The latest in our continuing series of podcasts about Yoga and everyday life!
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There is a growing debate among media pundits and economists alike about the inflated valuations of tech companies like Groupon and Facebook. These voices have raised the specter of a new and potentially bigger tech bubble developing. Facebook, Google’s YouTube and other Web 2.0 giants have all pioneered business models based on user generated content—not professionally produced content. Psychster’s recently posted study looks at the effectiveness of online video content in relation to production values. In short, the study asks the question: do web users engage with professionally produced video content more than they do with cheaper content? Why is this important? Lets back up a little and look at how video on the web has evolved over the last decade. Continue reading Content is King. Long Live the King! The recently constituted “Collective for Digital Pataphysics” is weighing in on the oft-cited but little evidenced claim of “Thought Leadership.” Check out this hilarious video to learn more:
For those of us festival folks who couldn’t get a seat at these films, we did have one other opportunity to hear from the directors and ask them questions. Yates and James were on a Sundance’s Filmmaker Lodge panel “The Aha! Moment: Making Change Sticky . The panel discussion centered on new media outreach strategies and how to break new ground in extending social change outreach for documentaries. They were joined by documentary filmmaker and physician Dr. Maren Grainger-Monson and producer Ted Richane from social change outreach partners Cause and Effect. All of the projects highlighted by the panel took a long view in measuring the social impact of documentary filmmaking. The panelists agreed that it was no longer possible to effect change by just having a documentary shown in front of an audience (if this was ever really a path to serious impact to begin with). Yates introduced her project by issuing a challenge to documentary film makers: “I want to send out a challenge to everyone here: It is not acceptable, if you are going to make a film about social issues or human rights, not to think about outreach and audience engagement at the outset of making your film … you are going to shortchange yourself as an artist if you don’t get involved from the very beginning and see it all the way through to the finish.” Continue reading New Digital Outreach Strategies Debut at Sundance 2011 This was done recently for our friends–The Trashcan Sinatras who are heading back out on tour this Spring. Spidermann For a cold day and mid-winter soul cleansing: A Special Holiday to-do list from Anne! 12/27/10 Stay home, eat some veggies, drink some water to compensate for all that butter and wine and bourbon. 12/28/10 http://www.henryart.org/exhibitions/current/1139 Ponder these things, Wikileaks, and the recent painting-over of Blu’s work at MOCA. 12/29/10 12/31 1/1/11 Le Frenchword – Fancy Mud Satirical performance, that’s actually funny Spend a chill night at home with friends drinking festive spicy drinks (bärenjäger toddy with cloves recommended) and baking. Seriously. It’s good for your soul, and then you get to hand out cookies or rugelah or brownies to friends and coworkers! It’s an easy way to feel festive. Call up an artist/writer/entrepreneur friend and ask if you can buy some of their art/book/product for Christmas. Buy 6. hold, hold on anyway, let go, let go anyway Panel Discussion: What is Innovation in the Arts? In thinking about the Wikileaks phenomenon this week, I continually come back to the fact that so much information was leaked so easily. Apparently one individual was responsible for leaking the massive trove of State Department material and the previous haul of Department of Defense documents–more than 250,000 diplomatic cables from State Department diplomatic corps and 90,000 DOD documents about the U.S. war in Afghanistan. The information was released to the Wikileaks site in two installments by an army private named Bradley Manning. Manning had access to the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET) run by the DOD and the State Department. According to Manning the data dump he had access to was not that difficult to transfer to his own media and then transfer to Wikileaks via a personal computer:
“lets just say *someone* i know intimately well, has been penetrating US classified networks, mining data like the ones described … and been transferring that data from the classified networks over the “air gap” onto a commercial network computer … sorting the data, compressing it, encrypting it, and uploading it to a crazy white haired aussie who can’t seem to stay in one country very long”. (http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/19/wikileaks-a-somewhat.html) Compared to the famous “Pentagon Papers” leaks, PFC Manning’s actions seem almost effortless. In 1969, Daniel Ellsberg and a friend at the Rand Corporation had to surreptitiously photocopy 47 volumes of a secret DOD history about Vietnam over off hours and weekends and sneak the documents out in small batches that would fit in his briefcase. According to Ellsberg, this took several months and he was convinced that he would be caught on several occasions. http://www.mostdangerousman.org/ The Wikileaks information is another example where technology has reduced the difficulty of connecting information with people over distance and in small packages. It is now extremely easy to share information—top secret information to the world. My concern about the Wikileaks leaks is not so much about the reveling of classified government information. It has more to do with what it says about protecting any information that is stored on a computer network. Continue reading Your Data or Mine? “Dataveillence” and Privacy in America. |
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