YouTube list updated for #mtw3

Linda Shelton has posted about the Management Theory at Work event and the YouTube playlist.

The only new one is about academic publishing.

I think this is a good way to round off a discussion about management theory. How will universities spend the library budget in future? In the rest of the discussion there are various models.Journals can be free if seen as contributing to interest in a project. Books about open source and learning can turn out to be quite expensive.

Later on I hope to write something about 3D printing and art objects. The Work Foundation has done a report about 3D Printing but not included much about sculpture.

There will be a show at the Phoenix in Exeter later this year that relates.

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Adventures in Riso - questions around print runs and "aura"

In the Phoenix Arts Centre in Exeter there is a current exhibit in the corridor near the kitchen. "An Adventure in Riso" based on images from the 1924 film The Adventure of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reinger. The works were printed by Prt Scr Press using Riso equipment. They were created in a workshop collaboration between artist Oliver Flexman and the University of Exeter Art Society.

The question that comes to my mind is why there is not an offer of prints in an unlimited quantity depending on demand. I recently spoke to Volkhardt Muller about Any High Street on the Wild Show / Phonic FM.

 

He explains the idea of "aura", the benefits of materials that are not easy to reproduce and also limited editions. 

I can understand that a woodcut is not suited to a very long run of printing. But a Riso can do quite a lot before you have to start again.

There may be time to discuss this again on the Wild Show. Mostly Phonic FM is music but there is some talk as well.

I notice on Oliver Flexman's store that there is a limited edition of a baseball cap. as memory serves this was displayed at the Phoenix inside a glass case. Would it have mattered if a few had been given away if worn around the building?

The image on the jpeg attached is a start on a poster for Nosferatu, 20 Nov at Exeter Northcott. Please have a look at the Adventure in Riso in the Phoenix Walkway Gallery and suggest a poster design for Riso. The Wikipedia suggests that copyright may be an issue in Germany but not in most other places. Note that this is a design for advertising so there could be more tolerance for using images.

By the way, The YouTube search robot suggests watching this next one when I search on Volkhardt Muller

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Flickr sets of photos from walk to university campus and back through city centre

no captions yet but these will be added.

I am running a bit late, these were taken more than a week ago. I hope there will be enough days with some light so there could be video interviews on these sets. The web is moving on academic publishing and sculpture I think. Continues on Wild Show, music definitely changing. 3D printing at the Phoenix later this year. New gadgets announced next week. More later.
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Tests ok on social video in Wifi Exeter

These clips are not very good or very long, but they do show that fairly soon it will be possible to do interviews from central Exeter. Kodak have yet to sell the patents for cameras such as the Zi8 so I am still waiting to upgrade my phone. Taking a card home usually only delays an upload by a day or so.

But here from last week, Chris Norton uses his iPhone and uploads to YouTube within minutes

Then yesterday I met JD and tried out a new Nexus 7

overnight he looked up how to turn the camera by 90 degrees. the new software turned up as automatic download but then you have to enable it in settings. So then-

The Nexus is not designed with a front camera so this is bound to be wobbly. But the Wild Show can continue in the Phoenix cafe as well as on Phonic, 10 -12 Thursday morning. Chris plans to upload by phone from the South West Music Awards and I will try to record this on Zi8. 1 or 2 minute clips is not exactly live outside broadcast but we will keep testing, this is not far off. 
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End of print denial but what about Monday to Friday? #Rusbridger

The Guardian will continue in print. Official.

But there is no detail on the option of continuing in the UK with a Saturday magazine style and closing for the rest of the week. I think the Media and Education sections are getting to be borderline value. Buzzmachine compares quite well to a Monday.

My local newsagent no longer displays the Guardian well for most of the week, but things change on a Saturday.

According to the Digital Spy-

Its digital revenues increased to £45.7 million last year, but its overall operating losses rose to £31.1m.

Is it time for a rethink on citizen journalism? A different take on the readers? Full disclosure on what happened with Guardian Talk?

Recently Emily Bell wrote about Variety

The purchaser, just to spice things up, is not another long-established media organisation but a "blog company". 

My guess is that "citizen journalism" will stay in quote marks till the Guardian runs out of money and something else happens.

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Design Science, YouTube for an hour and a half is too much for Wild Show #mtw3

This morning I watched the whole of this talk on design science.

Definitely too much for the Wild Show, it would only leave half an hour for music. But it explains where the idea is coming from. If you need to skip through it, roughly the first half hour is about collaboration examples, the next half hour is about design science and the last half hour is questions. Very briefly, there is some recognition for existing design, social science and action learning but still a case in a web context for research funding in some proportion to the space budget over a period up to 400 years.

I have been dipping into this sometimes but I think the future of the design science DJ will depend on shorter explanations.

