29% of our time is spent on the web and gets 8% of ad dollars. Newspapers get 8% of our time and 20% of ad dollars.

The ESCP Europe Human Experience

This is the ESCP Europe stop motion! More than 300 ESCP Europe students have worked together to express the values and spirit of ESCP Europe in a fun, imaginative and entertaining way. Key figures: 316 actors, 658 tee-shirts, 9m2 of cardboard, 4198 photos, 123m of gaffer tape for 3645 markers. To bring you face to face with their world, no need for words, the stop motion says it all. Share this link with your network! /// Plus de 300 étudiants d’ESCP Europe se mobilisent pour partager de façon ludique, originale et inattendue les valeurs et l’état d’esprit ESCP Europe. Les étudiants utilisent la technique du “stop motion” pour nous plonger dans leur univers résolument humain. Quelques chiffres : 316 figurants, 658 t-shirts, 9m2 de carton plume, 4 198 photos, 125m de gaffer pour 3 645 repères marqués.

As anyone who works with video content on the web knows, it’s hard to draw search traffic. Because search bots crawl for text, or “metadata,” or in other words “words,” video is un-crawlable in and of itself as the data is not made up of meaningful information for search algorithms to parse. While some companies are working on a technical solution for this, say by using voice-recognition to turn the video’s audio into keywords, nothing yet is available along these lines. Furthermore, once it is, what about those videos that don’t have spoken word in them?

Google Chrome web browser comes to the Mac. WATCH this well done video to get an overview of Chrome’s features and promises.

Home Crisis Investigation
We don’t want to give the hook in this bit away, but let’s just say that The Daily Show’s John Oliver has double to fun at the expense of a one (er, two) Mr. Timothy Geithner. The set-up is deft leading up to jaw-dropping jump ball from which the hilarious satire to ensue.  [...]

Splicelicious video shows how to create hoax about a hoax   
All’s fair in love and editing, well, not really when you care about a little thing known as The Truth. Bart Sibrel has made a cottage industry of exposing the NASA lunar landings as frauds. He even went so far as to confront second man-on-the-moon [...]

Google’s data center in Belgium has no chillers to support its cooling systems. Data Center Knowledge explains that the chillers used to refrigerate water to cool data centers require, unsurprisingly, a large amount of electricity to operate.  The quest for cost-effective energy via efficiency has led to a practice known as “free cooling:”  air from outside [...]

From the State Department’s YouTube channel: “Under Secretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy and State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack discuss the production process for creating a passport and its security features.”
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Speilberg likens Microsoft’s controllerless interactive entertainment station to the “historic moment” when square-shaped movie screens made their segue to Cinemascope.

No controller, just move your body. Spielberg thinks it revolutionary.

Rochester, NY – Stories displayed in a Top Stories list — Time Warner Cable’s Jim Gordon on Internet Pricing

The Journal is planning to launch a “premium initiative” to sell “narrower information services” at a higher subscription rate to subsets of its readership. WSJ.com executive editor Alan Murray was not too forthcoming about what services will be offered but mentioned energy coverage and a news service for chief financial officers.
Alan Murray is executive editor of The [...]

The Reach Film Fellowship (a project of Cinereach Ltd) is a program supporting filmmakers who are producing socially relevant short films as they transition from student to professional. Applications for the 2009/10 Fellowship will be available April 15th. Visit thereachfilmfellowship.com for details. 
This video documents the behind-the-scenes of the 2008/9 Fellowship cycle and features the Fellows, Mentors and [...]

It’s all a matter of opinion, however…
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Mike over at TreeHugger sent out a warning to colleagues about a snafu encountered when he did some screen-sharing between two macs.
If you have 2 Macs, and you enable screen sharing on them, don’t share
the screen of one on the other, and then in that one open screen
sharing for the other (the one you are [...]

Legalicious or Illegalicious: Graphic Designer Trading in Stock Art Ponzi Scheme?
Buzzing about the internet is the story of the graphic designer who says he is being accused by a stock art site of stealing his own work:
I was first contacted by a stock art site in July of last year. They hit me with a bill for [...]

Creators of a 4-foot robot say its learning from humans with whom it interacts.

Good gag! So to speak…
Advertising Agency: TBWA\PARIS, France 
Executive Creative Director: Erik Vervroegen 
Creative Directors: Erik Vervroegen, Stephanie Thomasson 
Copywriter / Art Director: Leopold Billard 
Photographer: Cindy Gravelat 
Account Supervisors: Elodie Hubsch, Pauline Laurent
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A Japanese science lab is developing technologies to visualise images and dreams – and eventually read people’s minds.

