geeked.

so. true. it. hurts.
[Via Veronica, via Mashable, via Guardian UK]

Both of these tutorials are great, but one thing strikes me — this stuff should be a *lot* easier. Average Jane and Joe are not going to do this. Hell, I’m a technonerd and I’m not even going to bother doing it. If companies like Apple and Micro$oft really want to get into our living […]

I was happy to get a chance to check out Splashcast, my pal Marshall’s new project. It’s launching tomorrow (er, today for us east coasters) at DEMO — one of my channels is playing above (or will be, once it’s launched! ). It’s a fun “source agnostic” media creation tool, letting you pull in […]

With one fell swoop, Steve Jobs completely eclipsed any of the news we’ve seen so far here at CES. There’s really not too much else to be said about the iPhone other than “how freaking soon can i have one in my pocket?”
Apple drops the word “computer” from its name whilst RIM and Palm go […]

that is all.

Two of my favorite franchises mashed up in this leetspeak WoW-themed adaptation of LoTR:

f’ing brilliant.

Major media moguls should be studying the playbooks of game companies, who have a lot to teach them about participatory culture (or, “how to embrace your fans instead of suing them”).

Btw if you haven’t yet read Henry Jenkins‘ book Convergence Culture — run, don’t walk.
* more machinima.

machinima + spoof = <3

* more machinima.
[Via WoW Insider]

Nicely conceived and produced concept… anyone who’s actually done this quest (which will be almost anyone who’s leveled an Alliance character other than night elves who leveled on Darnassus) will appreciate this even more deeply:

See also: Second Life Thriller mashup
[Via Joystiq]

This is friggin’ sweet. Yay for hiring Dan Catt and delivering this gorgeous map UI. Here’s how to geotag your photos.
Any geobloggers.com users will be happy to know that Flickr will automagically prompt to import your geotagged photos.

You gotta check out this video produced by a group of inner-city high school kids for their English class. Background on the City Voices, City Visions program that made this possible.
[Via Amanda Congdon]

Engadget and Engadget Mobile are looking for you. Follow the guidelines in this post to submit your application, yo.

Judith turned me on to Joanna Newsom a while back, and I just found this video on Google vids to share with you…

So i’m fascinated by these MMO mashups… here’s another winner.
Also noting that beyond launching a craptastic video-on-demand service, Google did something IMHO far more interesting when they added easy embed code into Google video so people can easily publish vids to their blogs/MySpace/etc…

I was asked to post this and am happy to oblige, throwing in my support for the conjugal union of sex and technology as well as the thought and discourse attached to that union… let’s talk about SexTech, baby. Let’s talk about UMD.
Call for Participation: CHI 2006 Workshop: Sexual Interactions
Everyday interactions with technology – occurring […]

Totally brilliant piece from The Onion:

“…we are recommending, in accordance with the ADHDTV standard, that all shows be no more than six minutes in length, and that they contain jarring and unpredictable camera cuts to shiny props and detailed background sets.”

[via HDBeat]

i want one. this is how easy remix art should be. i want a similar tool to “imprint” audio and “paint” it on a canvas, like Ableton Live with a sensitive audio-recording stylus.

What’s wrong with this picture:

Hours after those shows first air on the network each week, they will be “pushed” to DirecTV Plus DVRs, where they will be stored digitally and available the next morning for customers to select and play at their convenience for 99 cents.

What? You’re joking. You’re going to ask me to pay […]

Damn. I totally want one. I’m not a TV watcher but for those folks who are… this is gonna be killer. I hope Apple starts promoting videoblogging as strongly as they’ve done with podcasting.

Ran across J.D. Lasica’s video via Josh Wolf — it’s a great compillation of some of the mashups on Ourmedia that are pushing the envelope of “fair use.” The soundtrack is a phenomenal remix of Imagine and Wild Side with vocals spliced in from none other than our current Commander in Thief. It’s a must-listen.
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I’m getting tons of flak over on Engadget for my post on Apple’s iPodcast trademark. YES! This is what it’s all about.
If you’re averse to clicking over, here’s the soundbite: “screw you and the RSS 2.0 enclosure you rode in on!”

I posted some concerns about this buyout being bad for open source VoIP over on the Social Software Weblog.

So it’s great that I can play anything in any of my now six friggin’ iTunes libraries on any machine in the house. It really kind of sucks that that access is read-only, however. I know the whole sharing functionality is designed to share your collection with others on your network, in which case you’d […]

This is great — totally suitable guide to DRM geared towards the not necessarily tech-savvy. Check it out:
The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User’s Guide to DRM in Online Music
[Via Boing Boing]

Well, not completely — the announcement made by Warner Music’s CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. was a mixture of “getting it” and “not getting it,” but the proposal that will be implemented is actually rather encouraging. They’re setting up an e-label that will be completely physical product-free: no CDs will be manufactured whatsoever, and online will […]

Yahoo rolled out the beta test of the audio search tool they’ve been working on for a few months. It’s pretty sweet so far, and is now the third reason (along with their video search and Creative Commons search) I’ll be going to them instead of to Google. But I ask you this — […]

Now that everybody, they sister and they cousin, too already has a music download service, it looks like Amazon is about to enter the fray with their own offering. Not a lot of details yet, and it’s not even confirmed, but damn if it doesn’t make a lot of sense. They’ve sat back and watched […]

ABCNews, of all outlets, has put up an interactive Google Earth map of yesterday’s bombings in London. The times, they are a-changin’.

Okay, this is nothing more than raging idle speculation, but I live for this stuff. Anyway, I have this crazy idea that Yahoo will incorporate some Flickr-ness into their video search and make some sort of service for video sharing. Wishful thinking, perhaps. But it could make a fine complement to open video aggregators like […]