An Exploration in Interactive Communications

2005-11-30T17:21:00.000-05:00

A false Wilipedia 'biography'

John Seigenthaler writes about a false biography written about him in Wikipedia. He has found out just how easy this is to do and almost impossible to trace who did it.

"John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to the Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960's. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assasinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing has ever been proven.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/
2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm

2005-11-26T08:39:00.000-05:00

This isn't exactly breaking news but I found this during my research. Thought it was interesting and wondered where it might take the cinematic world.

WHAT IS SOFT CINEMA?

Soft(ware) Cinema is a dynamic computer-driven media installation. The viewers are presented with an infinite series of narrative films constructed on the fly by the custom software. Using the systems of rules defined by the author, the software decides what appears on the screen, where, and in which sequence; it also chooses music tracks. The elements are chosen from a media database which at present contains 4 hours of video and animation, 3 hours of voice over narration, and 5 hours of music.

http://www.manovich.net/cinema_future/toc.htm

2005-11-20T07:13:00.000-05:00

The Internet has become an important part of
life for China's youth

Internet indispensable for young people

Getting up, turning on the computer, cleaning his face, brushing teeth, logging on to MSN and QQ (on-line chatting tools). These are steps 20-year-old Xiao Lin follows every morning.

"I can't imagine a life without the Internet," said Lin, a junior of Southwest University of Finance and Economics of China.

A recent survey, conducted by the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily, shows that the Internet has become something indispensable in the daily lives of Chinese urban residents, particularly the younger ones.

"http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-11/20/content
_496318.htm

2005-11-18T19:35:00.000-05:00

Battle for Web Control May Not Be Over

The United States claimed victory this week in the contest to keep control of the computers crucial for directing Internet traffic. But approval Friday of a plan to leave Washington squarely in charge hasn't fully ended the debate: The European Union and a host of other countries are suggesting that a new multinational forum, which delegates to a U.N. technology summit also agreed to set up, simply delays the battle for another day.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/18/D8DV31V80.html

2005-11-14T05:37:00.000-05:00

A future of empty doorsteps? Dark days for US newspapers

Dark days are ahead for American newspapers, as sales tumble, a warp-speed news culture leaves lumbering dailies behind and scandals over flawed reporting taint heavyweight titles.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/13/051113145312.o7xd4zz6.html

2005-11-11T05:59:00.000-05:00

The Future of Documentary Cinema

The nature of documentary films has changed in the past 20 years from the cinema verité tradition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film

2005-11-11T03:51:00.000-05:00

Internet holds only future for newspapers, experts warn

MADRID (AFP) - Newspapers have no future without online and digital services, media executives heard at a World Association of Newspapers meeting in Madrid.

http://channels.netscape.com/news/story.jsp?id=
2005111013157000000001&dt=20051110131500&w=AFP&coview=

2005-11-09T19:02:00.001-05:00

Plagiarism? Bloggers don’t seem to mind

This is a really good story by Byron York. It is about text being lifted from different political blogs for use by political parties. So far nothing has been done even though this is a clear case of plagerism.

Suppose a Democratic strategist wrote an open letter to colleagues and clients analyzing this week’s election returns. “Republicans have very little to cheer about this election,” he said with some satisfaction. “But off-year elections are rarely harbingers of future performance. Democrats actually did quite well in 2003, to little effect in 2004.”

Suppose further that the Democratic strategist signed his name to the letter and distributed it widely.

And then suppose one more thing: that the Democratic strategist had not actually written those words but had lifted them wholesale from a liberal blog....

href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/ByronYork/111005.html">http://
thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/ByronYork/111005.html

2005-11-04T18:35:00.000-05:00

Porncasts Appear on Video-Playing iPod

Purveyors of porn and entrepreneurs who spied a niche when Apple Computer Inc. unveiled its video-playing iPod are proving that sex even sells in tiny packages _ especially when it is portable.

Well that didn't take long. There was an article that was writen a week after the video iPod was released. The porn indusrtry was going to take a wait and see stance so that they didn't outrage the public with "porn on the go"

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/04/D8DLT9T0A.html

2005-10-31T15:56:00.000-05:00

Google to Start Scanning Books Again

Google Inc.'s online book project will take an important
step forward next week despite an increasingly nasty legal
fight over the company's plans.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173857,00.html

2005-10-31T06:08:00.000-05:00

Internet Rules
The Miers denouncement shows the power of the new media

As President Bush prepares to make a new appointment to the Supreme Court, the lessons of the failed Miers nomination are still being absorbed. One that deserves study is how a lightning-fast news cycle, a flat-footed defense and the growth of new media such as talk radio and blogs sank Ms. Miers's chances even before the megabuck special-interest groups could unload their first TV ad...

