The Digital Life Show

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IPTV – or TV over the Web…

- A look at the explosion of online TV broadcasting, everything from news and travel to tech and culinary arts (we’ll have to do another episode on the rise of the online cooking shows !) And some professionally produced programming formatted for the Web.

Driven by technology that allows pretty much anyone with a reasonable camera and Internet connection to broadcast over the Web…and the ideas are flowing…

New Business models
BlipTV – self proclaimed ‘next generation’ television network. (interesting 50/50 split revenues model)

Well established standards
- RocketBoom
- BoingBoingTV

Live Streaming apps

- 12Seconds.tv
- UStream for mobiles
- qik.com - (liked it better than ustream, especially no ads! alas, ustream outperformed… )
- LiveStream’s LivePack- mobile broadcast unit in a backpack

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TV on the Web

Dumping cable for online video

Both not available in Canada
Hulu
Netfilx

A bit of tech talk about Geo Blocking

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Other News

Canadian TV Goes Digital – CRTC news release

Facebook reached 500 million ‘friends’
more about that…

The Microsoft Tablet coming soon…

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MUSIC

Maria | Ricky Martin | Ricky Martin
Unza Unza Time | The Best of Emirkus Turica & the No Smoking Orchestra | EmirKus Turica & the No Smoking Orchestra

The Digital Life Show Theme: Glacier | Chris Zippel | Genuine Horizon

Dr. Lucie Bonneville is Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology at Concordia University and an avid gamer.

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Here are a few links to Web sites that provide info on games, reviews, ratings
etc.

http://www.gamespot.com/ (Lucie recommended)

http://www.gamepressure.com/

A few recent games popular games:

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood & Assassin’s Creed II (historical action adventure)

Mass Effect (Sci-fi Role playing (RPG))

Risen (RPG)

Dragon Age (RPG)

Fallout 3 (RPG)

Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: episode I, Half-Life 2 episode II – Great action game series

Some older games as recommended by Dr. Bonneville. Great stories!

Beyond Good and Evil (action-adventure) (My all time favourite game – Lucie)

Siberia, Siberia II (adventure – lots of puzzles)

Gothic II (RPG)

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MUSIC

Mama | World Groove Mix, Vol 1. | Sequoia Groove Presents

Sack o’ Woe | Van Morrison | how long has this been going on Van Morrison with Georgie Fame & Friends

The Digital Life Show Theme: Glacier | Chris Zippel | Genuine Horizon

Guest Britt Wray talks to us about a project she’s involved with entitled; A Human Right, initiated by writer, photographer, philosopher and engineer Kosta Grammatis. A Human Right project proposes to give the world free, ubiquitous, and world wide access to information via universal wifi access.

Britt is currently Workshop Coordinator at StudioXX.     

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Check out this short and intriguing audio doc that Britt made about the ‘eyeborg project‘, a prosthetic ‘camera’ eye made by Kosta for filmmaker Rob Spence.

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MUSIC

Duj Sandal | Emirkus Turica & The No Smoking Orchestra | The Best of Emirkus Turica & The No Smoking Orchestra
No Boundaries | D.D. Jackson | Rhythm Dance

The Digital Life Show Theme: Glacier | Chris Zippel | Genuine Horizon

March 20, 2010 – Interview with Alain Bernardeau from Computation

Hosts Moz Taylor & Reisa Levine speak with Alain Bernardeau from Computation, a Tech company specializing in electronic and computer recycling. Check out the original post for further details.

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Digital Life Show host Reisa Levine talks to Ghassan Fayad, head of KungFuNumerik on what you need to know before you begin a Web project.

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2createawebsite.com – Website Creation Tutorial for Beginners.

WordPress blogging software – can make your own blog on their service or download the software and host independently.
Blogger – also offers 2min easy blog creation.

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MUSIC

Funky Kingston | Toots & the Maytals | Funky Kingston

The Digital Life Show Theme: Glacier | Chris Zippel | Genuine Horizon

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Twitter News
Twitter Hashtags explained
Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

Someone out there explaining things (great blog)
It’s All Geek to Me
helping you figure out the web and social media one post at a time!

bit.ly

Some other Twitter tools:
TweetDeck
TweetMeme

Follow the dizzying count of Tweets per second on this Tweet Counter.

Twitter Outages this Week – did you notice? we’re you stressed?
The Day When Twitter Lost its Tweets

Why Twitter’s new ads are ingenious

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More about cell phones
Cellphone Freedom Act introduced this week

iphone unlocked

Check out this Digital Life Show episode with Alain Berardeau from Computation, a company that recycles e-waste.

Cell phone Chargers standardized in Europe

Nokia unveils bicycle-powered phone charger

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Online Video Editing

YouTube has a new bare bones video editing tool that allows you to clip your videos, and add a soundtrack right in your browser. Keep in mind that the new YouTube Video Editor is still a work in progress, so you might get hit with a few bugs as you try it out.

Other browser-based editors:
Kaltura
Movie Masher
Aviary
Pixorial
JayCut

YouTube Doubler – an online mashup helper

Download youtube videos tool

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Do social media make publication bans useless?

