What are primers?

If you’re like most people, you’ve probably heard of the French New Wave or Dogme95, but when asked at a party to explain what they are or to name more than a couple of films, you may struggle a little bit. Well, fear not! Going along with GreenCine’s belief that DVDs are not just entertainment but film-schools-in-a-box, we’re happy to introduce you to our own form of film education: Primers. They are meant to be a fun introductory overview of major film genres and movements, and to serve as handy guides in your rental selection process.

GreenCine | Movie Primers

Cool Hunting: finding things in the intersection of design, culture and technology that excite the imagination and inspire creativity.

Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting

You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your MP3 collections

The MusicBrainz Tagger application allows you to automatically look up the tracks in your music collection and then write clean metadata tags (ID3 tags or Vorbis comment fields) to your files. As you tag the files in your collection that MusicBrainz didn’t recognize, you submit the acoustic fingerprints (TRM ids) of your files back to the server. Submitting acoustic fingerprints will allow MusicBrainz to automatically identify these tracks in the future, so that other people using the Tagger can benefit from the work you have done.

As the community uses the Tagger application, more and more files will be automatically recognized. However, as we are just starting to collect the acoustic fingerprints, fewer files will be initially recognized. So, please download the Tagger and run your music collection through it so we can start collecting more acoustic fingerprints. You may also want to take a look at our statistics page to see how many TRM ids we’ve been collecting recently.

The Tagger is currently only available for Windows. The MusicBrainz team would love to create an iTunes Tagger plugin for Mac OS X, but we haven’t had enough time to write one yet. It’s on our radar — trust us. We’re not intentionally excluding the Mac community.

Welcome to MusicBrainz!

WackyLabs.Net - Flickr Screensaver 3.2

FlickI is a utility that makes posting photos to your Web site effortless. FlickIt works in conjunction with Flickr (www.flickr.com), although a Flickr membership is not required to use FlickIt.

With flickit, you can publish an unlimited amount of photos, per post to your blog, in a matter of seconds.

Flickit gives you the ability to search through your own Flickr Photos and all public photos based on tags. Run a search for your own username, and pull up a list of your contacts and see their images. The possibilities are endless.

Chancecube.com » Blog Archive » Flickit

a look at a possible future, with a merging of google, amazon, and similar technologies
by rtaljun on Feb 20, 2005 at 2:24:50 AM
A stunning prediction of the online world in 2014: enter Googlezon. Is print media waning?
by grifflet on Feb 8, 2005 at 9:03:59 PM
Looking back from 2014, two journalists contemplate the growing power of Google & Amazon. Very Terminator IIish.
by sree on Feb 2, 2005 at 11:21:46 AM
A wonderful example of what can be done with Flash for the AAKKOZZLL project. Also helps to be aware how the world will change. Robin Sloan is an interesting person.
by parabox on Dec 22, 2004 at 6:05:55 PM

EPIC 2014

Democratizing innovation, Eric Von Hippel

David M. Levy, a computer scientist who loves technology and gets more than 100 e-mail messages a day, makes a point of unplugging from the Internet one day each week to clear his head. Even so, with all the e-mail messages flooding in, with academic blogs bursting with continuous debate, and with the hectic pace set by an increasingly wired world, Mr. Levy says he cannot help but feel an occasional sense of information overload.

The Chronicle: 4/22/2005: Knowing When to Log Off

Topics that can be explored here include MemoryTechniques, MentalMath, CriticalThinking, BrainStorming, ShorthandSystems, NotebookSystems, and SmartDrugs

FrontPage - Mentat Wiki

This paper examines user-‍generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification. Metadata - data about data - allows systems to collocate related information, and helps users find relevant information. The creation of metadata has generally been approached in two ways: professional creation and author creation. In libraries and other organizations, creating metadata, primarily in the form of catalog records, has traditionally been the domain of dedicated professionals working with complex, detailed rule sets and vocabularies. The primary problem with this approach is scalability and its impracticality for the vast amounts of content being produced and used, especially on the World Wide Web. The apparatus and tools built around professional cataloging systems are generally too complicated for anyone without specialized training and knowledge. A second approach is for metadata to be created by authors. The movement towards creator described documents was heralded by SGML, the WWW, and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. There are problems with this approach as well - often due to inadequate or inaccurate description, or outright deception. This paper examines a third approach: user-‍created metadata, where users of the documents and media create metadata for their own individual use that is also shared throughout a community.

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata