links for 2008-02-01

Like A Super Hero | Newsweek International Edition | Newsweek.com
Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Seadragon fame.
(tags: interface innovation visualization interactiondesign)

The Patry Copyright Blog: There the RIAA goes again
(tags: RIAA Copyright)

Consumers Prefer Online Viewing to VOD, Study Says
(tags: VOD video distribution Cable)

Filed under: Daily Links

links for 2008-01-31

iTunes U adds new PBS material, more
(tags: audio education Itunes PBS video)

Slashdot Founder Questions Crowds Wisdom
(tags: digg internet socialmedia socialnetworking community Slashdot)

Rapidshare To Be Forced to Shut Down Following Court Defeat?
(tags: Copyright filesharing)

Filed under: Daily Links

Mac Goodies

CosmoPod

CosmoPod is a Safari add-on that helps you download and convert Flash, DivX, WMV and Real Media videos from the Internet to your Mac / iPod / iPhone / AppleTV automatically.
CosmoPod is almost universal. It will work on most sites broadcasting video content.
CosmoPod lounges in Safari’s address bar and activates whenever a video is detected [...]

Filed under: Mac, Software, Tools

Online Viewing: Trailers

Thurston Moore scores Richard Kern.

The trailer for We Live in Public, a document of the late-90’s Internet Bubble and Josh Harris, founder of Pseudo.com. Podcasting pre-iPod.
We live in public trailer from RADAR on Vimeo.

Filed under: Film+Video

links for 2008-01-30

The Business Of Online Video: Updated List Of CDN Providers For Video Delivery
(tags: reference video streaming CDN)

Filed under: Daily Links

links for 2008-01-28

BitTorrent, Comcast, EFF Antipathetic To FCC Regulation of P2P Traffic
(tags: bittorrent Copyright FCC P2P)

Cory Doctorow: why personal data is like nuclear waste
(tags: privacy security networkPolitics)

The Masters of Cinema Series
(tags: DVD film)

Envisioning Russia - Film Society of Lincoln Center
January 25 – February 14, 2008
(tags: film)

Filed under: Daily Links

Online Viewing: Remixing Cinema: Future and Past of Moving Images

Lecture/discussion with Lev Manovich, media artist/lecturer/theorist and co-author/creator of Soft Cinema and author of The Language of New Media, and Sean Cubitt, media theorist/historian and author of The Cinema Effect and Digital Aesthetics.
Remixing, Coding, Remapping, and Recombination of visual manifestations are revolutionizing the narrative form of film - new societal phenomena, like the VJ scene, [...]

Filed under: Art, Film+Video, Ideas, Lit, New Media

Saved From The Flames

54 Rare and restored films from 1896-1944.
Flicker Alley proudly presents SAVED FROM THE FLAMES, a unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. Movies were once made on nitrate film stock, which has a chemical composition similar to gunpowder and is highly vulnerable to fire and [...]

Filed under: Film+Video

Dumped. For your perusal.

Interactive. iPhone/Touch Starbuck’s “Quickorder” application. No waiting. Pocket Guitar for iPhone/Touch. Interactive Architecture. Interactive building façades.

Web Trend Map 2008 Beta.
Film, video, music. The films of Joe Merrell. Good Copy Bad Copy (2007), Copyright+Culture. Hulu Discusses Private Beta, Suggests Public Launch Time Frame. Jem Cohen directs DVD for The Ex. Talking to the Music Industry, a [...]

Filed under: Art, Copyright, Creativity, Film+Video, Ideas, Media Technology, Music, documentary, video

links for 2008-01-27

Better iTunes Killer: Antitrust or Amazon?
(tags: Itunes Amazon mp3 music distribution networkPolitics)

Long-time DRM foe Yahoo Music planning DRM-free MP3 store
(tags: music Itunes Yahoo mp3 DRM)

Filed under: Daily Links

links for 2008-01-26

Apple Releases the Leopard Edition of the HIG
(tags: Apple UI usability userexperience leopard)

Primer on Copyright Liability and Fair Use | Citizen Media Law Project
(tags: Copyright DMCA fairuse reference)

Edward Tufte: Interface design and the iPhone
(tags: iPhone interface in UI usability userexperience)

BBC videos on Myspace
(tags: bbc myspace video streaming)

Filed under: Daily Links

YouTube Does TEH MOBILE.

Youtube’s launching a complete mobile (3G) version, including uploads and a downloadable Java app for supported devices, at m.youtube.com. SAI has the business/financial angle.
RELATED: 3 New Mashups for Finding Music Videos.

Filed under: Distribution, video

The Cameras of Cloverfield

That hand-held camcorder footage was primarily shot on a ($six-figure) Sony F23, Sony’s flagship digital cinema camera. A Panasonic HVX200 was used as well. High Definition Magazine, FreshDV, Videography and Gizmodo have articles.

Filed under: Film+Video, Formats+Codecs

links for 2008-01-24

The Associated Press: MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
(tags: MPAA Copyright censorship)

Last.fm – the Blog · Free the Music
“As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.”
(tags: Copyright last.fm mp3 music streaming radio businessmodels)

@ Last.fm Announcement: Free On-Demand Music Platform; CBS To Ramp Up Promotion
(tags: Copyright last.fm [...]

Filed under: Daily Links

TV of Tomorrow Show 2008

InteractiveTV Today [itvt], the first, best and most widely read news source on interactive and multiplatform television, is pleased to present the second annual TV of Tomorrow Show, March 11th-12th (Tuesday-Wednesday), 2008 in San Francisco, California at the famous Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Filed under: Conferences, Interactive Video, iTV