SoundCloud track for Phonic Benefit, no copyright issues so far @A2DMusicExpo

http://soundcloud.com/will789gb/phonic-benefit-4th-may-2012

This was broadcast on Phonic FM Thursday morning as part of the Wild Show. could be used again.

So far no copyright issues. Loaded ok on SoundCloud. So I think this is ok. Will try to check this out with the experts at A2D tomorrow.

Please comment with any links, mp3 for next week etc.

SoundCloud track for Phonic Benefit, no copyright issues so far @A2DMusicExpo

http://soundcloud.com/will789gb/phonic-benefit-4th-may-2012

This was broadcast on Phonic FM Thursday morning as part of the Wild Show. could be used again.

So far no copyright issues. Loaded ok on SoundCloud. So I think this is ok. Will try to check this out with the experts at A2D tomorrow.

Please comment with any links, mp3 for next week etc.

Exepose examples, student views on books and the cloud @ExeposeComment

I have now read more pages from Exepose, week Twenty Two (19th March). I can see why the idea of a university without a bookshop might be thought of as attractive.

On the Books page there is a "diary of a gamer turned reader". Jess Leung explains that reading fiction stopped with the last Harry Potter. "libraries have become associated with looming deadlines, all nighters and vending machines. Books have become a chore."  Even a Kindle was left to gather dust. But then on a chance train journey a novel filled a gap in attention and there is now a plan to check out 100 novels. More in a blog but the link may not be working. What strikes me is that the library and the course book don't come out of this well. Maybe they survive anyway.

Robert Harris describes the decline of Game Group as shops in an age of downloads but is not much surprised. He admits "there will always be people who want to turn a page, hold a box and own a disc." But the main conclusion is that "we may well see the entire high street evaporate and retreat to the cloud." So a centre to the university with shops holding stock might seem strange.

By the way, Cyan Turan covers a lot of reasons why Exeter can compensate for being a small county town by having some of the same chain shops as big cities but rather spoils it with a comment about House of Fraser maybe getting a MAC concession. There is no mention for the Apple shop or the Virgin Media retail spot. Or the shops for mobile phones. There is a basis for something. We don't yet know what will be on campus instead of a bookshop.

There may be more views on shops and books in future editions.

Soundcloud updated for Wild Show ahead of Analogue to Digital #A2DMusicExpo

I have put some clips from the Wild Show onto Soundcloud

http://soundcloud.com/will789gb/chris-norton-interviewed-on

This is as broadcast based on an interview about a week earlier. Chris may return to the studio soon but has hurt his leg so the Phoenix bar is easier. In theory with wifi any sound could be on SoundCloud then broadcast within minutes. What we did was to record as video to SD card, then edit, then play mp3 from usb stick. So our level of tech is very lacking in ambition. But it did work ok.

At A2D we hope to find out a bit more and identify some examples of how SoundCloud can be used for radio. (Also video later. The file sizes are bigger, wifi could just about cope but the cameras on phones are not there yet, or are they? No news on camera phones at A2D, maybe next year?)

I can't find a good clip about Mark Coles and BBC World Service. I tend to drop in various comments on air, so here is my question as txt.-

The BBC World Service has scrapped World of Music and when the Strand plays a track it is usually less than 20 seconds. What is the budget implication? If they can't play full tracks could they make it easier to link to other online resources? Their info is always interesting. Meanwhile Mark Coles is working from a shed and interviews in St James Park. He is on MixCloud. I have found there is a copyright limit on a do it yourself listen again approach with YouTube and SoundCloud. But MixCloud is ok for rights as there is an option to buy, full track info and shared ad revenue. I think so anyway. Maybe at A2D this could be explained a bit more. Comment welcome from people using MixCloud. What would the cost be for Phonic to have listen again?

One night recently ( I hear the World Service when half asleep so my info is not that reliable) there was a Seth Lakeman track more or less in full. So he probably has the rights to his own songs. But is he alone in this? Could the World Service do an hour or so with mp3 that people send in who don't mind being heard on radio? Could include some UK.

