Goodbye Kodak video, must take care of my Zi8

http://www.news-leader.com/article/20120210/BUSINESS/302100035/Kodak-cameras-bankrupt

confirms news heard on radio in background. Kodak will stop promoting digital cameras. As mentioned previously I like the Zi8 I was given at IPEX but I have noticed that availability in Exeter UK has not been that consistent.

This news report mentions using the brand for other products. What about the patents in phones? I am not too bothered about the size of a phone if it has a good video camera inside. Tapping the screen for a zoom is a bit of a worry though, I want to avoid too much wobble.

Clues please on where this Kodak direction could go. WiFi very important, The file sizes are quite large. 

Meanwhile the Zi8 is lasting ok.

Twinity still a base for Visual Music, New Canvas, music video

I am still wondering about location as Animated Exeter gets close. Spacex talk last week suggests that sound is specific to location but this sort of thing makes less and less sense.

Meanwhile Twinity has dropped the street links between places. Apparently the map information was costing too much, But the homes still exist and I now have one in each city, London, Berlin, Singapore, Miami and New York. 3D worlds with avatars must be part of the animation future. I realise bandwidth is a problem by now social media works as text with links, there can be video or not. I still have stills from several streets so this can be collaged with avatars etc.

The "visual music" term is still interesting. In Exeter we started with a "New Canvas" which I guess refers to the earlier work that is accepted on art courses. The demoscene is still not known in conference circles as far as I can tell. Sundown may happen again quite near Exeter but not much connected to Animated Exeter. I thought most visual music was recent but it seems to include earlier work as well sometimes.

A quick search on Google finds a started set of links.

Vibeke Sorensen currently Professor and Chair of the School of Art, Design, and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where she is Founding Director of the Center for Asian Art and Design.

search on miami finds dance from Sweden

search on New York finds an events page now with New York coming up later

walk to Berlin from Munich?

London finds dorkbot
not sure about this tune

more later

Giraffe theme for Wild Show and creative commons sound in museums

I am still thinking about the talk last week around Blast Theory at Spacex.

Gabriella Giannachi spoke about the interest from computer science and made comparisons with open source. However I still find there is no audio connected to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum that can be used on radio or as paqrt of a YouTube video for example.

On the Wild Show we have done a few items on Creative Commons, and one reasoin for using this is to reach a wider public.

"Documentation" seems to be a way of authorising recording for an academic audience. I still don't know what has happened to the sound recording from the opening of the current show. How could such audio be used if and when it was available.

Meanwhile investigations continue around image rights and giraffes. I have an ongoing tweet discussion with a gifted giraffe but I'm not sure this is the giraffe I first thougt of.

#mtw3 extends to University Campus Suffolk, lectures series YouTube archive

The online version of Management Theory at Work is making more connections. The start point is a keynote by John Burgoyne, related to the original. Versions of his text adapt to situations including the Grove Journal. He recently spoke at the University Campus Suffolk and some record will appear soon

It is interesting what else is included and how it is recorded. The content of the online version of Management Theory at Work is still to be determined so this lecture series could be a guide, as well as the Grove Journal. There is one YouTube clip of an hour and a half so this took me a while to study. John Peters on "Risk, Trust and the Benefits of Social Responsibility"  is not available to search on YouTube but you can find it on the link above.

What interests me especially is the reference to ISO 9000and to quality assurance in general as a comparison for managing trust. I have found that quality issues are not always included. John Peters now works for GSE Research where journal articles are published so this could be an example of an organisation adapting to technology changes.

The video is unusual as it is just sound though with the slides. He uses two clips from YouTube that can be more public. So my question is what happens with journals when text is as mash able?

#Twinity map issue explained, should have read the blog @CarolynTwinity

I should have checked the blog

It is explained that although Twinity is breaking even there is less finance available so the map data is discontinued for a while. It may come back.

Surely some cities actually welcome the interest generated by Twinity and have some rights to local info? I may try London, could be an election issue. Ken is a bit of a techie in a quiet sort of way.

But now I know what is going on it is ok to work with. A home in Exeter is no harder to find than anywhere else.

Maybe some other source of data would be possible and could be cheaper if linked to other product. I wanted a beach location in the South West of England and the nearest available is in Northampton.