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links for 2007-04-19
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Two New Zealand teenagers have discovered the downside of Happy Slapping (beating another kid up and post the videos on YouTube) when they were arrested by police yesterday.
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“Ismail Ax,” two words reportedly written on the arm of Cho Seung Hui, the Virginia Tech shooter, spark a huge number of web searches.
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Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) has started full-video (if only 320×240 sized) of its documentary and issue-debate style shows Insight and Dateline. Both are quality viewing, so I recommend this feed!
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Dan Gillmor: “Once again, horror has given us a glimpse of our media future: simultaneously conversational and distributed, mass and personal.”
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“Like most youngsters these days, victims of Monday’s senseless massacre had Facebook and MySpace pages. At risk of being too voyeuristic, here’s a few of their pages, some now updated with heart-rending messages from friends…”
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Friday, May 25th, 2007, a 24hour Second Life Teaching, Learning and Research Conference, including papers and eventually Conference Proceedings. (Possibly a good time for academics to try out Second Life!)
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“Students from poor backgrounds are just as likely as those from wealthy families to finish university, once they make it into tertiary education. Whether they attended a private or public school also seems to make little difference to their chances of co
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“Last year I raised the question “Is Second Life sustainable ecologically?” This question was picked up by Nick Carr, who found that an avatar in Second Life consumes about as much power as the average Brazilian.” (That seems a lot!)
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“Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui sent what NBC Anchor Brian Williams referred to as a “multimedia manifesto” to NBC between shootings. NBC’s Pete Williams reports.” [Streaming Video]. (More @ Boing Boing.)
links for 2007-04-18
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“Online games like World of Warcraft and Second Life are absolute dictatorships, where the whim of the companies controlling them is law. Doctorow wonders if it’s possible to create a game that’s a democracy, where your in-world property is really yours.”
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A gun-loving Virginia Tech student who was falsely idenitified as the VT shooter.More in The Age.
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“The college student responsible for yesterday’s Virginia Tech slaughter was referred last year to counseling after professors became concerned about the violent nature of his writings, as evidenced in a one-act play obtained by The Smoking Gun.”
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A teenage girl who posted a MySpace invitation including the line “let’s trash my house” has been questioned by police after revellers caused more than £20,000 to her parent’s home.
links for 2007-04-17
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While I have no doubt the films in question are offensive to some people, the Office of Film and Literature Classification is more than harsh enough in Australia already!
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Interesting piece suggesting more mobile use decreases PC literacies: “In Japan, the problem is that as the youth become more adept with mobile technology, their ability to use PCs … regressed to the point where it matches their parents’. “
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300/Anchorman mashup – nicely done – not as disturbing as the South Park 300 episode last week, but getting there! “Tonight Ron Burgundy dines in hell.” [Via Chuck]
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300 as a HALO machinima!
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The creators of Lonelygirl15 have a British spin-off, KateModern, a London teenager whose social life is taking a twist! It’ll launch through Bebo, emphasising audience interactivity, and have careful brand and advertising strategies from day 1.
links for 2007-04-16
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Even the ads have behind the scenes featurettes now! 😉 Mind you, wiht that much exploding paint, it’s amazing footage, regardless of what it’s used for!
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Will French politicians beat Obama to become the exemplar of web politics, as JFK was the exemplar of TV politics? [Via Jill]
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Documentary, meets lecture, meets mashup as Slavoj Zizek talks film and desire in this feature directed by Sophie Fiennes. Zizek’s thesis: ‘Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire’
Delicious Dilemmas
Sadly, that title means dilemmas in using del.icio.us and WordPress together, not dilemmas in deciding my next dessert! 🙁 For over a month now I’ve been using del.icio.us’ “Blogging: daily blog posting” tool to create daily posts containing my del.icio.us bookmarks in the preceding 24 hours. These posts are timed to occur at 0 GMT (8am my time), but I noticed on Saturday morning, despite a number of bookmarks waiting to appear, none did. Nor did my Sunday post arrive. So, checking del.icio.us, I found this error notice:
results:Running at Sun Apr 15 00:31:03 2007 GMT<br>Fetched 1 items.<br>posting error was: 408 Request Timeout <br>
My first concern was that WordPress had a new issue, but since I was still using 2.1.2 (and had been for more than a week, with successful posts during that time), I looked at GoDaddy (my hosts) which produced a rather intricate and inexplicably complex maze, but in the end no errors could be found in WordPress or my database. So, next I tried to install WordPress 2.1.3 since it has a bug-fix for what they call a “major XML-RPC issue”, which might have stopped del.icio.us talking to my installation of WordPress. No improvements there. Then digging deeper into the WordPress forums I found this thread – WP 2.1.3 slow performance – in which a number of people talk about slowdowns using the 2.1 versions of WordPress but, probably not coincidentally, most are using GoDaddy. So, I phoned GoDaddy support who, after 20 minutes – and putting me on hold for at least 15 of those minutes – I’m told that there’s nothing wrong at their end; their servers are running ‘optimally’, as is my database. Also to my surprise, the support guy had never heard of del.icio.us. (And, I should add, even using Skypeout, calling the US for 20 minutes from Australia isn’t the cheapest thing to do.) Finally, I’ve gone back to del.icio.us and tried to run a slightly different daily blog posting request, but still I get the same error!