However it is worth viewing for the positive motivation in engaging with technology. I like the comparison of engagement and experimentality. I was reminded of the Lancaster project on Experimentality and had a look at a recent paper -

There are some interesting ideas about Kondratieff cycles but I can't see where activity might follow from this style of writing. Design science has a lot to contribute to experimentality.
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Wild Show, Design Science, the DJ, Management Theory at Work #mtw3

This post is to add to conversation during the Wild Show on Phonic FM. I am gradually doing more connected to the Management Theory at Work conference that continues online. This week I played again two clips from a podcast about copyright and creative industry. They are already on YouTube from a previous broadcast. But I don't think we have understood yet what is meant by copyright industies, creative industries, and especially the term "barbarian" which appears to include the UK and USA media style. We have considered the idea that radio presentation is barbarian but this week we established that Radio Luxembourg presenters were not pirates although they did innovate.

The clip on YouTube, starts with Will and JD then the extracts after about 12 minutes -

I realise some of the ideas could take up too much time for a music radio show. So there will be mention of this blog and the YouTube record.

I also have started to think that it may be too much to expect us to apply design science to our work as DJ as well as understanding design science enough to find clips about it. So far Chris seems to accept the idea that there is design ahead of a show but JD is not sure about the "science" aspect. He is probably right that skill is involved. I need to work on reducing the pauses before the music.
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user groups, Adobe segmentation, Nexus 7, Touch apps

Still trying out the Nexus 7. Seems to lose all power when recharging. Not sure why. OK now, suggest check that it is turned off not just resting.

I have a credit from Google Play so thought about buying some Touch apps from Adobe. Turns out none of them work with the Nexus 7. Search finds this response from Bob Levine on a Digital Publishing Suite Forum

This is a user to user forum and your question has nothing to do with DPS, I’m afraid.
  
FWIW, though, I’d love to have them, too.

Well, excuse me I thought the idea was to use tablets to show off ideas that were worked on later with chunkier stuff.

Meanwhile the prices look very reasonable if you happen to have an Apple device already. This must be a growth market.

When will there be an app to compare with the desktop price for Acrobat? Not sure where to ask this question.

Long ago there was a UK Acrobat User Forum where you could talk about anything. This had some advantages.
 
 
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Nexus 7 ok for video when you find the menu app

I have bought a Nexus 7 from Tesco in Exeter. So not very adventurous.

For about an hour I could not find out how to work the camera. Then I used search on my desktop and found this

Not sure why there is no icon to start with but now there is. Apparently the camera will pop up in the middle of a Google app but not just as it is. Search also shows a hack to improve the resolution but this is ok for quick clips of comment.

the lighting will improve outside. Wifi ok in much of Exeter.
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location, virtual worlds #EX1to4 #Twinity

http://www.twinity.com/en/blog/

The Twinity blog explains some changes since the purchase by Exit Reality.

The servers have moved to San Francisco so there may be less connection with Berlin.

There is another site for a younger audience, more clearly aimed at music and dance

There is no news on the maps coming back. This was the main thing that interested me. I thought it easier to imagine being in another city if there was an accurate street view.

But I rarely persuaded people I know in another context to follow me. I have used stills to illustrate a blog or add to Facebook etc. I think I will do more of recycling previous stills from the map era. I will still visit Twinity but not expect it as a main focus.

Meanwhile I can think about Exeter as a comparison with Lancaster. Previously most Avatars I knew lived near the LAncaster campus. The situation is usually a tech vision from the Info Lab, critique at the Business School, and some sort of conclusion in public space, either Alexanderplatz or after a bus to the actual city centre.

Exeter area also works as real space, I keep trying the tag #EX1to4 but not much use so far. Could work as local media but it seems people exist in communities of many kinds.  
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Going bookshops in Exeter, London Communication making more sense

This post has some of the same ideas as in previous ones. But there could be a clearcut event sometime soon or by taking a few months as one section of time.

Another way to look at it is through decisions that turn out to be sound even though they were queried at the time. The London College of Printing has been in some confusion I think since the name was changed to Communication. I rarely meet anyone working there who is delighted with the changes. But I notice there is strong mention of games in the promotion for the 2012 Futures conference. This is easier as part of Communication. Of course the London School of Economics changed the scope without changing the name. But the Futures conference this year may indicate a scope for communication that has a more confident direction.

In Exeter the rebuilding of the university central forum managed to demolish the bookshop without leaving enough space for a new one. There is a temp Blackwells for about six weeks with enough stock for the courses set texts. Then there will be a desk in the supermarket to support the website. Meanwhile in Exeter Waterstones will soon stock Kindle and a new John Lewis will offer the new Nook from Barnes and Noble. I don't yet understand how Waterstones will promote their own website rather than Amazon. But the nature of sites selling books is changing. WH Smith displays Kobo and has another Costa.

