Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease

solitude.dk | Defining (Video)Blogging: “Definitions are crucial to research, not because you can get recognition, but because definitions are the prerequisite for talking about a concept. If I can’t define what a blog is, I can’t discuss it”

Not. You can easily discuss love, or god, or loads of terms without explicityly defining them. Right now, defining videoblogging risks to narrow the imagination, and we need the opposite. Not that I’m against any attempts - go ahead :) And if you do it in a good way it might serve to open up the imagination.

It turns out that Bill Gates is a fucking moron, at least on some levels: (News.com interview)
“Q: In recent years, there’s been a lot of people clamoring to reform and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with just a few people, but now there are a bunch of advocates saying, “We’ve got to look at patents, we’ve got to look at copyrights.” What’s driving this, and do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?”

“Bill Gates: No, I’d say that of the world’s economies, there’s more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don’t think that those incentives should exist.”

You *have* to be kidding.

ffmpeg-php: “ffmpeg-php is an extension for PHP that adds an easy to use, object-oriented API for accessing and retrieving information from movies and audio files. It has methods for returning frames from movie files as images that can be manipulated using PHP’s image functions. This works well for automatically creating thumbnail images from movie files, and it’s fast enough to extract thumbnails on the fly so that thumbnail images don’t need to be stored. “

Media Bloggers Association * Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative

The Teaching Company - Great Courses That Engage The Mind - seems like a cool concept and recommended by Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools. There are also lots of Harvard lectures online that I should make time to watch.

Google go index: Poorbuthappy guide to India | Holy men, immodium and technology.

I’m Mozilla based (Firefox, Thunderbird) on Win XP - any recommendations for a good calendar application that also lets you pop up reminders (of meetings and such)? Mozilla’s Sunbird is in v0.2 and recommended for testing only, so doesn’t seem like a good bet right now.

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata

So make a movie called “the eternal passion of your mother’s lovely smile fantastic”, using the 6 most beautiful words in English, according to the Britisch Council.

A few words about vloggercon (Quicktime, 2.6 Megs).

*Pixelcharmer: Field Notes: Mapping Problems: “A friend and I were discussing the similarity between multilingual thesauri problems and the difficulties you run into when mapping different taxonomies.”