Using HTML 5, Javascript, and Flash, creator Alexander Chen puts music to animated subway lines colliding on a map in the “Conductor.” In the video available online at http://www.mta.me/, you can watch the moving dots and lines on an alternating white/black background, plucking each ot[...]
Archive for January, 2011
January 30th, 2011 - 2:20 AM § in News
Corporate Control of Important Internet “Choke Points” Grows
It’s amazing to consider that a government could have the power to shut off an entire country’s internet service. But that’s what happened recently in Egypt and Tunisia, and proves that because knowledge is power, when leaders fear their people they also fear the internet. But how [...]
January 28th, 2011 - 12:18 PM § in Internet
How fast is your connection?
Netflix, the largest consumer of video bandwidth on the internet, released some interesting information on how fast they are able to stream to the average customer of a given ISP. While you shouldn’t take this as what speed you should be getting, it is an interesting statistic. Your throughput[...]
January 27th, 2011 - 6:03 PM § in Internet
Rumors: Microsoft Heating Up Competition for Internet TV
As the Internet has increased in bandwidth and compatibility over the years, it has become utilized more and more for all kinds of content delivery. One of the latest and greatest iterations of this is the mainstream acceptance of IPTV, allowing On-Demand television and movies streaming straight f[...]
January 27th, 2011 - 1:04 PM § in Culture
First Amendment secured for photography
New York City police are well known for their aggressiveness, and with so many tourists around, cops will try to minimize the damage to their reputation by telling people that they cannot take photos of the abuse before them. Millions of people have seen the following video of NYPD assaulting a Crit[...]
January 26th, 2011 - 1:02 AM § in Internet
LibreOffice Reaches Version 3.3 With Big Changes
This is the first official release of the Office suite that began as a fork of the OpenOffice.org project. New features include the ability save documents in Microsoft’s DOCx format (compatible with the latest version of Microsoft Office) and an improved graphical user interface. LibreOffice[...]
When to Put Aside Interactivity?
I was in the car two days ago when I heard an interview with Ursula Rucker on KEXP. Just a few of her phrases initiated a flurry of thoughts. She talked briefly about people walking around museums, listening to those interactive guides and not letting their feelings wash over them while looking at t[...]
January 25th, 2011 - 1:54 PM § in Gadget
Google number porting now available
Google announced today that all current Google Voice users can port their numbers to Google. What does that mean exactly? Before getting your next cell phone, port your number to Google Voice. Then get a new cell phone will a new number. You can configure Google Voice to answer the calls and forward[...]
January 25th, 2011 - 12:53 AM § in State and Government, Web
Arkansas State Website Review
This month Chuck and I will be researching the states of our United States of America. The websites of our states, to be more precise! I randomly chose Arkansas.gov, because I’ve never been there and I was curious about what they’re up to. To start with, the Arkansas website prominently [...]