tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38016663467490270582024-03-04T21:52:54.329-08:00Aggravation Connoisseur, Learning To Turn Vapourware Into a TechnologyTrying to create micro employment for more than the certified by using the internet's plethora of recyclables.Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-88150523186073198912011-05-26T06:01:00.000-07:002011-10-20T16:54:15.796-07:00Third Industrial RecontextualizationRifkin on Keen's Techcrunch show. Didn't read the article, here's the obvious correlation I thought of after seeing the first couple of sentences, cause I trust competent articulation of this thesis takes place after that; renewable resources and copyright reform, specifically in my oft typed about never discoursed on term, recontextualized content promotion, basically 'mash up' video collage in legalese. it's an inevitable future, the adoption and use of which will be similar to google text ad as opposed to email spam and the like whatever the relevant landscape is called 'twitterscape' etc<br />
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RCP licenses on Netflix will be the order of the day and people will get commissions or incentivized offers based on the relevant arrangement of the authorship, regarding the RCP they initiate.Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-69817282732084733642011-04-01T22:39:00.000-07:002011-04-01T22:39:33.083-07:002011 Advertising is the new EventDue to the tetradic aspect of technological identity crisis, static online experience, which includes the laptop, the mobile experience now has decided that the five second event commercial is the last episode of M*A*S*H, Superbowl half time shit, of our time.<br />
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How to make the perfect commercial Dennis Crowley will appreciate being interrupted by.<br />
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This is the question, opacity is one of the answers, we see that in the lower third display ads on the "Tube"<br />
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However, the synchronization of a broadband broadcast five second commercial that has some type of incentivization that is presented in a way that the user feels ADDS rather than DETRACTS from their serendipitious experience of communicative ubitquity of futility.<br />
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Course, it's an event, right? So it's gotta be blue moon in frequency, like a Wonka campaign.<br />
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THAT IS ALL.Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-4927613587862339222010-11-15T16:51:00.000-08:002010-11-15T16:51:59.049-08:00Facebook=Myspace as a floor and Google for walls and ceilingI just think that is all it is, the wall, the IM, myspace is/was for musicians, the weekend photos gave the winkelvi the idea for H edu, combine that with the functionality of msn (which all children of the simpsons expect from computers) and you realize, facebook was a social network, but isn't any longer, simply because social can't expand much past where facebook, mobile, is at. So now it can only aspire to be page rank google ad words.<br />
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some people may not agree, their entitled, this article and its accompanying commments, not really an article yes a see the comments spelling mistake, more a blog post, <a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33000000000"></a> <a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33000000000">sums it all up</a>Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-69178655430387668892010-11-01T23:46:00.000-07:002010-11-01T23:46:36.994-07:00Nothing but appreciation for all boredom ever experiencedI appreciate the ability to just, be bored. No expectations except the ability to just rest the mind for a bit, go to work, be happy for it and just, slowly go about my life, appreciating that I can. Remember, somehow, just be aware of yourself and what your doing.Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-14153196015665647162010-09-22T01:30:00.000-07:002010-09-22T02:46:37.078-07:00Leo Laporte, the Present of Media, Being Alone in the Future until We All Began to Paint the Invisible and These Guys Are From England and Who Gives A Shit?Ok. I happen to be lucky enough to have watched ZDNet which then became Tech TV which then became G4, I was in Canada and saw it in the Grey Area. Anyway, I always liked the Screen Savers because I didn't know much about PCs formally but knew I had to learn, it was the dark days of desktop video editing and SCSI drives, and learning that the unit currency was probably going to be a Gig. It was probably 1999, maybe late 98. Leo and Patric were nice guys, who talked so much, that even if they were bullshitting, well, they couldn't be, nobody can just stream out all that talk of routers, and the rest of that chazahrye for as long and with as much enthusiasm as these two, and an animated as Leo would. You just <b>believed</b> them. When Leo left, I cared, and I really wasn't sure why. As I got better with computers, and eventually got one in 2004 for myself, I wondered and knew for sure, he had to be around somewhere. Enter Twit, I think I started listening around episode 120s, and I probably have most of them scattered somewhere. Here he was, unencumbered by the horseless carriage of network/cable tv doing nothing but being himself. Which as a loyal loyal listener, I mean, as an aside I found a cdr, with an .ASF video file for April 20, that I probably got from Suprnova of Call For Help, cause I no longer had access to a tv, but read that Leo was not going to be on whatever it was called anymore and I wanted that episode, turns out I was off, he wasn't even on that show but I made the effort and still have the disc, and after another scan through, probably the second in the 6 years I've had it. He wasn't on this show. So, my point, after I've so eloquently contextualized where I am going with this.<br />
