PodCamp Montreal
On this week’s show Michelle Sullivan tells us about PodCamp Montreal. Michelle is one of the founders and key organizers of this ‘unconference’ that digs deep into new modes of media production including social media practices.

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Check Out PodCamp Montreal’s schedule to find out all the speakers and info about this year’s event.

Also, PodCamp Montreal has launched an iphone app. Get it from the Apple Store here.

MediaCamp
On Friday Sept 10, MediaCampwill be an informal gathering bringing together participants, professionals and specialists to look at how the Internet is creating entirely new business models in the realms of Marketing, Journalism and Communications.

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Radio CentreVille’s Big Funding drive !



Help support Radio CentreVille and keep show’s like ‘The Digital Life Show’ on the air ! Please toss a little something (or more, if you can), into our radio busking hats. This is community radio folks, so come on community, let’s go…

Please donate !
Click here to give online, or tune in to 102.3FM in Montreal on Sept 10, 11 & 12 to catch special programming and call in your pledge.

Thanks for supporting your radio station!

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Arcade Fire’s new HTML5 video – The Wilderness Downtown

Arcade Fire HTML5 video is awesome — but no Flash killer
– article by Helen A.S. Popkinin – MSNBC Technology

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City Raga | Popol Vuh | Exotic Sounds
My Cello | Beatin’ the Heat | Dan Hicks

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

Georgia Popplewell, Managing Editor, Global Voices

Georgia Popplewell is a media producer, writer, editor and blogger from Trinidad and Tobago. She has worked in independent media in the Caribbean since 1989 and has written extensively on culture, music, film and sport.

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About Global Voices

Global Voices is a community of more than 300 bloggers and translators around the world who work together to bring you reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media.

Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard.

Learn more about Global Voices and other citizen media initiatives discussed at the Citizen Media Rendez Vous – 2nd edition, which was held on Monday August 23, 2010.
Check out the LiveStream videos to see full archives of the event.

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Other Digital News of the Week

Wi-Fi may cause generational defects: scientist
Ex-weapons expert says frequencies can damage ovaries
- Laurence Lessig’s wireside chat equates wifi with the dangers of smoking.

Why Smartphone Adoption May Not Be as Big as You Think

Google offers free calling from Gmail in Canada and the U.S.

Wired magazine feature The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet – By Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff

General Electric’s Ecomagination Challenge – is a $200 million call to action for businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators, and students to share their best ideas and come together to take on one of the world’s toughest challenges – building the next-generation power grid to meet the needs of the 21st century.

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Upcoming Events
Montreal WordCamp – Aug 28-29
WordCamp Montreal is a small conference about the world’s most popular blogging software WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.

Podcamp Montreal – Sept 11 & 12
PodCamp Montreal is an unconference for podcasting and social media enthusiasts and specialists. Learn about these topics and share exciting new ideas. Follow @PodCampMontreal or #pcmtl on Twitter for updates…

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Boto | Lokua Kanza | Lokua Kanza ’92
Songe d’Automne | Gipsy Project & Friends | Biréli Lagrène

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

Amanda Garcés, Project Manager Mobile Voices

Amanda Garcés has an extensive background in organizing day laborers and other immigrant groups in New Jersey and Los Angeles. As an immigrant, she knows of the daily struggles immigrants face and has dedicated herself to achieving social justice for immigrant families. She co-created Mobile Voices because she believes that we must become our own media. Amanda is finishing her MA in Education leadership and change at Antioch University Los Angeles.

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Amanda will join us on Monday, August 23 for the Citizen Media Rendez-Vous, happening in Montreal.

Check out last week’s show for more background on the Rendez-Vous.

Hope to see you there ! (or online…. the day will be streamed, live and archived !)
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La Subienda | Gabriel Romero | Cumbia Cumbia
Porcelain | Moby | Play

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

David Widgington is coordinating the
Citizen Media Rendez-Vous, happening in Montreal on August 23, 2010.

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In an era where mass media is increasingly fragile (declining advertising revenues, financial crisis, digital revolution, fragmenting audiences, etc.), citizen media have an unprecedented opportunity to occupy the public sphere, particularly due to the advancement of social media and the democratization of modes of production.

For this second edition, the Citizen Media Rendez-Vous seeks to advance innovative practices within citizen media’s landscape, here and elsewhere in world.

See the schedule for more details.
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Check out the Media Rendez-Vous blog for more information about the event as well as entries and video from last year’s Citizen Media Rendez-Vous.

Follow the Rendez Vous on Twitter : #MediaRDV

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MUSIC

Havi Vahlia | Nouvelle Exppérience | Cirque du Soleil
Un grao de areia | Three Latin Adventures | Kenny Clark & Francy Boland Big Band

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

This week on the Digital Life show we have guest Julie Matlin a Montreal based ‘Mommy Blogger‘.

Check out the original post for further details.

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  Phyllis Lewis is a digital media creator, editor and   youth facilitator.

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See the Next Gen NDG project on Facebook (have to ‘be on’ Facebook)

Project Media on CitizenShift

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MUSIC

Wishing From the Top | Dana Bryant | Dana Bryant
Rahda Ramana | Tulku | Buddha Bar IV

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

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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

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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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

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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