It may turn out over the book selling time till the new year that there has been a shift to digital. But if a university has no need of a bookshop, what is the case for a library?

So far I have been interested in digital developments while thinking that print and hard copy books can continue as well. But compact discs seem to be vanishing now from retail shops. The student newspaper in Exeter has dropped any protest at the lack of a bookshop longterm. It will be interesting to see if there is some reporting in week seven.
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#mtw3 online again at the end of this month, Linda Shelton finds out more about Google docs

Linda Shelton has announced another online event at the end of October. Details in the #mtw3 blog.

She is having trouble with fitting a Google doc into Blogger but has now made it public and there is a direct link

So you can add comments or links or suggest new topics.

I hope to make some connections with the Futures conference at the London College of Communication and look back and forward to Cross Media Live. Already the Acrobat aspect is out of date as Adobe said nothing about the new version. That's just one example. More later.

I also hope to fit in a bit more about quality and ask a few questions if the chance crops up. What happened to UMIST? Long ago there was work there about quality but only the critique aspect seems to be remembered. And how do the quality certificates for business schools actually work. There seem to be several quality marks. How to compare with the comments around ISO 9000?
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Copyright, creative industry and barbarians as in radio and academic publishing #mtw3

This post is intended to interest people following #mtw3 in looking on YouTube for clips from the Wild Show on Phonic FM. You can listen live 10 - 12 on a Thursday morning but it is mostly a music show so for this sort of copyright etc. topic the edits on YouTube would be a better place to start.

We have a long term project to be video DJs, including design science. I say we, but my colleague JD still needs to be convinced. He thinks that being a DJ is a skill. He is not wrong but a show could be designed as well, I think. Recently we had a guest talking about Any High Street and how images have particular qualities in a gallery. We then spoke about live appearances by DJs and how this might be different to radio. Here are the links-

(YouTube should show parts 2-4)

We now have to go back to the clips about barbarians and copyright so we can try to fit things together better.
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Acrobat 11 announced, still questions re buzz and pricing

There is an announcement about a new Acrobat, and a blog by Kevin Lynch

but I still think there is not much investment in promoting PDF. I continue to post on the Cross Media Live group on LinkedIn. The actual event was only a few weeks ago but there was nothing there about the new release of Acrobat or new features. There may be an expectation that corporate sites will upgrade anyway. Kevin Lynch is doing a lot more for HTML5 which may have a larger future. 

Kevin Lynch recently spoke about HTML5 and there is support for developers.

The MARS project appears to be discontinued so there is no development for the PDF format. Perhaps the routes to and from XML are good enough so far.

The graphic is from Topsy and may explain a lot. I will try the same query over the next few months. So far Acrobat 11 is making no impression at all on HTML5 buzz.

It sometimes happens that software gets cheaper as it matures. The price for Acrobat 11 seems to be much the same. Meanwhile the Creative Suite is on a cloud subscription. Photoshop and Premiere are both available in Elements guise at consumer level prices. Acrobat continues as a desktop product that can only be afforded by corporate budgets. Several new features are aimed at ease of support for IT departments. There are cloud services but they seem to be quite limited, I will look at this in more detail later.

There is now support for touch screens on tablets but I am not sure PDF will be used in that context. So far it seems that most of the new features are slight improvements.

At least the presentation is based on what PDF offers. Previously with Acrobat 9 there was an emphasis on video conferencing as a good use for Flash. Acrobat 10 featured Portfolios as a Flash menu level. I don't think Portfolios are widely used. It appears that with 11 you can combine PDF and have a PDF opening page so you don't have to use Flash if your design is from a PDF world.

There is some interesting research on offer as background for Acrobat 11

But there are loads of questions around this. If Acrobat continues at current price PDF will continue as a niche format. The content will also be available in formats designed for mobile devices and cloud services. The situations IDC describes will use a mix of Acrobat and other software. So this blog will try to look at choices.
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Dionne Warwick could be a remix but linking allowed, Anybody Out There?

Heard this on Steve Wright, not sure if this is the same mix. Dionne Warwick has a new CD out soon but there is nothing on YouTube. On Soundcloud there are two tracks loaded by Charmfactory, a legit PR operation. On the website they mention SlyFly and show a screenshot from Soundcloud. So maybe it is only this mix that can be linked to. You will also find "Always something There to Remind Me".

This is interesting as a track and also as an example of copyright. On the Wild Show ( Phonic FM Thursday mornings) we have an OFCOM and PRS arrangement so we can play anything but no agreement or budget yet for "play it again". Works ok for speech extracts on YouTube but linking to music can be complicated.

