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Re: [Air-L] facebook, twitter and annoyances
by Jason Mittell 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Barry wrote: > And who the heck cares that you had eggs for breakfast, other than you and > your partner? > The egg lobby? Seriously, the most annoying thing to me about Twitter is that when you post or converse about something, you often get reactions from the metaphorical egg lobby - companies or groups out to promote their interests by looking for search terms and "cold calling" users about their products. Just yesterday I responded to a post asking for advice on survey software - and got a tweet from a survey software company promoting their product instead. A great advantage of FB is that you don't have to be friends with the egg lobby... As for the breakfast question - I often get culinary inspiration from what people say they're eating. No different than a coworker talking about the great food they had last night for dinner. -Jason --- Jason Mittell, Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture Chair of Film & Media Culture Department Middlebury College 208 Axinn Center at Starr Library Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-3435 / fax: (802) 443-2805 Homepage: http://go.middlebury.edu/mittell Blog: http://go.middlebury.edu/justtv

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Facebook, twitter and annoyances
by Katy E. Pearce 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

I often contemplate having multiple twitters. My academic followers don't care that I am sitting on the beach right now. My friends don't care that Wednesday was the NCA discount deadline. My Armenian activists followers care for neither. BUT, would requiring that every tweet took into consideration the multiple audiences (including, possibly, the public?) make it as interesting? I also like that I know that Nancy Baym outsourced BoingBoing to her son. Would I have read that if I was only following @n.baym.academic? PLUS, if it is GOOD someone will re-tweet it. Now, back to the beach, @kpearce Katy Pearce -- Sent from my Palm Pre

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Information wants to be ASCII or Unicode? Tibetan-written information cannot be ASCII anyway.
by Han-Teng Liao (OII) 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Dear all, Running the risk of trolling and misrepresenting the famous motto "Information wants to be ASCII", I want to raise the question of the difference between "Information wants to be ASCII" versus "Information wants to be Unicode" from a multilingual perspective. It should be pointed out when Lev Manovich declare "Information wants to be ASCII" when talking about remix and remixability of information, it was in 2005 when the adoption of Unicode was just in the early adoption period globally. So I do not intend to raise the question to make lazy criticism against the America-centric implication inside ASCII, but rather raise the question about remix and remixability across linguistic boundaries. Why the Unicode is not universally deployed yet? How can we measure the remixability across linguistic boundaries simply because the information are encoded not in Unicode? Why so many user-generated content websites in China are only using their simplified-Chinese-only kind of "national standard" (GB2312) even when Hong Kong (using traditional Chinese not included in GB2312) is part of China and Beijing claims Taiwan is part of China? What about Tibetan-written information: is it want to be Unicode or GB 18030-2000? Tibetan-written information cannot be ASCII anyway. I really like to hear from you. Best regards, -- Han-Teng Liao PhD Candidate Oxford Internet Institute http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/students.cfm?id=123

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Will the default culture of Internet shift from ASCII to Unicode?
by han-teng.liao＠oii 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Dear all, As continuing effort to revive the earlier discussion thread with the title "Information wants to be ASCII or Unicode?", allow me to point out the current news event on a further step towards internationalized domain names, as summarised by boingboing blogger Xeni Jardin on Rachel Maddow Show as below: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/30/xeni-on-rachel-maddo-2.html "[D]omain name extensions will be available in non-Latin character sets. Chinese, Greek, Arabic, or any one of the more than 20 official languages in India. In other words, the alphabet you're reading this blog post in will no longer be the default for web addresses." Not long ago, PHP a popular open-source computer scripting language that powers many websites also announced their latest version with the feature of "internationalization capabilities via Unicode support" http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/10/21/php-6-boost-internationalization… Still, whether the open-source developers will write computer codes that are "unicode safe" remains a challenge, as the PHP creator has been quoted saying: "... unicode is a big problem we need to solve. Developers want to work on cool, sexy code tho - features people will notice, they don't want ot make extensions unicode safe..." http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/rasmus-lerdorf-simple-hard-drupalcon-2008… Will the default culture of Internet shift from ASCII to Unicode? What is the implications for the future of Internet? The beginning of the end of Anglo-Latin order? The beginning of the end of commonly shared English-based Internet-specific languages? When we reintroduce languages back, have we also reintroduced more state power back? I particularly found the question raised by Rebecca MacKinnon <http://rconversation.blogs.com/> interesting: "What if a human rights group in Canada wants to register a domain name in Chinese or Arabic, in the native-alphabet country extensions for China or Saudi Arabia," she said, "Can the countries involved deny that request? Those are the sort of challenges to free speech that lie ahead." (quoted by Xeni Jardin <http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/30/xeni-on-rachel-maddo-2.html>).

