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Welcome To MacWorld Expo 2009

2009-01-06T08:57:00.000-08:00

All the news coming up over the next 4 days.

iLife '09 late January.
iWork '09 today.

Both in Mac Box Set for $169 later this month.

New 17" MacBook Pro with
1920x 1200 LED Backlit Screen
140° Horizontal by 120° Vertical Viewing Angle
700:1 Contrast Ratio
60% Greater Color Gamut
$50 Anti-Glare option
8 hour non-removable battery
Up to 8GB 1066 MHz DDR3 RAM
Up to 256GB Solid State Drive
NVidea GeForce 9600M GT
Firewire 800
2.66GHz Nelham C2D processor

New iTunes News.

10.7.07 New iPhone Ad Man Uses Mobile Safari To Save The Day

2007-10-07T17:02:00.001-07:00

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Man explains how he used his iPhone to get info he needed at a dinner party.

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

Tags: iphone, apple, safari, advertising, ads

10.7.07 New iPhone Ad 4 In 1

2007-10-07T16:53:00.001-07:00

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Man explains how iPhone replaces his iPod, digital camera and two mobile phones. HD Source.

Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)

Tags: iphone, advertising, ads, apple

Sony HDR-HC7 Illinois Snow Neighborhood HDV Master Reduced To iPod Compatible Size

2007-02-10T01:31:00.000-08:00

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Example of footage from the new Sony HDR-HC7 HDV Video Camera which just arrived in stores this week. Shot by Jeremy from the SonyHDVinfo.com Sony HDR-HC7 Forum in a suburb of Chicago 2.8.07. Thank you Jeremy. 14 second original H.264 export of native 1440x1080 HDV file from Final Cut Express HD was 165 MB. I ripped a DVD image from it with Toast 8 then crushed to a maximum iPod compatible size with Handbrake leaving only 4.2 MB. Still looks pretty darned good don't you think? Taylor Barcroft Santa Cruz CA

2006-05-25T19:08:00.000-07:00

NBC "iPod Nation - Core Values" Steve Jobs Humble Innovator On To The Next Big Thing

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Part 2 of Brian Williams' interview with Steve Jobs last Friday May 19, 2006 just before the doors opened on the new 5th AV Apple Store with the CUBE on the plaza of the GM building. Medium resolution @ 1000kbps iPod compatible.

2006-05-19T18:27:00.000-07:00

Steve Jobs At New 5th Avenue 58th Street Apple Store

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Steve Jobs At New 5th Avenue 58th Street Apple Store speaks with Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News. Part one of a series of Jobs moments to be featured next week on NBC Nightly News.

CES 2006 Ellen-Gineering

2006-02-11T16:31:00.000-08:00

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Ellen DeGeneres performs for the attendees of the Consumer Electronics Show January 5-8, 2006. This is too hilarious to pass up. 5 minuites of non-stop laughter. Ellen is the world's funniest person. Queen of Comedy at the moment.

CBS-Rocketboom Part of CSI-"Killer" 2.2.06 Air Date by Jerry Bruckheimer

2006-02-03T09:50:00.000-08:00

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Last night on CBS' #1 show on all of TV, CSI, Amanda Congdon appeared in a FAKE Rocketboom from above the Las Vegas Strip warning the locals not to go where two were recently murdered in the same evening. You can't buy this kind of publicity. Yes it's not a REAL Rocketboom episode. And neither are the murders REAL. This is another classic moment in the evolution of Video Blogging and product placement publicity. Congratulations Amanda and Andrew Baron of Rocketboom and thank you Jerry Bruckheimer, Executive Producer, for placing them inside an episode.

This is from an EyeTV2 EyeTV 500 HDTV source recording and is Video iPod compatible. Original was 136 MB and this is 3 MB.

1.06.06 San Francisco MacWorld Expo SteveNote

2006-01-10T10:07:00.000-08:00

Link to the Video of entire presentation at this Apple Page.

Product details at the Apple Site.

Transcript from MacRumors.com:

1.10.06 SteveNote - Steve Jobs Keynote, San Francisco Macworld Conference & Expo

Retail Update
135 Shops around the world. 26 million visitors during holiday quarter. Retail stores had their first $1 billion quarter this past quarter. Total revenues 5.7 billion total.

Now let's talk about the iPod.
"best music players in the world". 4.5 milliion sold during holiday 2004, for 2005 holiday sold 14 million. Over 100 sold every minute through the quarter. 42 total million iPods sold since the it was first released. 32 million in 2005.

Now on to iTunes...
850 million songs sold. 3 million songs a day are being sold. Over 1 billion songs per year rate. 83% market share. Television show sales doing well. 8 million sold since Oct 12th. Added bowl games. showing Bowl Games demo. New Saturday Night Live content going up today. Demo of SNL content. blues brothers, coneheads etc...

Announcing a new accessory for the iPod. a remote control with FM Tuner. Works with current models. New radio screen on the iPod to tune radio through the iPod screen. $49.

Discussing Dodge Jeep iPod integration. New iPod Ad for. Sillohettes, jazz trumpet.

Now to the Mac, which is what the rest of the keynote is about... (applause)

Reviewing/recapping Aperture. Aperture is to the camera as Final Cut Pro is to Video. Demo video for Aperture. Video: discussing experience with Aperture and demoing product. More video testaments, football, wedding photos. talking about working with RAW video. Video ends.

Now talking about Widgets. There are over 1500 Widgets. New widgets today. Mac OS X 10.4.4 today: google widget, new address book, espn ,calendar.

Now talking about iLife '06. Picture of box with roll of film on it. Music, Movies, Photos, Blogs. Giant released.

New iPhoto Update with better speed. 25k photos up to 250k in library, scrolls smoothly, full screen editing, One click effects. sepia, black and white, all new cards, calendards and books to make and purchase. hard and softcover books quality is better. Now calendaars can be made with photos. Can also make cards, post cards, birthday cards. New today - Photocasting. Podcasting for photos. share photos over the internet. Pick an album ,push a button, photos uploaded to .Mac. Password protected. Other people can subscribe to them. Must be a .Mac member to publish and you use RSS to subscribe to receive the photos. Demoing iPhoto now. When you scroll through photos, a gray box of the month # floats in the middle as you pass months by. Demoing editing photo. 1click effects, changing color, antigue, sepia, in a few clicks. Showing cards, calendars. Showing how to make a birthday card. Deming making a calendar, click on an album, can have it more than 12 months. show special holidays. special u.s. events. Can drop a picture on a special date (birthday for example).

Now on to Photocasting...
Demoing Photocasting. picking pictures, click on Publish to upload to .Mac. Choose to Announce, and brings up mail to email to people. When you receive the email, you click on the RSS link and it launches iPhoto and receives the photo. But apparently, you don't need iPhoto to receive the photos... it's just an RSS feed.

Now onto iMovie... HD last year.
Animated themes for movies, real time effects, new audio tools. Moving to iMovie demo. Can open more than one project at once, realtime effects in titles, export to iPod and create Video Podcasts. Demoing iMovie now. Showing a movie with a Theme. Overall looks much improved. now demoing College Road trip video. iMovie Demo over.

Next Up... iDVD. Widescreen menus. Magic iDVD, new. Choose theme, drop movies in, drop in photos and click on button. Vastly improved slideshows. 3rd party DVD burners supported.

Garageband. New podcast studio. Podcast artwork track. over 200 free jingles and effects. speech enhanccer. use iChat for remote interviews. Steve demoing Garageband with Podcast studio now. Recording - "Hi, I'm Steve, welcome to my podcast of Super Secret Apple Rumors". he's got "Pretty good sources in Apple". Dragging artwork, demoing making a podcast. Demo over. Final Podcast played. rumor of "8 pound iPod with 10" screen" :) New Jampack, world music. Great 5 apps in iLife... but something new...

New App to share photos, movies, music, blogs, content... iWeb. Easy and beautiful. Apple templates. iLife media browser with access to your content. online photo albums. one click publishing to .Mac. Themes. create in seconds. update whenever you like. RSS subscriptions. 1 click publish. Any browser can view it. iWeb demo now. Slideshow viewer uses AJAX technology. Drag and drop zones, alignment guides, integrated with your music library. Click on button, publish to .Mac. upload it. easy. Still demoing how to use iWeb, publishing his previous podcast. iWeb demo over.