Meanwhile on the Wild Show we assume we can broadcast from YouTube to include musicians performing at Phonic benefits.

What is the proper term for "signed to major label" type acts as distinguished from others?

Exeter University demolition of bookshop, maybe they have a point.

I may have wobbled like this before. The going of the bookshop is a slow motion demolition really. It just seems wrong at the moment but maybe in a few years time it will make more sense. See yesterday for the dates. the new Exeter University Forum opens May 4th with a desk to support the Blackwells website. The current temp space ends before May 20th. The modernist design of the new Forum has no space for a bookshop.

The news from the London Bookfair seems to confirm a digital trend. I listened to Click last night and it was a bookish World Service audience who happened to each have some device for reading e-books. However there was not much on academic books or journals. Maybe this reflects the balance of the event. Somehow journals have moved into digital without much change in the format or business model. I t would still appear that a journal publication happens on a specific date with a closely defined text.

What will happen with text books? I don't think many of them are available as ebooks. There is a lot to shift if this is a tipping point sort of time.

Just checked my email from the Bookseller. Amazon now has US rights to the James Bond backlist. This is the sort of thing the London Book Fair is meant for.

I still think some Exeter students will find a hard copy bookshop, either near the High Street or on another campus. The Blackwells website has a virtual model of the shop in Oxford and a stock of Sony devices. Tottenham Court Road can be reached within four hours or so.

I think I may be influenced by my recent move to radio. I started as a guest on Phonic FM and now I am presenting the Wild Show on Thursday 10-12 till Chris Norton recovers from a broken foot. He may return soon or at least arrive before the end of the show. I have been told to be a bit less opinionated. Apparently the default mode for radio is to know nothing and have no opinion. The research is to narrow down what you don't know about and be aware of the possible opinions if they should appear. So if the blog seems more muddled and less based in fact this is just a way of developing for radio.

Given the even slower pace of the UK book trade I think the opening of the Exeter University Forum will have to do as a date for an event in digital book publishing. How it makes sense will be explored later.

Photos of Exeter University Forum / dates on the end university bookshop

There are some photos from yesterday on Flickr

It is a very interesting site so a suitable setting for the visit by the Queen to open the Forum in early May.

It still seems that the decision to end the bookshop has not been reversed. At the moment it is not clear what the retail outlets will be that replace the bookshops. Could be a travel agency or a clothing shop. There must be something in mind to convince a university to choose against a bookshop.

I found a copy of Expose but the campaign about the bookshop from last summer seems to have stopped. Maybe the people interested have left. The temp space has not been easy to find so there may be two thirds of the students who don't know what a university bookshop would be like. There will be a desk in the new Forum with computer access to the Blackwells website and some limited stock at the beginning of each term with the main course items. Delivery will be quicker that online competition because of stock held on the St Lukes campus though there will be no shop as such.

I notice that the bank space is still not being used on the St Lukes campus. Could this be a bookshop? I should reveal that I live in Heavitree and walk past St Lukes quite often. I am more likely to go there than a desk at the Forum, especially if I also have to go back four hours later.

Exepose reports that following a decision not to issue printed lecture notes some enterprising students have found sponsors for a print run that saves students the cost of producing the hard copy that the university assumes is no longer needed. Could something similar happen with a bookshop at St Lukes? Access would be denied except to those with a card issued after filling in a long form about employment ambitions, insurance needs etc. Only a bus ride away.

I am still slightly surprised at my own response to this. I am in favour of the web and digital technology. But the research on blended learning is strong and applies to much else I think. There is still a place for books as hard copy. This is the first time I know of when a university has deliberately decided against a bookshop although it is viable. I still wonder why they need a library or how a library will evolve.

The temp space for Blackwells will end before the 20th May. There will not be much concern during the exams but i think some students will notice round about week six in the autumn when there may just be a desk and a screen.

The Forum looks very nice but it still seems expensive as a way to demolish a bookshop. I will try to keep an open mind and have a good look at the new technology resources.

