Video may follow open approach to learning @tryberg @gconole @francesbell @joostrobben next local media?

Yesterday I was concerned about video and shown a link about open access to 
So journals will move on from just pages of text, but partly because the content can more easily be taken into other formats and combinations.

I still think it would be good to be able to embed video into most blogs and the messaage boards for conferences. But this may come eventually.

On Cloudworks I found a discussion about how multimedia fit with a culture of openess

Creating video from photos and sound clips is one way to respond on YouTube etc. I think video can be used for conversations as well as text.

Reviewing The Cookbook Collector for the Guardian Francine Prose  writes that

among the novel's astute observations is the curious fact that, at least for the privileged, one perk of contemporary life is a certain fluidity about which century one can live in, from moment to moment.

The novel is set during the dotcom boom and bust but it is probably still true. You can live with books that are text or some combination of text and video.

Local media in Exeter could be similar. Projects to launch a local TV channel seem to be getting nowhere. Exeter City Council do not support Flash so there is apparently no YouTube viewed by staff. The website for Animated Exeter is static. But there is a FaceBook page with some video links. Over time things change. During the elections there will be some social media and maybe later in the year video will become more normal.

@Sumobert Video, should every book have some?

Geoff, I tend to do a blog post and put the tweet in the title. All this things seem to feed into each other. I listen to songs on mySpace and that sets off a Tweet. There is no hiding anything. I will post later on what I really like as music.

Your streaming link worked fine. Quicktime for Windows and people like me. Youtube is good for clips but you have to choose which bit.

Acrobat X is about how to embed video inside a PDF. Flash everywhere just as the IT Department thought that PDF was safe.

I have not seen any examples though. maybe one or two trials but not the sort of thing that turns up.

Meanwhile Mac people seem to favour music and video anyway. Of course  text is possible but it just seems not in the scope somehow. 

I am trying to learn more about video edit, Premiere Elements but it is quite complex.

More musings later. Hope you're well

Will

Video as part of print culture, a view from IPEX

An email links me to a list of video suppliers on YouTube. The source is IPEX, a UK print show with a global reputation growing through LinkedIn.

I am not sure when academic journals and websites will think it normal to include video. There is still a strong print culture and an authority to page after page of text.

But even if video is not part of the book, as promoted by Adobe for PDF or in the new EPUB features launched at the London Book Fair, there is now so much video available that the book has to be designed with that context. Quite when this suits most people is still an open question, but definitely worth asking.

#guardiantalk OU reputation thread recovered

I am still finding some backup from the Guardian Talk. I never did a regular process on this but a search will find things.

As with previously Acrobat thinks this is a form because of the comment field. Not sure how to get rid of this.

Today the Guardian has a bit on blended learning. Towards the back but it is in there.

The OU turns up again. If they have a method that results in less debt than other methods this is worth some attention. The story seems to suggest that most elearning energy is coming from new initiatives, not the older universities though they probably retain a research reputation.

More later from the Guardian Talk archive. On Saturday the Review announced all sorts of new features on a website. I am very reluctant to trust much of my own words to such a venture. But I may try some versions of a story.

A doomed enterprise tries to continue without a change of course. There will be no happy ending. A crime is in the background.

@tryberg @gconole @francesbell @joostrobben Network Learning video in books, what time is it?

There is a new Network Learning site so the link to previous discussion is a bit hidden. Maybe Twitter will find a response?

Is the academic journal still in text mode? Mostly digital now but not much mix of media. The sandpit was started to try out how to link in graphics. Eventually I gave up and linked to Cloudworks.

Later video appeared on the front page, but only as a link. Will the new site be able to embed video and graphics as on Blogger etc.

Meanwhile at the London Book Fair it was announced that EPUB will be updated to embed video etc in ebooks. Through HTML standards. Previously I had thought Adobe were wasting time trying to get video into PDF. I have never seen any examples of this apart from tests.