6 iLife apps now. Same price $79. Available today. iLife '06 will be bundleded free on new Macs. .Mac update. Now over 1 million subscribers. iLife and .Mac.

One more product... iWork '06. Some of the features in iWork '06. 3d charts, advanced image editing, image reflections, free form and masking, tables with calculations, new themes and templates. no demo, go check it out on the website. $79, also available today. 30 day free trial of iWorks '06 with new Macs. (Keynote and Pages are the components of iWorks '06)

Now... lets' talk about systems... Really good year for the Mac. Had previously announced that by June of this year they would be shipping Macs with Intel. How are we doing? Intel Bunny suit guy walks out... Paul Otellini appears. Intel is ready. Apple is ready too. Hard work, nights and weekends working... thanks Intel. Thrilled with new technology from Intel. Paul Otellini leaves. First Mac with Intel processor today.

The iMac - built in isight camera. front row. incredible reception. No other desktop PC can match it. Same sizes. 17", 20". Same design. Same features (isight, front row, apple remote), Same price. What's different. Intel Processor. 2-3x faster than the iMac G5. Intel Core Duo. an amazing chip. Two cores. each one faster than the G5. showing benchmarks. overall 2-3x faster. 10.4.4 is entirely native on Intel processor. All the applications included are universal and native on Intel. iLife 06 and iWork 06 are all universal binaries, and was demoing them on an Intel machine. 17" iMac, 20" iMac; 2-3x faster. Shipping Today.

Pro apps will be universal in March. Final Cut, Aperture, Pro. If you have the latest version, you can trade in your disc for a universal disc for $49. Other developers starting to release universal binaries. Quark unviversal beta shipping today.

Rosetta (PPC emulator for Intel Macs) on iMac. Office runs great on Rosetta. Microsoft BU update. microsoft rep talking about being on track for unviversal binaries of Office and Messenger. Worked to make sure that current versions of Office run well in Rosetta. Shipping several updates very soon to provide additional supprot for current apple technology. Sync services with handheld devices and entourage. all the updates will be avaiable for free on their websites in March. Microsoft committing to shipping a version of Office for Mac for minimum of 5 years. Office for Mac is incredibly successful product. We're here to stay and in it for the long term. Demo of Office on Rosetta. Demoing other apps on Rosetta. Photoshop. Applying script of filters for a King Kong scene. no necessarily enough for pro, but good for most of us. Showing Safari now on the iMac.

All products will be transitioning through the end of the year. (note iMac has ATI x1600, reportedly). Showing new Ad. "Intel Chip will be Set Free" (Mac Ad). "For years intel chips have been bored in a PC".

"One More Thing..."
Showing a Powerbook G4. Trying to shoehorn a G5 into the Powerbook. We've done everyhing possible... But power consuption. Now discussing Peformance per Watt.

Today - MacBook Pro. New laptop computer. No more Powerbook. Intel duo Core. 2 processors in every Macbook pro. 4-5x faster. Fastest notebook ever. Hair thinner than the 17". 15.4inch LCD. bright as cinemas. iSight Camera. Demoing the new MacBook Pro. IR sensor. Apple Remote. New feature: New Power Adapter is magnetically held in. If yanked, comes right out. 5.6lbs. iSight, Front Row; $1999 1.67 Core Duo; 667 DDR bus, x1600; $2499 1.83GHz. Shipping in February. Taking orders today.

Showing in the Intel ad one more time. Thanking people who walk out on stage. Lots of applause. Shows pic of Jobs and Woz. will be 30 years in 4-1-2006. That's it. We'll be posting new stories shortly.

11.8.05 CBS-NBC Will Offer 99¢ TV Show VOD on Comcast Cable and DirecTV Systems Early 2006

2005-11-10T13:26:00.000-08:00

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CBS News Reports it and NBC will offer hit TV show Video On Demand (VOD) for only 99¢ on Comcast Cable and DirecTV systems. This is only half the $1.99 Apple is charging for ABC shows, shorts and music videos via iTunes. Will Apple match their price? Will consumers be able to record what they pay 99¢ for? Will they be able to burn ripped versions to CDs or DVDs? And will the shows be offered in their original widescreen HD versions?

These are the questions that need answers between now and when these new services begin early next year.

10.23.05 CBS MarketWatch Weekend - Bambi Francisco discourages anyone from buying an iPod. Alexis Christoforous intro-outtro.

2005-10-26T13:43:00.000-07:00

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This is a most confusing "report" from Bambi Francisco who on the one hand describes lots of free content on the web followed by a recommendation not to buy the video iPod because she says it's got lots of expensive limitations that will be fixed with an enhanced version in January.

1. 44% web users have created their own content.

2. Not easy to move your existing collection of videos to the iPod Video

3. Will cost more money to make them work on iPod

4. 10% of all video on the web is home or new studio made

Alexis Christoforous asks, "Do you think the Apple Video iPod is worth buying at this price point? A little hefty between three and four hundred dollars to watch movies on a two and a half inch screen." - ignoring it still plays music and displays photos and has 50% more space than the previous 20 GB model that was $299 two weeks ago.

Bambi - "Right. First of all there's limited content out there. If you can watch a two and a half inch screen for an hour long then this product is for you. But then I don't think for the majority of people out there. It also takes a long time to download content onto that video iPod. And also a lot of the files that you have on your computer these days will have to be converted. And that's going to take money. And if you want to watch those videos on a TV, that's going to cost an additional amount."

Bambi - "So wait for January, there's an enhanced version coming out. That's what I hear. So save your bucks and wait 'til then."

Alexis - "Post Holiday Gift."

New iMac G5, iPod Video, iTunes 6 SteveNote California Theatre, San Jose CA 10.12.05 + New 2 x Dual-Core PowerMac G5 Quad NYC 10.19.05

2005-10-21T10:48:00.000-07:00

Download the 108k PDF of this article with working links by clicking here

Read Lev Grossman's October 24 TIME Magazine Cover Story "HOW APPLE DOES IT" by clicking here or on the image

Watch the SteveNote in QuickTime Player by clicking here or on the image

Watch James Kim, Senior Editor of CNET, First Look at iPod, iMac and iTunes Videos by clicking here or on the image

iMac as Remote Controlled Media Player, Video Conference Node, Media Creator

iPod as Portable Multimedia Player of Audio and Video

iTunes 6 as Multimedia Delivery Vehicle for RSS Feeds, Library Organizer-Manager

iTunes Media Store as the Place To Buy New Media, Get Free Media, Subscribe to Free Audio and Video Podcasts

0:40 Act I - iMac

Third Generation iMac introduced a year ago sold over 1 million in first year.

All-New iMac G5

A great computer gets even better

1:50 - 1. Even Thinner Design

2:20 - 2. iSight videocam built-in (better quality-higher specs), Video Conferencing Out Of The Box + PhotoBooth

3:50 Demo

4:00 Video Conferencing Out Of The Box

5:30 PhotoBooth - awesome effects. Takes stills from the camera with a flash of white screen for light.

8:35 3. Front Row with Simple 6 Button Remote Control - vs. 44 buttons on regular remotes . Enjoy Music, photos & video from your sofa.

9:33 Demo. Listen to Music, Watch Photo Slideshows, DVDs & Videos via remote.

13:35 Video Podcasts, Tiki Bar, Rocketboom in the menu

14:30 Movie Trailers Built-In automatically streamed from Apple servers

19:10 - 4. ATI Radeon X600 Pro (XT on 20" model) 128 MB DDR Video RAM, PCI Express Graphics Bus

5. PC2-4200 (533 MHz) DDR2 SDRAM 512MB on motherboard 1 empty expansion slot up to 2.5 GB capacity with one $1200 Apple 2 GB stick (street $400), 8x DL SuperDrive, Airport Extreme, Bluetooth 2, Mighty Mouse - Technical Specifications

Expansion Ports are now in a horizontal row near bottom left rear (rear view).

