What must be said, though, they are propagating my blog, as well as this very video. So I guess they really are trying.

Wonderfully nerdy talk by Tim Berners-Lee given at TED about how data has been taken control of by the Open Source Community.

At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for “raw data now” — for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.

Promising Video conferencing tool that I stumbled across this weekend.  It looks perfect for creating an online classroom, a small play ground for a dispersed development team, or pretty much anything else you can think of for this type of application. I tested it a bit with four people, and it ran really quite smoothly. The three roles are viewer, presenter, and moderator.

Viewer: are users who have no authority within the conference; their primary role is to view the presentation as well as chat amongst other participants. In a course the viewer would be the students.

Presenter: has all the same capabilities as a participant, with the added features of uploading presentations and sharing their desktop

Moderator: has all the capabilities as a participant, with the added features of uploading presentations and sharing their desktop.

And the beauty of it all being that is open source and free.

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I just stumbled across this online documentary. It seems that a lot of things can be said about Swansea. The rule-britannia documentary is well worth checking out. I am still wrestling with the idea if I should go to Swansea or not.

Swansea Love Story @ vbs.tv

I am also sharing my first introduction to Swansea:

Now go watch the documentary Swansea Love Story

This tutorial is like a KinderSurprise. It has three things, an introduction to Flash Builder, an introduction to Flex and finally a great introduction to connecting to an AMF service.

Also looks like there will finally be something to replace the oh-so-missed class generator that existed back in the previous AMFPHP versions.

Seeing Flash Builderm I am still not clear as to what the difference is between the Flex builder and Flash builder. Especially seeing a Flex app being built in Flash Builder. but I am sold on the whole Catalyst/Builder concept since first seeing it over at the labs. Yeas I admit it, I have been dabbling around without in my freetime. No matter what some people say, Flash is not about to die just yet.

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Interesting discussion over on the guardian.co.uk to check out.

Will 3D change cinema for ever?

The Observer conversation: James Cameron’s Avatar is the biggest box office draw in history and is expected to triumph at the Oscars on Sunday. But how much of its success is due to the fact it was shot entirely in 3D? And what does this mean for the future of entertainment?

Participating:
John Lyus – heyuguys.co.uk
Matt Bochenski – littlewhitelies.co.uk
(the forver/still young) Jonathan Cresswell – britishgaming.co.uk

On a completely (and not so) different note, I would, at this point, like to ask the guardian.co.uk allow embedding of their videos.

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Every now and then I mention a documentary podcast that I just listened to.  Most of the times they will be something I heard on the BBC Documentary Archive Podcast by far the best podcast to subscribe to. Anyone with a player, add it to your list.

Sometimes on news, sometimes on Technology and the sometimes like one I embedded here (or like the last one released “Spanning the World”), a slice of life. Do check out the Virtual Revolution series as well.

Thank’s to the BBC for sharing…

Googling for John Perry’s online manifesto brought up this article and interview with Jaron Lanier. Well worth reading and listening into.

As for the declaration of independence itself, here you go:

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

– John Perry Barlow, “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”

where did I hear of it, you ask? Why, in a bbc documentary of course…

Just stumbled across this article, claiming that US officials and/or Google are closing in on the hacker(s) responsible for hacking their service. The news being that it probably was a student from a university. I just find that to be such an easy answer (like the “mentally deranged” person that attacks a public figure – there is always someone behind that person that is the instigator). Having run several large online contests, in 100 % of the cases, where people have attempted to break into my servers, the attempts came from University servers. And I am certain this is not because of impoverished students trying just about anything to get a little more material goods in their life, but rather, a proof of the inherit insecurity of these huge public networks, and students not having been thought the importance of securing their own usernames and passwords. Also, the hack happened because of a loophole in IE, and what better place to propagate a trojan horse like this then on a university campus network.
Anyways, maybe it’s just me…but I just never believe lone-gunmen stories, and in addition to that, the fact that he published bits of his own code on a traceable forum?

Come on, give us a bit of credit…

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