Start of Giraffe script for Gripping Yarns project

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

I have started a script for Gripping Yarns. Needs about 1000 words for five minutes.

But to explain this project to the Gifted Giraffe, it will need to fit into tweets, say about twenty of them.

I hope to get some suggestions from Chris and JD on the Wild Show later today.

Phonic FM 106.8 

Deming Secrets and YouTube as radio #EX1to4

This week is taking shape but still seems a bit disjointed.

On Thursday I will be part of a meeting on Deming Secrets, a study in aspects of Edwards Deming that are not well known. I will take a video camera and maybe post some YouTube clips later. there is some interest in YouTube but also a concern with quality as in wobble, variable colour, sound that is hard to make out.

Usually on a Thursday I support the Wild Show on Phonic FM from the basement of the Phoenix in central Exeter. Recently we have been looking at mobile devices and video as ways to extend the Facebook page.

We found last week that an iPad is ok as a video camera but some wifi cannot cope with the upload. Later the same day or the day after is ok though.

I am testing out SceneChat so have put an Adobe video into a blog

I think the time when video is uploaded rapidly will come soon. the quality from mobile devices is getting better.

So there may be a loop, from and towards a professional quality meeting and an attempted video network. The radio show works ok as such, probably less than five minutes dead air in a two hour show. We will probably be able to edit some good bits later. And there could be a phone call from the Deming Secrets meeting. But live broadcasting can be too much trouble. There could also be some links next week.

"EX1to4" is intended to find local news near Exeter. Could be a cable channel also but the shape of organisation is up for discussion.  

Creative Commons events, marketing and PR re Ghostwriter / Passage of the Soul #CCevent

There seems to be a change round about now about policy on public access to visual content. Last week I was allowed to video a talk about Ghostwriter at RAMM and David Blandy at the Phoenix. I'm not sure which bits to put on YouTube or SoundCloud. The lighting was bad in the Phoenix so I mostly just recorded the video. I think this will be ok but needs looking at.

Also I have video of my walk with the phone in RAMM. Could make up a soundtrack but maybe people could phone the RAMM number while watching.

(Radio 4 Archive prog claimed the Ways of Seeing video is not available on DVD, but there are several bits on YouTube including the idea that church art is space specific)

The clip that the Wild Show broadcast last week could be heard I think in any space near a museum or gallery or similar such as a home-

OK, I want you to do me a favour. I want you to tell me about an object that means something to you. Maybe it’s something you’ve got in a drawer somewhere. Or do you have it out on display?

It could be from a holiday, or a lover, or a walk in the country. It might be valuable or it could look like rubbish to someone else.

Mine is aT shirt from an expensive shop near Oxford Street. It is white and baggy. And on the shoulder there is a small stain of my mum’s blood. I want to throw it away but I can’t.

So have you got something that you can tell me about? An object that is special to you for some reason. Take your time to imagine it lying in your hand. Go on, open your hand for me right now and picture it in your palm. Take as long as you need and when you’ve got something that you want to describe to me, press 1. I’ll keep your recording secret for now but maybe one day it will become an exhibit on the museum’s website. OK, just press 1 when you’re ready to record.....

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As mentioned on the Wild Show , Phonic FM Thursday 10-12, these clips could be on a Facebook page so RAMM later made a selection.

I am testing a new service from SceneChat that tracks comments to a video timeline. It also posts comments to Facebook with a link back to the blog where the video is embedded. First test is from Isca Obscura last year when the Creative Commons approach was explicit from Watershed PR. If this falls over please add comments to this blog or rewrite the txt-

info on a current project

digital aspects

policy on copyright

links to related projects somewhere else

This is a general purpose interview.  ( three minute edit of Utub but can be longer)

There is a meeting next week at Spacex about marketing

I think my concerns are more to do with public relations as theory but who can tell? It is still disputed what a blog has to do with journalism.

Guardian asks whether bloggers are journalists? (about 5 years too late imho)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/26/blogger-journalist-silicon-valley-dan-lyons

Mostly this story is about the possibility that tech bloggers may have financial interests. How surprising when compared with the claims of proper journalism. As if the Guardian would knock the idea of BBC local video, then launch their own in Manchester, and then just leave it. 

But the main point comes in the first sentence-

The debate asking "Are bloggers journalists?" was exhausted by about 2005. (Answer: yes.)

But if so, why did the Guardian not adjust around this time? Citizen journalism was featured at the OhmyNews conferences for example. But the Guardian Talk got less attention. No development resources.

If this sort of story is an example of how bloggers are reported then I think the Guardian has already gone off in a wrong direction. It may have been too late after around 2005. Do we really need the gossip on the high profile bloggers in the USA? Nothing against them but what about local bloggers in the UK? Is there any connection with the Guardian?

I'm down to two or three copies a week now for the print version. 

Daily Beast still on the Murdoch case

The Daily Beast is still studying the Murdoch press and a long story about UK journalists and Lord Lucan has at least one interesting quote-

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/26/sunday-sun-s-lord-lucan-exclusive-is-a-letdown.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet 

One of the preeminent Lord Lucan hunters was Mirror reporter Garth Gibbs, who in his time was sent all around the world to hunt for the missing earl. Gibbs, who died last year, pithily summed up the journalistic view of the nation’s favorite mystery story.

