Copyright, YouTube, ISCA Wheelchair Dancers, Universal Island

Copyright seems to be working out ok. There are sensible ways round most situations. At least I think this is the case so explaining in this blog what seems to be happening is one way to check things out.

Undisputed fact, there is a song by the Sugarbabes called Push The Button posted on YouTube by VEVO

The ISCA Wheelchair Dancers performed in Princesshay on Sunday and my video has a reasonable sound as I positioned next to a speaker. 

YouTube tells me that there is "matched third party content" and that adverts may appear next to the video. So I think what this means is that any income from ads will end up with Universal Def Jam Island. Which seems entirely reasonable. 19 views so far. When we get to 78,000 we may try to claim some proportion for the ISCA Wheelchair Dancers.

The VEVO version is heading towards 4 million views.

Radio, PR, Podcasting as topics for #likeminds in Exeter and Wild Show on Phonic FM

Next week I will be at #likeminds on the Friday but will concentrate on the Wild Show for Thursday. the broadcast is from 10 to 12 but we follow with coffee and a sort of plan for the future. Probably we will have aq guest to talk about a book and Chris will meet them at Central Station. So I will start the show and can mention anything about #likeminds that seems to fit in. 

Over the weekend I will try to video Chris and the ISCA Wheelchair dancers. They are part of the Olympic torch events in Princesshay. Chris also has some clips from his i-phone which need a bit of an edit but we are not yet sure how to do this on YouTube. So our level of production is fairly low. I notice several comments on the Whatleydude blog about connecting social media and television.

But this seems to be coming from an established tv point of view. We do have a broadcast radio but it is made up of little bits that exist in other forms as well. When it falls over we go back to txt. I speak for myself of course.

I don't know if there will be a lunch meeting in the Phoenix on Thursday as part of #likeminds but if radio fits the agenda we will be not far away after about ten past 12.

On Friday I hope to attend the masterclass on podcasting. We are using Soundcloud but maybe not as well as we might. It tends to be either complete shows or else short dlips. Grouping as a podcast is not something we try much.

In general I hope to find out more about PR or a theory of PR that allows for social media access to events and content. The Creative Commons approach is still not well understood I find. I am sort of reverse engineering PR theory back from where I would like it as a video blogger. There must be an explicit theory somewhere.  

Critique? Who knew? link and tweet expansion #mtw3

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/may/14/orthodoxy-prevails-climate-of-academic-fear?INTCMP=SRCH

This link is to letters about Aditya Chakrabortty on a lack of academic analysis in the current crisis. Further search in the Guardian finds at least a couple of articles and there may be more later.

There is a new slide set to promote #mtw3. The case for looking at management theory is fairly easy to make to managers and academics. It leads to better research and better management. Critique could be better known. 

#drupa waiting for Frank and Andy #whattheythink #VIDEOdrupa

Today is the last day of drupa. It will take at least a few months to work out what it has been about.

Today there is a new video from Frank Romano listing some slogans. He ends with a promise to post another one with a couple of hot picks. Now he tells us.

He makes no mention of any slogan from Landa. But he approves of Apple for having new products so maybe we are supposed to reach our own conclusions. So far as I can tell from a distance Landa has no slogan such as Frank would notice, has no Twitter account, posts no video to YouTube. They just do a product demo in real time.

So drupa continues mostly as ever intended.

I also notice not much about JDF. As memory serves Frank was never convinced that the benefits of JDF justified investment in new production equipment. So changes in workflow have been slow as kit lasts a long time. At this drupa web to print seems to be assumed so there must be some XML in there somewhere. But maybe nobody needs to know any detail including print buyers and the management.

More later, including I hope a link to something from Andy Tribute along the lines of 2008.

Tales of Things revisited, location muddle Exeter / Lancaster

It is definitely getting warmer. The Beach Boys have a new CD sometime soon but not yet.

It should be possible to record video in sunlight. Gardens near Northernhay are quite close to the RAMM so I may persuade JD and Chris from the Wild Show to explore. The gate is still shut but the garden entrance to the RAMM must be ready sometime soon or at least during this summer.

I am also starting to think about a trip to Lancaster. Thinking about web aspects of Gripping Yarns reminded me about Tales of Things. Maybe the stories stay the same but time and place can vary. I have to look things up to find out what I have already posted as Tales of Things components. Earlier today I found

Time garden, now out of funded time period so just a garden, not curated i think but who knows?

table top of phones from Exeter, includes Nokia 3410 and Kodak Zi8 I don't make it up that I need to be convinced about a phone with a better camera than the Zi8 before I will upgrade

infolab21 , inspiration equivalent of the innovation center

management hub, where tech is evaluated

nice , city centre link to public space

How much of this could fit into the RAMM? not a lot

#mtw3 online connections around publishing

The Management Theory at Work 3 continues in a social media phase and I am finding several threads. It is intended to combine academic theory and management practice. There was a strong element of Critical Management Studies in the first two conferences and this continues. The Critical Management website has included a notice about #mtw3.

