Gutenberg Geek as seen on YouTube, video designed for conversation #T3W

an hour and a half, I will have to get a few things done today and watch later.

But this is a fascinating video. So far I have not done much with Google + but I notice Jeff Jarvis is posting quite often. He has changed his image to show off Gutenberg Geek, a new short text through Amazon. This video show the record of the hangout. So this could be a model for a lot of video conferencing style of occasions. Not that expensive.

You don't have to buy the text first. I think there is a summary as part of the video. Not sure though. Maybe watch the video and then think about buying the text.

By the way, I still think the Guardian has reduced the budget for Jeff Jarvis in print. I tried to check this fact with them but they don't reply. What is a blogger to do? anyway, Jeff is trying something new for some reason.

His topic is timely. In May the drupa print show will mostly be promoted by social media and video, just my guess.

Management Theory and the London College of Communications

I have mentioned before the possible third conference in the series Management Theory at Work. The first two were at Lancaster University about ten years ago and combined groups of practitioners and academics. Lancaster now has a London base at the Work Foundation so this could be a space for another. So far there is a social media version with a blog and LinkedIn group - search on #mtw3.

There is also a Cloud as part of Cloudworks

The OU and Cloudworks could be a case study during an event. The website is interesting anyway as part of a social media set.

But the buzz about the LCC is usually rather different. Let's face it. Print is on the wrong end of the technology drift, just at this time. The name was changed from the London College of Printing. then the parts of the structure with labels "Print" and "Publishing" were done away with. I don't know what "Design" and "Media" mean as distinct parts of a production process.

The budget cuts are not helping either. Science seems relatively ok but the creative industries need more technology resource than is sometimes supposed.

So I think at a conference the LCC is more likely to be in background mode than a spotlight case study. This blog will link to anything public that relates.

More later on YouTube etc. #mtw3 turns out to be media example that also includes some print journals and books.

Top Question- What happened to Eurekster?

I found a Eurekster video on YouTube and lefdt a comment. What happened?

Now I check some stats

set the timescale to max. There was a spike up in early 2011 then it went on down. But it has not vanished.

The suggestion at the time was that some search engines stopped showing Swickis - the sort of wiki based on search results -  as they were too easy to set up. Mine took quite a bit of work actually.

An since then there is the plus one option on Google for example. I don't see why Eurekster should be treated as junk for doiing something similar a while earlier.

But I may not have understood things well. Any hints welcome.

Top Problem - Twinity Maps are just not there

I am trying to get to grips with my situation.

Things could come together if clearly stated. But where to start?

Twinity has been a great help in working through the problems of time and space.

But now the maps data has been taken away in a budget situation. There are no streets to wander as you think through the comparitive situation of Exeter or wherever you happen to be.

Surely there could be some sort of sponsorship or product link to a map source?

London data is supposed to be a public benefit I thought.

Draft workshop outline on model for video channel and production #likeminds #cqimoso #mtw3

News yesterday is that the #LikeMinds event in Exeter will be in May not October. So I need to rethink my imagined outline for the year. I still have some problem thinking about the discussion around #LikeMinds and the rest of the time in Exeter. But it is the best chance to connect local situations with a global perspective. There will be something about video I guess. a couple of years ago there was #LikeMovies and some hardware from Nokia and Kodak. #LikeMinds is not really a hardware show but still an occasion to ask where the Kodak patents are headed.

Towards the end of the year there will possibly be a face-to-face version of the third Management Theory at Work conference at the Work Foundation. Also possible is another Deming Secrets event that could be further north than London this time. I have done a video for #mtw3 based on sound recording and slides. There is video to edit from the first Deming Secrets event but this is taking time as there are two camera views. So I think it may work to suggest a walk between London Bridge, near to Deming Secrets, and the Work Foundation near Victoria. My interest is in mixing the learning approach and systems such as quality. The Chartered Quality Institute is located towards London Bridge. There may not be #mtw3 at the Work Foundation but it is still a location for an imagined HR building.  So a walk along the Thames might be one way to discuss this sort of thing. There are stills from my walk to and back from the first Deming Secrets. They are a guide for a possible video.

