Recommended Transmedia Reading

Recommended Transmedia Reading 2/15/12 | Transmythology.com

How to Create the Best Video Chat Experience

How to Create the Best Video Chat Experience - The Next Web

Cymatic Frequencies

I loved this video > Cymatic Frequencies II by DK - Part 1 on Vimeo

Videopong

Share, Remix and Perform

Videopong.net is a community dedicated to expanding and connecting the world of VJs and video art.

Through Videopong, you can:

• Download, use and remix clips from thousands of video artists in formats ready to go straight into your favorite VJ app
• Upload your own clips with different licensing options, including Creative Commons (creativecommons.org)
• get inspired with our custom online Onyx Online VJ Mixer
• Get a hold of portable hardware server for festivals and events offering all the functionality of Videopong.net
• Take an active part in developing our nonprofit, ad-free community

30 Video Editing Software And Online Tools

The silence created by my last post was deafening. So, as my biggest fan, may I present 30 Video Editing Software And Online Tools

Video Curation Tool

I'm looking for a video curation and annotation platform. I wonder if you can help me. 

Playlists are good because they're easy to share. That's important. But existing video platforms are too monogamous - you can't insert a vimeo clip into a you tube playlist for instance. Overcoming this disfunction would be a good start.

Yes - I could use Scoop.it or something else that sorts stuff into columns or rows... but I want both at the same time!

Video is too linear: it has a start and an end and that's it in terms of points in time that you can segue to another clip. What about all the points within the clip? What if it were more like text where I can copy a section of an article and paste it into a new document? Kind of like Storify. 

It would be great if I could annotate a video much as SoundCloud allows the viewer to leave comments on the timeline of the audio file, and then use these annotations as segue points to other clips.

What if, like Quicktime Pro, I could make an in point and an out point and copy that section into a playlist?

Finally, to protect the interests of the original producer, the platform should also automatically collect the attribution metadata.

Please world, find or invent this tool.

Civilizing the Economy

There's no denying that there are outstanding governance issues across remote Australia and while many of us are looking for solutions to increase stakeholder engagement, I suggest that we'd be better served looking to reinvent the box within which we're thinking. Hence my passionate interest in the work being pioneered by the School of Commoning. From this source, I've become aware of a new text: Civilizing the Economy.

In Civilizing the Economy, Marvin Brown traces the origin of this mistake to early capitalism aptly illustrated by Adam Smith's denial of the central role of slavery in wealth creation. In place of the Smithian property-based economics, Brown proposes a new framework for the global economy that reframes its purpose as the making of provisions instead of the accumulation of property. This bold new vision establishes the civic sphere as the platform for organizing an inclusive economy and a way to move toward a more just and sustainable world.

Get the book here

Curing Creative Block

This ebook is published under a Creative Commons licence which means
you are free to copy and share it, provided you:

• keep it intact in its original format
• credit Mark McGuinness and Marelisa Fábrega as authors
• do not use it for commercial purposes

So if you know anyone who could do with some help with a creative block,
please pass it on! Here’s the link to the download page: http://lateralaction.com/

The Beginning of Infinity

The search for hard to vary explanations is the origin of all progress. Its the basic regulating principle of the enlightenment. That the truth consists of hard to vary assertions about reality is the most important fact about the physical world. It is a fact itself unseen, yet impossible to vary.



The Beginning of Infinity: David Deutsch Explains the World | Brain Pickings

The future of Occupy: a historical comparison

1 in 5 teenagers will experiment with art

via Threyda on Facebook

iPads for Learning

21 steps for 1-on-1 success in this PDF from the folks at http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/

Data Visualization: 20+ Useful Tools and Resources

Great list of resources at Rods Web Design

Internet overtakes TV in Aus

The inevitable has occurred – Internet use has eclipsed TV use in Australia. Could this be an explanation for local TV station Imparja turning up in my letterbox with a DVD and on vimeo?

Tools to Understand & Influence Decision Making

www.brainsbehavioranddesign.com/pdf/Introduction_BBD_v1.0.pdf

PirateBox

Inspired by pirate radio and the free culture movement, PirateBox is a self-contained mobile communication and file sharing device. PirateBox utilizes Free, Libre and Open Source software (FLOSS) to create mobile wireless file sharing networks where users can anonymously chat and share images, video, audio, documents, and other digital content.

Read more by /// David Darts ///

What Consumer Culture Will Look Like In 2020 (And How Brands Can Adapt)

Chances are, the real 2020 will fall somewhere in the middle of these scenarios. But for what it’s worth, our money is on a combination of "My Way" and "From Me To You"--smaller, local economies with an emphasis on decreasing waste and maximizing resources.

Read all about it at Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

Bluebrain’s App Central Park

As you walk, new musical themes hit you every 20 or 30 steps, as if they were emanating from statues, playgrounds, open spaces and landmarks. The themes layer over one another, growing in volume as you approach certain points on the map and fading out as you move away. It’s a musical Venn diagram placed over the landscape, and at any time you might have two dozen tracks playing in your ears, all meshing and colliding in surprising ways. The path you take determines what you hear, and the biggest problem with what the composers call a “location-aware album” is that you may get blisters on your feet trying to hear it all.

Read more at NYTimes.com

See also Best Audio Guide Ever

How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?

