About the Columbia Guide to Online Style
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Month: April 2004
The internet will kill television news?
Internet will kill of Television News – an essay
Very interesting essay. For my views on this topic checkout Interactive Tele-Journalism.
mini GNU/Linux distro for the Via EPIA boards
freepia
Yea! Now I will have something to do with my M-10000 once my thesis is done ;-)
From the site:
Freepia is a small GNU/Linux distribution designed to run on Via Epia-M Mainboards. It currently runs on the M-9000 and M-10000 (ezra and nehemiah cpu) but with some modifications like kernel and X11 modules it should run on others too. (if someone has get it running on other Epia¥s let me know). The main motivation behind this project is to build a full featured, low noise media box to play movies/mp3s/images etc. For this it uses freevo but in the future there maybe support for others like mythtv or vdr.
Cloning NT
ReactOS – Home
From the site:
ReactOS is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers.
Does Television have a future..
The Future of Television
Of course it does… Dave Lennie has an interesting blog: “television will be very different in just 5 years”
Ambient chandeliers!
Yahoo! News – Chandeliers shaken by crystal SMSs
From the article:
“It’s time to shake up the industry. There are too many chandeliers around with no life and soul — just expensive cookie-cutter designs,” said Nadja Swarovski, grand-daughter of the company’s founder and vice president of communications.
A snippet of what is to come for Forbes readers..
Yahoo! News – Is TV Next?
They say that the internet is a “problem” for TV.. Hmmn, I would welcome a bit of a shake up, perhaps only those companies willing to embrace the technology and social power of the internet will survive. Wouldn’t that be nice..
From the article:
The problem is, the Internet is one big dumb pipe. It doesn’t know or care whether it is carrying a Web page, a phone call or a sitcom. It’s a pipe, in other words, perfectly designed for whacking established industries over the head.
YASNS Meta List
YASNS Meta List – The Social Software Weblog – socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com
The Yet Another Social Networking Service list.
Will Windows Media on DVD spell the end of MPEG-4
Streamingmedia.com: Commentary: MPEG-4 is Dead
While the DVD Forum adoption seems big, I don’t think that this one win for WM will mean the death of MPEG-4. In any case, the argument given in this article is interesting.
From the article:
Given the adoption of Microsoft’s Windows Media Video 9 by the DVD Forum, there’s increasing reason to believe, to paraphrase an old Southern expression, that the MPEG-4 dog just won’t hunt. It hasn’t yet and probably never will, at least in any serious commercial way.
Real encoding on OS X
Streaming Media, Inc.
Nothing for live streaming as far as I can tell but a step in the right direction. It has been a couple of years for Real on the Mac (not including third party encoding solutions such as Cleaner).
From the article:
RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), today unveiled a beta version of its new Real 10 Export Plug-in for Mac OS X. The Real 10 Export Plug-in enables video editors for the first time to export high-quality RealAudio 10 and RealVideo 10 formats directly from Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Avid Xpress Pro and more. Support for additional applications, including Adobe Premiere and Discreet Cleaner is expected this summer.