Months after it was announced, Skype for iPhone is officially here — almost. The free, native VoIP client for iPhones and the iPod touch will be available in Apple’s iTunes store on Tuesday.
Skype for iPhone calls will work only if you’re in range of a Wi-Fi network, so your call quality will, in part, be [...]

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Ever heard this before?: “Past behavior is the best predictor of future performance.” Well this concept has never applied to industries refusing to evolve or innovate, but it may be a good fit with those perceived of as Cassandras, Chicken Littles, whistle-blowers, or turds-in-punch-bowls. Eric Clemons writing at TechCrunch withstands the scalding blowback in [...]

Screen Digest report finds that more and more viewers will be lured away from broadcast and cable TV to free, ad-funded online entertainment. But online piracy, also “free-to-view digital entertainment” is the television industry’s biggest threat.
Screen Digest’s annual Peve Digital Entertainment Conference Need-to-Know
• By 2011, ad-supported, online TV shows will account for 10 times more [...]

Apple said Tuesday that it is adding more than 100 new features for its iPhone and iPod touch via a software update due out later this year:
• the ability to cut, copy and paste text;
• rotate from portrait mode to landscape mode in key applications
• the ability to send photos, locations and audio information [...]

Would you give it a try? A new battery-powered vehicle, that looks something you’d see in a science fiction series, is turning heads.

BoomTown » Flip Flips to Cisco for $590 Million in Stock 

Hollywood Reporter on Web Streams as distribution vehicle for indie films: can streaming emerge as a viable business model? The article kicks off with thriving indie producer Seth Caplan:

Yet for all his success, Caplan has made money on only one project: “Flatland: The Movie,” a playful, 30-minute animated featurette based on Edwin Abbot’s cult novella [...]

In Canada and want to get access to videos on Hulu? Give this software a whirl.
Hotspot Shield from AnchorFree is free security software that you download to protect your goodies while broadband sessioning it at hospitality and coffee chains. We’re told it will let users outside of the United States access sites like Hulu [...]

Eric Schmidt to Charlie Rose: Google “Unlikely” To Acquire Twitter, but Likely that Phones will Become Televisions
Money quotes:
Pass on Twitter for now @ 8 min in
TV phones @ 9 mins in
Transcript: 
Charlie Rose:
Let’s just go back and do a quick history of Google. 1995, Sergey and Larry started, and they create this search engine working at [...]

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Everyone is going ga ga for Twitter (well, one exception might be Jon Stewart over at the Daily Show). Hope that was under 140 characters… Anyhoo, the Telegraph says Tweet Tweet away giving us all the (bird) poop. In addition to information on how to set up and use your account, the Telegraph’s Gadget Inspectors [...]

Twitter Frenzy
Sam Bee says Twitter has become such a big deal among legislators and the media elite because it’s awesome. (05:04)

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Renowned Cyberlaw scholar Jonathan Zittrain talks about how ubiquitous human computing, which he describes as the ability to treat the human mind as a fungible resource, has enabled companies to attack any number of problems by throwing more minds at them the way they might throw servers at a website traffic [...]

From basic image retouching to complex effects, Phoenix delivers the key features of a desktop image editor with the simplicity and accessibility of a web-based application.
Aviary: Phoenix Image Editor »

Use Raven to create fully scalable vector art appropriate for logos or tee shirt designs. You won’t find a similar tool on the web.
Aviary: Raven Vector Editor »

Eltima’s very handy-dandy Mac-oriented freeware tool for viewing and managing FLV & SWF files now comes to a PC near you in the flavor commonly know as Windows.
 
Playback SWF and FLV files
SWF & FLV Player is a powerful but tiny Flash movie player. It features advanced and unique functions that allow you to not only play, rewind, fast-forward [...]

Tell all your visitors you support the efforts of Earth Hour. With the Earth Hour plugin for WordPress you can easily show your support and have your site automatically “shut off” for the hour, no matter where in the world you are. And Earth Hour 2009 is going truly global.
The plugin counts down to earth [...]

Schoolboy is iPhone whizz
Nine-year-old computer programmer creates iPhone application that has been downloaded over 150,000 times. Lim Ding Wen is like any other child living in Singapore. He goes to school, does his homework and plays on the computer. But Lim is a boy with a difference. He’s the youngest programmer in the island city, [...]

Robin Wauters from TechCrunch:
“Web 2.0″ seems to become more and more a void (and an avoided) term… the number of startups that contact us and include the term Web 2.0 in the subject line or message is visibly dropping… and I hardly ever see it mentioned anymore on other technology blogs and news sites either. That’s [...]

