Online video to co-exist with proper telly

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/173046/three-quarters-of-online-video-buyers-planning-tv.html?edition=46008

This is mostly about advertising and the USA but it seems to make sense as to where online video is going.

At the Analogue to Digital Music Expo in Exeter last weekend it was reported that Sound on Sound had feedback about their video page indicating a lack of interest in colour balance and other technical issues. Phone cameras are good enough for YouTube. 

Meanwhile Apple is moving HD to levels that might suit TV more than phones. So the boundaries may change again later. 

Learning as three meanings, also compared with communication and quality #hellospiders

I am thinking again about doing some diagrams for Hello Spiders. These are similar to word clouds based on stats for search results but can be created as a layout of words anyway. I usually start with learning, communication, quality. Most previous blogs are about how these combine. Earlier on it was about print and other forms of communication. It turns out that the London College may have been right to change the name. It makes more sense over time even if London College of Printing was well known. 

I think "communication" and "quality" can be linked together quite readily. Adobe has moved into analytics as this fits with web design and digital media. Print distribution and advertising will fit with this also I think. So stats and process will be part of the workflow. From a quality perspective the digital communication is now making it easier to combine document control and agility or whatever it is you are looking for.

Learning is still unclear as it is tied into education. The everyday use of the word by people outside formal education may not be the same thing. There is "Networked Learning" which may not rely on technology as it may be based on previously existing academic values. There is whatever Chris Grey is against in "Against Learning" . I think it is outside universities and may be connected with the web.

Then there is Learning Without Frontiers, Learning Technologies, whatever you think is going on at Olympia towards the start of the year. This includes much that is informal.

So I will try later for some words on some sort of pattern. 

RGB versus Twinity Dance

"versus" is some form of relation, I think.

RGB is Rougemont Global Broadcasting, about to enter a new phase of links as well as a YouTube channel. The scope includes technology and theory. I think Twinity can help as a way of basing a studio for continuity. The avatars are gradually taking over for comment and speculation.

But as well as the budget issues around street locations there is also the trend that the Twinity focus seems to be on dance. It may be getting out of proportion. Don't get me wrong, every channel needs some dance. So far I have not persuaded many academics to visit Twinity or the Work Foundation to invest in a full replica building ( when central London returns it might be worth another look, there are few conference locations inside the scope).

Last weekend I did some video in the Phoenix bar during Analog2Digital. More on this later. Mostly performance but there will be some technology when I can understand it. It may be interesting to try out the avatars on this.

Avatars and fiction as a front for assuming integrated learning and quality

Not really complete fiction, more speculation based on unspecified sources. I started this after the Deming Secrets meeting in London. The Fleet Street avatar Source.Dubious has repeated some remarks that could show there are problematic views from quality professionals about HR and performance targets. This could be interesting if there is conversation about how culture develops inside formal systems, both as QA and HR.

Then this past weekend Steve Shopper reported something on the technical discussion at the Exeter Analogue to Digital Music Expo. There may be a full audio record later but often it takes a while to work out what should be public.

http://wifiexeter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/steve-shopper-rough-notes-on-a2d.html 

Main problem still is that Twinity has dropped the street views. Either there is no budget for the maps data or the map companies can't work out how to benefit from the exposure. So I can only create new photographs in rooms or public spaces like Twinity reception London. I do have some old ones that could be reworked. More on this later.

There are photos of a walk between Victoria area where the Work Foundation is and London Bridge near where the Chartered Quality Institute finds training locations. So there could be a real life walk with conversation or more collages with avatars. 

Meanwhile I have just checked my post on the Orkut Quality Management group a while ago

Will Pollard Nov 3, 2008
Learning with quality systems, is this obvious?
I have just found this group so the topic may have come up previously.

Is it obvious that learning is a large part of what happens through people in a quality system?

I have tried to get interest in quality theory from people who study management learning. In the UK the people who know about learning tend to have a critical opinion about quality. Perhaps their experience in UK universities has not been pleasant. See "Making Quality Critical" by Wilkinson and Wilmott for example.

So far there has not been much UK academic interest in relating quality theory to researching learning organisations. Peter Senge recognises the connections, see his mentions for Dr Deming in the update for The Fifth Discipline.

My guess is that for most practitioners the links between learning and quality are obvious. Maybe academics just have to be organised in disciplines. Maybe it is just an issue in the UK. 

Comment welcome.

There has been no comment on this since Nov 2008. Many on the group seem to be from India and Brazil where ISO certification is growing. But I don't think the acceptance of quality as something to study has changed much in the UK though this may be discussed during #mtw3 online or at the meeting looking back on 30 years of the Management Learning MA at Lancaster.

There will also be a meeting to study Deming Secrets as an event. This is sort of open but assumes prior knowledge of MoSO so far. More detail on request.

My idea is to imagine less about location and do more work on avatars and collage. This phase will change sometime, probably around September should there be a face to face #mtw3. 