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Leo's TwiT community, is probably the best on the net for what it does. Tetradically, it retrieves the broadcast decorum he inherited as a host all those years, his brushes with the big three and the ZD ubiquity and puts it online. So again, it is a living example of what technology is supposed to do, progress society forward in order to retireve its past. DJs using Serato and Final Scratch are doing this and have (thanks Plastikman) for almost a decade now.<br />
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Sure, sometimes in the real time content creation Leo does say somethings that are probably not the brightest things, one particular thing will always come to mind. However, I can't think of any other online content producer who consistantly provides such a relevant and reliable form for what interests me than the flagship show This Week in Technology, stalwarts Dvorak, meh on Calacanis but he's always entertaining, I just think his ad hoc east coast carbon copy is just annoying in its lack of originality, he should give Leo some kind of weekly royalty. The guests indicate Leo's cache and the verisimilitude of his impact in technology as a whole, is truly real on the cultural side of it, which if I may run this sentence on a little longer (since you should pay me for having your mind say these words outside of an FSG published rag), is symbiotic to the technological development of it, allowing for, in a word or two, "the social side of computing."<br />
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Therefore, his credentials as a brand vestibule, between technological epochs, are inscrutable. TWiT has Mike O'Reilly and related guests on talking about Gov 2.0, or his daughter coming on with accomplished University students talking straight up about how they use the net. This is relevant stuff, TWiG the Google show, outside of Jarvis' constant name dropping, low Germanisms is a great show. Gina Trapini is the embodiment of the kind of person who you know would probably help you develop something truly great in the software world, she is a true nerd, which is a great thing to be. The other shows too, what they do, is provide an actual function, giving you useful impressions by those who are involved in making them, on subjects of interest to people with brains, alive tofuckingday.<br />
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Further to the present now, the latest show TWiT 266, has regular guests: Dvorak, Baratunde Thurston, a recontexualized G Trapini, and the Bits blog writer, Nick Bilton, who isn't British like I instinctively thought he would be.<br />
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This was a great show, and recently there were a slew, with Adam Currie and the Digg guy that everyone loves, I merely respect and like a lot and have forgotten, with respect exactly his name, I will remember before I finish without consultation, I know its not Patric. <br />
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Anyway, so the show discussed Bilton's book, the current NYT and how they have hackers there and just generally how they are assimilating with the times, ok. Quashing rumours about the social network non dedicated device forays, as surmised by the guy Leo told to fuck off live, another reason to like Leo, he has passion. Thing thats cool though, is that, this show may have rattled off all the most relevant sites and subjects of the current technology unfoldment: the 2chan tribute site taking down the sites of the idiots who try and patrol bits of the opposite of amateur hour, which is obviously awesome though the subject is so oblivious is the only downfall, using wikipedia to verify facts, Youtube monetization issues. One thing that pissed me off though, which has nothing to do with the show specifically, however the brooklyn lovefest, let's face it, Brooklyn and brooklyn are two different spots. Brooklyn is a place with cheaper real estate, that was until it became the gentrification capital of North America, where all a band has to do is get a gimmick, move there and see who has the best vintage clothes, so they can make their journalists friends job easier in the intro paragraph, and I use the term journalist with caution.<br />
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The single greatest insight of this show, is the mention of how Youtube took down one of the shows that sampled a bit from SNL. Leo is in the perfect position to move something forward, I won't actually say what it is, yet, however, well, that's it. I made most of my point, type in TWiT in google, you will become a fan, or don't, which would prove nothing other than that your in the majority.<br />