I sort of gasped, then winced and then was disoriented for a moment after doing my first Google of the day. The SERP returned a Google Doodle that brought my mind to slasher films, psycho stalker thrillers and Silence of the Lambs. I had to adjust my thinking to get on track that this was a [...]

Reuters:
The rise of blogging created a new avenue for business bosses to engage with partners and customers, but transparency can be tricky in an economic downturn.
Carsonified:
Matt Cowen from Reuters just published a short piece on me. He wanted to talk about the fact that when times are good, everyone sings the praises of using [...]

We kinda like it with the bleeps! Listen to the nearly four-minute tirade actor Christian Bale unleashed on the director of dhotography on the set of an upcoming “Terminator” sequel.

Original Christian Bale Going Ballistic Freak Out on Terminator 4 Set
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Christian Bale/Bill O’Reilly Freak-Out Mash-Up

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Sully Vs. Christian Bale
The calm and the [...]

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Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done…
In the tactile world, we use our five senses to take in information about our environment [...]

Graphics Gone Bad: News Blooper Makes Internet Hamster Highlights
Scot and Kara discuss a Channel 3 blooper that is making headlines on entertainment shows and in chat rooms across the country.
First you blame the crime on an innocent hampster and now you try to foist off responsibility onto a well-intentioned computer…

Video Essay: Visiting in plain view
Real Live Billboards

AP speculates that the auto industry, which wants a unified federal standard, will chafe against President Obama’s moves toward new regulations for car and truck tailpipe emissions. However, the uncut clip of Obama’s speech clearly indicates he is advocating for a unified federal standard and leaves one to speculate that his request to the EPA [...]

Oscar nominee Sean Penn talks about winning the lead-actor prize at Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards for his role as gay politician Harvey Milk in the film biography ‘Milk.’ (Jan. 26)

Author David Denby spoke to Harry Smith about the increase of snark comments due to the internet and blogs.

Obama in Miniature via the magic of nanotech!
Science is back and looking for backing from the Federal government — and what better way than an appeal to vanity. Send the message to le grand fromage that he doesn’t have to be big to feel big. In fact, it might even be great if new [...]

Awesome original article on solving a quite historical splicelicious mystery. After months of searching, James Danziger over at The Daily Beast identified the photographer behind the picture that became the Obama campaign’s most recognizable image — kicker: even the photographer didn’t know he had taken it.

Quick, look! Check out Taylor Momsen’s Rack! Oh, there’s nothing to see but a Nike swoosh logo
 

The camera pans quickly to the Gossip Girl star’s chest, not only revealing the sixteen-year-old’s breasts to be safely tucked away in a sportsbra, but that Nike was there to keep the old prurient paparazzo gaze away.  Phew, talk about [...]

Super cute. It’s amazing how much gets in there…

My friend Amanda had never seen a whole Star Wars film. When I asked her if she wanted to watch the original trilogy she said that she would, but that she already knew what happens. So I took out my voice recorder and asked her to start from the top…

Public Broadcasting’s Make ‘Em Laugh — the funny business of america takes on the internet
Amy Sedaris headlines with appearances by OG vlogger Ze Frank and that Ask the Ninja Ninja.
Teh Internets is a half hour long program that seeks to academically understand the popularity of different content online, identifying common themes such as absurdist humor, [...]

Mashup of the Top 25 Hits of 2008, according to Billboard.
WARNING! HIGHLY ADDICTIVE FOR THE OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE AMONG US.
Base track is Coldplay tune Viva La Vida  – this should really be raising Joe Satriani’s legalicious hackles…
YouTube: DJ Earworm – United State of Pop 2008 (Viva La Pop) – Mashup of Top 25 Billboard Hits

Take me to your creator — oh, wait that’s me!
When it comes to designing robots, function usually trumps form. But these robots are modeled in the form of their creator… And his wife. (Dec. 9)

Marissa Mayer, Google Vice President, Search Products and User Experience empaneled at Le Web ‘08 Paris had these things to say:  
• There’s a new product being launched to connect donors with non-profit organizations.
• Chrome is out of beta which is important for EOMs, since the term beta as applied to downloadables, i.e. a browser client, [...]

The plagiarism suit is on! Joe Satriani’s 2004 track If I Could Fly v. Coldplay’s 2008 Viva La Vida. What’s the diff?