Recently I noticed they also linked to a report on Al Jazeera about library.nu by Christopher M. Kelty. The site reviewed and linked to scholarly publications and was closed down as part of the copyright holders project on piracy. Kelty notes the global demand for education but what I want to emphasise is his take on the situation in university libraries-

The publishing industry we have today cannot - or will not - deliver our books to this enormous global market of people who desperately want to read them.
Instead, they print a handful of copies - less than 100, often - and sell them to libraries for hundreds of dollars each. When they do offer digital versions, they are so wrapped up in restrictions and encumbrances and licencing terms as to make using them supremely frustrating. 
To make matters worse, our university libraries can no longer afford to buy these books and journals; and our few bookstores are no longer willing to carry them. So the result is that most of our best scholarship is being shot into some publisher's black hole where it will never escape.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/2012227143813304790.html

I also notice that the Proceedings of the recent conference on Networked Learning were published by Lancaster University as PDF files from a website. Previous publications were by Springer Verlag so there was both a print version at a price I guess only university libraries would consider and also a PDF version hidden away on the website. (The latest design is much more clear)

#mtw3 is based on a keynote by John Burgoyne ( available on YouTube ) and the rest of the agenda appears depending on where he is speaking. (The YouTube sound is based on a mix of University Campus Suffolk and the Continuing Learning Group at Lancaster)

At Suffolk a previous speaker was John Peters from GSE Research. GSE is looking at different publishing models including some open access. So there could be a conversation about publishing from various points of view.

Management theory is also complicated by the Business to Business magazine situation which is rapidly moving online. The style of article may not qualify for academic citation but there is an overlap in the availability of ideas for various audiences.

Kelty did not mention sites such as Scribd which was once attacked as piracy but now hosts many sample chapters and promotional extracts for established publishers. It is well on topic in my honest opinion to mention my own papers from the first two Management Theory at Work conferences.

It is possible that a "face-to-face" version of #mtw3 will be located at the Work Foundation in London, now part of LAncaster University. They have a project to look at publishing as part of innovation.

Meanwhile I am finding out more about sound through working on the Wild Show on Phonic FM in Exeter. The FM broadcast is covered by a licence from the PRS. But "listen again" is more complicated. The trend though is for the people with rights to value promotion enough that they prefer sound to be available. I think text may end up in a similar situation.

Lots to discuss and to be continued.

Walter Benjamin as theologian, modernity as fall, making quite a lot of sense

Over the weekend I read in the Guardian a book review with an interesting take on Walter Benjamin-

Groys writes beautifully about Walter Benjamin, and again proposes an eyebrow-raising idea: that Benjamin should be read as a theologian rather than as a philosopher. Benjamin certainly fits badly with a conventional version of philosophy, and Groys argues that the difference between philosophy and theology is the difference between the future and the past: the philosopher desires the truth which is just out of reach, while the theologian commemorates and repeats the transformative event which is becoming more and more distant. Groys even manages not to quote one of Benjamin's most famous observations: "This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet". If you close only one eye, the image could as easily be product upon product lavished on the feet of Capital.

This might explain how academics see things. We live in a hell realm from which there is no escape. The creation myth for this world is one of destruction. There is nothing to do but deepen our understanding of the modernity dark side.

Presumably before modernity there was some form of paradise in which universities were much more to the liking of academics. But when this was I'm not sure.

Espresso continued, the one off book as manufacturing Inprint Live #drupa

I still can't find anything about the Espresso book machine from drupa searching. Maybe there is too much happening with larger bits of kit.

But I notice there is a new show announced for next year 

This will look at all forms of print / short run manufacture as far as I can tell. At previous drupas I have had to stay in Cologne and then commute. No bad thing but I have not had a proper look yet so this may work out later as a real show.

I have missed the last two London book Fairs but the impression I get is that short run or digital printing is still seen as a supply to the existing distribution system. So it is sent by a printer to a warehouse. The idea of a print production unit located in a bookshop is not considered much, although that is how a lot of this sort of thing started.

I am still guessing that there is no Espresso in Charing Cross Road, London UK. Maybe there is one at Blackwells Oxford. But still no news in Exeter even of a retail unit at St Lukes.

So I hope In Print Live will include the one off book. Maybe if it involved nano-technology it could be interesting. Can nano print in 3D so you get the bound volume in one hit?

more on Topophobia, public realm, architecture. Gallery Jitters

Casual browsing finds some more on Topophobia

So I think it is a fair question to ask about if there is anything positive at all, just possibly, about online.

Previous post today on Tumblr but I can't get the hang of it.

Started there to follow Spaces Review Group but now can't quite find it.

Central St Martins has recently moved to King's cross where there are some impressive water features centred on the canal. I am reminded of the Exeter Forum. My theory is that virtual worlds have had a deeper influence for longer than is often supposed. Space design in the last decade seems to be trying to imitate an online situation where space is unlimited. But iun reality the function can get lost I think. For example a campus without a bookshop.

Anyway, sorry going off topic. Please suggest some academic language on why research universities need to invest in architecture at this time.