#mtw3 find CMS and YouTube this time

A recent check with Google found that CMS and YouTube show up at the top of results for #mtw3.

It might be just for me, not sure with Google nowadays but i think the notice on Critical Management site has some interest.

YouTube beginning to work, more for part two than part one. So maybe those who view part one then continue, but probably some skip directly to part two.

Spacex current layout could be set for 80s sound

Not sure if I have posted this before. Things keep repeating but in slightly different forms.

 

I am doing the Wild Show for Chris while his foot recovers so can ask JD about 80s music and try things out. We are following from the 70s and the Celebration of Failure.

 

Now I find Spacex is looking at A Quick Look Back to include learning and activity.

 

http://www.spacex.co.uk/pl110.html

 

The layout could be described as including-

 

an arrival area with TV and sofas

 

a dance area with screens and sound

 

a chill out area with screens but no sound at the moment

 

a corridor suitable for flat images in frames

 

a food area aka kitchen

 

So this could be adapted as an 80s environment with sound and vision.

 

On Thursday JD may explain when the chill out zone started and also video. When did video start in art galleries?

 

We will also cover Tecno Brega, aka "cheesy" pop. But what is cheesy? So far what I can find sounds ok. But that's just me.

A2D2012 mobile extends studio as analog 2 digital continues

There will be another Analogue to Digital event in Exeter soon. I have been checking out some links. Blogsearch finds that Soundcloud has new funding to expand in the USA. I don't think they were in Exeter last year as in someone to talk to. But they have some connection. I think the main issue is around copyright. Interviews etc can be loaded to Soundcloud but can they be played on radio, reedited etc? Legal views are one aspect, custom and practice another.

 

http://www.reactable.com/products/mobile/

 

  tonori-on

 

 

 

http://www.native-instruments.com/#/products/producer/imaschine/

http://www.sound-gallery.net/

 

morelater following these links

 

Continues on wild Show this Thursday morning Phonic FM 10-12

 

 

 

more about radio, World Service going back before Radio Caroline ? just a theory

One thing I forgot to mention in previous post-

The idea of the transistor radio as a stage in portability design makes sense.

But what is happening with the World Service at the moment? They only play clips of tracks, maybe 10 seconds at the longest. Mostly there is talk. Could be abudget issue but it must reflect some priority. And this at a time when the UK licence is paying directly. Most people like music as in complete tracks.

Is there some official in part of the Foreign Office or BBC who really did not like Radio Caroline and is trying to take us back to a time previously when text fiction was supposed to be the thing? The Strand can easily find an hour or so for an author.

previously

My guess is that there are enough acts on the planet not signed to major labels to fill an hour or so a week with mp3 that they would like the BBC World Service to broadcast. I am not sure of hoe this sort of thing works. Maybe I will meet someone during Analog 2 Digital in exeter who could explain.

If they can only supply info on suggested listening, then YouTube links would help. The BBC surely has a department for Big Data Interfaces or something. 

Sustainability and symbolic architecture, possibly topics for radio as in Wild Show on Phonic FM

Still thinking about the scope of a chat show, as in filling the gaps on music radio. The structure of the Wild Show, like the New Exeter Radio Show, is fairly loose so there can be up to 20 minutes for a topic.

 

I think "sustainability" is worth looking at. It was studied during the recent Networked Learning conference.

 

http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/

 

I am not sure of the balance of focus regarding society and organisations. There is a lot of ambiguity around the sustainability of business and the environment.

 

There is an interesting post today on What They Think

 

http://whattheythink.com/articles/57160-surviving-printing-industrys-perfect-storm-aftermath/?utm_source=WhatTheyThink+Newsletters&utm_campaign=a01d423026-daily&utm_medium=email

 

Apparently there is not much of a choice for print companies facing the current challenges of competing media and changes in technology - " either issue a Mayday and sell the boat, or do nothing and watch the ship sink."

 

Around the time of drupa there could be other possibilities in the conversation. If it is time for a closed look at "cross media" then there could be a wider scope of services. Short run printing can be part of a web based system.

