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Her goal? Convince a major international cable network to see what she sees -- the frontier spirit evident in the independent community of houseboaters on Yellowknife Bay. "I came up last year and shot some footage," said Haydn-Hays. "I spoke to some of the characters out there about what the strategies are for living off the grid on the lake," she said. This most recent visit was what she calls phase two, where the current footage gets edited into a mock one-hour show so the network can see what it would look like. Ideally, the network would then green-light the production and agree to either a full one-hour show or a series of episodes. Haydn-Hays is hesitant to compare her idea to Ice Pilots NWT or Ice Road Truckers. "Every show has it's own different vibe," she said. "This would be mostly about the challenges, the stakes involved and the character of the people behind the work. The frontier spirit is what drew me to the topic. They're living on their own terms, they're knowledgeable and it's like they're a boat captain, mechanic and engineer all in one." While it's still a long way from coming to a small screen near you, Haydn-Hays said she's confident people will be interested in the topic. "These are all things American audiences don't know about, they've never seen it. They don't have people living on frozen lakes," she said. 10
You don't often think of saving money when you think of Apple products. But implementing an Apple TV in the classroom can be just that. Surprisingly. 10 10
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The future of publishing
After nearly 400 years in the slow-moving world of print, the scientific publishing industry is suddenly being thrust into a fast-paced online world of cloud computing, crowd sourcing and ubiquitous sharing. Long-established practices are being challenged by new ones – most notably, the open-access,
author-pays publishing model. In this special issue, *Nature* takes a close look at the forces now at work in scientific publishing, and how they may play out over the coming decades.
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/scipublishing/index.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130328
The role of the telegraph operator in the mid-nineteenth century was like that of today’s software programmer/analyst, according to independent scholar Tom Jepsen, who notes that in the “cyberspace” of long ago, male operators were often surprised to learn that the “first-class man” on the other end of the wire was a woman. Like the computer, the telegraph caused a technological revolution. The telegraph soon worked synergistically with the era’s other mass-scale technology, the railroad, to share facilities as well as provide communications to help trains run on time. The strategic nature of the telegraph in the Civil War opened opportunities for women, but tension arose as men began to return from military service. However, women telegraphers did not affect male employment or wage levels. Women kept their jobs after the war with support from industry—Western Union in particular—and because they defended and justified their role.
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Google and major book publishers have settled a lengthy legal battle over digital copyrights, but a bigger dispute still looms with thousands of authors who allege that Google is illegally profiting from their works. The truce announced Thursday ends a federal lawsuit filed in 2005 by several members of the Association of American Publishers after Google Inc. began stockpiling its Internet search index with digital duplicates of books scanned from libraries. Apple Inc.’s iPhone 5 won the backing of Consumer Reports, whose criticism of an earlier model became known as “Antennagate” and who said the latest device is among the best on the market despite its map flaws. Google has maintained that its scanning is covered by fair-use provisions of copyright law, although it offered to remove specific books from its index upon request. It also showed only snippets of the copyrighted books unless permission was given to show more. Publishers and authors, however, insisted that Google needed explicit permission from them before making the digital copies, let alone showing even snippets of text from the books on Google’s website. 10
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Ideas for spurring data-driven journalism, verifying media reports, and creating better tools for investigative and citizen journalism emerged as winners in Africa's first news innovation contest. The African Media Initiative announced the 20 winners of its African News Innovation Challenge, which aims to drive media innovation by investing $1 million in startup capital. Twenty winners will receive between $10,000 and $100,000, along with tech support and business development advice. "Finding and supporting great ideas for improving news reporting was one of our chief aims," said African Media Initiative Chief Executive Amadou Mahtar Ba. "But an equally important objective was to kick-start a pan-African community of news innovators and journalism technologists." 10
The conference, “Protecting Journalism: Anonymous and Secure Communications for Reporters and Sources” is funded by the Information Society Project and the Knight Law and Media Program at Yale Law School.
Development Communications (DevComs) Network under the Journalism Development Programme (JDP) has built the capacity of forty journalists in the last one month. The participants drawn from media houses in Lagos, ...
