Flickr set from the Exeter University Forum ahead of Wednesday
I think I will head there directly to get a good view. Several performances in the morning according to the Express and Echo including the Soul Choir.
Exeter University Forum looking good but I still wonder about the bookshop
I went to the campus again in the middle of today. It is almost ready and looking good. Some photos later. I visited the offices of Expose, the student newspaper. They explained that the series of reports and comment on the bookshop issue had come to an end because there seemed no way to reverse the decision and also students seemed to be accepting the new situation. So the new Forum will reopen without a bookshop although Blackwells are convinced the current shop is viable. It still seems to me a strange way to spend £24m or £48m or whatever number when there was a perfectly reasonable bookshop before the project started. The student newspaper will investigate opinion again at the start of the next academic year. After six weeks the temp arrangments for course books will end and perhaps the lack will be noticed. But the current portacabin has not been easy to find. There may be a new generation of students who have no idea what a bookshop is.
I will try to study more on Wednesday or later. There could be some good resources once we are allowed inside.
Meanwhile here are some notes from bits of cuttings that I have half remembered and just found
The Maxxi in Rome may be about to close after only opening a couple of years ago. Apparently financing the building is an issue.
In an interview with the Guardian at her own apartment, Zaha Hadid had a comment
"The only thing about this flat is there's no kitchen," she says. How can she live without a kitchen? "Well it did have one, but I took it away. It was ugly." Does she ever cook? "No, I used to have someone to cook, but he's gone now. I go out all the time."
Is this connected to the relation of form and function? A YouTube clip has this in the description- "Zaha Hadid is one of the architects which is more focused on the form, instead of function. This type of designing is also known as Function follows Form, not Form follow Function."
My impression is that Second Life has a lot to answer for. Space appears to be unlimited but this is actually a fantasy, not easy to compete with through an actual building even if the design software is the same. Anyway, looking at the new Forum there is now obviously no space where you could put a bookshop.
By the way there is still an empty retail unit on the St Lukes campus where the bank used to be. (It would suit me as a bookshop as I live in Heavitree.)
#VIDEOdrupa how to get this tag better known? (first video drupa seems to be 1995)
I have found another couple of YouTube drupa videos to Tweet about.
Please search Twitter on #VIDEOdrupa to find them.
Scitex knew about 3D animation in 1995.
Heidelberg has started out really well. The sound works well just as is.
If this continues as another video drupa then the case for cross media is timely.
Three stories from IPEX 2010 ahead of drupa 2012
http://www.scribd.com/doc/91738937
Adobe completes messaging to IPEX, they have done the job on Postscript.
Xerox positioned close to Heidelberg at IPEX, they just tipped it to digital imho
Video was very evident. Looks like being moreso at drupa so cross media is with us now, whatever is said about just being a possible future.
OhmyNews International was an excellent situation for me. These were about the last stories I did, they still have the "waiting to be edited" status but I think by then I had the style fairly well understood. OhmyNews continues in Korea, with a lot of video.
future dates / random access during drupa
2nd May HM The Queen visits Exeter, official end of the university bookshop
24/25 May #likeminds in Exeter
31 May/1June Lancaster 30 years of MA in Learning and Leadership #MAMLL30
7th June Demsig #cqimoso (location available if some prior knowledge)
3rd-4th September Cross Media Live #CrossMedia2012
(music during summer links to social media)
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#mtw3 continues online / may be face-to-face in September (could link to Cross Media Live depending on media used as part of it)
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Winterlude 4 mostly BETT and Learning Technology
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try to look for links
Towards a theory of PR for Creative Commons events #A2DMusicExpo #likeminds
/will789gb/performance-on-youtube-from-a2dmusicexpo-live
This previous post links to video clips from last Saturday. I hope the Creative Commons choice will stay ok with the performers. It will allow the remix button to show on YouTube so there could be future combinations, including other times and places.
Previously I have tried to work out if there is a general theory of PR that relates to this sort of thing. Last year Watershed PR handled the animation at Exeter cathedral. They were explicit that this was on a Creative Commons basis, including the YouTube clip with an excellent soundtrack. I was encouraged to do interviews and again this was posted on a Creative Commons licence.
I don't know if the people in these videos from the Phoenix bar have an explicit PR policy. Something will emerge though as more connections are made.
Towards the end of May there will be another #likeminds in Exeter. I don't know how music will feature. But there could be continued discussion about how events and performance are recorded.
A lot of the time I just assume a Creative Commons style of PR policy. For example on the Wild Show this Thursday I may broadcast sound from YouTube clips about #likeminds on Exeter Quay. I sort of assume this is ok. But the Creative Commons box on YouTube has not been ticked on this one so far.