6. Complete Creative Digital Life and Productivity Software Suites Included

19:55 - 17" 1440 x 900 @ 1.9 GHz PPC G5, 633 GHz Front Size Bus, 160 GB SATA $1299 - same as old model

20" 1680 x 1050 @ 2.1 GHz PPC G5, 700 GHz Front Size Bus, 250 GB SATA $1699 - $100 less than the old model

Shipping Today

20:50 Act II - iPod

Almost 30 Million iPods Shipped as of September 24, 2005, end of last fiscal quarter

75% Market Share of all mp3 players

Introduced iPod nano 5 weeks ago today. Sold over 1 Million in first 17 days. Demand exceeds supply.

21:50 Critical Aclaim

22:30 "But what about the white iPod? It's been a huge success for us. And therefore it's time to replace it. Today we are announcing the new white iPod. As we head into the holiday season. And it's a stunner."

New iPod Video

22:55 "And yes it does video."

1. The Best Music Player We've Ever Made. Audio Books - Features

2. Photos Best Ever, bigger better screen to see them all better

3. Extras - see up to 4 clocks at once, calendars, games, Stopwatch with lap timer, Screen Lock

4. And Now Video

5. 2.5 inch TFT, 320 x 240, 260k colors, H.264 at 30 fps, MPEG 4 at 30 fps, TV out - Specs

Recap - Music, Audio Books, Photos, Podcasts - both spoken word and video, Home Movies, Music Videos and a whole lot more.

27:00 30 GB is 31% thinner than the old 20 gb model. White or Black w/Case, 7.5k songs, 12.5k photos, 75 hrs video $299

27:15 60 GB is 12% thinner than the old 20 gb model. White or Black w/Case, 15k songs, 25k photos, 150 hrs video $399

28:00 Box Shot

Shipping Now

28:35 Strongest Holiday Lineup Ever

iPod nano, new iPod, new iMac

29:05 new iPod ad - Bono U2 singing on the iPod screen

31:20new Silhouette iPod + iTunes ad - Eminem, Curtain Call - The Hits

Outdoor Bus Stop and Billboard ads

Accessories

Car Integration

iPod + iTunes Auto-Sync

33:30 Act III - iTunes

Over 200 Million copies distributed woldwide

84% Marketshare last month for all legally downloaded music

iTunes 5 introduced September 7, 2005 - Just 5 Weeks Ago

New iTunes 6

Four New Features

34:35 - 1. Gifting - the ability to give someone songs, albums, playlists & videos

35:18 - 2. Customer Reviews - 10 Million accounts get a voice to write reviews

35:50 - 3. Just for You - personalized recommendations based on your purchase history. Beta with feedback button

36:38 - 4. Video for sale, over 2000 Music Videos, 6 Pixar Shorts @ $1.99

Downloading video specs - 320 x 240, size of about 6 songs

FairPlay

DRM play on up to 5 computers

Play on unlimited number of iPods

No CD or DVD burning allowed

but you own it, no rental fees, never times out.

39:00 Demo

39:20 Gifting is the most requested feature, customer reviews, Just For You

40:25

Music Video section

FatBoy Slim - Weapon of Choice

Madonna - Vogue

U2 - Original of the Species

Front Row on the new iMac, Playing Music Videos

Playing music, photos and videos on big screen from iPod

47:30 One More Thing...

TV Shows ABC & Disney - 5 Shows - Lost, Desperate Housewives, Night Stalker, The Sweet Life of Zack & Cody and That's So Raven, Ad Free @ $1.99 1 show (43 min) = 5 albums download size

Old Episodes plus new ones the day after airing

51:45 Demo

Desperate Housewives (DH) from last Sunday

Free Previews every episode

Plays DH on the iMac full screen and it looks great, but not 16 x 9 HD widescreen aspect ratio

SD 4 x 3 Versions only

54:55 Robert Iger CEO Disney - "Great Content intersects with Great Technology" Ann Sweeney deserves credit for making this happen. 59:10

59:50 Steve sums up. Notes this historical moment, October 12, 2005, when Video is added to the iTunes Music Store and iPod.

1:02:00 Congratulates all the Apple employees who have made this happen

1:03:00 Encore

born 1961 New Orleans, 35 albums 9 grammys, Pulitzer Prize winner
Winton Marsalis performs

New York City 10.19.05

New PowerBooks with higher resolution screens with PCI Express video and up to 16 GB ram

New dual-core PowerMac G5 Dual and PowerMac G5 Quad

PCI Express Graphics Cards

Aperture RAW Photo Editor

TelevisionWeek 10.17.05

TVWeek Cover Story by Jon Lafayette Disney Deal Is Apple of Advertisers' Eye, Madison Avenue Sees Exposure Offsetting Commercials' Absence

TVWeek Guest Commentary by Scott Sternberg
Viewers Make Rules in New Media World

Vid.Vlogosphere to NBC Today - This Is Not A Test 10.13.05

2005-10-15T17:23:00.000-07:00

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Alexis Glick for Today, Thursday 10.13.05
Steve - "...and you kinda get video for free as a bonus."
Continuous Caption: Handheld TV - New iPod Plays Video

Anonymous Consumer in an Apple Store - "I've actually been looking for something that I could play video on."

Omar Wasow, Technology Analyst - iPod has gone from an early adopter technology buff market to a mainstream mass market phenomenon now a part of our culture.

Alexis - "Their new test is to find out if people will buy video they have to watch on a two and a half inch screen."

This is not necessarily the case. You can watch on your TV and you can watch on a video headset or external portable TV with a bigger screen - can you say light FLAT screen?. Let's be clear Alexis. THIS IS NOT A TEST. There is no downside for Apple to add video playback capability for no more money and 50% more space at the $299 price point. You get a free video with every album you buy. Video Podcasters now have a way to reach the consumer like never before. And broadcasters have a way to sell shows after they air in a new window between original air and rerun, before and after DVD sales. NBC could Video Podcast the Today Show with advertising included for free and sell that market to advertisers for a small premium or others who will pay less for VidPodcast ONLY ads. The revolution is being Video Podcast and is being vlogged now. You do not have to watch videos on the 2.5" screen.

Steve - "There is no market for video on the go today. So we're going to have to create it." We think there is a large market for video on the go today. And Apple is not going to have to create it. What Apple is doing is providing the solution to a long standing challenge. And that is huge. Kudos to Apple. I love Apple. But the market has been getting pent up with anticipation for this solution for years. Remember Archos? It is like an iPod only bigger, heavier, and more expensive without a Mac interface. But it is also a DVR which iPod most certainly is not yet.

I will be very surprised if Apple will be able to keep up with demand for these new iPods before sometime next summer, IF THEN. I think there is going to be a waiting list from here into next Spring at the soonest. It will be a case of capacity incapable of meeting demand for a long time.

Affordable technology and our new inexpensive broadband internet distribution system has just now fallen into place. So it's really about the synergy of pent up demand meeting new affordable technological advances - not Apple creating a market or doing a test.

Thanks to Al Roker for ordering his last night. You the man Al.

Matt Lauer's close - "I know it's going to be huge. Absolutely. Everything they do is huge right now." You took the words right out of my mouth Matt.

Vid.CBS Early Show - TV Shows For Sale, Falling Apple Stock, A Confusing Tool For Losing Hearing & Sight 10.13.05

2005-10-15T15:14:00.000-07:00

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Sandra Hughes reports for The Early Show - TV Shows for sale - ABC's TV Shows "Desperate Housewives", "Lost", "Night Stalker" & two Disney Channel sit-coms "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" and "That's So Raven" are for sale for $1.99 an episode from the iTunes Music, or rather now Media Store (iTMS). Jeffries & Company analyst Adam Benjamin thinks Apple has a 6-month to almost a year competitive lead with the video enabled iPod and videos for sale at the iTMS. Sandra mentions Apple stock falling due to Wall Street's lower than expected iPod sales. Yeah, they were only through the roof as usual. Two women in the street - one clueless while the other totally gets it. At $299 she says, "Considering what an iPod cost when it first came out, that's a steal."