People are more likely to kickstart positive change in their communities when their voices are heard and their opinions are validated. By creating dialogue and offering feedback opportunities, we enable the feedback loops that are an important first step toward positive change. How might we create tools that enable and amplify these feedback loops? How might we help people vocalise their community’s needs, opportunities, shortcomings and potential? How might we ensure that all members of a community have access to opportunities to vocalise what they want for their area?

Many cities and regions in need of revitalisation are dealing with issues of space. Rather than seeing empty lots, vacant buildings and abandoned neighborhoods as indicators of decline, let’s consider how we can re-purpose, remix and reuse space to add vibrancy to neighborhoods. How might we encourage the remixing or hybrid usage of spaces, buildings and locations to infuse vibrancy in communities? How might we create tools to help communities navigate complex issues related to re-purposing space, including publicly- vs privately-owned space, legal uses of specific spaces and others?

Answers available at OpenIDEO

Empowering Teachers with Video via Mobile Phones

The Bridgeit program involves an innovative process of disseminating educational programming directly to the classroom via a mobile phone. Read about it at Educational Technology Debate

Five Factors in Good Software Game Design for the Developing World

"...that you have found this message means that it is your destiny to join us"

Games for the developing world try to bring about positive behavioural changes among developing populations. Game design for this space comes involves working with a number of unique constraints and nuances. The following are some factors that merit consideration in designing better game-based ICTD solutions for the developing world....


Read more at ICTWorks

How to engage the disengaged

About Inanimate Alice:

What I've learned from dipping my toe into the world of digital literacy this year is that it may not be a panacea for all but in my never-ending quest to engage the disengaged it has been amazing. It is not and should never be a replacement for reading quality literature – I still feel it is my duty to open this world up to them – but as an aid to writing I couldn't recommend it highly enough.

Read more at Teacher Network Blog | Guardian Professional

Building mobile applications for social good

A PDF of the Building mobile applications for social good article is available at the kiwanja website (2 Mb)

Using iPads for Kiosks

To run in a kiosk mode, we want to set up the iPad to do a few things such as automatically starting our specific application and to keep it running if someone tries to quit the app or restart the app if it crashes for some reason. You can get part of the way there by getting an enclosure that restricts access to the hardware buttons. However, because iOS is unix-based, you can go further.

Read more at Studio Blog | Art, Technology, Design | Second Story

Alternatively, see KioskPro app for iPad

For hardware, see also: Gallery pedestal for iPad

Launch of ‘living’ books breaks barriers between humanities and science

The books present recent research on these subjects in a palatable way using interactive maps, podcasts and audio-visual materials. The result, which can be shared freely amongst both academic and non-academic individuals alike, is an engaging and diverse resource for researching and teaching relevant science issues across the humanities.

By embracing the age of open information and the increasing prominence of crowdsourcing, the project leaders ensured each volume in the Living Books About Life series is a ‘living’ medium itself, able to be updated by readers through ongoing collaborative processes of writing, editing, remixing and commenting.

Read more at JISC View the books here

Joe Gebbia: The Power Of Story

Some highlights from the talk:

• The first step is curiosity – get your audience hooked and interacting with the product or idea
• You must have and own a story. The story is everything.
• Once the story goes beyond your community, it must be re-localized in the culture and dialogue of other communities in order to have global success.
• Tips and the progression of distribution, and how to let the product or idea do the work for you.
• How to get the story into the media without spending a lot – or any – money.

Joe Gebbia: The Power Of Story [Video] @PSFK

iPads for Museums report

Thinking about iPads to deliver your interpretation? Want to check out some crafty ideas for mounting iPads in galleries?  Download the report at Australian Museum

Smartphone Accessories for Digital Storytelling

The links below all take you to TrendHunter: be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page to check out related items.

• iPhone SLR lense mount

• Smartphone Audio Recorders

• Quick connect lense

See also the OWLE iPhone housing and the Makayama iPad video housing

Public Sector Innovation Toolkit

Dear NT Government ICT mob. Get over yourself with this handy website

Public Sector Innovation Toolkit | Empowering change in the public sector

The Industrial Age Has Finally Run Out of Gas

“Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in human history, where the industrial age has finally run out of gas.”– Don Tapscott

The thesis of his work lies in the nature of how people are now participating in mass collaborations within or across the boundaries of the organization. InWikinomics, he described seven different approaches to these new platforms for participation. Occasionally referred to as crowdsourcing, but more accurately ascollective intelligence, these are specific models of how to organize tasks, draw participation and collating results that really only happen because of the structure of the method utilized.


For example, the model of social brainstorming, also referred to as ideagoras or idea management, you create an open online system to involve all the people that you may like to draw from a specific target population, provide some topics to structure discussion and then allow them to debate, rate and rank the best ideas. This can be done within organizations or with customers, partners and communities to develop new products, teach and adapt business transformation initiatives, or even partnerships to support projects in regional, environmental and civic responsibility.

Such a model is empowered not only by the willingness to debate in an open platform with advocates and detractors alike, but also facilitation to drive constructive debate and results. It requires facilitation, not management, to help people understand the tool, the issues, and the scenarios involved. In this way, the role of leaders becomes to guide and influence others, rather than to give orders and instruction. Simply said, they are not managers any longer but influencers and this takes new skills and a different mindset.

An Interview With Don Tapscott - Forbes