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Petty France to London Bridge
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London Bridge to House of Commons
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So these photos can be commented on or used in blogs etc. This is moving the autumn forward. A face-to-face workshop would be based on plan - do - check/study - act but I think actual recording as "do" would be a priority at an event. The theory could be online at other times. The models I have in mind follow discussions in Exeter with Jo Gedrych about Exeter Television. This has yet to happen but is based on local cable as in the USA. Jo is now living in Scotland and the YouTube channel is presented as JG Productions (search on "directorjo", there is at least one other JG Productions). By the way, I think his suggestions on what to do with a budget are always sensible. I just try to experiment with what is available. 

Recently there has been much talk about Analytics, or statistical process control to be less news orientated. So I have been checking on YouTube stats. I am disappointed there is not more interest in the Green Man in Exeter as recorded in 2011. Recent posts add to this so it may get more energy. Search on "green man exeter". The interviews work well I think in open air, lighting ok.
Relatively large number for how to hack a Prius. So the content matters. There is not much editing, one camera. The event and the speaker welcomed making the content public. I don't think Creative Commons was much discussed at the time but the culture continues in ways that are worth discussing again.

   

drupa in context of a move to web based workflow #Shantanu #Narayan #Adobe

Found this from Shantanu Narayan

Digital marketing and digital media is what we will focus on. The creative process is going through a transformation - from print work-flow to web work flow. And now, how do companies get their content out on app stores? 

The rest of this story seems to be a pretty good guide to where Adobe is headed.

But my main takeaway is that it explains why Adobe is not at drupa. At least I can't find a stand number. They may be lurking somewhere.

Yes, as a digital identity drupa has started. It never went away. 

@arusbridger notes from yesterday re open journalism, OhmyNews and Unlimited Talk #openjournalism

I don't think Alan Rusbridger will have much more to say today. He was online for an hour yesterday about open journalism.

There was no reply to my questions but I think blogging is more like thinking aloud and then the answer will turn up somewhere else. Keeping the record together is one aspect of this but getting an immediate answer from anybody is unusual.

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will789gb
26 March 2012 3:10PM
What actually happened to Guardian Unlimited Talk?

Why did Guardian staff never join in?

Why was there no development?

Why never mentioned in print?

Why was it trashed?

Why was this never explained?
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no answer on this but some great principles-

AlanRusbridger
26 March 2012 3:10PM
Response to WheatFromChaff, 26 March 2012 3:01PM
Open journalism is journalism which is fully knitted into the web of information that exists in the world today. It links to it; sifts and filters it; collaborates with it and generally uses the ability of anyone to publish and share material to give a better account of the world.

A year or so ago, when we were trying to work out how journalism should change, we jotted down 10 principles of open journalism. (obviously you can stick a 'not' in any of the sentences to see what closed journalism looks like)

Here they are:

- It encourages participation. It invites and/or allows a response

- It is not an inert, “us” or “them”, form of publishing

- It encourages others to initiate debate, publish material or make suggestions. We can follow, as well as lead. We can involve others in the pre-publication processes

- It helps form communities of joint interest around subjects, issues or individuals

- It is open to the web and is part of it. It links to, and collaborates with, other material (including services) on the web

- It aggregates and/or curates the work of others

- It recognizes that journalists are not the only voices of authority, expertise and interest

- It aspires to achieve, and reflect, diversity as well as promoting shared values

- It recognizes that publishing can be the beginning of the journalistic process rather than the end

- It is transparent and open to challenge – including correction, clarification and addition

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This sounds good but I wonder why there was not more effort to integrate Guardian Talk with this sort of thing. As memory serves there was quite a lot in print over the early years about the downside of bloggers etc.

But maybe things are changing, I should try to keep up

AlanRusbridger
26 March 2012 3:18PM
Response to alixir, 26 March 2012 3:02PM
I was thinking aloud about moderation in a really good series of discussions with readers.

The theme was: what would readers like to give us (apart from the obvious: money)? Among the possibilities we discussed: time and data. In discussing time - the idea of readers playing a more active role in the creation of the Guardian in all its different aspects - we talked about moderation and the role hundreds of thousands of people have played in creating Wikipedia. We talked about whether this should be paid for or voluntary. And whether it was at all feasible, or even desirable.

The idea may be interesting, or crazy. It was an interesting discussion, though ... and quite a few readers indicated they liked the idea.

What do you think?

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will789gb
26 March 2012 3:22PM
Response to AlanRusbridger, 26 March 2012 3:18PM

Have you looked at OhmyNews?