 

This sort of issue can relate to the sustainability of particular systems and to the planet. Peter Senge has talked about this in a  talk on YouTube-

 

 

There is also a YouTube record of a Google Hangout on reinventing education

 

 

Here it is pointed out that the book is 1000 years old. So education could be through video, or at least try things out. But book technology has not been the same all that time. And it could still change.

 

In Exeter UK the Queen will soon open the new cental feature for the university. Notably there is no space for a bookshop though there will be new technology support. This may be similar to the Learning Zone at Lancaster. I am not sure hos this sort of resource works out. It may be just as technology or it may have a symbolic effect on the university community and how forms of communication are regarded.

 

At drupa there will be discussion on the carbon footprint of print. This is rarely compared to the carbon imprint of buildings. But the comparison could be interesting.  

Radio history and stories, ahead of Wild Show this Thursday morning on Phonic.fm

I am gradually getting back into the week after the weekend that is still here despite the rain. I have found a page on the BBC site for Radio 4 that I heard about last week.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17608123

 

The slideshow covers radio history and in the sound Nicola Stanbridge suggests that "portability" was the chief protagonist behind design of transistor radios, associated with the troublesome teenager and Radio Caroline. This is something we should have considered on the Wild Show (Phonic FM Thursday mornings) when we talked about a transistor radio at the time of the  reopening of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum. Ghostwriter, Tales of Things, Gripping Yarns, there are several projects based on objects as a basis for stories.

 

For the Wild Show I hope to find more portable radio devices to take to cafes and other sites. There are several historic items in the date range of the BBC slide show. Some may be too heavy to move about but there could be photos on a phone.

Gutenberg Geek as seen on YouTube, video designed for conversation #T3W

an hour and a half, I will have to get a few things done today and watch later.

But this is a fascinating video. So far I have not done much with Google + but I notice Jeff Jarvis is posting quite often. He has changed his image to show off Gutenberg Geek, a new short text through Amazon. This video show the record of the hangout. So this could be a model for a lot of video conferencing style of occasions. Not that expensive.

You don't have to buy the text first. I think there is a summary as part of the video. Not sure though. Maybe watch the video and then think about buying the text.

By the way, I still think the Guardian has reduced the budget for Jeff Jarvis in print. I tried to check this fact with them but they don't reply. What is a blogger to do? anyway, Jeff is trying something new for some reason.

His topic is timely. In May the drupa print show will mostly be promoted by social media and video, just my guess.

Management Theory and the London College of Communications

I have mentioned before the possible third conference in the series Management Theory at Work. The first two were at Lancaster University about ten years ago and combined groups of practitioners and academics. Lancaster now has a London base at the Work Foundation so this could be a space for another. So far there is a social media version with a blog and LinkedIn group - search on #mtw3.

There is also a Cloud as part of Cloudworks

http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/6043

The OU and Cloudworks could be a case study during an event. The website is interesting anyway as part of a social media set.

But the buzz about the LCC is usually rather different. Let's face it. Print is on the wrong end of the technology drift, just at this time. The name was changed from the London College of Printing. then the parts of the structure with labels "Print" and "Publishing" were done away with. I don't know what "Design" and "Media" mean as distinct parts of a production process.

The budget cuts are not helping either. Science seems relatively ok but the creative industries need more technology resource than is sometimes supposed.

So I think at a conference the LCC is more likely to be in background mode than a spotlight case study. This blog will link to anything public that relates.

More later on YouTube etc. #mtw3 turns out to be media example that also includes some print journals and books.

Top Question- What happened to Eurekster?

I found a Eurekster video on YouTube and lefdt a comment. What happened?

Now I check some stats

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/eurekster.com

set the timescale to max. There was a spike up in early 2011 then it went on down. But it has not vanished.

The suggestion at the time was that some search engines stopped showing Swickis - the sort of wiki based on search results -  as they were too easy to set up. Mine took quite a bit of work actually.