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Quick note on Youtube content ID, it more than likely works in the exact same way as the app Shazam, which I'm merely guessing, works similar to CDDB. A database of waveforms and or song lengths exists, like CDDB, if there is a match than its done. So its like, CDDB influence, song length, waveform image, confirmation and filter to confirm song.<br />
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With video, there has to be a hardwired watermark of all major media content, in each frame, this content id looks for an image match and thats it, cause you can upload shit from SNL just flip it horizontally.<br />
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Regarding FAIR USE, as long as you don't steal revenue....ohhh, Pandora time? Probably not, cause the world of Hollywood, which is in a constant game of flaccid foreplay with policy lobbyists, they continue to drive forward on a mountain while refusing to look in the windshield but are just staring at the rear view, while they cycle through litigation schemes to cover the damage to themselves that they choose to inflict.<br />
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And finally, the irony, sure, white rap parodies by hipsters are inelastic and forever engaging, RU Sirius, Mark Hosler, Don Joyce and The Edge had a great prank about this issue from 1993 that resounds today as the issue of our fucking stupid policy moronic age<br />
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<a href="http://l2g.to/negativland/u2/the-edge-interview.html">READ THIS BUSY SAC!</a><br />
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All I know is, when this issue happens to Leo, its the true beginning of the beginning.<br />
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ps: pay per bit, mobile media on demand, i know/have known everything regarding the need for recontextualized content promotion being the way that media on demand is the methodology for a satisfying range of scope within the retrieval of the living room, where collective national Ed Sullivanism aren't scheduled but viral and only collective through the mediaiton and coordination of mobile device to create flash audiences for streaming events.<br />
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END OF FUCKING LINE<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=aggravlearni-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0964349604&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align:left;padding-top:5px;width:131px;height:245px;padding-right:10px;"align="left" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=aggravlearni-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B0000038YP&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align:left;padding-top:5px;width:131px;height:245px;padding-right:10px;"align="left" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-45722678661517601582010-09-16T00:39:00.000-07:002010-09-16T00:39:16.656-07:00Listened to the last 8 hours of The Facebook EffectFirst off, it's nice to hear the other oft quoted Mcluhanism, anywayz. Transparency. No choice really, it's the physics of karma painting the invisible with that which was barely known subjectively and objectively. The kid will be contextualized for the human that he and we all are, good intentions, i'm guessing, that the twins, had a more paris hilton influence and the kid figured that, this shit had real legs, seeing that you didn't need to use your legs to get real, exactly. And the tetrad of communications continues, where hyperlinks, continue to be, that which propels the internet, mythologizing that which we've gotten the hang of as humans, til now.<br />
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End of Line. HA HA HA AHHAAHAHAhahahahah! <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=aggravlearni-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B0006NMQZS&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align:left;padding-top:5px;width:131px;height:245px;padding-right:10px;"align="left" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-22050926982230129532010-09-01T00:28:00.000-07:002010-09-01T00:37:21.495-07:00Regarding Managed Services and suchAs I listened to TWiL 75, the discussion was Google Verizon letter to FCC, many thoughts, here are some:<br />
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So GnV wanna create a policy and it pertains to legacy (desktop connection essentially)<br />
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So Verizon is one company that provides access to the internet, Comcast is another, aligning with Google means whatever it means. Wouldn't a company like Comcast be pissed off by this?<br />
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I mean, it's confusing that people associate this debate with wireless, when its not, it's associated with wired connections.<br />