So, the short version of this story is: no daily links until I can figure out what’s going on (and, to be frank, I think I’ve exhausted my technical knowledge). If anyone has advice or an alternate way to automate daily del.icio.us summary posts in WordPress, that’d be most welcome. (However, I have tried postalicious and that just times out!). Help!
Update (Monday, 9am): Despite all my failed attempts, my link-posts returned on Monday morning; I have no idea why, but I should know better than to question by now!
links for 2007-04-13
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RIP Kurt Vonnegut
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Justin Kan’s “lifecasting” pauses at the intimate moment! While disappointing to many Justin TV viewers, the life-in-the-comments on Justin TV during this blackout illustrate quite an interesting little community!
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“… for all the undisputed influence of blogs, the figures also show that blogging is still very much a minority sport. … The number of English-language blogs is under 24m, a comparatively small proportion of the population of the US (around 300m)…”
links for 2007-04-12
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Apparently a Tunisian – “Astrubal“ – released a 1984-styled mashup long before the US: ” the hammer shatters a screen where Tunisian president Ben Ali is speaking. The final image [is] of a Tunisian girl opening her eyes…”
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Extremely compelling use of Google Earth to expose the attrocities in Darfur: “In collaboration with Google Earth, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has brought together compelling visual evidence of the destruction in Darfur.”
links for 2007-04-11
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“All of the above might sound totally egotistical since it implies that I am in any way the author of my own success. The reality is that Henry Jenkins can do all of these things because Henry Jenkins isn’t a person. He’s a brand.”
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Craigslist vs common sense …
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# 70 million weblogs
# About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or…
# 1.4 new blogs every second
# Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37% -
Video in which Cuarón answers questions about Children of Men, the DVD, the doco and the politics behind the whole thing!
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YouTube gets politicial …
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“In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to reveal you some of the nice Web 2.0 logos, how you can draw their logo exactly the same (well, not really 100% though) with Photoshop.”
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Sorry to debunk a good proto-urban myth, but soldier Kevin Garrad was not saved from a bullet by it striking his iPod. Rather his iPod took the bullet but the body armour underneath stopped it!
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Great to see the New York Times reviewing fan-made mashups on YouTube. Case in point: Virginia Heffernan on the excellent Seven Minute Sopranos.
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An iPod flash mob party took over London’s Victoria Station Friday. An estimated 4,000 dancers turned up for the spontaneous event before four vanloads of police moved in to break up the gathering. Videos, too.
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Wonderful little YouTube mashup of hyper-masculine 300 with “It’s Raining Men” as a soundtrack. [Via Chuck]
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By Eli Horwatt [Via Chuck]
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Interesting DVD essay (or YouTube essay in the case of this version) about comic book adaptation, DVDs and the interplay between the two. (Flow TV, 5, 11, April 2007). I wonder if the clips will stay on YouTube all that long …
links for 2007-04-04
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“Education is not a hobby to be slotted into a lifestyle. Without care in the construction of curriculum, the fun and flexibility of sonic mobility will crush the discipline required for motivated learning.”(Nebula, 4, 1, March 2007, pp. 19-30).
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“We hope something new comes through in these statements, and that they will perhaps suggest more creative ways of approaching the kind of debate that has been generated around “the recent events” they relate to. “
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An excellent essay by Greenblatt, particularly effective in linking contemporary politics and Shakespeare through the tale of Bill Clinton’s specific take on Macbeth. (New York Review of Books, 54, 6, April 12, 2007).
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“UK Teachers are calling for much tougher restrictions to protect staff from “cyber bullying” by pupils.”
links for 2007-04-03
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“Forget handwritten notes passed around class, terse phone calls and SMS – MySpace is now the tool of choice for teens looking to give their lovers the flick.”
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A new MySpace launched and house drama with 80 x 90 second episodes, each having a 12-hour exclusive launch on MySpace before appearing elsewhere.
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“Because networked publics provide a space for teens to gather and share their lives, it is not surprising that the intimate acts that must be made visible take place here. While the online publicness of teen relationships horrifies many adults,…”
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NASA’s April Fools picture of the day: “Americans Defeat Russians in First Space Quidditch Match”
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“… a nifty new tool called bFree that takes the contents of a Blackboard course and creates a free-standing website out of it. While one wonders how it handles the parts of a course that really shouldn’t be on the open Web …”
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“Breaking with established practice, the EMI Group announced today that the record label’s digital catalog would go on sale over the Internet without built-in copy restrictions.”
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