Non-compete clause for Social Networking

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China vows no let-up to state control of Internet

Tor

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Gaming: E3 Roundup

The Electronic Entertainment Expo official site

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MUSIC

Krougnegne | Mory Kante | Touma
Gettin’ Up | Q-Tip | The Renaissance

The Digital Life Show Theme: Glacier | Chris Zippel | Genuine Horizon

Pascal Riché - Senior Editor at Rue89

Pascal Riché is Senior Editor of Rue89, a Paris-based news and current affairs web forum that is dedicated to participatory, independent debate.

Rue89
Self-described as a co-production by journalists, experts, citizen-participants and bloggers, the independent daily is an animated space of exchange on current issues in France and internationally.

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Last week, Pascal and I participated on a panel entitled “The Futures of News and Journalism in the Internet and Mobile Age”. The panel was part of Congress 2010, the major Humanities and Social Sciences held at Concordia University from May 28 – June 4.
See the archived stream of our panel discussion

In this conversation, Pascal describes some of the features of Rue89 and why online journalism requires a new way of processing news.

Jeff Jarivs - The new news process

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World Cup goes Digital

Soccer fans to get World Cup fix online for free

World Cup Football Streaming A Record Number Of Matches Online

Other World Cup Sites:
ESPN

Twitter’s ‘Official’ World Cup Site
HOW TO: Follow the 2010 World Cup on Twitter

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Violent games harmless for vast majority

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MUSIC

Sister Rosetta Tharpe | Gospel Train | Down by the Riverside
Manu Chao | Esperanza | Me gustas tu

This week we bring you an interview with John Harris Stevenson about the GigaNet conference at McGill University.

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Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)

The Event at McGill

For more background on Internet rights and new The Canadian Copyright Bill see Michael Giest’s blog post on the subject. Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law.

Get Involved: Support an Opened Internet

Save Our Net.ca

Open Media.ca

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Google Video Codec
Google Gives Away Video Software to Lure Developers
An open and free video format offers new opportunities for Web programmers.

Open Video Alliance

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Google Browsing/Bashing

Google ‘inadvertently’ collecting personal data with Street View
Google to turn over data to European governments
Last month, Google revealed it had been inadvertently collecting 600 gigabytes of personal data, saying that the roving, camera-mounted cars in its Street View program had collected not only photographs of neighbourhoods but snippets of private information from people whose personal Wi-Fi networks were left unencrypted.

Peeking Into Users’ Web History
Researchers hijack Google’s personalized search suggestions to reconstruct users’ search histories.

Google has created a virtual GPS on YOUR laptop/desktop computer/cellphone

Facebook Personal Data a Security Risk
Making more user information public has both privacy and security dangers, experts warn.

The Changing Nature of Privacy on Facebook
Microsoft’s Danah Boyd on social networking.

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MUSIC

Eyeball Kid |Tom Waits | Mule (Variations)
I Think Of | Afro Celt Sound System | Volume 2: Release

The Digital Life Show Theme: Glacier | Chris Zippel | Genuine Horizon

PacMan turns 30 - Google celebrates - Everyone plays

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The ipad comes to Canada
Apple iPad hits Canada Amid Controversy

PacMan turns 30
PacMan’s 30th anniversary as celebrated on Google

Pacman comes to life virtually
A human version of the classic arcade game Pacman, superimposing the virtual 3D game world on to city streets and buildings, is being developed by researchers in Singapore.

Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980′s video game sensation Pac-Man.

Complete PacMan Silliness

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Wasted Time & Productivity
It might not sound like a lot on first glance, but the 36 extra seconds that the average Google.com visitor spent there last Friday playing Pac-Man adds up to a massive 4.8 million of wasted hours, adding up to $120,483,000.

Top 10 Online Distractions

Related to the top 10 distractions: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains

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Douglas Adams and Towel Day

Towel Day ‘Official Site‘

Movie Trailer for ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – 2005

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Geocaching
Geocachers had a Towel Day Pub Lunch. They were asked to bring their towel and, or course, a GPS!

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AOL turns 25 and announces a new focus

Celebrating the bumpy ride of America Online‘s first quarter century of existence.

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MUSIC

Turnip’s Big Move |The Greyboy Allstars | A Town Called Earth
Trango | Naked Funk | Evolution Ending [Import]

The Digital Life Show Theme: Glacier | Chris Zippel | Genuine Horizon

CoCo Riot - Political artist

Born in southern Spain, CoCo Riot is an artist working in the domains of queer and anti-oppression artivism. Exhibitions of her work, especially the “Genderpoo” project, have been held in contemporary art museums, radical queer festivals, New York video galleries, classrooms, autonomous social centres in Europe and North America and in friends’ houses.

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genderpooWEB

CoCo Riot’s blog

Gender Poo at Artivistic

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MUSIC

Great Curve |Talking Heads | Remain in Light
1959 | Patti Smith | Peace & Noise

The Digital Life Show Theme: Glacier | Chris Zippel | Genuine Horizon