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I don't see why this is happening. Clearly, a commercial service based infrastructure is what Google and Verizon are trying to repurpose the legacy lines that already exist, that is what they want to do here. They want to change the law for the net that currently exists wired right now. I feel this is not a good angle, they can only create a <b>wireless</b> commercial network that people pay for speed and service. The wired net as we currently know it should remain the way it is, being the trend forming research and development playground that it naturally is.<br />
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A commercial wireless network is the only viable solution to a services based network that has to essentially do a better job than the internet does know for providing services.<br />
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So let's go down to the core issue: streaming/downloading<br />
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A commercial wireless network should be like room service for a caveperson. In other words, on the net neutral net we currently have, there is a lot of navigation required still, there is a lot of content "hunting", it is basically the opening scene in 2001 everyday.<br />
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The commercial wireless network has to do a better job, and ultimately the only thing people will pay for is that which will save them time to provide for, for themselves.<br />
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Furthermore, the net we know now, provides the organic pattern development of trends, that a commercial network can attempt to and occasionally correctly commodify.<br />
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Anyway, cable providers, phone providers, and "OH YEAH" the rest of the world, will keep Google and Verizon in check because, we all know, things fucking change, fast when it comes to the internet, all the things that are usually formally defined online, wireless or not, get tweaked if they become too out of touch...napster, record industry, RIAA millions to recover thousands, Google and Verizon can ask for whatever they want, it will rest on them to maintain service that works for people.<br />
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About Facebook, Schmidt is right, thought he doesn't go far enough, ultimately, if you can't stand behind your actions, you're fucked.<br />
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<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/5490871" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/5490871">Afilliatosophical Bricollaging</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user581473">Me You Them</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-87703213073522315542010-07-14T00:12:00.000-07:002010-07-14T00:22:17.678-07:00Tom Lehrer on ColbertI created a Facebook group, yea whatever, I felt it was a decent idea, to try and drum up interest in this idea.<br />
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<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aIlJ8ZCs4jY&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aIlJ8ZCs4jY&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-49729174920940299292010-05-24T15:24:00.000-07:002010-05-24T15:24:46.397-07:00The migration to mobilityI always thought you'd be at a lounge, having a couple drinks with friends, you have a good conversation, a lapse surfaces, and now you can use a device and solve the problem. What is going to happen in the next generation will be full on multitasked conversations in public places, obviously. Like overlays over your eyes, like any decent scifi depicts, Texting will evolve into video on demand created collages to underscore the deep irony of the moment, regarding privacy, who knows, people becoming researchers, globally scaled, i don't know, people are getting smarter, but only technically, they are being obfuscated from their intuition, this a the silver lining in privacy. Obvious aspects will always surface first, if the subject isn't aware, it's kinda like, well, now you know, maybe pay more attention next time.Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-66310874210575286262010-05-09T20:28:00.001-07:002010-05-09T20:28:02.690-07:00Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-59167878825544059082010-03-25T03:01:00.000-07:002010-03-25T03:01:06.322-07:00A Serious ManMy take on the movie.<br />
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The ending. The kid goes to pay Fagle, the kid, Danny Gopnick, he symbolizes to me, the North American consumer. Clueless about the effects of computerization on the psyche. The frog in the heating pot the Mr Bungle references in the song <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PS6mAi5I4k"target=”_blank”>Egg</a>, all of it is a reference to the vortex of information overload, some review called it a call to God. Okay. So? For what? A sign. If one can't view a sign in the symbol of a tornado in the end of a movie, they don't see signs.<br />
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Anyway. The vortex is info overload, which we all know, data deluge, all that shit. As has been written, things get sucked into the vortex, some sink, some don't, those that don't, are usually spherical, makes sense right? old is new, go around, come around. anyway.<br />
