Monthly Archives: January 2007

Ruby Interviewed by BBC about Second Life Protest

Posted on January 31, 2007 by BrianR

Listen to Ruby’s interview on BBC radio about the very successful Second Life Ant-War protest she organized. Radical stuff in more ways than one! Congrats Ruby!

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Will the iPhone have Flash?

Posted on January 31, 2007 by BrianR

This ZDnet article says that a Wall Street Journal article, behind pay wall, quotes this dude Avi that the iPhone will have flash. (Check out Avi Greengart’s iPhone First Impressions article) If true that’s a really big deal. Independent phone … Continue reading →

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Analyzing Campaign Video Distro Strategies

Posted on January 30, 2007 by BrianR

Matthew Bernius a Visiting Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (I checked the RTI directory for confirmation) has written a interesting blog post about the video Edwards and Obama are using online. Its called a tale of two candidate’s … Continue reading →

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Please use Twitter

Posted on January 29, 2007 by BrianR

Twitter is a cool SMS spam service… uh I mean a neat way to SMS, aka txt messaging, a bunch of people at once. Sorta like CC: for your phone. Of course you can directly message people. Yes you can … Continue reading →

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Barrier to try Linux Lowered Significantly

Posted on January 29, 2007 by BrianR

Ubuntu and Debian Linux both have EXE files you can download to your Windows computer to install Linux quickly and easily. It appears that this install creates an image file and doesn’t attempt to repartition your hard drive. It also … Continue reading →

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N&O, ESPN, YouTube, and The ACC

Posted on January 26, 2007 by BrianR

I read the News and Observer college basketball blog ACC Now. Todays post called The final 12.7 seconds contains a YouTube video of the end of the Duke vs Clemson game on ESPN. (see image bellow) Quite a nail bitter. … Continue reading →

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Audio from Hunt Willard’s talk at NCSB Con 2007

Posted on January 24, 2007 by BrianR

The little Olympus DS-2 with lapel mic I provided to record the Hunt Willard session at the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference work out well. Enjoy this interesting talk about Science and communication. Hunt Willard, talk MP3 36m 18s Hunt … Continue reading →

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Stop Right Wing Democrats

Posted on January 23, 2007 by BrianR

Stan Goff has a article over at the Huffington Post called Unmasking the DLC. Its about the Democratic Leadership Council and pegs just what liberals need to do in America right now. A strategic imperative for the antiwar movement must … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Studio

Posted on January 23, 2007 by BrianR

Ubuntu Studio aims to be a multimedia editing flavor of Ubuntu for the Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional who is already familiar with the Ubuntu-Gnome environment. Free multimedia tools that are hight end is a big deal. … Continue reading →

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Sierra Club NC has a blog

Posted on January 22, 2007 by BrianR

Welcome to blogging Sierra Club NC. Tom Jensen is the perfect person to help you with this effort. Thanks for joining us. We shall be reading.

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