But the consumer electronics sales show growing interest in tablets etc. Apple devices are mostly used for sound and images. The text is  only part of the content. So the book is in a context even if it stays as text.

I think this is a technology issue round about now. A lot could happen over the next year or so so maybe the website design for the conference will change.

#inxpressip Exeter local elections YouTube Facebook Twitter @cllrmartin

After a bit of searching I have found the Mayor and deputy Mayor on Facebook and Councillor Martin on Twitter.

I realise this is a bit of a Labour bias but I have tried other parties as well. Maybe more on a future post.

This starts with the www.inxpress.co.uk domain. There is an attempt i think to use Trade Marks to close the use as an archive for the first Exeter internet cafe.

Why would the web be of interest as local history? I think it should be in the same way as print history. this is well recorded in local studies and the museum.

The inxpress website has been updated sometimes so has links to Hyperactive and Life Bytes, two later resources. No internet cafe at the moment though there is St Sidwells and the library. Wifi is taking over the role.

Meanwhile what of social media such as YouTube during the local elections? I don't think Exeter city Council will suddenly decide to support Flash but there may be a few links to video on Facebook that somebody may notice. 

#inxpressip wayback machine to Life Bytes and Hyperactive @tom_watson @BenPBradshaw @Jeremy_Hunt @vincecable

More from the Wayback Machine

these are links through the www.inxpress.co.uk site to other internet cafes that in some ways continued from Internet Express.

This is local history. It should not be possible to close down the Internet Archive pages because the url contains a trade mark from a lter date. The Digital Economy legislation seemed to be about copyright protection and large scale organisations. Is there some support also for local stuff and social media? It could be a sound base for local news.

Later posts to look at video etc. the inxpress website is the base for Rougemont Global Broadcasting. 

Tweeting to MPs may work just as well as filling in the forms online for gov sites. no response so far.

Trade Marks Act 1994 predates Web urls #inxpressip inxpress @tom_watson @BenPBradshaw @Jeremy_Hunt @vincecable

No reply yet from the departments for Culture or Biz. The office of Ben Bradshaw MP has checked I have an Exeter address.

No reply from Inxpress Freight about the sector condition on their trade mark. Maybe they will just leave it alone. But my guess is they may try to register another mark for a sector they are not yet active in.

I realise this issue is of limited interest but I think the use of the Trade Marks Act to limit web domains that pre-exist the trade mark is a bit of a problem. As I understand it there is no procedure to inform web urls before a trade mark is registered. The Act was in 1994 before such things mattered much. Is there any international discussion on this?

Next, a bit more on Internet Express and local elections.

how far behind is London digital publishing?

Still trying to get a grasp of the London Book Fair by searching blogs.

This sounds all too likely. US publishers a bit ahead of London.

The problem likely derives from a lack of concrete data that supports spurs enthusiasm and, more importantly, decision making at the highest levels of publishing.

In other words they will wait till there are more figures on actual USA sales. Or maybe wait till there are actual figures on UK sales.

I wonder what the agents make of it all?

No sign of Scribd in London. It is taking a long time for them to offer revenue outside the USA. A couple of years ago there was quite a lot of rudeness about piracy and so on when they did attend the London Book Fair. Maybe there should be some special invite to encourage them back.

#inxpressip class 38 inxpress.co.uk is the trade mark act web ready? inxpress

I have been informed about the sectors for trade marks and think an internet cafe is class 38

Class 38

Telecommunications services; chat room services; portal services; e-mail services; providing user access to the Internet; radio and television broadcasting.

It seems possible to me that InXpress Global Pte Ltd might think it worthwhile to register a trade mark in this class and then try to get the use of www.inxpress.co.uk. Am I paranoid? This may be speculation on my part.

But just suppose such a thing was possible. Should there be a procedure such that existing web addresses with similar words to proposed trade marks were at least notified? The Trade Marks Act 1994 was previous to widely used urls.

Also, if anyone knows of a UK trade mark proposal for InXpress in Class 38 please let me know.