When Dan Jarvis MP was a guest on the Wild Show I asked him why he did not choose Creative Commons on his Flickr page. He said he would have a look at this and I notice that Michael Gove did choose Creative Commons for his speech at BETT on YouTube.
I would welcome more explicit policy on this. It would benefit reporting and linking content together.
Below, interview with Cllr Paul Bull soon after the Wild Show with Dan Jarvis MP. Phoenix Bar lighting much better than the basement.
Performance on YouTube from #A2DMusicExpo, live from the Phoenix Bar Exeter
It took about a week to render and load which is reasonable I think. Not exactly in time for the evening news the same day but then Youtube works on another level of time awareness.
also from a room upstairs, demo of Tenori-on as an App
later posts will look at implications for apps, mobile devices, and the recording studio.
#VIDEOdrupa links IPEX 2002, drupa 2008 with VIDEO ahead of next week #futureprint
http://ipex2002.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/continues-on-drupa-2008-videodrupa.html
this link will take you to a blog about IPEX starting 2002, then a blog about drupa starting in 2008, then a YouTube clip with Andy Tribute ahead of drupa right now in cloud mode or next week in face-to-face.
I think a lot of things that have been building up are going to shift significantly.
Part of the background is that Apple and Adobe have stopped attending these shows. But they are still in the book business and soforth.
notes for future conversations #1 death to hollywood
I am still thinking about why social video seems easier with music than with visual images. Think it may be with a gallery tradition. So I try to find bits and pieces before they vanish. I have a heap of paper to go through but am trying out searching Google on words I can remember, such as Guardian, Keynes, death, hollywood
When it was founded in 1946, the Arts Council could justify its activities in its own terms: it was there to widen access to the arts throughout the country, as well as to maintain and develop national arts institutions in the capital. Behind the latter policy lay a theory of artistic value that you could call patrician: art's purpose as ennobling, its realm the nation, its organisational form the institution, its repertoire the established canon and works aspiring to join it. In this the council was seeking to reverse a rising tide of populism (art's role as entertainment, its realm the marketplace, its form the business, its audience mass), a goal summed up in the founding chairman John Maynard Keynes's ringing declaration: "Death to Hollywood."
Looking forward to this #futureprint #tweetjam whattheythink is online already I think
drupa starts soon as an online event
Before the last IPEX I did not realise that what they think dorcom is not in print itself. Not sure if they do any print. OhmyNews has a Saturday free print version as promotion for the website. I don't know if What They Think has anything similar but I guess we may discover.
Xerox is starting with tweets so they are putting print in a context. This seems well judged on what is happening now. I find that Printweek and the Guardian in the UK write about print as if it is still a fixture. It might be easier to imagine a time when they have moved online. Not impossible given other moves in Haymarket.
I Exeter UK we now have a local newspaper as a weekly not a daily. I think the website would be better if they thought about it as the main thing. still a role for print.
There could be a dozen giant inkjet machines, one for each UK region. The Guide in the Guardian on a Saturday is very confusing with a regional section in the middle of the listing for films on TV. The pagination is doubled up and I always get lost. I am not sure what the runlength is but I think someone should look into a scenario plan for something in Bristol. Also a Saturday news sheet for Exeter with a bit extra on sport.
Online video to co-exist with proper telly
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/173046/three-quarters-of-online-video-buyers-planning-tv.html?edition=46008
This is mostly about advertising and the USA but it seems to make sense as to where online video is going.
At the Analogue to Digital Music Expo in Exeter last weekend it was reported that Sound on Sound had feedback about their video page indicating a lack of interest in colour balance and other technical issues. Phone cameras are good enough for YouTube.
Meanwhile Apple is moving HD to levels that might suit TV more than phones. So the boundaries may change again later.
Learning as three meanings, also compared with communication and quality #hellospiders
I am thinking again about doing some diagrams for Hello Spiders. These are similar to word clouds based on stats for search results but can be created as a layout of words anyway. I usually start with learning, communication, quality. Most previous blogs are about how these combine. Earlier on it was about print and other forms of communication. It turns out that the London College may have been right to change the name. It makes more sense over time even if London College of Printing was well known.
I think "communication" and "quality" can be linked together quite readily. Adobe has moved into analytics as this fits with web design and digital media. Print distribution and advertising will fit with this also I think. So stats and process will be part of the workflow. From a quality perspective the digital communication is now making it easier to combine document control and agility or whatever it is you are looking for.
Learning is still unclear as it is tied into education. The everyday use of the word by people outside formal education may not be the same thing. There is "Networked Learning" which may not rely on technology as it may be based on previously existing academic values. There is whatever Chris Grey is against in "Against Learning" . I think it is outside universities and may be connected with the web.