The post package quad anchor desk chit chat implies iPods are hard to figure out and may damage your ears and next your eyes. Nobody there expressed the least level of marvel at this development.

Interesting few seem to understand the iPod has had video output since the introduction of the iPod Photo a year ago. Let's not forget video headsets you can wear to have a large screen experience out of that little iPod. On researching this product, I've noticed they are currently not in strong supply and cost $300-$400 based on old designs. So I imagine this development will inspire AV engineers all over the world to making the development of a new generation of inexpensive video headsets an engineering priority for introduction ASAP. These will be light, run on AAA batteries and have independent LCD "screens" that can individually be flipped up so you can watch vids with one eye while you walk, jog, or ride mass transit. This may be the hot iPod video accessory for 2007.

Vid.CBS UTTM iPod Video Reports Ignore Vlogs & Video Podcasts 10.13.05

2005-10-14T14:12:00.000-07:00

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Up To The Minute - Money Watch's Alexis Christoforous, Melissa McDermott segues to Teri Okita's report.

Video Blogging & Video Podcasts are completely ignored as a source of content that may drive sales of the new Video enabled iPod even though Apple lists "Video Podcasts" in the new iPod's Video menu pane:

Video Playlists
Movies
Music Videos
TV Shows
Video Podcasts
Video Settings

Steve - "...home movies, music videos and a whole lot more..."
There are already thousands of video podcast posts in the iTunes Podcast Directory to help sell the reason to buy a video capable iPod now rather than until movies are for sale next year which Jeffries & Company analyst Adam Benjamin posed is a reason consumers may not buy one yet. "But analysts also say 'never underestimate Apple's marketing ability'," Teri adds.

Vid.39mb.40min.Webzine 2005 Session 3 Community Matters

2005-10-10T23:14:00.000-07:00

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Ted Rheingold, Moderator
Fleeting Image
Mindful In The Storm
Gay Prom
Dogster
Catster

Real Life vs. Internet

David Thau
Bianca's Shack

Heidi Swanson
101 Cook Books
Heidi Swanson
ChickClick

Marjorie Kase
Common Sense Media

Amy Raymond
CHEAPSKATIN' LA ~ hip handouts ~ Free

Sharing their experiences of how to develop communities with their websites.

iTunes Doesn't Always See Our Posts

2005-10-10T11:40:00.000-07:00

We've made two posts in recent days that have failed to appear in the iTunes Podcast directory and FireANT. So we're resorting to posting this PDF so you can have the links to these missing posts this way. We don't understand why iTunes and FireANT simply can't see some posts that work fine from the browser and are all seen by NetNewsWire for Macintosh.

Looks like we are in an era of the early iTunes multimedia client not fully understanding all feeds from a registered site due to some html code problems in the original posts that iTunes can't sense are corrected later. We have had errant bizarre html code mysteriously appearing in some posts that had nothing to do with the way we entered the code to begin with. Sorry for the delay in letting you know. Thanks for your understanding and patience with our continuing learning curve.

Here are the permalinks to each of the two recent posts iTunes doesn't see.

Vid.42mb.45.5min.Webzine 2005 Session 2 Jacob Appelbaum's Odyssey posted October 6, 2005.

Empire "iBook" High. Tucson Arizona Bookless CyberSchool posted September 22, 2005.

Click here to download a small 12k pdf of this post with working links.

Vid.42mb.45.5min.Webzine 2005 Session 2 Jacob Appelbaum's Odyssey

2005-10-06T20:06:00.000-07:00

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Jacob describes his travels from San Francisco to Iraq to New Orleans and back with his outstanding photos behind him. This is one of the most courageous men I have ever met in my life - a true hero to many and a master of communications.

Jocob's Wordpress
Jacob's LiveJournal
Jacob's Photographs

Vid.48mb.50min.Webzine 2005 Session 1, Leveling The Playing Field - Journalism Online

2005-09-29T11:45:00.000-07:00

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Justin Hall, Annalee Newitz, Susan Mernit, Adriel Hampton, George Kelly, Nicole Lee, Daniel Terdiman, Glenda Bautista, Jackson West, Moderator discuss the state of online journalism. noon-1pm September 24, 2005 San Francisco CA

Empire "iBook" High - Tucson Arizona Bookless CyberSchool

2005-09-24T00:48:00.000-07:00

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CBS's Hattie Kaufman shows us Empire High School in Tuscon Arizona with no text books - all Apple iBook G4's.

Featuring Calvin Baker, Superintendent, Vail Unified School District. Amanda & Andy Shea students. Cindy Lee, Principal Empire High School. Jeremy Gypton, Teacher. Wayne Gritis, Site Tech. Melinda Jensen, Teacher. From a 9.20.05 CBS Early Morning broadcast segment.

Dr. Peter Chen Researching Video Blogging

2005-09-23T17:36:00.000-07:00

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Dr. Chen calling for everyone here to fill out his simple private research quesitonaire please and why. My audio is no good. But Peter does most of the talking and it's a time dependent recording. So please excuse my bad audio.

The text of his outreach message to all video bloggers and video podcasters:

The Vlogging survey closes soon. If you are the producer of a videoblog, please take the time to go to our questionaire web page by clicking on this link and complete the survey.

Background:
This survey is being undertaken by Dr Peter Chen, of the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). The objectives of the survey are:

* To attempt to survey a reasonable proportion of people current engaged in podcasting and vlogging around the world
* Determine their motivations for podcasting and vlogging
* Attempt to determine audiences sizes, and
* Examine the approaches currently taken to podcasting and vlogging.

The survey should be undertaken:

* Voluntarily
* With the awareness that personal information need not be provided, and
* If personal information is provided, it will not be released in any form by the researcher.

We thank you for your participation in this research project.

Media

Empire "iBook" High. Tucson Arizona Bookless CyberSchool

2005-09-22T18:35:00.000-07:00

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CBS's Hattie Kaufman shows us Empire High School in Tuscon Arizona with no text books - all Apple iBook G4's.

Vid.Josh Kinberg Describes 2004 to 2005 VlogoSphere Creation 27mb.28min

2005-09-18T00:44:00.000-07:00

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Joshua Kinberg tells of his development of the Video Blog Culture and FireANT since last year to date and predicts the future of it. At 26, the youngest of the founding fathers of the video blogging culture and technology describes how he came to help create the means for everyone to become webcasters of video to everyone else. Exclusive interview to FutureMedia 9.16.05 at the Digital Media Factory, Santa Cruz CA Cinemar Schmoozefest.

Audio.Digital Cinema Diffusion Sony SXRD 4K Projectors

2005-09-11T22:08:00.000-07:00

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Vid.52.5min.54mb.Digital Cinema Diffusion Sony SXRD 4K Projectors

2005-09-09T23:59:00.000-07:00

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Cornerstone Technology for Diffusion of Digital Cinema
Sony SXRD 4K Projectors

Presentation to the IEEE SCV Monterey Bay Subsection
Bob Lofland, Support Engineer
Sony Broadcast Division, San Jose CA
8.24.05 Digital Media Factory, Santa Cruz CA

The technology and future deployment strategy of these new quad HD resolution Digital Cinema projectors for commercial motion picture theatrical houses. A dozen are already sold in the Northern California Bay Area already. These projectors will be going into a theatre near you within the next few months as Sony deploys them into movie houses this fall 2005 throughout the United States.

They are known as the 4K projector because they project at a pixel width and height of more than twice that of HDTV - 4096 wide x 2160 high. This technology quadruples the resolution of modern HDTV projectors and provides a contrast ration of 2000 to 1 with up to 10,000 ANSI lumens.

With such impressive specifications, these projectors are expected to provide the cornerstone enabling digital cinema to replace the presently ubiquitous 35mm theater movie projector. The talk goes beyond describing the enabling technology - Silicon Crystal Reflexive Displays. It also deals with Sony's strategy for digital cinema deployment and reviews infrastructure issues to put these projectors to use. They are shipping this month.

This lecture with technical diagrams explains in depth how this new technology works. These projectors are in the $100k price range. A smaller home theatre Qualia C-340- projector from Sony is available using the same technology for only about $12k.