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110007480

2005-10-31T05:44:00.000-05:00

The Future of Books

What weighs less than one millionth of an ounce, consumes less than a millionth of a cubic inch, holds 4 million bits, and costs less than US$2? What weighs more than 1 pound,

http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/Wired/WIRED4-02.html

2005-10-24T18:20:00.000-04:00

King Kong' Blurs Line Between Films and Games

By LAURA M. HOLSON
Published: October 24, 2005
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 - When the producers of the upcoming movie "Halo" sought a location for shooting, they headed to the director Peter Jackson's studio in New Zealand. Mr. Jackson's soundstages were empty, since he had finished directing and writing a remake of the movie "King Kong." And Mr. Jackson was an avid gamer who admired the futuristic universe of "Halo," the video game on which the movie was to be based.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/technology/24kong.html?
hp&ex=1130212800&en=dcafd53c8e9c4439&ei =5094&partner=homepage

2005-10-23T14:41:00.000-04:00

Movies, Technology and the Future of Viewing

Talk of the Nation, March 9, 2005 · It's been a long time since movies were only available in theaters. But now there are movies on demand over cable TV; compressed films in digital files; and DVDs in the mail. Technology is changing how we watch movies, and it may even change what we watch. We examine the future of movies.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4528282

2005-10-19T05:46:00.000-04:00

'Splogs' Roil
Web, and Some
Blame Google

Spam has moved into the world of Blogging

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112968552226872712
-a60HA16WosKoP_LNbwPAkLZQQJE_20061018.html?mod=public_home_us

2005-10-07T17:59:00.000-04:00

Blogger Protected By Delaware Supreme Court

The Delaware Supreme Court rules that Comcast doesn't have to reveal the name of a blogger who criticized a local politician. This reversed a lower court ruling

http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/wpn-58-20051007
BloggerProtectedByDelawareSupremeCourt.html

2005-10-04T15:03:00.000-04:00

Conservative And Online In New York

A quick article that highlights one of the most popular conservative blogs in NYC

http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=
text/html&Path=NYS/2005/10/04&ID=Ar00200

2005-10-03T18:00:00.000-04:00

Black Tuesday Continues at the NYT

The New York Times Co. announced a staggering staff reduction plan.

Many people feel that the proliferation of new media blogs and open source news has seriously cut into the readership of the main stream media.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_
display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001140229

2005-09-26T05:28:00.000-04:00

Internet Censorship in China

I found this article on censorship in China

"The state bans the spreading of any news with content that is against national security and public interest,"

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050925/
tc_nm/china_news_dc_1

2005-09-22T14:15:00.000-04:00

They're not a credit to Schumer
Newsday (NY), by Glenn Thrush

A good story that show how politicians can use personal information for political gain....

WASHINGTON -- Two opposition researchers working for Sen. Charles Schumer at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee obtained copies of a confidential credit report on Maryland's Republican lieutenant governor, prompting calls for their prosecution. In July, committee research director Katie Barge and Lauren Weiner, a junior staffer, used Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele's Social Security number to get his credit report...

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/
ny-usschu224436974sep22,0,1690297.story?coll=
ny-nationalnews-headlines

2005-09-21T17:08:00.000-04:00

Gossip Meets the G-Men in Vast FBI Files

I found an interesting article about the FBI's surveillance of high profile Americans.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050920/ap_en_ce/famous_foias_3

2005-09-20T07:33:00.000-04:00

Project "Able Danger"

This was an article I found that writes about the advanced technology used to identify and keep under surveillence members of Al Qaeda before 9/11. It will be interesting to see how all of this fell through the cracks. Investigations by Rep. Curt Weldon are under way

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=L.%2020050827&articleId=868

2005-09-11T17:41:00.000-04:00

I Webbed the News Today - oh Boy

I found this article in the Seattle Times regarding the way younger people are getting their news.

" The Future course of news, the basic assumptions about how we consume news and information and make decisions in a democratic society, are being altered, perhaps irrevocably, by technology..."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002484118
_sundaymerrill11.html

2005-09-06T19:50:00.000-04:00

I am in the proceess of exploring the world of Artificial Intelligence. Since I am a novice in the world of computer science I thought this website might help others who are just getting their feet wet in the concept of AI

Extinguished philosophies lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules. - adapted from T. H. Huxley

WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? John McCarthy

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/whatisai.html

2005-08-27T13:12:00.000-04:00

At Work

2005-08-27T03:56:00.000-04:00

I have to admit that the idea of blogging as a new concept for me. I would like to use this blog to explore my interests in video production as I move into the high definition realm. With internet 2 on the horizon I'd like to be better prepared for it's full scale use as a tool.