Then there is Learning Without Frontiers, Learning Technologies, whatever you think is going on at Olympia towards the start of the year. This includes much that is informal.
So I will try later for some words on some sort of pattern.
RGB versus Twinity Dance
"versus" is some form of relation, I think.
RGB is Rougemont Global Broadcasting, about to enter a new phase of links as well as a YouTube channel. The scope includes technology and theory. I think Twinity can help as a way of basing a studio for continuity. The avatars are gradually taking over for comment and speculation.
But as well as the budget issues around street locations there is also the trend that the Twinity focus seems to be on dance. It may be getting out of proportion. Don't get me wrong, every channel needs some dance. So far I have not persuaded many academics to visit Twinity or the Work Foundation to invest in a full replica building ( when central London returns it might be worth another look, there are few conference locations inside the scope).
Last weekend I did some video in the Phoenix bar during Analog2Digital. More on this later. Mostly performance but there will be some technology when I can understand it. It may be interesting to try out the avatars on this.
Avatars and fiction as a front for assuming integrated learning and quality
Not really complete fiction, more speculation based on unspecified sources. I started this after the Deming Secrets meeting in London. The Fleet Street avatar Source.Dubious has repeated some remarks that could show there are problematic views from quality professionals about HR and performance targets. This could be interesting if there is conversation about how culture develops inside formal systems, both as QA and HR.
Then this past weekend Steve Shopper reported something on the technical discussion at the Exeter Analogue to Digital Music Expo. There may be a full audio record later but often it takes a while to work out what should be public.
http://wifiexeter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/steve-shopper-rough-notes-on-a2d.html
Main problem still is that Twinity has dropped the street views. Either there is no budget for the maps data or the map companies can't work out how to benefit from the exposure. So I can only create new photographs in rooms or public spaces like Twinity reception London. I do have some old ones that could be reworked. More on this later.
There are photos of a walk between Victoria area where the Work Foundation is and London Bridge near where the Chartered Quality Institute finds training locations. So there could be a real life walk with conversation or more collages with avatars.
Meanwhile I have just checked my post on the Orkut Quality Management group a while ago
There has been no comment on this since Nov 2008. Many on the group seem to be from India and Brazil where ISO certification is growing. But I don't think the acceptance of quality as something to study has changed much in the UK though this may be discussed during #mtw3 online or at the meeting looking back on 30 years of the Management Learning MA at Lancaster.Learning with quality systems, is this obvious?I have just found this group so the topic may have come up previously.Is it obvious that learning is a large part of what happens through people in a quality system?I have tried to get interest in quality theory from people who study management learning. In the UK the people who know about learning tend to have a critical opinion about quality. Perhaps their experience in UK universities has not been pleasant. See "Making Quality Critical" by Wilkinson and Wilmott for example.So far there has not been much UK academic interest in relating quality theory to researching learning organisations. Peter Senge recognises the connections, see his mentions for Dr Deming in the update for The Fifth Discipline.My guess is that for most practitioners the links between learning and quality are obvious. Maybe academics just have to be organised in disciplines. Maybe it is just an issue in the UK.Comment welcome.
There will also be a meeting to study Deming Secrets as an event. This is sort of open but assumes prior knowledge of MoSO so far. More detail on request.
My idea is to imagine less about location and do more work on avatars and collage. This phase will change sometime, probably around September should there be a face to face #mtw3.
As drupa starts up online, Emily Bell lets slip that "the newspaper disappears" @CSherburne @XeroxProduction
This is going to be a fascinating drupa. There is already loads online including a tweet event tomorrow through What They Think.
“Tweetjams”—live discussion forums via two-way Twitter postings—will herald and review Xerox’s activities at the show. Facilitated by WhatTheyThink’s Cary Sherburne, the chats will take place on Tuesday, April 24, at 2 p.m. EDT, and again on Tuesday, May 22, in the same time slot. Following @CSherburne or @XeroxProduction and including the hashtag#FuturePrint in Tweets is the ticket to joining the jams.
Thing is, if Xerox have social media so upfront then print is clearly just part of communication. Maybe this is already well known but I think it is worth repeating just in case anyone thinks something different. Tweet as above over the next month or so, or if not into Tweeting some other method that Google could find please.
Today I bought a print Guardian as on a Monday there is a Media section, though much reduced from previously. Emily Bell writes about the recent prize for Huffington Post and includes a quote from Pulitzer chair Sig Gissler. The definition of eligibility has to change "as the newspaper disappears". Well, that is news. Rarely acknowledged in the Guardian in print.
