Rougemont Giraffes the Backstory ‏@talesofthings

I realise that the recent YouTube clip with JD explaining the giraffes needs a bit of background. It is a new stage for me when the radio show results in at least one other person realising most of what I am going on about. So much so I am trying to stick to facts. I did have a sort of fiction for Gripping Yarns but this was not performed. I became the sort of character who starts an uninvited conversation in a cafe, for example about the missing giraffe and how it could be recreated through technology. You are not sure what to make of such a person, especially as the tech claims get more ambitious.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aBOGiUeTihwVEUTB9khtvjK9D9fPjifzdZNY1AMARgY/edit

But here is JD as a listener who has pretty much accepted the story.

Previously on the Wild Show (Phonic FM Thursday 10-12) I explained some of this to Chris and edited the sound with a clip from BETT

connectededucation.com  arranged the demo. This was  a Playstation portable but the same could work with other devices

Before that I did a clip from Apps World about  Aurasma

So now we need to find an actual 3D giraffe and someone to link it all together. Maybe a smaller scale project would be sensible. But I think the principle is ok. And the gardens are a well lit studio for the next few months.

Tales of Things starts with a memory of the giraffe in a proper place. It may be too late to find good photos of this. But Tales of Things continues to link codes and memory.

More background, Ghostwriter has used some technology, maybe more will turn up in RAMM later.

Twinity stills from the New Berlin and Lubins in Morecombe

Next week I will be in Lancaster and away from Twinity most of the time. Though the Boland Forest is quite similar to the hills behind my beach which somehow Twinity has arranged near Northampton. sometimes I wonder where they get the map info and why it is so expensive. If it is.

Anyway back on topic. My colleague Linda is still based in Morecombe and has photos on the wall of the InfoLab 21 where tech visions may start, a tree near the Management School where implications are evaluated, and a sofa at home where tech may be accepted in society. So conversation could be here if you find Lubins on Twinity.

I think Twinity has started to do a sort of pastiche of cities that gets round any copyright issues for the map info. Berlin has got an arch and then the hills are quite close. I started in the Twinity Berlin before the other cities were built. Somehow being able to walk between the Sony Centre and Humboldt suggested to me that academics could relate well to consumer electronics. As a space for discussion it worked ok, even if you have to copy stills to Facebook to explain it. So this new Berlin might expand a bit.

If they get to a canal it could double up for the Grand Union. We just need sets to get started. 

Ordnance Survey, Creative Commons, #likeminds, Twinity, Alan Moore

I'm looking through notes from #likeminds and the excellent blog that is even better than my memory. There is a link from the talk by Alan Moore to a detail on the Ordnance Survey use of Creative Commons.

The thing is, Twinity has backed off from a model of real cities. I think this has to do with rights to map info or the costs of such. Previously they had a 3D model of central Berlin, Singapore, Miami, New York and London. Now there are just the apartments and cafes etc. Also some new roughs of a "New Berlin" of which more later.

My main question is, if the Ordnance Survey are prepared to think about Creative Commons, what is the problem with info at the level Twinity need it? Is it a secret that Charing Cross Road is close to Trafalgar Square? Could there be a sponsorship arrangement. Better maps are available. Something like that.

Meanwhile I am exploring New Berlin and other places. It works ok but not quite the same. I think a Twinity London should be back in full force in time for the Olympics. I have suggested a canal side route from Regent's Park to Victoria Park. Around Islington Green and King's Cross it can get a bit complicated as the canal is underground and the footpaths are various. This is a situation where detailed maps should be allowed imho.

Anyway I shall try to Tweet this to the proper authorities and hope something can be worked out.

clips from yesterday on Wild Show, could fit with podcast talk at #likeminds

Yesterday I did some clips from the Wild Show on Phonic FM. Guest Tony Giles joined us for coffee in the Phoenix Bar so the lighting is much better. Later JD and I visited Rougemont Gardens where the lighting is even better. The next few months are the best time for social video. We hope to find a wheelchair route to this spot. Chris actually has an iPhone so could test any giraffe superimposition that turns up. at the moment there are steps on the route directly from RAMM.

three minutes, too quick for a podcast? I will have a better idea later today.

Social Media and Business Schools

I came across this through stephendale, who I follow on YouTube.

There is a one screen mention for HULT International Business School towards the end. i had never heard of them but apparently they are a private enterprise university with several campus locations on a global basis.

The video claims that in ten years 40% of the Fortune 400 companies will no longer be here. What do they teach in business schools? If the idea of a learning organisation is still around then the rate of destruction could be lower.

If the approach in this video is roughly right though, Facebook shares are obviously cheap.

drupa definitely digital, almost a conclusion from Frank and Andy #whattheythink #futureprint

Yesterday evening there was a Tweetjam using #futureprint hosted by Cary Sherburne for WhatTheyThink. I thought it went really well and showed that new forms of media can be used to discuss print like anything else. Some of the ideas are a bit futurist, such as inkjet chocolate manufacture.

Today there are a couple of links to a video from Frank Romano and part one of an article by Andy Tribute. Frank is making a case for paper, especially with plenty of sparkle and cut-outs that tell a story. He obviously covered most of the show as the two companies he mentions are not well known. Andy Tribute has a lot of detail on equipment, some not widely available till IPEX in 2014. I notice this comment-

"....in terms of generating attention offset was a minor player. I am sure however if one looks at the show in terms of value of orders taken that offset will have taken the larger share..."

From the Tweetjam I can gather that digital media of all kinds are now accepted. Offset is part of a mix and a workflow. There was more mention of the Cloud as an option for MIS and Web2Print. For most people buying print the exact method of production may not matter very much.

Andy Tribute continues-

"..will Landa’s Nanographic Printing being the main technology for the future, or will either new generation liquid toner presses such as those from Océ and Xeikon, or inkjet B2 or continuous feed high-speed presses be shown to be the technology for the future? Or will there be a space for all of them? Can they compete with advanced offset presses in changing the market? Well for my thoughts on that you will have to wait until Part 2 of this article."

or you may have to wait till 2014.

News is moving beyond newspapers ‏@rossdawson

Through Twitter I found a graphic about the claimed decline of newspaqpers, dates vary for different locations

The UK and Iceland are shown for 2019 newspaper extinction, behind USA in 2017.

This reminded me of an ad in the print Guardian on Monday so I had another look. Newsworks is the new name for the Newspaper Marketing Agency just as newsbrands is the new name for newspapers.

more explanation in this set of links to reports. The page ad in the Gujardian has a photo of a dog carrying a tablet with logos that look a lot like existing newspaper titles.

So the UK has got the message and is a few years ahead of the Ross Dawson schedule.

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