As drupa starts up online, Emily Bell lets slip that "the newspaper disappears" @CSherburne @XeroxProduction

This is going to be a fascinating drupa. There is already loads online including a tweet event tomorrow through What They Think.

“Tweetjams”—live discussion forums via two-way Twitter postings—will herald and review Xerox’s activities at the show. Facilitated by WhatTheyThink’s Cary Sherburne, the chats will take place on Tuesday, April 24, at 2 p.m. EDT, and again on Tuesday, May 22, in the same time slot. Following @CSherburne or @XeroxProduction and including the hashtag#FuturePrint in Tweets is the ticket to joining the jams. 

Thing is, if Xerox have social media so upfront then print is clearly just part of communication. Maybe this is already well known but I think it is worth repeating just in case anyone thinks something different. Tweet as above over the next month or so, or if not into Tweeting some other method that Google could find please.

Today I bought a print Guardian as on a Monday there is a Media section, though much reduced from previously. Emily Bell writes about the recent prize for Huffington Post and includes a quote from Pulitzer chair Sig Gissler. The definition of eligibility has to change "as the newspaper disappears". Well, that is news. Rarely acknowledged in the Guardian in print.

I think there could still be a weekend Guardian on a Saturday. and inkjet could do a regional Guide insert to events. But the social position of print is changing.

Jo Francis appeared in the print version of Printweek on Friday, at least a photo. You had to follow the link to the website to discover the actual blog. Same thing with the helpline. So the print is paid for but leads the reader into the website. Will the print continue for long? The "so what?" question is not about any one piece of kit, more about what the trend is.

Also I think it may be the case that there will be no printed edition of the proceedings from the Networked Learning Conference. Previously it has been possible to find a PDF of the papers but this has not been widely promoted. Now there is a notice of publication by Lancaster University and some impressive design in the presentation together with an ISBN number. I can trace one previous publication through the Wikipedia

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Advances in Research on Networked Learning
Series: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series, Vol. 4
Goodyear, P.M.; Banks, S.; Hodgson, V.; McConnell, D. (Eds.)
2004, VIII, 248 p.

£103.50

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I don't know how many copies were sold at that price. For whatever reason it seems that online open access is now better supported. Networked Learning as theory gets more interesting as more people can access it and the format is easier to relate to.

 

hello KBA, what they think, please be careful with the pop up ads

Kba

Reading What They Think on Adobe Creative Crowd

Liked it to Facebook, then was about to comment

Up pops an ad for KBA, right in the middle of the text space.

Did it get my attention? Did it make me think the classic print industry understands social media?

make a guess.

Avid Studio on iPad is this price real, any examples out there? #a2d #a2dmusicexpo

http://itunes.apple.com/app/avid-studio/id491113378?mt=8

Checking out some notes from yesterday at the Analog 2 Digital event in Exeter Phoenix.

I still think video should be of more interest. As I understand it, Sound on Sound got feedback that too much detail on video production was not of great interest for the readers. Simpler cameras are being used for YouTube etc. And Avid had very little displayed about video. They did tell me though that Avid is available as well as Pinnacle at consumer level sort of prices. So the Avid option is a bit more than Studio but not outside what a lot of software costs.

Online I also discovered there is an Avid for iPad. The costs seems to be about five US dollars. Is it any good? Is there an example somewhere?

The resolution on the recent iPad seems way over the top for UK bandwidth. But maybe things will change. If you could record and edit and load to cloud in the time it took to drink a cup of coffee then cafe society would reach a new level. 

By the way, if Sound on Sound readers are happy with low level tech for video will they also consider other options for sound? iPad options and cloud services may have a role.

Exeter High Street in a global cloud context @A2DMusicExpo

This a note ahead of A2D tomorrow.

Sound is the most advanced form of media as a web enabled scene.

Video still requires a lot of bandwidth. Books or text / graphics is ok for bandwidth but still with a lot of changes to come in structures and accepted practice.

The new university Forum is designed without a bookshop. This seems odd at the moment but maybe there is a point to this. (see previous posts)

I don't know when phone cameras will be both ok as good enough for YouTube and linked to wifi for upload the same day. On the Wild Show we have recently found it possible to load mp3 from a Zi8 within a week via an SD card. Things can only get better.

eBooks are moving. WH Smith stocking Kobo. Sony now has a store, maybe why Waterstones has no hardware from Sony. Online rumor they will deal with Barnes and Noble.

Exeter High Street just one example of somewhere near a cloud but seems to have enough options to indicate what's going on.

Probable sequence - sound, video, txt fiction, academic journals. 

SoundCloud track for Phonic Benefit, no copyright issues so far @A2DMusicExpo

http://soundcloud.com/will789gb/phonic-benefit-4th-may-2012

This was broadcast on Phonic FM Thursday morning as part of the Wild Show. could be used again.

So far no copyright issues. Loaded ok on SoundCloud. So I think this is ok. Will try to check this out with the experts at A2D tomorrow.

Please comment with any links, mp3 for next week etc.