Sony Press Release
Sony Broadcast Large Venue/Digital Cinema page
Engadget.com's post with comments

Steve Jobs Introduces Apple iTunes 5, iTunes Motorola ROKR Cingular Mobile Phone, Full Featured Solid State Mighty Tiny Color iPod nano

2005-09-07T17:59:00.000-07:00

1:04:57 video - Watch the Steve Jobs Presentation from San Francisco's Moscone Center streamed on the Apple site click here. QuickTime 7 is not required. But it looks radically better if you have it. I just checked the look in Panther QT 6.5 and it is quite a bit poorer looking. The QT 7 version is probably H.264 from a HD recording.

Steve takes the stage to introduce lots of new goodies for us to enjoy 10am 9.7.05

Steve: "Apple's "Leading the Digital Music Revolution. But at its core it's all about the music." He introduces Yo Yo Ma in the audience as "a really good friend of mine".

iTunes Store

• 1/2 Billion songs sold and downloaded to date.
• 1.8 million songs sold each day.
• iTunes has 82% market share in the US.
• 80% share in UK
• in 20 countries
• 85% of the global music market

Podcasts

• 7 million subscriptions to date in 70 days
• 15,000 listed in the Podcast Directory
• Growing at 1,000 per week
• 21 languages - Estonian, Finnish, Serbian & Thai
• 2 Million Songs in the iTunes Library
• 10 Million Accounts all with credit cards
• 60 songs purchased per account average
• One of the largest internet stores in the world perhaps only second to Amazon.com

New Exclusive Content

The Complete Harry Potter and Collector's iPod with the Hogwarts crest etched on the back for only $548 total.

All 15 of Modonna's albums are added. Steve does an iChat Video Chat with her in London and it's a riot to watch. She is so funny.

Then Steve shows the new iTunes 5
Download the FREE iTunes 5 here.

• Time Display same as iPod - Elapsed left end, Remaining right end
• Playlist Folders - combine playlists into folders
• Search Bar - easier to find tracks by file type
• "Videos" Isolator button for motion pictures
• "Booklets" Isolator button for PDF enclosures
• Microsoft Outlook for Windows Auto Synching Contacts and Calendars
• Smart Shuffle - choose frequency same artist and album tracks repeat
• Album Reviews - helps you learn what the albums are about
• Parental Controls - keeps kids from downloading explicit content

iTunes Mobile Phone

Then he does a great demo followed by the introduction of an iTunes Mobile Phone by Motorola. The "motoROKR" - pronounced "rocker" - Quad Band GSM, looks to have all the features of a comprehensive multimedia phone. Store up to 100 songs on it. It has stereo speakers, a camera that records photos and video plus Bluetooth and internet access. $249 from Cingular in USA. And Other country release info here. Steve likes to think of it as an iPod Shuffle in a cell phone.

Ron Garriques, President, Mobile Devices Motorola takes the stage. Talks about music being the #1 desire among cell phone users. How thrilled he is to be working with Apple engineers. Sneak preview of their new TV ad which features a lot of rock stars and especially Madonna taging "Hello Moto".

Cingular the exclusive US carrier. Ralph de la Vega, COO Cingular takes the stage. Entertainment, Computers, Communications Convergence is his passion. Makes the case for why Cingular with Apple & Motorola is the right combination. #1 wireless market share, only company in america with roll over minutes, largest digital voice and data market in America with over 51 million customers. Very long battery life.

He shows us the New Billboards, TV Ads including one en espanol, and a Magazine ad. Fun. In stores this weekend.

iPod Update

• 22 million sold to date, 6 million last quarter, compared to Sony Play Station Portable which only sold 2 million last quarter
• 74% market share as of july
• over 1K accessories for iPod

Automotive focus

• new iPod connectivity cars - Honda, Acura, Audi, Volkswagen
• Already have Mercedes, Nissan, Scion, Cooper mini, BMW connectivity
• in model year 2006 30% of all cars wold in the US will offer iPod connectivity as an option.

Focus on the iPod mini
World's Most Popular MP3 player.
Today Apple ENDS the mini era
Introducing the iPod nano
a solid state replacement with superior qualities.

Steve: "The iPod nano is the biggest revolution since the original iPod. A lot of people have worked so hard on this over the last many many months. And it is my priviledge to show it to you now." Steve is really into this product. Says, "It is one of the most amazing products Apple has ever, ever created. A thousand songs in your pocket impossably small."

80% smaller than the original iPod from 4 years ago. 62% smaller than the mini. one-third the size. 68% smaller than the iRiver. 69% smaller than the Zen Player. Zen Neon 58% smaller. Samsung 58 % smaller. Sony 67% smaller. 66% smaller than the smallest phone on the market.

"It's really small size," Steve emphasizes.

Dock size is the same as mini so existing universe of accessories still work with it. USB 2 fast transfers and charge system and 14 hour rechargeable battery life. White and Black models.

2 GB $199, 4 GB $249. Smaller and lighter than ever with no moving parts, 'cept for the click-wheel, and enhanced features. Sports a 1.5" color LCD display, weighs 1.5 ounces and measures 3.5"x1.6"x.27". Sweet.

Shipping NOW.

• Dock $29
• Lanyard Headphones $39
• Arm Bands, Red, Pink, White, Blue, Green $29 each
• NanoTubes, Red, Pink, White, Blue, Green $29 set of all 5
• Rolling out over the next 4 weeks.

TV Ad

Kanye West performs his #1 hit "Gold Digger" live.

36MB-19.5min- Former CNN vet, Jay Dedman, On Vlogging - 2004 Classic

2005-09-03T13:26:00.000-07:00

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This is a classic early 2004 recording of CNN veteran - now reformed Vloger, Jay Dedman of MomentShowing.net, explaining the prerequisite days and then beginnings of vlogging.

Best of World's Diarists - Cream of the Crop Links - 32k pdf click here

2005-08-31T02:35:00.000-07:00

Here's the complete list with links of those chosen as "World's Best Video Diarists, Cream of the Crop" by Tomas Rawlings of London's The Independent online edition on Monday 8.29.05. See our reaction in previous post.

Rocketboom - a lighthearted look at our alternate reality. Most popular vlog in the world
FutureMedia - new media news, reviews, interviews, analysis, expos, press events, parties - hey that's us
The 05 Project - one vid a day all year long
Vlog~Flux - this man is very prolific and a brilliant videographer with an interest in left wing politics
Fast Moving Animals - tom of london - genius design, simplicity, elegance
Mobuzz TV Magazine - wow! very sunny disposition going on here
BENched - ben avilez of vista california gives us an inside look at today's high school hero
29fragiledays - Duncan of Bridgwater, Somerset UK is a brilliant designer and video artist
Kong is King - my favorite movie vlog. you get the illusion peter jackson is a personal friend of yours
Vlog Map - where are we? where are you? Using google map, this site helps you find other vloggers
Nowheresville, USA - it's not easy being green. a really interesting interface on the cover
Drinking with Bob - is very angry. he has a problem with pamela anderson's lifestyle and more

Thank you, Tomas Rawlings, for choosing us as among the best. Congratulations to everyone who made this cut. You are all making history everyday. And congratulations to all the rest of you vloggers out there - you too are making history with every post you persevere to make. You too are the Champions of the World of Vlogs.

For a small 32k PDF of The Independent article, with active links to each site, click here.

We Are The Champions

2005-08-29T20:30:00.000-07:00

PDF With Links To All The Best Vlogs

I would like to thank Tomas Rawlings of London's THE INDEPENDENT ONLINE EDITION for blessing us with his opinion that we are already among "The world's best video diarists, cream of the crop" . As he has chosen to also try to explain us in a very small amount of their limited space, I would like to elaborate on what we are and are not.