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Cultural differences. On the one hand, Clive's dad wants Larry to accept the mystery that is life. If he doesn't he is threatened with a lawsuit, a lawsuit of slander for something that can't be proven, unless the very act of referencing the motivation behind the meeting of Clive's dad and Larry is in and of itself included as defense for Larry under his guess of the probability of his hunch about Clive. To me, this is China (I know Clive is Korean in the movie, doesn't matter, he's Asian, in the same way that everyone represents regionally in one way or another, accurate or not, for accuracy you could say he's whichever side of Korea doesn't allow western influence) and Google. <br />
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One doesn't want western culture influencing it's society that is completely immersed in obligations to service the clueless needs, of yes, western culture. The other essentially wants to sell culture to the manufacturer enabling a culture it doesn't want, based on information it isn't allowed to have, simply because they don't know any better.<br />
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So finite resources based on unusual and bizarre culture divides that are taken very seriously.<br />
Dybbuk reference, it could mean many things, cultural misperceptions of east and west, spiritual ignorance, who knows.<br />
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The rabbi's advice: when there is no hope, we are the sum total of our actions. so, since we don't know what that means either, be good.<br />
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Regarding the books I've just included, I'm currently rereading The Gutenberg Galaxy, it basically talks about the foot in electronic and typographic worlds that we are <i><b>still</b></i> steeped in, its very insightful to the day to day, as a an artist who tries to makes sense of one's current milieu, the literature reference are endlessly interesting links that make me understand that Mcluhan's degree in Literature is very much like Kevin Mitnik's instinct regarding Social Engineering,<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=aggravlearni-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=076454280X&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align:left;padding-top:5px;width:131px;height:245px;padding-right:10px;"align="left" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe> it is hacking North American culture's verbal iconography, understanding the value behind that which we've been programmed to react to.<br />
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Laws of Media, simply look up the word tetrad and then go from there. Understanding Me, and Media and the Probes book, first is biography quite thorough and interesting, second and third, second is obvious in its ubiquity with the man himself, third, I haven't read but Probes are the experiments into the effects of the causes of technology that pretty much fueled all of Mcluhan's insights. As a recent Amazon RecommendORE, I can say that if you want to dust the cobwebs of the gelatin mold residing in the plant holder above your shoulders, look no further.Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-33704858353220209642009-12-30T06:49:00.000-08:002010-03-03T15:32:42.098-08:00TotLol and the Youtube API Service Agreement and predicting the weatherThis is my response to the <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/29/totlol-youtube/"target="_blank">article </a>on Tech Crunch<br />
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i've left in the spelling, grammer and any other visual space errors because i could give a fuck, if you don't get it, fucking ask, i will politely engage in dialogue with you. I AM THE ONLY PERSON WHO READS THIS EVER<br />
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Why the "F" can't their be revenue sharing scaled up and down? The bigger you get, the more negotiating power you can acquire. <br />
Revenue sharing is the stumbling block of all this crap. I mean, like Disney copying folktales (Brothers Grimm) and aggregating facets of them and reimagining them stylisticially, the Totlol idea, is taking the Youtube model and reimagining a variety of aspects and such, therefore for being able to curate adverstising on the videos chosen from the index that is Youtube, <br />
all future APIs should have based on traffic, bandwidth cost deducted, lets get F'ing real here. Youtube, Google for that matter, is no different for an API developer using their "content" building on it and creating new and innovative ways to use it (AnyClip, Innovid throw a rock in Israel and you'll hit a start up that is doing what you just wrote down, maybe throw some falafal instead) anyway. <br />
The API developer agrees that Google will deduct first bandwidth cost for the videos used, then there will be graduated revenue sharing models, essentially the bulk model, the more generated, the better the deal. of course there will be loads of BS involved in this critical necessary step, however, if we want to develop somemore worthwhile aspects of our online lives, revenue sharing is pretty much the last mile and google is flipping the uploading bill for all that legal and illegal content uploaded to their sites. so if they really want to not be evil, revenue sharing with little unknown people is the way. should they not do this, in the future they will be forced to because people will work around it, cause all google and youtube are are aggregators, so they risk becoming like the riaa and mpaa by not recognizing the importance API development is for the economy is F'ing general.<br />
