The Digital Life Show

Self publishing and books on demande; a machine that creates your own book, printed, bound and ready to go!

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The Future of Printed Books – Clive Thompson, Wired

the Espresso one-off book binding machine explained

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Jaron Lanier – You are not a gadget…

Described as ‘one of the early visionaries in Silicon Valley’, Lanier has some interesting points of view on Internet culture and what it’s doing to us.

Here’s a TEDtalk given by Jaron Lanier

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More culled from the Web…
Quiety, Google Puts History Online – The New York Times

Hackaton Montreal partners with the city of Montreal to develop some useful tools for the public – Montreal Tech Watch

This year’s Boomerang Awards for Web and interactive – check out the winners to see some excellent sites, pubs and online zines and docs.

This is a repeat broadcast. For full show details and links, check out the original broadcast:
July 16 – Kelly Kassa’s blogging tips, McLuhan’s centenial, G+ and more

This week Jan joins me in the studio and Moz interviewed Kelly Lynn Kassa, Director, Marketing Communications at Datawatch who gave a talk at WordCamp entitled: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog.
Then, Jan and I take look back to the founder of modern mass media communications theory; Marshall McLuhan in honour of the 100th anniversary of his birth.

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Artist Lorraine Oades talks with us from her digital art installation at StudioXX.

Some of Lorraine’s work entitled: “e-xhange” currently at StudioXX.

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MUSIC

Breakbeat mix | Volume III | DJ Ram

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

This week we’re Streaming the Digital Life Show live from THE AUTUMN OF LOVE, a two day continuous flow of musicians, performers, activists, poets and raconteurs. Join iphoneographer Roger Guetta and friends at the Visual Voice Gallery.

Tune in right here on Saturday November 5 & Sunday November 6 from noon to midnight (Montreal time, UTC/GMT -4 hours or EDT) to follow along. Talk to us live via Twitter chat over our Justin.tv station.

For more info and the schedule of events, go look at the Visual Voice gallery’s blog or their Facebook page, or go ahead and ‘Friend’ Roger !

Watch live video from The Digital Life Show on www.justin.tv

Several digital newsworthy items on the show this week, including Social Entrepreneur Christine Renaud’s new startup, E-180; iphoneographer Roger Guetta’s upcoming Autumn of Love; Halloween; Hackatons and more.

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Radio CentreVille’s upcoming Radio-Thon – tune in to The Digital Life Show next Saturday (November 12, 2011) for a special live show.

WebCom – coming up in Montreal, November 15 & 16.

This week marked the official launch of E-180, a new start up aimed at getting people together face to face to learn and share knowledge.
Check out Christine Renaud’s previous interview on ‘The Digital Life Show’ to learn more about this exciting new initiative.

Roger Guetta is an artist and iphoneographer and is running a two day ‘happening’ of music, art, poetry and conversations entitled ‘ The Autumn of Love’ at Bettina Forget’s Visual Voice Gallery. The Digital Life Show will be broadcast live from The Autumn of Love on Saturday November 5. Check out the live stream on the Digital Life Show web site, or our Justin.tv channel.

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Occupy Wall Street Hackathons Produce Digital Tools and New Activists – Mashable
Digital Democracy projects brought to life by OWS ‘hackers’.
Occupy Design – Building a visual language for the 99%.

A Halloween house display that’s got me totally into Light-o-rama technology (i.e. how the hell did he do that !). Check out the forum for an insider’s look… if you’re into lighting and special effects it’s quite amazing!

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MUSIC

Buena Vista | Abandoned Shopping Cart | Gomez
Shame | Soul Shakers
Balkan Hot Step | GP05 | N.O.H.A

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

Curriculum Designer Michel Luchs talks to us about Mapping Memories, a project with refugee youth that is part of the larger Montreal Life Stories Project. Mapping Memories has just launched a book and training manual for teachers.

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Mapping Memories Refugee Youth Project – Roots to Rap With

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Blackberry Outages plague users this past week

Understanding Reliability – crackberry.com

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Other news this week

The passing of Dennis Ritchie – Dennis Ritchie, an internationally renowned computer scientist who created the C programming language, has died at age 70 – CNet.com

The emoticon turns 30 (but official accounts date them way before that!) – Mashable

Great new Internet polling service on the rise – Poll Everywhere

Occupy Montreal grows online and on the ground – Twitter is probably the best way to follow the occupiers in Place Victoria.

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MUSIC

Unbound | Beauty & Crime | Suzanne Vega
Still | On How Life Is | Macy Gray

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

Writer and Managing Editor Alanah Heffez joins us this week to discuss Spacing Montreal, an online and print magazine that focuses on the joys, obstacles, and politics of our urban landscape.

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The passing of Steve Jobs

Good article in Wired on Steve’s life and achievements. Plus the ‘official’ apple video tribute.

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MUSIC

Rhapsody in Blue | Portraits in Blue | Marcus Roberts
Listening Wind | Remain in Light | Talking Heads

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