Chapel Hill Council meeting on YouTube

Yet another Chapel Hill video first created by Will Raymond, aka WillR. On his blog post Chapel Hill Downtown Development Initiative: The Debate, there are links to TWENTY ONE separate videos of twenty one different people speaking at a November 20th public hearing on downtown development. To make it real easy to choose which one [...]

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What is Net Neutrality?

What is Net Neutrality? Here is the answer in video form.

Hat tip to The Real Paul Jones.

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Camera use at Flickr

Justin hips me to this neat page on Flickr called Camera Finder. All kinds of data about what cameras the Flickr community uses. I suspect a lot of this info is gathered by EXIF (Exchangeable Image File) data. Its attached to jpegs and tiffs created by most modern digital cameras. Its then uploaded by Flickr [...]

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Learn about others traditions

Chuck from Minnesota Stories has a wonderful video and blog post up called What Muslim Prayer Looks Like. Please go over to his site and watch it. Its a simple introduction to the religious culture of Muslims. We must learn about each other in this world if we expect peace to exist.
In light of the [...]

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College Leaders should blog

The New York Times has a interesting article in today’s paper and online called Erasing Divide, College Leaders Take to Blogging. It illustrates the pros and cons of College Presidents starting their own blogs. There are a few successful examples and a several rocky ones.
Sadly when a campus leader shares their point of view about [...]

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Wii the Media

Right after I wrote the last post I came up with the title of this post. In case you didn’t notice its a pun on the phrase “We the Media“.
Can a video game console help Citizen Journalists? The Wii has an internet connection, a browser, a basic photo editing app (PhotoChannel), message board, avatars, [...]

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Wii and Newspapers

Newspapers have been trying for years to increase the number of young people reading there content with varying degrees of success.
Here’s an idea:
Partner with video game manufactures and push your content through their consoles. The Nintendo Wii, pronounced We, just came out to rave reviews. We’ll see how many units they sell.
Back in September [...]

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John Zorn Naked City Batman

Artist: John Zorn
Band: Naked City
Song: Batman
Dear God there is a lot of John Zorn stuff on YouTube!

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John Zorn’s Masada

Tonight I’m going to see John Zorn’s jazz quartet called Masada. (Thanks Martin!) They’re playing at Duke University’s Page Auditorium. It’s been a long time since I listened to some Zorn. My favorite was his Naked City stuff. But the guy has recorded TONs of albums that span the spectrum of Jazz. So its hard [...]

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Johnny Cash God’s Gonna Cut You Down

I’m not a religious person but, the voice and words of Johnny Cash are so powerful.

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