Keith Loutit Photography/Flick Book

ReTweeted from Michael Wesch's twitter feed, Keith Loutit's videos really are worth watching. By using time-lapse photography of high-definition stills edited into a movie, you get a really strange effect and its hard to tell these are real people and vehicles and not toys!!

http://vimeo.com/3156959

DrupalCamp Galway '09

Just finished a second day at DrupalCamp Galway 09... what an amazing event! Two days of intensive learning, work and a lot of fun! Getting the chance to work with a team of coders, template designers, graphic artists and the Galway based charity, Zikomo, was truly amazing. In the space of one single day, an incredible Drupal site for Zikomo has been developed from scratch which they will now use to communicate about their ongoing projects in Malawi, and that fieldworkers can update with developments and events as they arise.

Of course, I should mention our rival group Rural Science Association who also had a hardworking team, racing the clock to get a similar set of requirements met- proving what is possible when a very brainy group of web developers get together for fun!

Also in attendance was Addison Berry from Lullabot who produce great "how to" videos and documentation on using Drupal, which is invaluable to newbies to this open source CMS.

Thanks to Stella Power, Alan Burke, Heather James, and Stephane Corlosquet for organising a fantastic event- and to the sixty people who showed up to make it happen!

sorry- more twitter!!

Well we heard from the other inventor of twitter in his ted talk. His partner had a slightly less respectful experience on the Stephen Colbert show....

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New Majic Website!

The MA in Journalism students at NUI Galway have launched a new website this week, called Majic.ie. Their site contains video reports of student clubs and societies, along with podcast interviews of Galway musicians, storytellers and students (although they maybe still working on this section, as some interviews didn't play for me).

Several of the stories are of direct interest to the campus community, along with local, national and international news pieces.

It's a great showcase of new media for these students, and worth a peek...

Objectified

A very cool trailer of an upcoming documentary about how objects impact on our lives:


"All these physical objects in our lives...there is no critique of them...very little discussion on how these things really, really affect us"
No explicit reference here to "learning" technologies, but you get the point...

news online

In 1981 they started online newspapers in San Francisco. Interesting enough little video clip below, but the 'punchline' is the final statement at the end regarding time and cost!

HASTAC Awards

The HASTAC (pronounced 'haystack') awards for digital media have been announced and there'll be a showcase even in Chicago in a couple of weeks time. About HASTAC:

"The Digital Media and Learning Competition is administered by HASTAC (TheHumanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), a virtual organizationcommitted to innovative forms of collaboration for thinking, learning, and research acrossdisciplines and fostered by creative uses of technology. HASTAC’s infrastructure is generouslysupported by Duke University and the University of California Humanities Research Institute.More information is available at http://www.hastac.org/ "

A revolution in games technology

Tired of having to buy powerful PCs or expensive games platforms to play the latest games? Wouldn't it be good to play on any device connected to the internet:PC, Mac or TV?  Well at the Games Developer Conference today (as reported on the BBC website), a totally new approach which exploits the latest broadband connectivity (there goes much of Ireland! oops!) Onlive have just previewed their streaming games system which they have been 'secretly' developing in partnership with many of the main games companies and which they intend to launch later in the year. It will do all the processing at their servers with streaming high-definition video to your local platform of choice, paid for on the basis of a monthly subscription.  For more info, view here.

Too close the the truth to be comfortable????

interconnections

Analysing over 300 million website interactions at over 97,000 online publications, researchers at Los Alamos have compiled a map which shows the linkages between different academic disciplines. They identified when someone is reading an article in one field moves over to an article in a different topic, revealing the boundary-crossing between domains. Plotting it out in a diagram paints a rich illustration of how fields link and overlap with one another.

Howard Rheigold's Social Media Classroom

Howard explains in this video his 'kludged together' set of web tools for an online learning environment.

tied in knots?

Fed on from stephenfry's twitter tweets, have a look at this excellent reflection on cables in modern life!