An since then there is the plus one option on Google for example. I don't see why Eurekster should be treated as junk for doiing something similar a while earlier.

But I may not have understood things well. Any hints welcome.

Top Problem - Twinity Maps are just not there

I am trying to get to grips with my situation.

Things could come together if clearly stated. But where to start?

Twinity has been a great help in working through the problems of time and space.

But now the maps data has been taken away in a budget situation. There are no streets to wander as you think through the comparitive situation of Exeter or wherever you happen to be.

Surely there could be some sort of sponsorship or product link to a map source?

London data is supposed to be a public benefit I thought.

Draft workshop outline on model for video channel and production #likeminds #cqimoso #mtw3

News yesterday is that the #LikeMinds event in Exeter will be in May not October. So I need to rethink my imagined outline for the year. I still have some problem thinking about the discussion around #LikeMinds and the rest of the time in Exeter. But it is the best chance to connect local situations with a global perspective. There will be something about video I guess. a couple of years ago there was #LikeMovies and some hardware from Nokia and Kodak. #LikeMinds is not really a hardware show but still an occasion to ask where the Kodak patents are headed.

Towards the end of the year there will possibly be a face-to-face version of the third Management Theory at Work conference at the Work Foundation. Also possible is another Deming Secrets event that could be further north than London this time. I have done a video for #mtw3 based on sound recording and slides. There is video to edit from the first Deming Secrets event but this is taking time as there are two camera views. So I think it may work to suggest a walk between London Bridge, near to Deming Secrets, and the Work Foundation near Victoria. My interest is in mixing the learning approach and systems such as quality. The Chartered Quality Institute is located towards London Bridge. There may not be #mtw3 at the Work Foundation but it is still a location for an imagined HR building.  So a walk along the Thames might be one way to discuss this sort of thing. There are stills from my walk to and back from the first Deming Secrets. They are a guide for a possible video.

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Petty France to London Bridge

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London Bridge to House of Commons

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So these photos can be commented on or used in blogs etc. This is moving the autumn forward. A face-to-face workshop would be based on plan - do - check/study - act but I think actual recording as "do" would be a priority at an event. The theory could be online at other times. The models I have in mind follow discussions in Exeter with Jo Gedrych about Exeter Television. This has yet to happen but is based on local cable as in the USA. Jo is now living in Scotland and the YouTube channel is presented as JG Productions (search on "directorjo", there is at least one other JG Productions). By the way, I think his suggestions on what to do with a budget are always sensible. I just try to experiment with what is available. 

Recently there has been much talk about Analytics, or statistical process control to be less news orientated. So I have been checking on YouTube stats. I am disappointed there is not more interest in the Green Man in Exeter as recorded in 2011. Recent posts add to this so it may get more energy. Search on "green man exeter". The interviews work well I think in open air, lighting ok.

Relatively large number for how to hack a Prius. So the content matters. There is not much editing, one camera. The event and the speaker welcomed making the content public. I don't think Creative Commons was much discussed at the time but the culture continues in ways that are worth discussing again.

   

drupa in context of a move to web based workflow #Shantanu #Narayan #Adobe

Found this from Shantanu Narayan

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/interviews/digital-marketing-is-going-to-be-the-next-big-thing-shantanu-narayen-ceo-adobe-systems/articleshow/12239701.cms?curpg=2

Digital marketing and digital media is what we will focus on. The creative process is going through a transformation - from print work-flow to web work flow. And now, how do companies get their content out on app stores? 

The rest of this story seems to be a pretty good guide to where Adobe is headed.

But my main takeaway is that it explains why Adobe is not at drupa. At least I can't find a stand number. They may be lurking somewhere.

Yes, as a digital identity drupa has started. It never went away. 

@arusbridger notes from yesterday re open journalism, OhmyNews and Unlimited Talk #openjournalism

I don't think Alan Rusbridger will have much more to say today. He was online for an hour yesterday about open journalism.