Said Coldplay:
Internet, Damn you!!!
Rolling Stone: Joe Satriani Sues Coldplay For “Viva La Vida” Plagiarism

Google is launching SearchWiki, a way for searchers to customize their search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. Two new icons appear next to each result the first of which allows you to move the results you like to the top or add a new site. The second button lets you write notes [...]

A UFO expert enlists the help of a cabbie (Dwayne Johnson) to protect two siblings with paranormal powers from the clutches of an organization that wants to use the kids for their nefarious plans.
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Ciaran Hinds and AnnaSophia Robb. Directed by Andy Fickman. 
 
Comic-Con 2008: RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN Interviews – Dwayne Johnson and [...]

See the outlandish (and green-washed) creations of a California limousine manufacturer.

A new wave of film makers are hacking into video games to make their own movies (Nov. 10)

Happy Halloween!
Scary Mary Poppins video via Disney Blog

Read, record, analyze and save. MeterRead™ is an eco-friendly iPhone application that helps you read your electric meter and gives you feedback on your energy consumption – “Go Green, Save Green!”  
The narrator here claims that studies show that folks who monitor their electricity usage save 10 to 20 percent on their electric bills.  We [...]

SWF & FLV Player: View and Manage Flash movies
SWF & FLV Player is a free, swift and smart Flash player for Mac OS (Windows version here). Eltima enriched it with numerous handy options and controls, which ensure top grade usability for viewing and managing Flash movies.
SWF & FLV Player PRO version delivers even more functionality to the users: [...]

Project 10^100 is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.

How Green Is Your Diet? 
PETA’s new carbon calculator widget is determines how much a change in diet could change one’s impact on the environment. The interactive tool has you enter your age, gender, and current eating habits, and then tells you how much carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) you’d prevent from polluting the Earth and the [...]

CNET takes a first look at the Nokia N95 smartphone.
CNET: Nokia N95 (8GB, Unlocked)

Hollywood is dragging its feet when it comes to dealing with online piracy. Manoush Zomorodi reports. Hollywood is dragging its feet when it comes to dealing with online piracy. Manoush Zomorodi reports.
MORE Online Piracy, Digital Distribution, TV & the Illegalicious

Evolutionary car takes to sky
It took young designer and inventor Alexander Begak two years to get Evolution to fly but it has now successfully completed more than 100 flights. Begak, says Evolution is equally capable on land, water or air. He says it can be used for reconnaissance or by industry for monitoring gas and [...]

Okay, with the exception of “Botoxpression” and perhaps “Harmed & Dangerous” most of the examples from the authors of Mixtionary aspire to the level of borscht belt humor. This book seems best destined as swag for corporate retreats. This writing duo is definitely trying too hard. That said, bless their hearts for trying!
Give your [...]

Maurice Sendak – celebrated illustrator of the beloved children’s book, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE – unveils his newest monster tale, MOMMY? – in 3-D! An instant classic, his first pop-up book is full of ghoulish good fun.

Katharine Fletcher tells us what exactly is machinima and shares here faves.
MORE Machinima, 3D Animation & Independent Filmmaking

RULE THE WEB by Mark Frauenfelder is a new book that teaches readers how to do anything and everything on the internet better, faster, and easier. Vital tips are included on everything from blogging to running an online business.

Create and share online documents, spreadsheets and presentations. It’s free. You can:
1) Access your documents online from any computer with an internet connection.
2) Add collaborators to your document and Docs will send them a link to access the doc online (no need to send email attachments back and forth)
3) Decide who can view and edit [...]

The official trailer for the new animated adventure – Flatland: The Movie. Adapted from the beloved classic by Edwin A. Abbott. Featuring the voices of Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Tony Hale, Joe Estevez and Michael York.
Flatland: The Movie

MORE Flatland, Digital Animation, & Internet Business Models

The Viral hit “Ballad of Black Mesa” is a toe tapping, gun toting, tour de-force of machinima digital video-making. Taking cues from works like STOMP and contemporary advertisement, The Ballad of Black mesa has been featured in numerous publications, including UK PCgamer, and GEE magazine. (click for image)
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Headquartered in New York, the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences is a non-profit organization established to promote, organize and recognize the growth of Machinima filmmaking and filmmakers. This organization was developed in March of 2002 by several leading members of the Machinima community. It is our goal to both make the current creative [...]

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Machinima is the use of real-time three-dimensional (3-D) graphics rendering engines to generate computer animation as well as works that incorporate this animation technique. Machinima-based projects arose in the 1980s with the use of graphics engines from video games, Disney Interactive Studios’ 1992 computer game Stunt [...]