I just heard the following from my editor: “We sent the book to press on Tuesday, so it should be off press in the last week of February; I’ll have a more precise date when I receive the printer’s schedule later tomorrow.” So it looks like come March it will finally be available.
Archive for » January, 2009 «
Searching 2.0 is coming!
29
Jan 2009
Category: searching2.0
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ze frank in The Remnants
26
Jan 2009
The Remnants from John August on Vimeo.
Category: video, vimeo
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Turns out that despite the fact that at home I’ve got an x64 quad-core PC with 6GB of RAM I can’t install the Windows 7 beta via Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 because I’ve got Windows Vista Home Premium and Virtual PC won’t run on anything less than Vista Business. 
However, I do have Vista Business at the office and I was able to successfully get Windows 7 Beta running via this method.
Amazing online film archive
23
Jan 2009
The National Film Board of Canada has a “new online Screening Room. Here you can watch full-length films, clips and trailers – all free for home viewing.” The site currently contains hundreds of videos from the past 90 years from animated shorts to full-length documentaries. Videos are available in low, medium, and high quality, shareable to several different online social networks and are embeddable. Here’s Between the Laughter, a “This feature-length documentary looks at Stephen O’Keefe, a deaf, stand-up comedian. Faced with the usual challenges that life presents.”
Category: canada, documentary, video
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Word clouds in motion
23
Jan 2009
A video of Nina Simone’s Feeling Good reminded me a a few other of my favorite videos of this type all embedded below. (The third one contains some adult language.) I like to think of these as word clouds in motion; the use of motion in combination with typography to visualize something aural. Enjoy!
With a little additional searching I found that this animation style is actually called kenetic typography and there are plenty more examples on YouTube. That works too 
Category: animation, typography, video, youtube
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This video was released back on January 16th, but I just watched it last night. There’s nothin’ like someone in government talking about mashups!
Category: government, obama, video, youtube
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