by Zack Melnick as a Multimedia senior thesis project. Drew Paulin has been updating the web site.
Podcast support in iTunes
According to the multiauthor blog O’Reilly Radar, there will be Podcast support in next version of iTunes” href=”http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/05/podcast_support.html”>O’Reilly Radar >Podcast support in next version of iTunes. Great idea!
This is thanks to Matt Patey.
Yahoo Tech Buzz Game
Yahoo now has a Buzz Game which, like a stock market, will show a graph of the “blogosphere’s hyperactive imagination” based on “Yahoo! Search frequency over time.” You can weave little plots into your page if you sign up.
Google Homepage
Google Homepage is a new service that lets you create a customized homepage with news, mail, weather and other stuff. So much for the simple google screen.
Hunting Online
Hunting and killing online – Mouse Click Brings Home Thrill of the Hunt. Yes, now you can subscribe to an online hunting experience where you can control a gun and fire it remotely (you do need a valid Texas hunting license). What can I say.
Greasemonky: messing with web pages
Thanks to Matt Patey who pointed me to Greasemonkey which offers a Firefox extension that allows you control aspects of page’s design using DHTML.
There is a story on Wired News: Firefox Users Monkey With the Web about this.
If this catches on it will return some control over the interface back to the browser in the never ending see-saw between designer and user control over the interface.
I get quoted!
Oh vanity! I finally get quoted in something associated with Wired. See the end of this news story on Wired News: Street Art Goes Global, Online. Its a story about the Wooster Collective which I blogged. (Which probably why I got asked for a professorial opinion.)
TADA talk
Here is a blog entry on a short talk I gave about text analysis and collaboration. StÈfan Sinclair had the neat idea of having students enter notes about the conference into a blog on the Text Analysis Developers Alliance as the conference went along.
My talk began by offering a model for how computing practices change interpretation and the role of text analysis. I then went on to talk about different types of interpretation – between developers, between developers and researchers and between researchers.
Gospel Spectrum
Gospel Spectrum Beta is a New Testament visualization tool that allows you to see the events of Jesus’ life described in the gospels and whether the gospels are in harmony. The vertical lines are verses on an event. The colours are the different gospel writers. Zooming in eventually allows you to see the full text. Quite a nice custom visualization. Thanks to Drew Paulin for this.
TADA: Text Analysis Summit Blog
There is a blog on the discussion at the Text Analysis Developers Alliance blog. This is being updated by participants.