5 posts tagged “links i like (today)”
Is Cool
I spent this morning speaking with Andy Plesser about the future of Beet TV. I can’t give away any secrets but I will say definitely keep an eye on their vlog…
Tuesday Tasty Linkage
1. Redman Live Freestyle - Jayson was listening to this at his desk this morning and I was loving it!
2. 
Greatest Hip-Hop Groups: The Postgame - Watch Run-DMC’s Run and Public Enemy’s Chuck D chop it up about the greatest hip-hop groups.
3. The 50 Most Important People on the Web - Do you agree with their list? (And why are powerful people often not cute?)
4. Pixelodeon is happening in Los Angeles June 9th & 10th!
“You won’t even have to be in LA to check it out, as all the programming will be available online. So why screen it in a theater at all? “So [vloggers] can mingle with producers, people who have the resources to take your work to the next level,” Steve suggested. Both of them were adamant that this is not about breaking into ‘the industry,’ but a showcase of how online video has emerged as a viable medium in its own right.” via newteevee
5. Coming Soon’s interview with The Host’s Bong Joon-ho
…I predict that The Host is going to be the best horror film of the year. t’s also notable that it’s a Korean film, and their film industry is only now getting major international attention. I think that what Crouching Tiger did to bring Chinese cinema to the mainstream, The Host will do for Korean cinema.
A big “Thank You!” to La Bloga for giving my music video a shout out today.
…It is raining like crazy here in NYC, which always makes me feel a little blue. Plus if you think dead rain worms smell great in the streets, imagine what they smell like within the confines of a tomb-like subway car. Yum.
Friday Morning Linkage
1. Create a Mobile Searchable Database of PDFs!
“…All you need to do is email your PDF to pdf2txt@adobe.com and they will send the full text of the PDF back within minutes. These files can be searched from within Gmail. Then set up a filter from the Adobe address (noreply@adobe.com) and have the messages archived and automatically labeled. Now you have a searchable database for your PDFs - oh and it’s fully accessible via a mobile too.” - via micropersuasion
2. My Favorite Niche Blog of the Hour ;) Heehee! Tea Girls.
3. I Heart the idea of Simulscribe
I hate listening to voicemail! Don’t you? Wouldn’t it be nice to get your vmail in email/text form? Check it out!
4. 5 New Jobs of the Web 2.o Generation via webworkerdaily
… I would say I am a combo of #’s 1, 4, and 5. I am also part “widgeteer” (not listed but mentioned in the comments), in that I help develop widgets for the job.
5. Looking for a new media/creative job? Check out Chinwag.
“Our aim is to create the best recruitment site for the industry keeping it simple, effective and most importantly fun. This is reflected in our tag line “work in new media”. It should be as simple as that.”
…I’m not currently looking for a different gig however I do subscribe to their blog listing of available positions - I like to see what’s floating around out there.
6. My coworker Andrew has a band.
He is super cute, and the two demos on his myspace page are pretty rockin. Enjoy.(Andrew, when are we going to Wii it up???)
7. MTV News Webcam Correspondent
Matt Sunbulli, my coworker and fellow vlog lover, recently posted a comical upate on the Broadband Emmy Awards.
…His MySpace page needs a serious makeover but he makes up for that with interesting blog entries. You can bookmark this, and come back to check out his weekly dispatches. They just keep getting better!
… I was going to wrap it up here, but since I still have some free time left I will bid you adieu with a mini rant.
Sometimes Vox Makes me Feel Stupid
As far as my social networking history goes, here is a brief timeline:
diaryland - livejournal - friendster - myspace - flickr - vox
I’ve probably created accounts with most major social networking sites, but these are the six that I have actually been active in, or, at least lurk around in from time to time.
I recently started exploring Vox, after signing up a few months ago. This week I started importing my blog entries from wordpress (a nice feature), but then realized to my dismay that they generate their own vox rss feed for you, and you can’t tweak your page code to change that. In fact, as far as I can tell, you can’t modify your code at all! Lame!
Sure, they provide you with all these pretty layout templates. But what if I hate them all, which I do? I don’t have time to create a new one, I just want to pimp out an existing one. Specifically, I want to include an rss icon that points to THIS page, with the feedburner link from this page, but I can’t.
If someone knows how to tamper with Vox layouts, please help. Also, if you know a way for my to write in one blog that I can automatically import into all my social networking site accounts, I will make you a personalized video thank you and post it here.
You probably thought I was going to say I will buy you a margarita, but no. That’s Julia’s job.
Blast from the Past #1: Amiga
I miss my old & dear friend Jessicah Pratt. (on the right)
Her first short film was featured in my film festival in 2002, and she is moving to LA in a few weeks to start her new life as an LA film student/fashionista.
…P-Ratt, remember when we would watch all the strange movies I would find through my greencine account? Remember Elling?
Safe travels…
Blast from the Past #2: Pelo Nostalgia
… I miss my old hair.
Hi. Probably not a good idea to wear converse when there’s four feet of snow outside. Eh. whatev.