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And as far as conspiracy if the google code feature and the ToS change Did actually happen on the same day, then straight up they changed it because of the innovations done with the content taken from their site.<br />
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Your Welcome. Start a youtube channel, sorry, we aren't all 12 to 15 year olds growing up with this tech so we can to talk the high level comedy that only 12 and 15 year olds of each generation flock to like moths to feel real. to make some generic youtube channel with content that is nothing but a time capsule of embarassment.Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-75642911601858406732009-12-23T23:09:00.001-08:002009-12-23T23:13:04.950-08:00Social IntranetIsn't that all social networks are? Just a global intranet, in the sense that one's interests are attached as part of the daily utilitarian grind that is surfing. People claim to not like single source authorship, but thats what they are doing themselves with the internet anyway. Acquiring their own intranet for their own personality, which is their corporate non private identity. In the same way NSFW exists at work and creates firewalls, the social intranet is the corporate identity we try to exude. Linking to each other is like working in the same company, the company of the different angles of view we have of the net.Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-9170563512945363932009-12-17T01:58:00.000-08:002009-12-17T02:01:06.942-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsbVJXINiybApEyNfJ6I-isgHUI8FSl7S32gCxS2ycWGD9vOKF4RqbhUPBj_dhrLdWiBHhIFy-ynG3yI5c8lt2xX6FPIEsXws_yDAL7Vw4QMWGD2wZwNhW2v7lShGqNn7OJc7VEhaq6K8/s1600-h/business+weekcover.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsbVJXINiybApEyNfJ6I-isgHUI8FSl7S32gCxS2ycWGD9vOKF4RqbhUPBj_dhrLdWiBHhIFy-ynG3yI5c8lt2xX6FPIEsXws_yDAL7Vw4QMWGD2wZwNhW2v7lShGqNn7OJc7VEhaq6K8/s320/business+weekcover.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416142989203067794" /></a>Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-14152237750133844612009-12-10T00:33:00.001-08:002009-12-10T00:34:11.255-08:00Response to Business Week "Analytics" articleHa! Now, now, ten years later, everyone wants to be Google. Keywords, data management and here's one you morons can have for f'ing free, you wanna know the real industry thats growing, course you won't get it at first because it's the truth and i'm sure there's a merciful aversion to comprehending it. The real industry...cultural accounting.<br /><br />now you can have that term, don't credit me, keyword spiders with dates have already credited me, whether i pass your stupid moderation or not.<br /><br />btw, keep up the great work, i'm actually redesigning the wall st cover from a couple weeks back for my typography class. i'll post link when i'm done later today.Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-14701348402488126592009-11-25T14:22:00.000-08:002009-12-02T11:41:48.967-08:00IP enabled devices and wi fiare people really going to have little tvs, i guess maybe, MAYBE/<br /><br />basically wi fi devices like tvs, won't phones just become a default app in everything?<br />widget aggregators are going to just be turning widgets into channels retrieving mixed media about the widget's representative company.Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-81825221966676141292009-11-21T12:15:00.000-08:002009-11-21T12:22:31.741-08:00montage channel and print mediaPrint media has the benefit of the method, the invisible infrastructure of how we process the info contained within it, intentionally and via graphic design. for print to remain relevant it must be a deeply designed map to the net and or apps using the net in an overall API sense, (iphone apps, twitter), if there is value in refining the work flow of searching, THAT is valuble.<br /><br />Montage channel, yes, you know how to channel surf, yes set top box grids are trudgingly evolving, (sometimes falling backwards due to being drunk on monopolized attention but when they get up they do move forward or jog on spot) however, packaged metadata, i mean there's an idea, a customizable informed start, you can pick the subject matter or just turn it on like life and look around. unfortunately skill and understanding are involved so you can't just be a specialized geek or nerd or young person with no interest in history (cause <span style="font-style:italic;">your </span>making your gen's history. You have to actually think to contribute, it's kinda better when you do that, just a little, not a lot, just an acknowledgement somehow that you are in fact aware of the subject your leaking out about.Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-53929963453131638542009-11-14T18:26:00.000-08:002009-11-14T18:32:14.202-08:00entertainment valuehere's the new thing, i guess since no one but me reads this blog I write, no harm mentioning it.