Acrobat X seems to be about PDF

I have had a look at Acrobat X. The download of the 30 day version is working fine. It looks good so far. The last couple of versions have been promoted around features that are not closely linked to PDF - video conferencing and Connect. This seems to be missing this time. there is still a link to Acrobat.com but mostly for storing PDF files. Connect still exists but is really another product.

3D has gone, another feature recently promoted and useful for engineers. So the main impression is that this is intended to make it easier to work on PDF as such.

However, the print features are not that obvious. In fact quite hard to find. Click on the toolbar and see what you can add. Adobe clearly think that the largest market is for knowledge workers who are assumed to be leaving print behind. The fact that if they have Acrobat Pro they can create a JDF to specify exactly any print requirement is just one of those things that are a bit of a mystery. 

Meanwhile web to print sites are hiding all the JDF away. Maybe this is how people will prefer it, but I think this is a topic to return to.

I have tried out the portfolio feature again. I experimented with version 9 but I don't think it will be widely used. It requires the latest Reader and adds a Flash intro. As a menu it is rather confusing. I had several copies of Acrobat open at the same time. Maybe some organisations will like it as a way to distribute collections of files within a firewall but I don't think many portfolios will be found on the open web. Please add a comment if you know of some links. 

Acrobat X seems to be about PDF

I have had a look at Acrobat X. The download of the 30 day version is working fine. It looks good so far. The last couple of versions have been promoted around features that are not closely linked to PDF - video conferencing and Connect. This seems to be missing this time. there is still a link to Acrobat.com but mostly for storing PDF files. Connect still exists but is really another product.

3D has gone, another feature recently promoted and useful for engineers. So the main impression is that this is intended to make it easier to work on PDF as such.

However, the print features are not that obvious. In fact quite hard to find. Click on the toolbar and see what you can add. Adobe clearly think that the largest market is for knowledge workers who are assumed to be leaving print behind. The fact that if they have Acrobat Pro they can create a JDF to specify exactly any print requirement is just one of those things that are a bit of a mystery. 

Meanwhile web to print sites are hiding all the JDF away. Maybe this is how people will prefer it, but I think this is a topic to return to.

I have tried out the portfolio feature again. I experimented with version 9 but I don't think it will be widely used. It requires the latest Reader and adds a Flash intro. As a menu it is rather confusing. I had several copies of Acrobat open at the same time. Maybe some organisations will like it as a way to distribute collections of files within a firewall but I don't think many portfolios will be found on the open web. Please add a comment if you know of some links. 

Winterlude seems to have started, Learning Technology though Online Information

Last year I started a cloudscape on Cloudworks about a winterlude, a phase for reflection / concentration on UK trade shows

http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/1953

There is a mix of relax / reflect and intensive events

This year the online aspect seems to have merged it all together and started a bit early. Also the print aspect is slowly vanishing from the London area. There will be Northprint next year  but Total Print seems to have gone.

The magazine for Learning Technologies is now published. One story by Neil Lasher is about "just too late" learning, content found in a hurry which is where mobile devices come in. There has to be more about mobiles somehow to make sense of Online Information.

http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b1fdbf2a#/b1fdbf2a/108

Learning Technology is next to a Skills event. Last year there was quite a lot of tech on the ground floor, it is not too clear what the gap is about.

http://www.learningandskillsevents.com/   26-27 Jan

The Online conference may have more about organisations. Stephen Dale, conference chair, has indicated this in his blog

http://steve-dale.net/

The agenda last year started with web science and then social media took over the buzz. 30nov - 2 dec

http://www.online-information.co.uk/

Most of the business information will be in English but there is now an Asian event as well

http://www.online-information.asia/

23-24 march 2011. Most of the stands seem to be booked from the UK. No sign of Highwire yet.

BETT will have the Heppell.net feature moved to fill the gap left by BECTA. As described on the site-

"Each day the stand will feature children working in new ways and guests will be drawn from practitioners in the creative industry sector to talk about the learning skills and strategies that they need as they design the games and new media experiences that have in turn sent the world problem solving and learning."

http://www.bettshow.com

12-15 Jan

There was an Open Source Village last year, not sure what form this will take but video is available from other events

http://www.youtube.com/user/openforumeurope#p/p

Adobe will be at BETT and at Learning Technolgy but not at Online unless someone at the XML section smuggles in something. The future is Flash, video and animation. Apple thinks the same, except Flash as such. Will this appeal to the librarians? or the school admin?  will Twitter offer some guidance?

video from #OPAL10 in a week of quality and learning

I notice there is video from #OPAL10 loading quite quickly on Cloudworks, maybe the same day.

http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/4742

OPAL is looking at e-learning and also quality. Quality is about as high on the learning agenda as at any other event.