Monday Morning Linkage
participatory vs. commercial culture - hyperorg
women excluded from speaking at web conferences - lawgeek
it’s not viral until it goes viral - brainsonfire
interview with fauxlebrities - imbringingbloggingback
- IBBB interviews Sierra from MTV Juvies and gets the answers to burning questions like, why do all the girls seem to braid each others’ hair right before they go to court?
is this better than feedburner? - havemint*
* I’m going to test it and let ya know.
Magazines I will be reading on the subway today
Wired Magazine - March Issue: 15-03: Bite-Sized Entertainment: Exploring the New World of One-Minute Media (website not updated yet!)
Complex - February/March ‘07: Quentin Tarantino Is Back To Scare the Hell Out Of You!
Urban Latino - Issue #72: The Best of 2006*
* My interview with Tapon is in this issue, and I haven’t read it yet… 
heh heh.
This sounds awesome!
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The Fourth Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference THIS Saturday
* 40+ workshops and film screenings on Hip Hop Activism, Making your own Media, Social Justice and Taking Back the Media.
NYC Grassroots Media Conference
“Media and Movements Beyond Borders”
Saturday February 24th, 2007
New School University
65 Fifth Avenue (at 13th Street)
Read descriptions of all of the workshops at the conference:
www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org/schedule
Only 1 day left to register at discounted rate!:
http://nycgrassrootsmedia.org/conference
The conference is proud to host a strong series of workshops on how to use Hip Hop as a tool to strengthen our communities, and acheive social justice.
DON’T MISS:
Hip Hop Odyssey International Film Festival screenings throughout the day including films:
Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in on Manhood in Hip-Hop
Culture, 4 Real Kenya, Hali Halisi, United Nations
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After checking out the website, the workshops I am most psyched about them providing to the public for low/no cost are:
*Combating the Stereotypes and Misperceptions of Black Women in the Media
*Podcasting 101: Creating Your Own Podcast
*Our World Our Mic: Creating Youth Radio Documentaries
*NODE 101 - learning how to make a videoblog
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I saw Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in on Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture last summer at a screening given by Rooftop Films series. There was a discussion afterwards, which was an interesting experience since it was held in Prospect Park, combining my love of both large group discussions, being in the park at night, and outdoor films.
… Chris Webber is from my hometown. My mom loves The Sacramento Kings. So, here’s a link to the Chris Webber news package my coworker Monty produced and that I built for the Overdrive News channel. “The Pistons star talks about his African-American artifacts, how hip-hop influenced his game and what he jams to in the locker room.”
There you go mom, go crazy.
Some links I clicked today (well, this morning)
MTV and NPR adapt to changing demographics - The MTV wigitizing/joost collab/embed decisions are not news to me, but I found the contrast with NPR’s changes interesting.
Viacom Turns on YouTube, now Greets Joost with Open Arms - In case you didn’t know.
surveillance infrastructure - MySpace using content-recognition software
Excerpt - “As media companies struggle to reclaim control over their movies, television shows and music in a world of online file-sharing software, they have found an ally in software of another kind. The new technological weapon is content-recognition software, which makes it possible to identify copyrighted material, even, for example, from blurry video clips. The technology could address what the entertainment industry sees as one of its biggest problems — songs and videos being posted on the Web without permission.
Last week, Vance Ikezoye, the chief executive of Audible Magic in Los Gatos, Calif., demonstrated the technology by downloading a two-minute clip from YouTube and feeding it into his company’s new video-recognition system. The clip — drained of color, with dialogue dubbed in Chinese — appeared to have been recorded with a camcorder in a dark movie theater before it was uploaded to the Web, so the image quality was poor. Still, Mr. Ikezoye’s filtering software quickly identified it as the sword-training scene that begins 49 minutes and 37 seconds into the Miramax film “Kill Bill: Vol. 2.””
Why I am Tired and Sick
I had a three day weekend like most of you, but I spent the entire time working on my short film. These last three days have been my least favorite part of the whole experience, because we are now dealing with the audio. Oh god, I hate it! I can’t wait for it to be over. Important lesson - I do not have any talent at scoring. Good to know. Next time, I will put this in the hands of someone who actually knows what they are doing. I work with Rich Sancho at MTV, who besides being a rock star on the job is also a scoring genius in his spare time, so perhaps next time I will ask him for assistance in this area. …Because I think it’s pretty clear at this point that I really suck at it.
Title update - It is no longer called “Lily’s Evening”. The new title is “Proximity”. I will have a youtube link up either tonight or tomorrow, so stay tuned.
I was so stressed out this weekend I somehow became sick from the stress, and now I have a runny nose and a ginormous head ache. I also got in an argument with my creative partner on this project and stormed out last night. *sigh* I am such a drama queen.
However, Proximity will be finished this week, and despite this minor obstacle I have really enjoyed the process. I hadn’t made a short film in two years so this was a long time coming. I am still submitting it to The Lot, I mean I know it’s past the deadline but hey - I have seen some of the submissions on their website… I think in comparision Jennifer and I have a fairly good shot.
What needs to Happen… soon.
It’s very difficult to find that healthy, delicate balance between work, your creative projects, time with friends, general personal upkeep/chores, and maintaining your sanity.
After I am done with this short film I am going to take the time to sit down and prioritize the gajillion things I need and want to do.
