Television Archiving

"a survey of mash-ups that unite mapping, photos, street views, video and documentary photographs from ages past" Visit Mash Letter to the Past

It's a genre: police behaving badly, caught on camera. This time, in Toronto at the G20 meeting. Nothing like police roughing up journalists to demonstrate the openness of a society. Visit G20: Post photographers spend night in detention centre | Posted Toronto | National Post

"We find that the terms of the publicly released draft of ACTA threaten numerous public interests, including every concern specifically disclaimed by negotiators. … Negotiators claim ACTA will not interfere with citizens' fundamental rights and liberties; it will. … ACTA is the predictably deficient product of a deeply flawed process." Visit Anti-ACTA: International Experts Find [...]

Cory tells plenty of truth in this post about the Obama administration's pathetic new report on IP. News to Victoria A Espinel U S Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator: trade associations begging (and getting) government granted monopolies don't represent the public interest. Visit US IP Czar’s report sells out the American public to Big Content – [...]

Incredible, interactive collection of animations illustrating machine parts at the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science. Visit International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science

Visit Home – Smithsonian Commons Prototype

Good overview of new developments with FFMEG / WebM and other video codecs and players. Visit FFmpeg Goes WebM, Enabling VP8 for Boxee & Co.

YouTube has launched a new video editing tool. Visit New Online Video Editor From YouTube

Forthcoming book by Lewis Hyde, Common as Air. Visit Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership – Lewis Hyde

Important piece on the mutability of memory, the role and power of faked images, and the work of Elizabeth Loftus. One snippet: <br /> <br /> "The comments, like the data, illustrate the power of doctored images. In a sample of a highly educated and informed subjects—Slate readers—half came to remember bogus political stories as [...]

Hurry! Conference proposals due next Monday June 7 for Open Video Conference in NYC, Oct 1-2. Visit Open Video Conference: October 1-2, 2010