1. This is not a diary site. This is not a Blog. It's a NEWS site. We are merely using Blogger™ technology to facilitate the publication of NEWS in multimedia forms of audio, video and pdf. The fact that this is on what is labeled a "blog" has nothing to do with how and what we publish. We reject wholeheartedly the notion that using this form marginalizes our ability to deliver news in a way that heretofore was impossible by fully qualified journalists who have been shut out of the process for decades due to the oligopolistic domination of mass media. That time is over and out. Since Tuesday June 28, 2005, when Steve Jobs and Apple Computer released iTunes 4.9 RSS Media Client, new media communication possibilities that have been in early development since last summer have suddenly taken root while the oligopolies continue their ever accelerating decline into oblivion. As Alvin Toffler approaches his 77th birthday October 3, 2005, he lives to see his prediciton of total media fragmentation become even more obviously accurate. What a thrill this must be for him to see. While satellites gave us a few hundred video and audio choices from the ruling oligopoly, these new technologies now give us thousands on the way to tens of thousands and ultimately millions of individual voices available for all. We are at the dawn of a new age and it feels fantastic.

2. This is not an Apple Macintosh oriented site. Although we personally prefer to use Apple Macintosh G5 PowerMacs and PowerBooks on the road, this is a New Media oriented site and we take a platform agnostic approach to reporting.

3. QuickTime is a cross platform multimedia technology that is just as effective on PCs as it is on Macs.

4. iTunes is a cross platform multimedia receiver and player technology that is just as effective on PCs as it is on Macs.

5. We are about delivering information about new media solutions not about Macs or PCs.

6. We use Macs to produce FutureMedia. We love Macs. But we recognize that 95% of the world uses PCs and we respect and report for ALL users. Some of our reporters exclusively use PCs. Some use BOTH for different situations and applications.

7. Some of our reports will be Apple centric as that is typically where real new media innovation happens first followed by knock offs on the PC side.

8. But we will also have any number of Windows XP and Vista centric reports as well.

9. Note that our longest report to date is the IBM Linux Keynote from LinuxWorld SF a few weeks ago. I thought any objective observer would get from that post how we are highly objective when it comes to reporting about what is going on for everyone - not just for Mac lovers.

10. Our permanent address is FutureMedia.org. This allows us flexibility for future growth no matter how we choose to serve you in the years ahead. We are in this for the long haul and will probably outgrow this platform sooner or later. But no matter what, our address will still be FutureMedia.org.

New Media - That's our beat and the beat goes on. No matter what platform you use, we are on your team for new media video reports. Please tell us with comments what you want us to cover for YOU not for us. We are here to serve you a generous dish of information in a way you have not seen nor heard before - the way industry insiders see it, not the way PR agencies spin mass media to tell it in small bites. We will strive to give you all of the information in depth and unedited as much as we can be granted permission to do so.

One more thing. We are on both sides of businesses who are working very hard to serve you with new media solutions and you who need straight answers to questions you have about new media in your lives. We are not out to paint bad pictures or dig up scandals. This is information about information and not about politics. We are not going to dwell on political issues in this industry. Explain sure. Dwell no. That's for some other sites - not for FutureMedia.

iTunes Podcast Directory Listing Anomalies

2005-08-28T18:10:00.001-07:00

FREE 1-Click iTunes Podcast Subscription

PDF Version Click Here

Learning how to Podcast while podcasting is quite a juggling act because all of us are inventing this medium by the seat of our pants. Please bear with us while we develop all the details that will make it possible to deliver a lot more content in the months to come. The iTunes Podcast Directory doesn't always display how many Podcasts a site has transmitted to date. If the publisher changes the cover page's quantity of posts to less than all to date, the iTunes Podcast Directory only lists what's left on the cover page.

I am working out how to embed video in the pages so you can read while you watch - but also so none of the vidcasts will download until you press the small Play arrow on the left side of the progress bar. That way the home page can have many videos without any of them loaded so the page will download fast - even with a lot of enclosure links and posts. iTunes also only sees the first of multiple enclosures in a single post. Therefore, any one story with more than one multimedia element (IE Audio, Video and/or PDF) must be broken up into multiple posts for you to get them all automatically.

This and other details of system management and website display are what's keeping new posts from appearing more frequently yet. Please stay subscribed and I promise there will be many more original enclosures posted soon and more frequently. Thank you for your subscription and your support.

Taylor Barcroft
Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist
FutureMedia

Questions or suggestions email us: Info@FutureMedia.org

Pt.2Audio.Military Garbed Police Attack Legal Utah Electronica Music Dance Attendees, Friday 8.19.05

2005-08-24T22:38:00.000-07:00

FreeTalkLive.com discussion on this attack part two.mp3 I have to put these two mp3 files into separate posts for you to get them all automatically as a subscriber to our feed. See details below. This audio is compelling from the gang at FreeTalkLive.com. Love you guys! Keep up the great work.

Pt.1Audio.Military Garbed Police Attack Legal Utah Electronica Music Dance Attendees, Friday 8.19.05

2005-08-24T22:28:00.000-07:00

FreeTalkLive.com discussion on this attack part one.mp3 I have to put these two mp3 files into separate posts for you to get them all automatically as a subscriber to our feed. Some never come to this website. So that is why the redundancy. It's a mechanics thing. iTunes will only send the first multimedia file in a post to subscribers NOT all in each post. So pardon my extra posts for links already in the first one. I am sure this won't be the last time I have video, audio and yes PDF's for you all about ONE story. All three media types are allowed to be received by iTunes plus enhanced audio Podcasts. But I digress. This audio is compelling from the gang at FreeTalkLive.com. Love you guys! Keep up the great work.

Vid.Military Garbed Police Attack Legal Utah Electronica Music Dance Attendees, Friday 8.19.05

2005-08-24T14:38:00.000-07:00

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We are not a political site. But we do believe in the American right of free speech and peaceful assembly. When the mainstream media ignores this kind of outrageous violation of everyone's civil liberties then it is all of our responsibility to shine a light on it. This is an attack on new media and freedom of expression. A gathering of people listening to electronica outdoors is not necessarily a "Rave"condoning or encouraging the illegal consumption of drugs and alcohol. I only just found out about this 3pm PDT 8.24.05 and hope my combining sources in one report is useful to you.

FreeTalkLive Coverage pt 1.mp3 . . FreeTalkLive Coverage pt 2.mp3

Nick was one of the musicians at the event, here is what he had to say:

"Last night, I was booked to play an event about anhour outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. The hype behind this show was huge, they presold 700 tickets and they expected up to 3,000 people total. The promoters did an amazing job with the show.. they even made slipmats with the flyers on them to promote in local shops. So, we got to the show around 11:15 or so and it was really cool. It was all outdoors, in a valley surrounded by huge mountains. They had an amazing light show flashing on to a mountain behind the site, the sound was booming, the crowd was about 1500 people thick and everything just seemed too good to be true really. Well... At about 11:30 or so, I was standing behind the stage talking with someone when I noticed a helicopter pulling over one of the mountain tops. I jokingly said "Oh look, here comes big brother" to the person I was with. I wasn't far off.

The helicopter dipped lower and lower and started shining its lights on the crowd. I was kind of in awe and just sat and watched this thing circle us for a minute. As I looked back towards the crowd I saw a guy dressed in camoflauge walking by, toting an assault rifle. At this point, everyone was fully aware of what was going on. A few "troops" rushed the stage and cut the sound off and started yelling that everyone "get the fuck out of here or go to jail". This is where it got really sticky.No one resisted. That's for sure. They had police dogs raiding the crowd of people and I saw a dog signal out a guy who obviously had some drugs on him. The soldiers attacked the guy (4 of them on 1), and kicked him a few times in the ribs and had their knees in his back and sides. As they were cuffing him, there was about 1000 kids trying to leave in the backdrop, peacefully. Next thing I know, A can of TEAR GAS is launched into the crowd. People are running and screaming at this point. Girls are crying, guys are cussing... bad scene.Now, this is all I saw with my own eyes, but I heard plenty of other accounts of the night. Now this isnt gossip I heard from some candy raver, these are instances cited straight out of the promoters mouth..-

One of the promoters friends (a very small female) was attacked by one of the police dogs. As she struggled to get away from it, the police tackled her. 3 grown men proceeded to KICK HER IN THE STOMACH. The police confiscated 3 video tapes in total. People were trying to document what was happening out there. The police saw one guy filming and ran after him, tackled him and his camera fell, and luckily.. his friend grabbed it and ran and got away. priceless footage. That's not all though. Out of 1,500 people, there's sure to be more footage.- The police were rounding up the staff of the party and the main promoter went up to them with the permit for the show and said "here, I have the permit." The police then said, "no you don't" and ripped the permit out of his hand. Then, they put an assault rifle to his forehead and said "get the fuck out of here right now."Now.. let's get the facts straight here.This event was 100% legal. They had every permit the city told them they needed. They had a 2 MILLION DOLLAR insurance policy for the event. They had liscenced security guards at the gates confiscating any alcohol or drugs found upon entry (yes, they searched every car on the way in). Oh, I suppose I should mention that they arrested all the security guards for possession.