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Re: [Air-L] high-Quality Video Recording And Editing with Skype (Meryl Krieger)
by Martin＠Cleaver.org 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

For $100, last time I looked, you can buy screenflow - that will your screen, your webcam and your audio channels. So you can record the video from Skype, or indeed, use it to record demos. soundflower can route audio elsewhere - that's free but slightly tricky to set up. Best, Martin -- Martin Cleaver MSc MBA Martin(a)Cleaver.org http://twitter.com/mrjcleaver +1 416-786-6752 (GMT-5) On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Ulrike Kachel <u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au>wrote: > Skypecap have a free trial version and then charge $49.95 US for a single > license. Pamela seems to be a bit cheaper, but they don't have a mac > version, and looks like callrecorder is mac only. > > Ulrike > > > > At 7:02 PM -0400 30/10/09, Meryl Krieger wrote: > >> Is Skypecap free or paid? Can't quite tell - looks like there's some kind >> of hook built in (at least I assume it - all of the ones I've seen have >> something!) >> >> Meryl >> >> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Ulrike Kachel <<mailto: >> u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au>u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au> wrote: >> >> I haven't used skype recording, but there are some other products out that >> might be worth a look: >> >> <http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/> >> http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/ >> <http://www.pamela.biz/en/>http://www.pamela.biz/en/ >> <http://www.skypecap.com/>http://www.skypecap.com/ >> >> Regards, >> >> Ulrike >> >> >> >> >> At 11:11 AM +1300 31/10/09, <mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> >> air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: >> >> Thank you for passing that along, Meryl - I haven't used it, but was just >> yesterday wondering how to record skype convos for interview purposes. >> I may have the chance to use it in the next week or so, but I also would >> be >> very interested to hear what others think of the app., if they've used it >> already. >> >> Regards, >> Tessa >> >> PhD Candidate >> Media and Communication >> University of Canterbury >> New Zealand >> _______________________________________________ >> The <mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org>Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers <http://aoir.org/> >> http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: < >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> <http://www.aoir.org/>http://www.aoir.org/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ulrike Kachel >> PhD Candidate >> Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management >> Griffith Business School >> Gold Coast campus >> Griffith University Qld 4222 Australia >> >> Location: Room 2.08, G27 building >> >> Phone: 07 5552 8084 >> Fax: 07 5552 8507 >> Mobile: 0416 095 196 >> Email: <mailto:u.kachel@griffith.edu.au>u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The <mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org>Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers <http://aoir.org/> >> http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: < >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> <http://www.aoir.org/>http://www.aoir.org/ >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> J. Meryl Krieger >> Ph.D., Folklore & Ethnomusicology >> Associate Instructor, Indiana University >> Adjunct Instructor, Ivy Tech Community College >> > > > -- > Ulrike Kachel > PhD Candidate > Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management > Griffith Business School > Gold Coast campus > Griffith University Qld 4222 Australia > > Location: Room 2.08, G27 building > > Phone: 07 5552 8084 > Fax: 07 5552 8507 > Mobile: 0416 095 196 > Email: u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ >

