Greenflame

Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand

Category: Digital Technology

  • Article on how advertising might slip into podcasting (click on link to get Wikipedia explanation of that). In Pondering Possibilities in Podvertising a variety of schemes are proposed (inserted audio ad, sponsorship, RSS ads etc.) as a response to those who like time-shifted audio (and video) content delivered to their MP3 player or similar.

  • Here’s a link to Rachel’s site where she has a posting with a link through to an article about her experiences on building online communties via blogging NZ Idol. See: ยป Another stint in the media cre8d design – journal. Russell Brown wrote the article in the Listener and I read and listen to his…

  • S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System. For simple, clean presentations that you might want to put both on the web and a kiosk it looks like a good starting point. (None of the Powerpoint for Web bloat). Via Tim@SansBlogue

  • And here was me thinking that it wouldn’t be sold in NZ. iPod U2 Special Edition NZ pricing. Now, what can I sell?

  • Wired News: Inventor Rejoices as TVs Go Dark.

  • Tim’s Online Bible Dictionary Project has had me thinking about things back from my computer science background. Several of the people I used to work with are involved with the New Zealand Digital Library project. The New Zealand Digital Library project is a research programme at The University of Waikato whose aim is to develop…

  • Today National Radio’s Digital Life has an interview with Lawrence Lessig, chairperson of Creative Commons. Plus some stuff on blogging, Wikipedia and a church that uses technology to block cell phone calls during the service. Tune in at 1pm today (Saturday) or 8:06 pm Wednesdays. On Thursday they make the programme available online at the…

  • Saw this a few weeks back after following a link off Neil Gaiman’s blog. It’s a music video made with a relatively cheap digital still camera that takes short video clips. Seeing as how I’ve just acquired a camera that will do the same sort of thing I was reminded of it. (Though my artistic…

  • Seen at: Inventor sniffs out nose-operated mouse | Tech News on ZDNet. (More details there) Dmitry Gorodnichy, an inventor from the Institute of Information Technology in Ottawa, has developed a computer navigation system that relies on the movements of a user’s nose to direct a cursor, New Scientist reported on Wednesday. For good measure, a…

  • Just a little “stocking stuffer”. The new Apple – iMac G5.