Oh another interesting fact.. the police did not have a warrant. The owner of the land already has a lawsuit against the city for something similar. A few months ago, she rented her land for a party and the police raided that as well. And catch this, the police forced her to LEAVE HER OWN PERSONAL PROPERTY. That's right. They didnt arrest her, but made her leave her own property!!! Don't get it twisted, this is all going down in probably THE most conservative state in the USA. And this is scary.. a gross violation of our civil liberties. The police wanted this party shut down, so they made it happen. Even though everything about this event was legal. The promoters spent over $20,000 on this show and did everything they had to to make it legit, only to have it taken away from them by a group of radical neo-con's with an agenda.This was one of the scariest things I have ever witnessed in person.

I can't even begin to describe how surreal it was. Helicopters, assault rifles, tear gas, camoflauge-wearing soldiers.... why? Was that really necessary? This needs to be big news across the USA. At least in our music scene (edm as a whole)... this could happen to any of us at any time. When we're losing the right to gather peacefully, we're also letting the police set a standard of what we can get away with. And I think that's BULLSHIT! The system fucked up last night... They broke up a party that was 100% legal and they physically hurt a lot of people there at the same time. The promoters already have 6 lawsuits ready to file with their lawyers and the ACLU is already involved.I'm sure some pictures (and hopefully some video) will surface soon.

I'll make sure to post them up here on 404, so you can see the Police State of America at work."

Other sources:
KSL TV Reality Distortion Field - Real Player
PrisonPlanet.com
everything2.com
San Francisco Bay area Indymedia
BellaCiao.org
Craig's List
Drizzlen.com
LibertyPost.org
TooBoard.net
TalkLeft.com
FreeTalkLive.com

Molly Holzschlag Declares Blogging An Act Of Courage 2:51

2005-08-23T22:39:00.000-07:00

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Watch Molly Holzschlag tell the business community that all bloggers are courageous communicators revolutionizing social, cultural and business dynamics. She uses the example of the Microsoft IE team's recent experience with this new communications approach. Darren Barefoot warns business members not to blog publicly over internal conflicts that are not yet known to the public but definitely do for those that are.

Excerpt from Blog Business Summit, Publish and Prosper, San Francisco Palace Hotel, Friday August 19, 2005.

CBS Features Rocketboom Leading Vlogger Revolution • Andrew Baron Admits $25-A-Day Expense • Amanda Congdon Shines • Jim Axelrod Giddy With Exclusive

2005-08-21T01:24:00.000-07:00

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Friday August 19, 2005 may be remembered as the moment in media history when the new media man bit the old media's dog. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Watching CBS veteran Jim Axelrod on the CBS Evening News Eye On America segment enter the VLogoSphere as a kind of alien news man who is so blown away by what the Rocketboom team is doing that he can barely contain himself from his sense of amazement. Hats off to the CBS News team for doing such a great shoot and editing job on this story. Producer Sally Garner really went the extra mile to include viewer turned Los Angeles Correspondent Zadi Diaz 3,000 miles away. "It's really the global show-and-tell," she notes. Very cool. And so true.

I love CBS and I admire Les Moonves. He has already declared the CBS News division is being mobilized to become primarily an internet news source rather than a TV one. That takes a similar kind of vision that Axelrod tells producer Andrew Baron he has. Andrew is incredibly modest and calm. What a rock. Amanda Congdon is the height of low key. She's really a dream anchor - so incredibly mature, modern and sophisticated yet youthful and fancy free.

I made a Quicktime Movie version from the CBS Real Player with Snapz Pro X v2.0.2 for compatability purposes only. CBS reserves all rights to this video and we will remove it from this post upon their request at any time. If you have QuickTime Pro I suggest you save this while you can for historical archival purposes and not to resell. Source CBS NEWS VIDEO page is here for Real Player and Windows Media Player versions.

Skype Me California Lexus

2005-08-20T21:51:00.000-07:00

Lexus SUV spotted on I-280 Northbound just south of San Bruno 380 exit 8.19.05 about 7:30 AM. Digital photograph was taken while moving about 70 mph. For those who are not already members of the skype™ free global cross-platform voice-chat system join for free and enjoy truly high fidelity sound by clicking this link.

2005-08-15T15:05:00.001-07:00

Don't Use H.264

Took me until after Saturday's Flash Meeting to "GET" my mistake last week. I wanted to be state-of-the-fart using the FutureMedia H.264 video codec for my CURRENT REPORTAGE. WRONG!

That way I was insuring that no one would see my reports. So I've learned my lesson and will not be doing that any more. Pardon my redundant posts. At least you can see what I'm doing now.

IBM LinuxWorld™ Keynote, San Francisco CA 8.10.05

2005-08-15T15:05:00.000-07:00

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Steve Mills, VP Software Group IBM, Explains the Linux Popularity Trend. Then Ron Sebastian, Senior Consultant IBM, Demonstrates A Modern Linux Client.

This is a NEW NON H.264 version still at only 1 frame per second demonstrating that long form video can be compressed and delivered small. The original H.264 compression stills are still on this version. I have spent a lot of time correcting my H.264 encoding blunder from last week and need to move on to edit and encode more from last week's LinuxWorld Show. Won't be using any more H.264 video.

Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer Explains Inceptor's BIDCENTER Self-Service Ad Management Technology

2005-08-15T14:45:00.000-07:00

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A short lesson in one new marketing tool developed by Maynard MA's Inceptor by Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer, Direct 978.298.1532, mike.sack@inceptor.com, 4 Clock Tower Place Suite 300, Maynard MA 01754

This is a NEW NON H.264 version and completes my redos for this site. I have learned not to use the latest technology if I want many people to see my posts.

Taylor Explains Remote Record + Compression + Posting Proof-Of-Concept for Trade Show Reports

2005-08-15T14:40:00.000-07:00

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Taylor Barcroft explains the difference between the Blip.tv Safari Recorder Compression vs. Final Cut Pro DV Recording and direct Compression to H.264 MPEG4. Taylor Explains this test from this FCP DV recording NOT compressed with H.264 MPEG-4. This is a 3 minute 4 MB file. Very small 1.33 MB per minute and still ok quality. Not as good as H.264. But everyone can see this one. Keep in mind that the Blip.tv Safari Recorder is ALPHA with plenty of time and space for improvement before it is done. This is NEW NON H.264 version.

PriceGrabber.com @ SearchEngineStrategies San Jose 8.9.05

2005-08-15T14:35:00.000-07:00

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Interview with Johnny Jai Shin, New Account Sales Manager, johnny@pricegrabber.com, PriceGrabber.com, Interview & Recording by Taylor Barcroft NEW NON H.264 version.

Mac Video Pioneer Marc Canter Leads Again With Ourmedia.org

2005-08-12T16:08:00.000-07:00

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He's back. Or is it me that's back? The creator of the original Macintosh video program and the company that became Macromedia, now a part of Adobe, is now leading the free video serving movement with ourmedia.org. Four months into this wild west of free serving, Marc says we may only have two more months of this freedom before yet to be determined restrictions are imposed. Well, at least we have until October...

Read more about it at Momentshowing Posted by Jay Dedman. Thanks Jay.

IBM LinuxWorld Keynote, San Francisco, 8.10.05

2005-08-12T08:27:00.000-07:00

Steve Mills Explains The Linux Popularity Trend
Ron Sebastian Demonstrates A Modern Linux Client
Time 49.5 Minutes, Space 37.8 MB 1 fps H.264 mpeg4

As you can see, I have compromised motion for space in this innovative compression approach. This is an example of how a video without a lot of action can still function as an invormative tool in a reasonable amount of space. Stills of the compression settings are on the front of this video. Please leave comments on how effective you think this approach is for this type of video.

