Wednesday, September 27, 2006

joshua davis

noted designer that was mentioned in class. check it out
joshua davis

all tv signals to digital

dean mentioned stuff about hd tv, so here is the 411 on the senate recommended switch to digital signals. after this date you will have to have a converter or a tv made for hd signal
April 7, 2009 is the date the Senate Commerce Committee recommended for the end of analog television, when broadcasters will turn off their analog signals and transmit only digital ones

original story

gooberTV

gooberTV, our group project, is now in blog form. the address is http://goobertv.blogspot.com. episode 1 is now up and running so check it out!

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

bearly halloween

first new vidcast that i have finished. recorded it sometime ago but finally got around to finishing it. i have other ideas that i am going to try to create.

viral posts and movies

interesting article about the viral nature of popular youtube/googleVideo movies
And here's an intriguing question: Can YouTube and Google Video figure out a way to make this a business? If so, could they become the web's equivalent of the broadcast networks?

original article, cnn
the emerging media brings on emerging business

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Website Tweakers

here is an interesting job "title" that could be very useful now and in the coming years. we need people to...

change the look and the feel but not the bones... plastic surgery for websites...I figure if I'm looking for a tweaker, others are too

seth godin's blog

i figure this is a great opportunity for us designers who don't necessarily want to dive into javascript, php, and other coding languages. but we would rather deal with the visual aspects...what greats the visitor's eye

Monday, September 18, 2006

crazy software teaches itself

check this out

This is software for generating new ideas on the basis of existing ones, and it has already written music, designed soft drinks, and discovered novel minerals that may rival diamonds in hardness.


Experimental AI Powers Robot Army
cool story

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

just some blog recommendations from class

pouringdown.tv

scriggity.com was kinda lame......basic girl thing showing the news thing that "lonely" guys want to make her their friend on myspace thing......thing

abc news video podcasts

now these aren't the same content as the tv version. it is slightly different and directed towards a younger audience. same anchors only a different attitude. they even did a story on one of the anchors atari system.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Podcasting/

i just subscribe through iTunes

Friday, September 08, 2006

is it coming?

our site is hopefully coming by the end of the semester. till then i am going to be experimenting with podcasting to the best that i can and with the amount of time that i have after all my other stuff is finished.

although here's a cool thing if you want to make your own ringtones. you can send any audio file to your phone for free (except your provider charges) using this site; check it out. click here