A B.C. teen says his rights were violated when he was set upon by security guards and arrested by police after taking photographs at Metrotown shopping mall in Burnaby, B.C. [excerpt] Jakub Markiewicz ,16, said he was in the mall in September and took a picture of what he thought was a newsworthy event — a man being arrested by security guards. But Markiewicz said the guards quickly turned on him, demanding he delete the photo, which he couldn’t do because he was shooting on a film camera. [...] Lawyer Douglas King, of Pivot Legal in Vancouver, agrees, saying that private mall security guards and police have no right to try to seize someone’s camera or demand that photos be deleted — even on private property. [...] 10
Sony launched the Compact Disc format in Japan on October 1, 1982. Read this article by Steve Guttenberg on CNET News. [excerpt] The Compact Disc format changed the way we listened to music in the 1980s. Sony's first player, the CDP-101, went on sale on October 1, 1982, in Japan, and six months later here in the U.S. At $1,000 it was pretty expensive, but supplies were limited, so every one sold for full price. Before the CD arrived, the mainstream music market was split between vinyl albums/singles and cassettes, and strangely enough, it wasn't just CD's sound that won over the masses, it was digital audio's no-wear durability and noise-free sound that drew raves. Audiophiles' reactions were mixed; some loved CDs' clarity, but many thought CDs sounded cold and hard. I was in the second group and waited until 1989 before I bought my first CD player. [...] 10
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The TeraDeK VidiU unit allows a camera be it dslr or hd with a HDMI output to stream live across the internet. With the options of using wifi, 3G/4G or ether... 10 10
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The YouTube Nonprofit Program is currently available in the following countries: Australia, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom and United States. Your organization must be a registered nonprofit or NGO in one of these countries to join.
"....explains strategies, techniques, legal issues and the relationships between digital resistance activities, information warfare actions, liberation technology and human rights...." 10
Black and White and Dead All Over is an in-depth look at the newspaper industry as it struggles to remain financially viable and to keep the presses rolling. Through the voices of prominent journalists including Bob Woodward of the Washington Post and David Carr of the New York Times, we reveal an industry in the midst of a financial death spiral, as readers abandon print for online news sources. We see publishers and editors desperately trying to create a sustainable business model for their dying papers. Our film examines the importance journalism has on our society by following two fearless investigators into the badlands of North Philadelphia. With the economic crisis in the newsroom threatening to shutter their struggling tabloid, these courageous women bring down a dangerous and corrupt narcotics squad. If the American newspaper dies, who will conduct investigative journalism, who will hold public officials accountable? For more information on the film please visit http://blackandwhiteanddeadallover.net
Uploaded on Mar 21, 2011 http://www.ted.com "If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she's gonna call me Point B ... " began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the story of her metamorphosis -- from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York's Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the power of self-expression through Project V.O.I.C.E. -- and gives two breathtaking performances of "B" and "Hiroshima."
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Foreward by Preston Kanak: Since I started shooting time-lapses, I've had a fascinated with the effects of long exposure. Not only can it be used to remove flicker when shooting and when applied in... 10 10
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Nagra SD Solid State recorder review - The Nagra SD plus the Nagra green band microphone is an excellent handheld mic/recorder combination, the performance is a cut above most fully integrated solid state recorders with internal microphones,... 10 10
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Some months ago I wrote about 5 geeks that are trying to save the world. The work these geeks do was so inspiring that I decided to continue my search and see which other geeks are ... 10 10
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These are some early snapshots of IguanaLapse - the most advanced remote shooting and timelapse capture application for iOS that ever existed. Eager for beta testing? Sign up at http://iguanamill.com/
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Nunatsiaq NewsIqaluit's community radio celebrates launch with Nov. 23 circumpolar danceNunatsiaq News23, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., its community radio station, CFRT 107.
Uploaded by taylormali on Aug 14, 2008 Performed at the very first Page Meets Stage pairing at the Bowery Poetry Club on November 12, 2005 10
“We have discovered from the barren wastelands of Central America an essential document in the early history of copyist strategies. Thought to have been created toward the end of the classical period of Mayan civilization, 998 A.D., the codex has been translated by a brilliant group of London plagiarists & the esteemed Amendant Hardiker from Wisconsin. Originally published by Plagerizedæ (Sic) Books in 1988 on the occasion of the Festival of Plagiarism held in London, San Francisco & Madison, WI. It is now distributed by Xexoxial Endarchy.” (mIEKAL aND, 1998) http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9802/msg00072.html “Something of a manifesto for plagiarism, Wisconsin style. Speaks to the enrichment of cultural dialogue through the reuse of old ideas in new combinations. An extension of collage theory if you will, in that not only are images and texts conflumed in a single multitrack, they are enriched by their new context and the new way they are perceived. The booklet consists of a series of ideograms put next to series of words, parallel text like the Rosetta Stone, serving to transliterate the sense of the pictures. Some, it would seem, are genuinely Maya, others are not. The coinages are exquisite: a useful one is “imagiarism”. Speaks of a communal body of ideas to which everyone has unabashed and inalienable rights. How can you steal whatʼs already yours?” (from the PhotoStatic Magazine review, 1988) http://psrf.detritus.net/pdf/p29.pdf Publisher Plagerizedæ (Sic) Books, Madison, Wisconsin, 1988
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ISBN 1440442851
50 pages
via Xerox Sutra Editions distributor Download http://monoskop.org/images/5/5a/The_Plagiarist_Codex.pdf 10
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