There was no reply to my questions but I think blogging is more like thinking aloud and then the answer will turn up somewhere else. Keeping the record together is one aspect of this but getting an immediate answer from anybody is unusual.

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will789gb

26 March 2012 3:10PM

What actually happened to Guardian Unlimited Talk?

Why did Guardian staff never join in?

Why was there no development?

Why never mentioned in print?

Why was it trashed?

Why was this never explained?

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no answer on this but some great principles-

AlanRusbridger

26 March 2012 3:10PM

Response to WheatFromChaff, 26 March 2012 3:01PM

Open journalism is journalism which is fully knitted into the web of information that exists in the world today. It links to it; sifts and filters it; collaborates with it and generally uses the ability of anyone to publish and share material to give a better account of the world.

A year or so ago, when we were trying to work out how journalism should change, we jotted down 10 principles of open journalism. (obviously you can stick a 'not' in any of the sentences to see what closed journalism looks like)

Here they are:

- It encourages participation. It invites and/or allows a response

- It is not an inert, “us” or “them”, form of publishing

- It encourages others to initiate debate, publish material or make suggestions. We can follow, as well as lead. We can involve others in the pre-publication processes

- It helps form communities of joint interest around subjects, issues or individuals

- It is open to the web and is part of it. It links to, and collaborates with, other material (including services) on the web

- It aggregates and/or curates the work of others

- It recognizes that journalists are not the only voices of authority, expertise and interest

- It aspires to achieve, and reflect, diversity as well as promoting shared values

- It recognizes that publishing can be the beginning of the journalistic process rather than the end

- It is transparent and open to challenge – including correction, clarification and addition

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This sounds good but I wonder why there was not more effort to integrate Guardian Talk with this sort of thing. As memory serves there was quite a lot in print over the early years about the downside of bloggers etc.

But maybe things are changing, I should try to keep up

AlanRusbridger

26 March 2012 3:18PM

Response to alixir, 26 March 2012 3:02PM

I was thinking aloud about moderation in a really good series of discussions with readers.

The theme was: what would readers like to give us (apart from the obvious: money)? Among the possibilities we discussed: time and data. In discussing time - the idea of readers playing a more active role in the creation of the Guardian in all its different aspects - we talked about moderation and the role hundreds of thousands of people have played in creating Wikipedia. We talked about whether this should be paid for or voluntary. And whether it was at all feasible, or even desirable.

The idea may be interesting, or crazy. It was an interesting discussion, though ... and quite a few readers indicated they liked the idea.

What do you think?

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will789gb

26 March 2012 3:22PM

Response to AlanRusbridger, 26 March 2012 3:18PM

Have you looked at OhmyNews?

Twice reported in the Tech bit on a Thursday but I don't think ever in Media.

Now only in Korean, they can't subsidise an English version.

Citizen Journalism as discussed at OhmyNews. Could the Guardian go back a few years and really have a look?

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Maybe they will. Just because there appears not to be a response it could still be that somebody reads it.

http://international.ohmynews.com/

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Just to recap though I have not checked the dates recently, Guardian Unlimited Talk was a social media network supported by Guardian readers that had no input from Guardian staff, was not developed from as a software investment, and had no promotion from print journalists.

Is there a story in there somewhere?

#mtw3 as a YouTube sequence

My colleague Linda Shelton has posted on the #mtw3 blog to show that a YouTube sequence can start with the recent talks by John Burgoyne. This is not exactly the keynote he would offer at a face-to-face event but it covers mos of the issues that stand out from the time of the first two conferences around ten years ago.

http://mtw3.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/youtube-version-of-face-to-face-event.html 

The topics CMS and "dynamic capabilities" are not as well covered on YouTube so far. More may turn up. There is a book - "Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management" that I have been looking at but I can't find much on YouTube with similar content. Seven hundred pages so this is a bit of a different scene.

I think there should be more on YouTube linked to CMS. Critique can be public.

So I would welcome suggestions of suitable links. I could offer to edit something together if sound files and slides are available for example. Things are moving with the scope of YouTube and it should be possible to go with it.