Twice reported in the Tech bit on a Thursday but I don't think ever in Media.

Now only in Korean, they can't subsidise an English version.

Citizen Journalism as discussed at OhmyNews. Could the Guardian go back a few years and really have a look?

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Maybe they will. Just because there appears not to be a response it could still be that somebody reads it.

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Just to recap though I have not checked the dates recently, Guardian Unlimited Talk was a social media network supported by Guardian readers that had no input from Guardian staff, was not developed from as a software investment, and had no promotion from print journalists.

Is there a story in there somewhere?

#mtw3 as a YouTube sequence

My colleague Linda Shelton has posted on the #mtw3 blog to show that a YouTube sequence can start with the recent talks by John Burgoyne. This is not exactly the keynote he would offer at a face-to-face event but it covers mos of the issues that stand out from the time of the first two conferences around ten years ago.

http://mtw3.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/youtube-version-of-face-to-face-event.html 

The topics CMS and "dynamic capabilities" are not as well covered on YouTube so far. More may turn up. There is a book - "Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management" that I have been looking at but I can't find much on YouTube with similar content. Seven hundred pages so this is a bit of a different scene.

I think there should be more on YouTube linked to CMS. Critique can be public.

So I would welcome suggestions of suitable links. I could offer to edit something together if sound files and slides are available for example. Things are moving with the scope of YouTube and it should be possible to go with it.

Copyright and YouTube, some tests around James Last non-stop dancing 1972

The project to load all the tape of music from Spacex during Celebrarion of Failure by Laura Kikauka has found a few problems of copyright. I am exploring YouTube as I go. Most of the new content can be found on YouTube anyway. I think what happens is that when the robot finds content with a copyright claim the adverts kick in and the income reaches the record company. But is some countries the track is blocked completely. I assume if YouTube allows stuff to still appear that there is not a fundamental problem. 

As explained in a previous post the first extract was titled James Last non-stop dancing 1972  part one so the new ones are shown as later parts although not with James Last in most cases.

The issues- 

James Last - Non-Stop Dancing 1972 - part four
Your video may include the following copyrighted content:
Acknowledged claims
"Commodores-Three Times A Lady", sound recording administered by:
UMG
"Kraftwerk-Das Modell (2009 Digital Remaster)", sound recording administered by:
EMI

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So Das Modell is not available in Germany though there must be some copies around somewhere

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James Last - Non-Stop Dancing 1972 - part three
Your video may include the following copyrighted content:
"Shakatak-Easier Said Than Done", sound recording administered by:
UMG

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I have tried loading alternative versions but there are still a couple of issues-
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James Last (alt) - Non-Stop Dancing 1972 - part three
Your video may include the following copyrighted content:
Acknowledged claims
"Montana-I Love Music", sound recording administered by:
WMG

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James Last (alt) - Non-Stop Dancing 1972 - part four
Your video may include the following copyrighted content:
Acknowledged claims
"The Karaoke Channel-Three Times A Lady [In the Style of Commodores] {Karaoke Lead Vo", sound recording administered by:
The Orchard Music
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So even the Karaoke is something to think about. This version is pretty good btw. The tape I loaded is from a very bad pressing that jumps all the time. I'm sure that if someone found it they would want to buy a better source. 

I'm now thinking about a playlist approach-

I may put everything here later on. It comes from YouTube mostly so this could be the easiest way.

Learning Analytics , is there a connection with quality assurance?

I am finding out a bit more around Learning Analytics. There was a hotseat a couple of weeks ago as part of the Networked Learning conference. This looked at Learning Analytics as a dream, nightmare or fairy dust. There was quite a lot of support for the nightmare take. The dark side is always of interest for academics.

<div style="width:425px" id="__ss_10473705"> <strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px">Learning Analytics: Dream, Nightmare, or Fairydust?</strong> <div style="padding:5px 0 12px"> View more presentations from Simon Buckingham Shum </div> </div>

the slides are on Slideshare from ascilite2011

It seems to me that if you accept statistics then quality assurance follows pretty soon. Statistical process control comes out of manufacturing so people in universities may form a resistance. But there may be some aspects that are worth a look.

I have found some links to come back to

Society with a conference coming up

guide to some content, course not active at the moment but plenty of connections including

this has the idea of process.

So I think quality ideas could fit with this, starting with Deming.