“I regard not finding Lord Lucan as my most spectacular success in journalism,” said Gibbs. “Of course, many of my colleagues have also been fairly successful in not finding Lord Lucan. But I have successfully not found him in more exotic spots than anybody else.

“I spent three glorious weeks not finding him in Cape Town, magical days and nights not finding him in the Black Mountains of Wales, and wonderful and successful short breaks not finding him in Macau either, or in Hong Kong or even in Green Turtle Cay in the Bahamas, where you can find anyone.”

I  think Princess Diana could be a more interesting story than Lord Lucan. More people remember her and the question of how phone conversations come to be recorded is still relevant. So far the UK press seems not to share the Daily Beast interest in this one.

Integrating Quality, Learning and Exeter Art, Exeter Open Studios auto edit challenge

http://paper.li/Exe_OpenStudios/1330105581

This blog has been picked up by an auto editor, I think. Maybe this is a good thing. But I will have to try to link stuff together aq bit better. There is some coherence probably.

I write about animation, music and creative commons. One reason is the idea of Rougemont Global Broadcasting or Exeter TV or whatever might happen with a channel for local video. This started with the model of US cable but I think as time continues something web is more likely.

Starting with learning organisations may continue as networked learning or quality systems. Or both. So soon there needs to be some sort of model to start with.

Ideas about copyright and social media are changing. more later.

Linking Deming, Sustainability, Network Learning and the CQI #cqimoso

I have posted a comment on the blog for the third Management Theory at Work conference, currenlt online only.

 For the first two conferences I did papers on ISO 9000 and Deming. Recently the Deming SIG at the CQI have promoted a Model of Sustainable Organisation (MoSO) that updates Deming ideas and connects with some learning theory. I hope there will be connections during #mtw3 

http://www.thecqi.org/moso

This copied from above. A couple of recent developments-
I have added links to the two papers to a discussion on Systemic Thinking, part of a Sustainability Hotseat on the Networked LEarning Conference website

http://networkedlearningconference.ning.com/forum/topics/working-with-an-action-research-and-systemic-thinking-approach-to

The MoSO group will hold a meeting this Thursday to present the model to quality professionals. The emphasis will be on innovation, as an aspect of sustainability.

http://www.thecqi.org/Community/Special-Interest-Groups-SIGs/Deming-SIG/Events/Demings-Secrets/

Search for "mtw3" in LinkedIn groups to find this source.

The hotseat last week for sustainability worked out ok. I was able to introduce some questions from the point of view of quality practice. "Sustainability" is ambiguous as a term, it invites interest both from people who don't like the direction of globalisation in all aspects and from those worried about specific companies running out of road.

There will be some video from the MoSO meeting so more links later.

I hope connections between MoSO and Networked Learning will be possible. The scope of #mtw3 could include both.

Green Man another case for TV and social media #Enviromental #ForkbearProjection #CCevent

On another blog, Animx, I have commented on ITV and the YouTube post from Exeter Cathedral and recent projection.

Thinking about it today it seems better to concentrate on a future event. I think the Green Man will return to Devon sometime soon. Other places also but it is the continuing cold in Devon that concerns me.

Last year I was able to interview Francis Ives ,  a source close to the Green Man , and he guide me to some other photo opportunities. Phonic FM had a three hour show as listeners phoned in when the Green Man was seen between the Haldon Hills and Exeter Cathedral. Francis Ives told me that there may well be more than one Green Man, even if we just think of areas close to Exeter. Francis also has the impression that the Green Man is attracted to Exeter Cathedral. Last year he appeared on top of the Pizza Express building before vanishing again.

I am trying to find out when he may appear during 2012. Perhaps the ITV weather forecast will be a factor. Other TV is available. Social media can contribute and I don't see any advantage in an embargo till the date and time that might make sense to a particular live broadcast. There could be a green screen somewhere near the cathedral to mix with live interviews and YouTube archive. Probably the Phoenix Media could rent a proper one or the Occupy Exeter group could construct something from rope, tent poles and   a green fabric.

I'm planning on staying inside for a while, looking for links and editing stuff from previously.

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#CCevent is a new tag for a Creative Commons event, designed to be easy for social media. More when I find some good sources for theory.

It is the Green Man , source electrical jelly blog #forkbeardprojection #evolumental #animatedexeter2012

http://sparksinelectricaljelly.blogspot.com/2012/02/animated-exeter-forkbeard-fantasys.html

A very thorough blog explains all the mysteries I puzzle over.

Sparks in Electrical Jelly states that it is the Green Man as I thought it might be. 

But I'm not sure about this description-

This model was more akin to the dim ogres found in Terry Gilliam film, however, grunting with slow, dim-witted befuddlement, chronic and everpresent indigestion suggested by moog sounds at their most flatulent. 

I think he was dancing, part of a dance music reference throughout the soundtrack.

The Green Man cannot come soon enough. Apparently he lives near the Haldon hills and will visit Exeter in a month or so. But there could be more than one Green Man. If he chooses to dance then his style should be respected.

Last year there could have been a change in the mood of the music when the Green Man appeared. Is there scope for a remix?