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Re: [Air-L] high-Quality Video Recording And Editing with Skype (Meryl Krieger)
by Meryl Krieger 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Is Skypecap free or paid? Can't quite tell - looks like there's some kind of hook built in (at least I assume it - all of the ones I've seen have something!) Meryl On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Ulrike Kachel <u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au>wrote: > I haven't used skype recording, but there are some other products out that > might be worth a look: > > http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/ > http://www.pamela.biz/en/ > http://www.skypecap.com/ > > Regards, > > Ulrike > > > > At 11:11 AM +1300 31/10/09, air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > >> Thank you for passing that along, Meryl - I haven't used it, but was just >> yesterday wondering how to record skype convos for interview purposes. >> I may have the chance to use it in the next week or so, but I also would >> be >> very interested to hear what others think of the app., if they've used it >> already. >> >> Regards, >> Tessa >> >> PhD Candidate >> Media and Communication >> University of Canterbury >> New Zealand >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ >> > > > -- > Ulrike Kachel > PhD Candidate > Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management > Griffith Business School > Gold Coast campus > Griffith University Qld 4222 Australia > > Location: Room 2.08, G27 building > > Phone: 07 5552 8084 > Fax: 07 5552 8507 > Mobile: 0416 095 196 > Email: u.kachel(a)griffith.edu.au > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- J. Meryl Krieger Ph.D., Folklore & Ethnomusicology Associate Instructor, Indiana University Adjunct Instructor, Ivy Tech Community College

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Re: [Air-L] high-Quality Video Recording And Editing with Skype (Meryl Krieger)
by Tessa Houghton 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Thank you for passing that along, Meryl - I haven't used it, but was just yesterday wondering how to record skype convos for interview purposes. I may have the chance to use it in the next week or so, but I also would be very interested to hear what others think of the app., if they've used it already. Regards, Tessa PhD Candidate Media and Communication University of Canterbury New Zealand

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Fwd: high-Quality Video Recording And Editing with Skype
by Meryl Krieger 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

For those of you, like me, who need a way of recording Skype interviews, this just came into my inbox. For those of you familiar with it, what has been your experience using this? Thanks much for the input, on the list or off! Meryl Krieger ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Geert Lovink <geert(a)xs4all.nl> Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:35 AM Subject: <videovortex> High-Quality Video Recording And Editing with Skype To: videovortex(a)listcultures.org http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/29/vodburner-brings-high-quality-video-re… ----- video vortex discussion list artist responses to youtube to change your settings or unsubscribe, please go to: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org -- J. Meryl Krieger Ph.D., Folklore & Ethnomusicology Associate Instructor, Indiana University Adjunct Instructor, Ivy Tech Community College

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The 12 most annoying Facebookers By Brandon Griggs, CNN
by Christophe Prieur 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

> http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/24/annoying.facebook.updaters/index.html > > (CNN) -- Facebook, for better or worse, is like being at a big party with all your friends, > family, acquaintances and co-workers. Quite sure Barry (i mean, @barry wellman) will agree with this one. And if it's been posted already, just put me in the adequate one among the 12 boxes (just i'm probably in each of them already, oh well...) _ Christophe Prieur, prieur(a)liafa.jussieu.fr Liafa, Université Paris-Diderot http://liafa.jussieu.fr/~prieur/ [user experience research, social networks, (large) graph algorithms]

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Call for Applications: Maps for Making Change in India
by Nishant Shah 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Dear all, I thought the call for applications below would be of interest to some of you, as mapping techniques could be a powerful advocacy tool for many struggles relating to urban evictions and resettlements, poverty and livelihoods. We would much value applications from groups involved in such struggles. With apologies for cross-posting. Nishant [Please feel free to circulate widely] Call for Applications: Maps for Making Change: Using Geographical Mapping Techniques to Support Struggles for Social Justice in India Deadline: 20 November 2009 Maps for Making Change is a two-month project specifically designed for activists and supporters of social movements and campaigns in India. It provides participants with an exciting opportunity to explore how a range of digital mapping techniques can be used to support struggles for social justice. It also allows you to immediately develop and implement in practice a concrete mapping project relevant to your campaign or movement, with full technical support. Interested in joining us? Send in your application by 20 November 2009. For more details, please look at http://cis-india.org/advocacy/others/call-for-applications-maps-for-making-… -- Nishant Shah Doctoral Candidate, CSCS, Bangalore. Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,( www.cis-india.org ) Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09 # 00-91-9740074884

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