26Jul10 Summer Nights

With a return of summer I find myself contemplating another year gone by. With everything always moving so fast its hard to think I’ll have the time to spend on persuits and hobbies I enjoyed in the past. Black and White photography was one of my favorite things to do when I was in younger. I liked it because I was good at it and it was a challenge not unlike computer programming, although an analog one at that. With my recent resurgance of physical activity I realize the benefit of balancing my digital life with my analog life. I wish I could do B&W photography again, maybe even Tai Chi. Well that will have to wait and for the time being I’ll have to be happy with my Blackberry B&W filter. Not to bad is it? Paul

Feature Fountain at Garrison Crossing

Feature Fountain at Garrison Crossing

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16Jun10 Margaret Gould Stewart: How YouTube thinks about copyright

Google’s approach is quite inspirational.  It’s not centered around policing content when a complaint is filed as you may have been led to believe but rather giving the digital rights owners the power to choose how their content can be used before the copies are posted and it’s all thanks to technology that compares different aspects of each video  like background music or a video clip against known content.  If you consider that it’s not just comparing complete parts, but parts of each content and also that it has to perform this function on each part, every time a video is uploaded, for multiple countries, the computational power needed for one video alone is mind blowing.

BTW, “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TEDx program and the annual TED Prize. “

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15Jun10 Kilian Martin – A Skate Escalation

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29May10 The Secret Powers of Time

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11May10 Text 2.0 Will Blow Your Mind (Or At Least Follow Your Eyes)

This is exactly the kind of experience I’d want from my eBook reader.  I currently read books on my Blackberry using MobiPocket but if there was a reader that could enhance the reading experience like this then I’d get one in a flash.  Even if it included background noises and ambient sound or music as I read it would be amazing.  Of course the coolest part is if people could post their own favorite books and add this kind of production to them.  Then you could choose novels by different authors and different artists for a combination that matches the kind of experience you want.

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18Apr10 What is Internet to you?

One of the first ever news casts about the Internet was from the CBC and surprisingly insightful.

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