Communication is another topic to mashup here perhaps, video for example.

More later, I have been invited to the Oddfellows to video some music performance. The lighting is terrible but they don't seem to mind.

Back to #OPAL10 and World Quality Week tomorrow.

Open Mic, Jaime Leigh wins wildcard vote so story continues

My blog for wifi Exeter has links to a couple of songs from Jaime Leigh, winner of the wild card vote for the regional finals in Portsmouth on Nov 29th.

 

http://wifiexeter.blogspot.com/2010/11/jaime-leigh-wins-wild-card-spot-with.html

 

Will she get to the O2? At least the Open Mic scene will be better known.

 

More video from Exeter would be welcome. Study of lighting and sound would help. There is a long winter to get though till sunshine lighting can be relied on. And the policy on music support in parks may depend on budgets.

#likemovies different views on copyright, next #likemusic

Last night during #likemovies different views were expressed on instant video of conversations. Should they go straight to YouTube or can anyone claim the right to control a public mediation?

During the day there was promotion for video devices from Kodak and Nokia. They will be used during #likemusic this evening. I will be using a Kodak Zi8, apparently the new model is improved but this works ok. Maybe some people will object to aspects of the edit or more fundamentally. My approach is to record first and discuss later on the grounds that days follow in a certain order. 

East Asia Film Festival - Exeter University 2010

Closing ceremony. Captions will follow later, these loaded to Flickr now as could be news somewhere.

Cloudworks now has a #likeminds cloud #cloudworks what about learning?

I have started a cloud on Cloudworks for Likeminds, meeting in Exeter tomorrow and Friday.

http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/4716

Not much content so far. I have suggested that #likeminds is not about learning, or at least this is not explicit.

I expect I am wrong about this, so more later.

Router Boosters pix from Flickr, #likeminds #likemusic more Friday

The boxes look fine, could be reviewed during Friday evening.

I thought about outside seating as the lighting could be better but this may not make much sense at night.

thing is, this conversation is to be continued.

Lighting at Oddfellows, could it be worse than NBI?

I tried out some video at the Oddfellows Open Mic. Video later but the stills show the problem.

I guess Hum will not object too much but I will get some feedback before loading much else. the distottion is required just to see anything at all.

Hum + 1 or A-hum will be at Fuel on North Street this Saturday afternoon. Natural daylight possibly. Please bring a camera.

Google Doc on '80s soundtrack ahead of #likemusic in exeter

I have updated a doc shown previously to presenters on the Baefoot and wheely shows on Phonic

It is still not obvious where this is going, iy is a collection of bits that may fit together sometime. Plan A is to visit the Phoenix Thursday lunchtime around 12 and hope the morning Phonic people are still there. 

I may try to persuade them to check out the Router Boosters near the Old Timers. Damian was recently described as still working with tin cans and bits of string so some cardboard boxes may make some sense for him. He will probably have some way of describing things and we can get more technical later. 

YouTube clip shows prototype router boosters from BT Exeter to Oldtime space

I have loaded a clip about some boxes showing a route from Timepiece to BT in Exeter. I have alwasy been surprised that the space around the building has not been offered special deals on bandwiodth. the castle has several events that could have been broadcast or enhanced. The #likemusic part of #likeminds later this week could get noisy so I may be in the passage space some of the time.

What will happen in Exeter during times when #likeminds is somewhere else? Maybe proper equipment later and also routes to other venues. 

Image rights, Lancaster University and the Work Foundation

I notice that Lancaster University has purchased the Work Foundation so now has a London office. This seems an excellent idea and can only lead to synergy.

One aspect that interests me is how the policy on image rights and digital content will work out. In 2007 I followed a conference online -  Changing Forms of Organisation at the Work Foundation. This was partly funded by ESRC and video / PDF etc. was hosted by Inter Logics

http://www.inter-logics.net/CFO/Shared%20Documents/Will_Hutton_presentation.pdf

Will Hutton seems to me to suggest that the knowledge economy has arrived, the internet is related to this, and management needs to change to cope with the requirements of knowledge workers. I think the readiness to publish content online may relate to this view.

Later I attended a conference in Exeter, also part of an ESRC project. I gathered that the knowledge economy was still more of an open question. But I was allowed to take photos and the Exeter University site linked to my Flickr.

In April 2008 I went to a Lancaster MAMLL Discussion Event on Leadership and Change. I don't think this formally related to ESRC but as memory serves John Burgoyne stated that his slides were much the same as at the Work Foundation.