You watch a series of 1 second stills as you LISTEN to the presenters fully high-fi in real time. You can also pause to read the presentation slides and study the application demos. And you can race through the whole thing by pressing the left and right arrows. Holding down the arrows advances each second of video in a fraction of that time. I haven't figured out how many frames a second it runs that way. But it might be about 20 forward and 10 backward. Quicktime doesn't know that each frame of this video is one second long. So it advances and retards as if one frame is one thirtieth of a second. Tricky eh? Looks like a built in scan keyboard command loophole. For a more in depth explanation of the compression scheme, go over to THIS PAGE at Video Podcaster.

This could and perhaps even should be an Enhanced Podcast for Color iPods and iTunes. But Enhanced Podcast composition is very complex at this point. So for now this will have to do. Let me know what you think please.

QuickTime 7 Required - Not

2005-08-11T19:11:00.000-07:00

We don't do Windows but Windows does us. Because we exclusively encode with the H.264 codec in Apple's QuickTime 7, if you are running Windows, you need to download and install the latest version of QuickTime 7 for Windows Public Preview 3. We will let you know each time there is a newer version so you can keep updating.

Of course if you are running a Mac, you should already have installed QuickTime 7.0.1 long ago unless you never run or ignore your Software Update... If so you better get busy. If you're still running OS 9, forgetaboutit.

Revision - We abandonded the use of H.264 after the early redundant posts you see here. Would love feedback on how many of you have QuickTime 7 so we might go back to it in early 2006. Send comments to Info@FutureMedia.org.

Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer Explains Inceptor's BIDCENTER Self-Service Search Technology

2005-08-09T22:35:00.000-07:00

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From Search Engine Strategies, San Jose CA Convention Center we get a short lesson in one new marketing tool developed by Maynard MA's Inceptor

Michael Sack, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer

Direct 978.298.1532

mike.sack@inceptor.com

4 Clock Tower Place Suite 300

Maynard MA 01754

Videography and H.264 MPEG 4 compression by Taylor Barcroft, Video Journalist on a 1.25 GHz PowerBook G4 with FCP 4.5 under Mac OS X 10.4.2. NOTE: Tiger appears to have broken the Compressor 1.2.1 application part of FCP 4.5.

Time 3:08 Space 6.6 MB, 320 x 240, 2.2 MB per minute and it looks great even at full screen.

Taylor Explains Remote Record + Compression + Posting Proof-Of-Concept for Trade Show Reports

2005-08-09T17:55:00.000-07:00

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Taylor Barcroft explains the difference between the Blip.tv Safari Recorder Compression vs. Final Cut Pro DV Recording and direct Compression to H.264 MPEG4. Taylor Explains this test from a FCP DV recording compressed with H.264 MPEG-4. This is a 3 minute 6.2 MB file. Very small 2 MB per minute and still high quality. Keep in mind that the Blip.tv Safari Recorder is ALPHA with plenty of time and space for improvement before it is done.

Search Engine Strategies - PriceGrabber.com

2005-08-09T16:30:00.000-07:00

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Search Engine Strategies Conference & Exp

San Jose Convention Center CA

Interview with Johnny Jai Shin, New Account Sales Manager

johnny@pricegrabber.com

http://www.pricegrabber.com

Interview & Recording by Taylor Barcroft

DTV Beta for Mac OS X Released - One Giant Step Closer to the Death of Old Media

2005-08-09T01:29:00.000-07:00

Looks like the revolution is unfolding faster and faster every day. And this time Macintosh OS X is given the leadership role. Today is the launch of an open source way for anyone to become a global publisher NOW. But only if the publisher uses a Macintosh running Mac OS X.

Only mass ignorance and hypnosis is keeping old media alive now. Follow this link to the Participatory Culture Website. The revolution is being televised on the internet.

Industry Luminaries Declare Old TV Days Numbered

Broadcast Machine for all website video publishing Channel Creation. Offers optional torrent technology to minimize bandwidth expense for any popular site's serving load. Yet another technological equalizer is making mass or narrow casting possible for all creative individuals. Blowing my mind again. How 'bout yours?

R. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller: “Everything I Know” - Audio/Video of the January 1975 historic 42-hour session! . . . . . . . VOD only

2005-08-08T23:54:00.000-07:00

The universe of audio and video will always have all sorts of lengths, sizes and qualities among its parts. There is no right or wrong on this subject. I do think shorter is generally better for most things - especially in this early stage of internet distribution. However . . .

I am so thrilled to have just found this classic R. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller Series from January 1975. I knew him personally so this is a huge find for me. And I cannot stress enough how important I think it is that all persons watch and or listen to all 42 hours of it. This is MUST SEE TV for every generation. Thank you so much for mentioning it Steve Watkins.

The Real Player series is handing off sockets every minute. I have never seen video distributed this way before. I guess you can stop it any time and pick up where you leave off by keeping the individual part of the string - sort of like a series of little chain links - on your desktop. Very interesting. Wonder how they do that and why? The player keeps handing off to 1-1.5 minute segments while remaining the same name between each thought he states. And the video gets very interesting as the editor or the director used the blue screen to project more than one shot of Bucky simultaneously while he was talking. Can't tell if that was done in post or during the recording. And Bucky directing the director - this is CLASSIC!!!

I think Bucky was the original inventor of the Internet. He was the first person to imagine and postulate the concept of a global interconnected network of computers sharing information for resource re-delegation. However his concept was not at the desktop level because that was beyond his ability to imagine. I took him to Apple to meet Steve Jobs back in the 70's and he thought the Apple computer was "just a toy". He wound up being too old to fathom what we have today. But I did imagine it beyond his mainframe network concept. I tried to tell him this was going to happen but he didn't get it cause desktops were still too weak then.

Thank you so much Steve Watkins. Bucky video for FREE! This is another internet miracle. Wow!! the quality of this video is amazing considering when it was recorded in January 1975. I am totally blown away. Thank you soooooo much. I am crying. Bucky is my #1 all time hero.

I will definitely be watching all 42 hours of this set MORE THAN ONCE. And I will be listening to the audio on my iPod even more times. Every minute is a mind blowing experience for me.

Advertising & Donations

2005-08-08T03:52:00.000-07:00

I spent this week studying the many video blogs I have ignored this past year only to be woken by the sleeping giant Apple's iTunes 4.8 with video playback capability and then 4.9 for audio, enhanced and video podcast subscriptions.

Wow what a difference a month makes! I've placed all the Google ads and a PayPal donation button in hopes that my work might yield some income. As a Macintosh consultant, jobs are few and far between 'cause Macs are trouble free! So I am thinking that if I do an interesting, informative and entertaining job here, this might become my primary source of income. More on this subject later.

I am still discovering all the wonderful home grown video so many are making. I've put up that vlog webring for all to enjoy what comes up. And I will be reporting on many fronts. Video should be here soon. I want to get it right the first time so you will want to return and subscribe at the iTunes Podcast department. So that's why it's not up yet. More soon...

Lan Bui Premieres Video of the Moment's "Fishes" on iTunes

2005-08-02T14:10:00.000-07:00

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Lan Bui is a genius. "Fishes" is a brilliant essay on the reality of DEATH as a FACT-OF-LIFE.

I recommend subscribing to his new "Video of the Moment" PodCast at the iTunes' Podcast Directory. Keyword "Video".

Current TV Is Internet Video On Demand (VOD)

2005-08-02T01:31:00.000-07:00

But not Video Podcast yet. No sign of Current TV at the iTunes Podcast Directory. Wonder how many days b4 they are there?

Watch Current_TV VOD clips here.

Watch "Jumper" by Mark Rienhart. It was featured on the Tonight Show Monday evening. Brilliant piece of video.

Wonder how long it will be 'til Current TV Video Podcasts are more popular than the satellite-cable feed. My guess is weeks not months. 75% of Current's target audience gets their information from the internet - not TV.

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2005-07-31T19:17:00.000-07:00

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