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Friday, 9 February 2007
WALRUS Data Visualisation
CAIDA : tools : visualization : walrus
Nice 3D data visualisation package.
A version done using the "Tree of Life" taxonomy from NSF
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Thursday, 8 February 2007
West Midlands Digital Dinner
In deep snow today. Even so Advantage West Midlands Digital Dinner went ahead and was well attended. The content of the BT keynote was a bit old hat, and the demo video even worse. AWM announced a new Serious Games project to be hosted out of UCE which has got to be good news, particularly as I'm starting to do some work for the Serious Games Institue in Coventry.
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BBC Radio 4 ClickOn - Connected Home
The first of the ClickOn BBC Technology Magasine radio broadcasts went out tonight with my short piece in it on the Connected home.
Listen to it, but I wish to point out that the background jazz did not come from my multi-room audio system.
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Mediascapes
Quite a nice application that lets you assign images and sounds to a map and then wlk around the real location and have the media triggered manually or by GPS.
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Wednesday, 7 February 2007
Digital Futures
Had a great day today up at Digital Futures - a new media event being held for old media people up in Manchester. The morning was mostly new media, talks from Channel 4, and some web/interactive media and serious games people. Even the presenter realised though that the Digital Future is actually a Digital Now (or even a Digital 10 Years Ago), and that new media is now just old media.
Over lunch had a chance to play with a Wii on a projection screen. Tennis was just like real tennis, very effective.
The afternoon kicked off with a Dragons Den type event. One pitch was fine (augmented reality using 2D barcodes in a digital viewer). The other was so laughable I thought it was sppof. After 10 minutes I had no idea what the two old media guys were talking about, and they even hid behind the old "NDA" protection. They'd obviously heard the word "2.0", but didn't really get it.
Then it was my turn. We were showing of the new Digital Futures build in Second Life. I was in a side room with my laptop and a radio mic. Jude was in the main room at the lectern, her laptop and SL view being repeated on the main screen. We met up on the south side of the island and I then took her for a tour of the site and all the facilities. The combination of SL and audio worked really well.
The day finished with a great presentation on Alternate Reailty Gaming, and the scoop that Perplexcity had just been solved.
Overall a great day. Interestingly the dominant message was about "stories" and "storytelling". That is what these creative types all do, and that is what they want to bring to Web 2.0 and Web 3pointD.
All the DF material is being posted to the web at http://www.digitalfuturesnw.com, and we will also be posting the material in world at the Digital Futures island.
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Tuesday, 6 February 2007
The Click Heard Round the World
The Click Heard Round the World: Second Life machinima to air during Super Bowl
Great SL Arts blog
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