I think there could still be a weekend Guardian on a Saturday. and inkjet could do a regional Guide insert to events. But the social position of print is changing.
Jo Francis appeared in the print version of Printweek on Friday, at least a photo. You had to follow the link to the website to discover the actual blog. Same thing with the helpline. So the print is paid for but leads the reader into the website. Will the print continue for long? The "so what?" question is not about any one piece of kit, more about what the trend is.
Also I think it may be the case that there will be no printed edition of the proceedings from the Networked Learning Conference. Previously it has been possible to find a PDF of the papers but this has not been widely promoted. Now there is a notice of publication by Lancaster University and some impressive design in the presentation together with an ISBN number. I can trace one previous publication through the Wikipedia
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Advances in Research on Networked Learning
Series: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series, Vol. 4
Goodyear, P.M.; Banks, S.; Hodgson, V.; McConnell, D. (Eds.)
2004, VIII, 248 p.
£103.50
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I don't know how many copies were sold at that price. For whatever reason it seems that online open access is now better supported. Networked Learning as theory gets more interesting as more people can access it and the format is easier to relate to.
Two new videos from #A2DMusicExpo - Tenori as App and performance in Phoenix Bar
Tenori-on as iPad App #A2DMusicExpo
by.polar.bares at Phoenix Bar Exeter Tenori-On #A2DMusicExpo
more later, there was a lot in the bar with technology. I don't really understand how it worked but this may emerge as comments later.
hello KBA, what they think, please be careful with the pop up ads
Reading What They Think on Adobe Creative Crowd
Liked it to Facebook, then was about to comment
Up pops an ad for KBA, right in the middle of the text space.
Did it get my attention? Did it make me think the classic print industry understands social media?
make a guess.
Avid Studio on iPad is this price real, any examples out there? #a2d #a2dmusicexpo
http://itunes.apple.com/app/avid-studio/id491113378?mt=8
Checking out some notes from yesterday at the Analog 2 Digital event in Exeter Phoenix.
I still think video should be of more interest. As I understand it, Sound on Sound got feedback that too much detail on video production was not of great interest for the readers. Simpler cameras are being used for YouTube etc. And Avid had very little displayed about video. They did tell me though that Avid is available as well as Pinnacle at consumer level sort of prices. So the Avid option is a bit more than Studio but not outside what a lot of software costs.
Online I also discovered there is an Avid for iPad. The costs seems to be about five US dollars. Is it any good? Is there an example somewhere?
The resolution on the recent iPad seems way over the top for UK bandwidth. But maybe things will change. If you could record and edit and load to cloud in the time it took to drink a cup of coffee then cafe society would reach a new level.
By the way, if Sound on Sound readers are happy with low level tech for video will they also consider other options for sound? iPad options and cloud services may have a role.
Exeter High Street in a global cloud context @A2DMusicExpo
This a note ahead of A2D tomorrow.
Sound is the most advanced form of media as a web enabled scene.
Video still requires a lot of bandwidth. Books or text / graphics is ok for bandwidth but still with a lot of changes to come in structures and accepted practice.
The new university Forum is designed without a bookshop. This seems odd at the moment but maybe there is a point to this. (see previous posts)
I don't know when phone cameras will be both ok as good enough for YouTube and linked to wifi for upload the same day. On the Wild Show we have recently found it possible to load mp3 from a Zi8 within a week via an SD card. Things can only get better.
eBooks are moving. WH Smith stocking Kobo. Sony now has a store, maybe why Waterstones has no hardware from Sony. Online rumor they will deal with Barnes and Noble.
Exeter High Street just one example of somewhere near a cloud but seems to have enough options to indicate what's going on.
Probable sequence - sound, video, txt fiction, academic journals.
Exeter High Street in a global cloud context @A2DMusicExpo
This a note ahead of A2D tomorrow.
Sound is the most advanced form of media as a web enabled scene.
Video still requires a lot of bandwidth. Books or text / graphics is ok for bandwidth but still with a lot of changes to come in structures and accepted practice.
The new university Forum is designed without a bookshop. This seems odd at the moment but maybe there is a point to this. (see previous posts)
I don't know when phone cameras will be both ok as good enough for YouTube and linked to wifi for upload the same day. On the Wild Show we have recently found it possible to load mp3 from a Zi8 within a week via an SD card. Things can only get better.
eBooks are moving. WH Smith stocking Kobo. Sony now has a store, maybe why Waterstones has no hardware from Sony. Online rumor they will deal with Barnes and Noble.
Exeter High Street just one example of somewhere near a cloud but seems to have enough options to indicate what's going on.
Probable sequence - sound, video, txt fiction, academic journals.