<br /><br />the new industry is data management, hollywood, google and the rest of the tools of this content world, have to recognize the entertainment value of data management. In other words, searching for content has to become the most entertainment part of the content, the thrill of the chase if you will minus all the nerded out geekfestoonery of irc, codec problems and such circa 1999-2009, fuck all that shit<br /><br />montage channel, where speed resolution and such rule<br /><br /><br />more to comeRichard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-45322928756657394592009-11-04T15:38:00.000-08:002009-11-04T15:54:44.997-08:00Advertising in the Parking Lot that is YoutubeSo yea, if you get into an accident in a parking lot, you and the person you collaborated on the accident with are equally at fault. Its with this premise I begin my metaphor about advertising off copyright material on youtube.<br /><br />let's just say there's been an awesome outbreak of pronoia amongst content owner and their lawyers and they now understand that the internet is a promotional tool that leads to more expensive sales if cultivated correctly (see the NIN Ghost $300 album that sold out in two days that never would've sold out in two days in a brick and mortar situation, nor been thought of to do as quickly in a silver cd milieu)<br /><br />so content owners now realize that it's at their disadvantage to not let whomever USERS (remember them? content partnership, give me a break, like i care, whether the shit is made available legally or not, it will be there, turning off the internet is a ridiculous idea, which is why its being attempted of course, to let the two people out there who are clueless enough to think it makes sense enjoy that social apocalypse)<br /><br />upload everything from everywhere.<br /><br />cause the revenue generated from content already there, is like store in a mall, <br />the content is there<br />the stores in the mall are there<br /><br />the customers enter through a parking lot to the mall<br />the users enter youtube to windowshop for the content<br /><br />a sale is made in the mall: whatever 20th century scheme involved for revenue distribution for the scenario......continues<br /><br /><br />a sale is made on youtube: this is different this would be like two people rushing to get the same thing at the mall and then getting into an accident in the parking lot on the way to the store.<br /><br />however, instead of an accident, it's a purchase of an item that has somehow surfaced via a video on youtube.<br /><br />so regarding the licensing fee, just like a parking lot, accidents are the fault of those involved.<br /><br />just like a mall, the stores are there<br /><br />just like youtube the content is there<br /><br />here's the best part, the vendor who has the item gets 75 percent of the sale<br />12.5 goes to the content owner <br />12.5 goes to youtube and youtube divides that up between themselves and those involved in creating the lead.<br /><br />one would assume that the content made available on youtube would follow a fair use style availability. ie new releases need not apply without supervision from content owner<br /><br />old dormant lifeless content, the shit they dont' care about, however that is defined, whether its the extras that will never be on tv so as to not get their shit in a knot about lowering licensing fees, the content available has to primarily be content no one is currently caring about, that gives rise to the family guy scenario to happen to varying degrees....all the fucking time.<br /><br />if this makes sense to you good, if this makes no sense to you, better.Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-15708453915129395432009-10-10T23:06:00.000-07:002009-10-10T23:07:58.930-07:00monetizemore on this very soon, he's not that into you wasn't terrible, i found out tim buckley did a song that i thought the cocteau twins did..................................................Richard Altmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06744545857940497651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801666346749027058.post-87720503621693487872009-09-29T09:17:00.000-07:002009-09-29T09:24:39.391-07:00Warner Brothers, Sony, Vevo and lil ol' YoutubeSo finally people are starting to act like adults, i mean companies are starting to understand that billions of views and relevant marketing could maybe translate to dollars rather than building a site and traffic appeal from scratch. Actual metrics force reassessment and recycling of content to make it post relevant to companies, not users, users do what they want all the time, companies just have to endorse that reality and slowly they seem to be. 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It's not the highest resolution, nor the slickest, but without sounding immodest, i do think it may be a Rosetta stone for modern crowd sourced, institutionally validated, commerce. any object in any video (primarily youtube) could be linked, and those doing the linking could make a buck for doing so, not tonnes, but proportionate to returning an empty beer bottle on a global scale. a legal version of the office space scam.<br />
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