Visit the new website of the project at http://www.mediaspaces.org

Ville Tikkanen and Andrea Botero Cabrera presented in COST298: The Good, The Bad & The Unexpected -conference in Moscow, an article about using video in co-design projects. The material in the article is case examples from recent and older uses of video in the work done in Arki. The article also reflects on the contemporary developments of using video in design activities and points out a few new, potentially interesting developments. ...more

"syncVUE is an extremely clever media player that plugs into SKYPE, the most popular VOIP (voice-over-internet-protocol) conferencing software available today. Simply download SKYPE (it's free), sign up for an account and you're ready. syncVUE adopts your SKYPE "buddy list" as it's own, allowing you to collaborate with any other syncVUE user on the SKYPE network. ...more

There is an interesting insight in a Guardian article: ...more

"Democracy Player is a new kind of browser for watching videos-- grab webpages with video and video RSS feeds (including podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds), and watch them full screen, one after the other. It's free and open source." (http://www.getdemocracy.com/) ...more

Project Pad is a project to build a web-based system for media annotation and collaboration for teaching and learning and scholarly applications. ...more

Vidding

"Vidding is the art of taking clips from your favourite film or television program and editing them to music. It is about creating a parody of both the video footage and the music used as a soundtrack." (From Cybermintz's Guide to Vidding ...more

"Podcasting will soon break out of the "pod" and onto the public airwaves. The world's first all-podcast radio station will be launched on May 16 by Infinity Broadcasting, the radio division of Viacom.

Infinity plans to convert San Francisco's 1550 KYCY, an AM station, to listener-submitted content. The station, previously devoted to a talk-radio format, will be renamed KYOURadio.

Infinity, one of the country's largest radio operators with more than 183 stations around the country, will invite do-it-yourselfers to upload digital audio files for broadcast consideration by way of the KYOURadio.com website." ...more

"Former Vice President Al Gore announced on Monday that his new TV venture, formerly called INdTV, will now be launched as Current.tv on August 1. The network will be aimed at 18- to 34-year-olds and its goal is to have much of its content created by viewers. ...more

"VWB's MediaREADY 5000 is a breakthrough device that simply and easily connects people to all their home entertainment and Internet options, all in a single device. The set-top unit, about the size of a typical DVD player, combines a suite of popular TV-centric applications with an easy-to-use electronic program guide and the ability to record broadcast media on either the internal hard drive, built-in DVD recorder, or other hard drive connected via a home network. The unit also offers On demand content, email, Internet browsing, games and MP3/ CD/ DVD/ MPEG-1/ MPEG-2/ MPEG-4 playback on any connected television. ...more

Kitchen Album is a Mediaspaces project that explores ways to enhance people's communication of everyday life using audio and visual media tools to support the natural sharing of cooking knowledge in the kitchen, generating in this way a new everyday life "mediaspace". ...more

(from slashdot) Accompanying the previous photoblogs posting, here are some links to video blogs: Making King Kong, stevegarfield, hyppertext, jpn and m3blog

With blogs focused on photos on the rise, here's where you can read all about it: photoblogs.org

(From Slashdot) Eric Meyer, the man behind the famous Complex Spiral (CSS) Demo page, is at it again. He has created S5, "a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript." As he says, "With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well. The markup used for the slides is very simple, highly semantic, and completely accessible." So it can be used for PowerPoint-like work and the show responds to a variety of input--you can go to the next slide by pressing Return, Right, Space, etc. It is being released under a Creative Commons license. So fire up our favorite standards-compliant browser and check it out!

(From LWN) Several universities (including MIT, Heidelberg University, and the University of Sydney) have gotten together and announced the formation of the .LRN Consortium, which is dedicated to the development of open source educational software. More information is available at dotlrn.org.

An effort, sponsored by Brazil and Argentina, has succeeded to change the official mission of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Today, Cory Docterow reports "...at the general session of the WIPO in Geneva this weekend, the Assembly (adopted) a decision to put development and the promotion of creativity front-and-center in its goals. That means that from now on, WIPO isn't an organization that blindly supports more IP no matter what, but rather one that seeks to improve the world by whatever tool is best suited to the job."

(from slashdot) The folks over at Rooster Teeth Productions, best known for their Red vs Blue comedy movies based on the Halo rendering engine, are branching out with a second series, with more of a sitcom flair, called The Strangerhood. This time, they're using the Electronic Arts Sims 2 game as their rendering engine.

(from LWN) Silicon.com names its list of Agenda Setters for 2004. "More individuals involved in open source and free software made the list than ever before. Along with Torvalds at 7, we have MySQL CEO Marten Mickos making his debut at 12, Open Source Risk Management's David Eggers at 37, Red Hat engineer Mark J Cox at 40 and free software advocate Richard Stallman at 44." Introduction and the whole list