What was most surprising about this day was that there was no permission for photos. However there was an official video. So the marketing theory was much more around "broadcasting" than "conversation". I don't know if this is still the case. Also there was not much about network learning as if it related to practice such as web design. 

I am not sure if these things can be related or how they change. I have found the Lancaster IAS conferences have more content online over time and there is no blocking issue around video. I will be interested to see what happens over the next year or so. Both with content and access.

Lighting is the top Open Mic issue on YouTube

Just my opinion of course. as Exeter gets ready for #likeminds I wonder if standards can be maintained round the year or half year. The next half year will not be in the open air most of the time so lighting is even more of a problem.

Pokershark100 has the same trouble that I did at the NBI. Maybe we just have to get used to it. The sound is ok.

http://www.youtube.com/user/pokershark100

What can be done? Is there a simple after effect cheap package that is easy to understand?

Hum tells me I am welcome to bring an Arc Light to the OddFellows this evening. He will sing with his eyes closed. Not sure about this but the conversation continues.

Recipe for Sugungwa and video of walk to Devonshire House, Asian film Mon- Wed

Eric Bransden has sent me a recipe for Sugungwa, a drink served on Saturday at the showing of 200 pounds Beauty. There will be more on Monday night for Portrait of a Beauty. Starts at 7pm. these two Korean films are part of an Asian film festival that continues to Wednesday.

Recipe for Sugungwa

Into a large saucepan put:

6 pieces of cinnamon

Half a cup of black sugar

Some ginger

Boil them for 30 minutes

Drop four pine nuts into each glass/cup of the drink.

Blog plugs YouTube links for Asian Films ahead of #likeminds in Exeter , please retweet

http://wifiexeter.blogspot.com/2010/10/asian-film-festival-continues-next-week.html

The blog headings are getting more like a tweet so are longer than previously.

The films are free by the way. But I guess about seventeen people off campus in Exeter know about them.

There has been confusion over the exact dates and titles but I am now fairly certain that on Monday at 7pm the second Korean film will be Portrait of a Beauty. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is on Tuesday. There will be a closing ceremony on Wednesday so come early. the film is Warriors of Heaven and Earth.

The previous event was just Korean and was better promoted. Maybe involving more than one embassy is too complicated.

There could be another event next year. #likeminds could suggest ways to improve awareness.

Asian Films Free at Devonshire House Exeter till Wednesday

There are four films still to view, one this evening at 7pm, then Monday to Wednesday next week.

I am not sure of the order but the first two are Korean, the last two are Chinese.

More next week. I don't think this post will reach many people before this evening so I will try for more detail later.

Ignore the building site. There is a way through.

#ipexworld photo of Kodak bag at Imperial Exeter, more next week

I tried out a Tweetmeet to celebrate the launch of IPEXworld but not much interest so far. Here is a photo of the bag in case you missed it.

Next Monday to Wednesday i will probably be passing the Imperial on the way to Devonshire House where there is an Asian Film Festival, starts 7pm free admission if you can find the way in past the building site. So I could rave on about IPEX if you were going to be nearby. So far not much on twitter but I think IPEX as a website is a  wakeup call for print magazines and shows as events. Of course over 500 years a wakeup can take months. 

Router Boosters for Exeter ahead of #likeminds

I have done a blog post for wifi Exeter about some boxes I plan for next week

http://wifiexeter.blogspot.com/2010/10/copy-for-other-two-boxes.html

They are only indications. There could be a lot more use of broadband in Exeter than there is. The BT building is quite close to the Central Library and the Phoenix. The example next week will be around music such as near Timepiece.

https://acrobat.com/#d=yVK9gTTysiEX9tgF9WM1nQ

https://acrobat.com/#d=4nHalwajW5oqgwYkhX8VRA

https://acrobat.com/#d=qAvfL4WrWyjoF7feNXJmTg

you should be able to print your own version, not sure how long the boxes will stay there

IPEX World, a new stage for print and online #ipexworld

Today there is an IPEX World website

http://www.ipex.org/

I think this is a good use of the Web. Print is not only promoted in print. IPEX will not happen as a show for another four years or slightly less. This site is showing links to most shows on the planet. So there should be continuing dicussion.

The LinkedIn pages are reasonable independent in the discussions so far. Business to bussiness magazines are moving online. This seems to be agreed. 

The IPEX World site continues to link to social media. Print can be part of this.

Continues at Imperial, Exeter. Not sure how this Tweetup idea works but maybe more next week.