just a lowly edtech geek, mumble mumble university of calgary
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Inspired by this commute video I saw this morning, I was curious what it would look like if I recorded my full commute. I’ve tried it before with a helmet cam, but hadn’t tried it with a fixed quasi-steady camera.
I took my cheap little Flip Ultra video camera, stuck it on the rear rack of [...]
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interesting. according to YouTube’s Insight stats display, my recent 3 videos are quite the hit with the older gentleman crowd…
I’ve been wracking my brain trying to find where I heard a specific sentence about peace and peacefulness. I’m pretty sure it was triggered by this lost interview with John Lennon, although the exact quote isn’t in it. Either way, it’s a very powerful presentation of a student’s illicit interview with Lennon in 1969.
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Alec posted a link to this a few days ago, and I finally got around to watching the video. It’s Professor Michael Wesch’s presentation to the Library of Congress, where he talked about the anthropological effects he observed after producing his awesome video essay The Machine is Us/ing Us.
The presentation is a fantastic, rich, and [...]
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Bike more, drive less. And parties ensue…
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This week, at the North American Leaders Summit in Montebello, Quebec, 3 undercover police officers pretended to be protesters in an attempt to provoke violent incidents. The entire series of events was captured on video, and shared via YouTube. The cops are the three goons with bandanas over their faces. None of the real protesters [...]
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I'd been hoping to refrain from blogging this, since everyone with a blog has already posted it. But, I've been emailing and IM it so much that it's just going to be easier to drop a reference to it here.
Without a doubt, the simplest, cleanest, most interesting demonstration of the meaning of Web2.0 I've seen. None of that old school powerpoint and slideware. This is more like "5 minutes in the life of Web 2.0"
The video reminds the viewer that Web 2.0 is as much about teaching The Machine as it is about content or people. This might give some insight into why Google Docs exists as a free, non-ad-supported application. It's role (from SkyNet's perspective) is to tirelessly teach The Machine. Always teaching. Forever learning. Until it passes the threshold and decides it doesn't need us anymore…
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Dreamhost rocks. I mean, they just keep piling on awesome new features into their hosting package. Recently, it was essentially infinite bandwidth and storage. Yesterday, they added an automatic Flash video transcoder and presenter, ala YouTube. But, within any Dreamhost site.
All I have to do is upload a video file (.avi, .mov, .mp4) to my site, tell Dreamhost I want it converted to Flash video (using the panel.dreamhost.com site that’s used for managing everything else as well), and their magic elves do their work and email me a javascript snippet to embed a flash player in any web page (or blog post). Like, for instance, this one:
Get the Flash Player to see this player.
It seems to choke on some video formats (it didn’t like my screencast at all – perhaps it’s not able to deal with the H.264 video encoding or AAC audio encoding…)
Now, if only Dreamhost would solve the intermittent MySQL performance suckage, things would be perfect!
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