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On February 8-10, 2008, several hundred DIY video creators, digital culture scholars, and Internet industry leaders gathered at the University of Southern California for a festival and a conversation about the future of video creation and communication. It was the first event of its kind, at a pivotal moment in the evolution of media, convening the wide ranging communities that are coming together around grassroots, everyday, and amateur video creation. The program showcased screenings of 8 different genres of DIY video, a featured screening highlighting DIY video genres and themes, academic panels on the latest research, arts, and industry perspectives, and practical workshops ranging from copyright explanations to how to make machinima. At the core of the event were the hallway encounters, debates over meals and breaks, and celebrations at the closing reception that brought together the diverse attendees in a set of conversations that could truly be described as a "DIY video summit."

If you are a post secondary student on Vancouver Island from the University of Victoria, Royal Roads University, Vancouver Island University, North Island College or Camosun College you are eligible to enter this contest! You can win up to $1400 in prizes for coming up with great ideas for new or improved iPhone Applications. Even better, we might even develop your application using a "Crowdsourcing" development model and cut you in for a share of the profit generated. On this page you will find links to the contest rules, application form, sample application, FAQ's in addition to general contest information such as judging criteria and timelines. The first thing you need to do is to think of a great original application or an improvement to any existing iPhone or iPod Touch application. We are looking for relatively simple applications that will not take a lifetime to program.

(Salem, May 13, 2009) invited presentation for Future is Now conference

(Salem, May 13, 2009) invited presentation for Future is Now conference

(Salem MA, May 13, 2009) invited presentation for Future is Now conference

Post-Oprah and apres-Ashton, Twittermania is definitely sliding down the backlash slope of the hype cycle. It's not just the predictable wave of naysaying after the predictable waves of sliced-breadism and bandwagon-chasing. We're beginning to see some data.

Drop files into attachment boxes instead of browse for them or type in the filename. Drop multiple files and fill all the entries.

The COOL-ER uses E-InkR, a new technology that gives you a screen with a "like paper" display, replicating the experience of reading a book. Using power only for "page turns" means that a single charge lasts for 8000 pages and unlike a book, the electronic display allows you to change the text size to suit you!

Tagnetic Poetry allows you to display your site's tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that turns them into magnetic poetry. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. You can either drag to form sentences or arrange them any way you like, or click them.

Tagnetic Poetry allows you to display your site's tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that turns them into magnetic poetry. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. You can either drag to form sentences or arrange t

Journalists are using Twitter to engage with their audience, connect with sources and continue building their personal brands. The 140-character format forces writers to focus their attention and get to the point quickly. But this isn’t just sound-bite style reporting. I talked with some reporters about Twitter and how they use it.

Journalists are using Twitter to engage with their audience, connect with sources and continue building their personal brands. The 140-character format forces writers to focus their attention and get to the point quickly. But this isn’t just sound-bite s

Manifone allows you to reach your International contacts on local or national numbers in your country. Imagine all your overseas contacts now having US-numbers. Looks like it uses Skype under the hood

It's a simple mathematical question based captcha written in PHP, and all you have to do is put the function below somewhere in your code file, enable sessions, and bam! Just check the input value against the value in the session, and you have your captcha!

It's a simple mathematical question based captcha written in PHP, and all you have to do is put the function below somewhere in your code file, enable sessions, and bam! Just check the input value against the value in the session, and you have your captch

The web is changing. User contribution is now what makes or breaks a site. Allowing users to react, participate and contribute while still keeping your site under control can be a huge challenge. Mollom is a web service that helps you identify content quality and, more importantly, helps you stop spam on your blog, social network or community website. When site moderation becomes easier, you have more time and energy to interact with your community.

This site lets you build an interactive 3D portrait of yourself that is made up of all the things that make you unique - words, pictures, videos, stories, tweets. You can share your portrait with friends and family and they can contribute to it too.

Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone

We know that Oprah Winfrey's brought a lot of new users to Twitter in the U.S., but according to Hitwise, the popular microblogging service is currently seeing some of its most impressive growth outside of America. In Australia, where Oprah Winfrey doesn't command the same kind of daytime television audience, Twitter grew over 1,000% since the beginning of 2009, and its annual growth since last April tops 3,200%. In Australia, Twitter is now the 37th most visited web site.

Looking at Twitter’s visitor growth charts every month is like watching a rocket go to the moon. ComScore released its U.S. numbers for April, 2009 today and it shows Twitter reaching 17 million unique visitors in the U.S. during the month, an 83 percent increase from March when Twitter had 9.3 million domestic visitors. While Twitter nearly doubled its audience in April, its monthly growth rate did temper down from the 131 percent growth in March. Given Twitter’s rocket-like trajectory, it is appropriate that just about two hours ago we saw the first tweet from space. But it still has plenty of places to grow here at home

Looking at Twitter’s visitor growth charts every month is like watching a rocket go to the moon. ComScore released its U.S. numbers for April, 2009 today and it shows Twitter reaching 17 million unique visitors in the U.S. during the month, an 83 percent

Some inventions happened just when you expect they did, but many came surprisingly early—or late! Which Came First? challenges you to pick the earlier invention in each pair. There are four rounds of Which Came First? in all—each round has five questions, and each correct answer is worth 10 points. Start playing! Get them all right and you will be crowned "Invention Know-It-All."

So what’s ABC conjouring up? Well, its popular Nightline news program and anchors are going to host a weekly online news program that uses Twitter for debate and questions. It’s called NightTline. Yes, that’s Nightline with two Ts. The show airs its first episode this Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. EST. According to ABC, the show will take on Nightline’s Face-Off model, which pits two opposing sides on an issue that an ABCNEWS anchor provides and moderates. It’s a model that causes a lot of heated debate and verbal exchanges, perfect for an easily-distracted online audience. The first question on NightTline? “Is torture ever acceptable?”

So what’s ABC conjouring up? Well, its popular Nightline news program and anchors are going to host a weekly online news program that uses Twitter for debate and questions. It’s called NightTline. Yes, that’s Nightline with two Ts. The show airs its first

Their new "ARplugin" for SketchUp will combine what you see through a standard computer video camera (reality) with your SketchUp model (virtual reality). With a simple click of their ARplugin tool and your model will export into the world of AR and you will be able to handle the model as if it is in you hand!

Personal, Portable, Pedestrian, the first book-length English-language treatment of mobile communication use in Japan, covers the transformation of keitai from business tool to personal device for communication and play. The essays in this groundbreaking collection document the emergence, incorporation, and domestication of mobile communications in a wide range of social practices and institutions. The book first considers the social, cultural, and historical context of keitai development, including its beginnings in youth pager use in the early 1990s. It then discusses the virtually seamless integration of keitai use into everyday life, contrasting it to the more escapist character of Internet use on the PC. Other essays suggest that the use of mobile communication reinforces ties between close friends and family, producing "tele-cocooning" by tight-knit social groups.

Over the course of several months beginning October 2008 to April 2009 I've spent some of my spare time between commercial projects searching Google Maps hoping to discover land formations or buildings resembling letter forms. These are the results of my findings limited within the state of Victoria, Australia

Google is preparing to launch a mobile phone application called Star Droid that can help amateur astronomers identify stars and planets. The search engine software will use GPS technology to compare the position of the phone user with existing maps of space, attaching name tags to the stars and planets that can be seen through the phone's viewfinder. The California-based internet company already offers a Google Sky facility that gives online browsers a map of space similar to its Google Earth and Google Street View services.