Moodstream is a new site from Getty images, and is a rather strange beast.
It takes images, video and music from the Getty archives and mashes them up into a constant stream of material, which the viewer can modify according to their mood by entering their ‘emotional state’: you can be hot or cold, excited or [...]
An interesting post today from charlie beckett about why news organisations are resistant to moving into the online arena that has interesting implications for education. Charlie argues that because editors typically see online as a drain on limited resources and dont see any incentives: “All the managers could see was a threat. This Online business [...]
There is a new beta version of soundslides, the quick and easy multimedia/audio slideshow authoring tool. Here is an example of a story on Iraq from the Spokesman Review Video Journal (thanks to Colin Mulvany and his informative mastering multimedia blog)
The plus version allows more interaction with the images including camera movements, and the beta [...]
Cisco have just demonstrated their new ‘On Stage’ telepresence Digital Face to Faceproject, which brings live holographic presentations.
It’s pretty amazing, and makes me realise that a lot of the discussion about face to face vs web based interaction may well be redundant in a generation or less. Soon having soemone ‘live’ in the same [...]
I’ve just presented a paper at the SOLSTICE e- learning conferences recently, so I thought I’d catch up with some of the trends that emerged, particularly where they cross over with journalism and media.
Les Watson, an expert on developing learning spaces gave a presentation entitled ‘from Space to Place’, about how to create the learning [...]
The harassment of photographers in public spaces is becoming a very hot topic, with increasing discussion in mainstream media. The Guardian just had this insightful piece by Bruce Scheiner, author of Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World ,where he convincingly argues that the idea that terrorists are wandering around taking [...]
To mark Memorial Day in the US, the LA times has put up a statistical analysis of the military casualties from the State of California to date of Bush’s ‘War on Terror’. Called ‘California’s War dead’, it provides a fascinating insight into who is actually doing the fighting, and of course the dying. The [...]