Also we discuss graphics, text in print, other media as copyright examples. Rates of change vary for different formats and situation. For response to web technology sound seems most advanced.

There could be a theory of public relations that includes how to identify content for free distribution as promotion and versions at various price levels. Later there could be a look at graphics through tablets etc. Book publishing has found a viable model so far but there may be more disruption to come.
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Web, TV, interesting stats re location and tech spread over time. #EX1to4

This is from Media Post
 
A just-released study from consumer research firm GfK reports that consumers in Western countries and emerging markets are more likely to consider price, screen size and display technology when buying a new set rather than Internet connectivity. But in emerging markets, the interest is much higher in the Web. About 61% of consumers in India and 64% in China said they look for Internet capabilities in new TVs, compared to 26% in the UK and 29% in the U.S., GfK said.

Usage of connected TV features is also much higher in emerging markets. GfK found that three-quarters of smart TV owners in China have used the connected TV features on their TV sets in the past month, compared to half or less in the Western markets.

 
 
So local TV through search terms could start out in "emergikng markets". Any locality, real or imagined, can be sustained through agreed search methods. I am still thinking about EX1to4 as an areafor local video but it may take time to scale. There may be a case for a benchmark on somewhere else.
 
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Any High Street interview from Wild Show now on YouTube

This leads to three more when you view on YouTube.

More later. Towards the end of part four we talk about digital media and "aura". There will be further discussion on the Wild Show this Thursday morning 10 -12. I will start the show till about 10.30 but chris Norton may allow some of this theme to continue. He has to fit in some music, I do realise.
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Mark Garrett announces new Acrobat, not much interest from analysts

This post is another bit of draft really. I can't find the detail needed for a proper report. But there will be other versions later.

The Adobe meeting for analysts about the recent third quarter included this statement from Mark Garrett, Executive Vice President and CFO-

We achieved Document Services revenue in Q3 of $185.5 million, driven by continued Acrobat adoption in the enterprise, as well as strong growth in EchoSign and related Acrobat cloud services. Looking to Q4, we are excited about the next major release of Acrobat which will ship late in the quarter.

But as far as I can tell so far this was the only mention of Acrobat, nothing from Shantanu Narayan I can find. So Acrobat seems to have become one of those products that is assumed to just tick over. From a financial point of view it can be assumed that if there is an upgrade then millions of corporate desktops will more or less automatically be budgeted for a few more hundreds of dollars or local equivalent. There was no guidance on any PDF technology development, as with HTML 5 or analytics.

I listened to the Q&A and did not hear any questions about this. Blogsearch so far finds this from Tim Anderson

What impresses me about Adobe is how well the company has survived the decline of Flash and the relative failure of its efforts in enterprise applications (the digital enterprise segment is now subsumed in the figures into “Digital Marketing”). The segment breakdown for the third quarter looks like this:
$millions
  • Digital Media (Creative Cloud) 769.1 (71%)
  • Digital Marketing (analytics etc) 257.1 (24%)
  • Print and Publishing 54.4 (5%)
 Although "Print and Publishing" is small and not growing there is a danger in ignoring flat pages. During the time of Flash anyone looking at the Adobe web site might have got confused if interested in corporate communication. There could have been more explanation on the potential of the PDF structure.

Looking at Acrobat Users find no news or info on a new Acrobat

to be continued when some new info turns up.

As previously mentioned, if Adobe are not developing or promoting Acrobat then there is a case for lower price levels and a look at alternatives.
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Trying out Cross Media as an event in slow motion

Sorry for delay in writing up Cross Media Live. Various things are taking up time. I think this was a major event but I can't get a grasp on the time context. It may be part of a fairly long process as part of another one. The legitimate British printing industry was definitely part of it. some of the ideas have been presented in other places and times but the idea of hard copy as part of communication is something to develop. The reports so far suggest there were more people there from marketing than from print, with a considerable number from publishing.

I have started to play with the idea of a Zone of Proximal Development somewhere between Cross Media and IPEX. So in space it follows the canal from Islington to the River Lee then down the river to ExCel. In time it will be October 2013 to March 2014. The learning theory is that "scaffolding" helps people move through a developmental stage. But this assumes that some scaffolding exists. I am still not sure what was concluded at Cross Media 2012. Whatever it was may be rewritten.

So I am looking forward to the London College of Communication Futures Conference  on 7th November. The change of name from London College of Print was followed by using the words "design" and "media" instead of print and publishing. Maybe there is some sense in this that will be clear eventually. The layout of the Cross Media theatres used some of the new words.

I am also thinking about  another online test phase for #mtw3. Concluding with innovation and academic publishing seemed to work ok and would relate to the LCC topics as I remember. Things don't change that much. So the week before could suit. 31 oct, 1 and 2 Nov includes a Thursday so could link to radio show in Exeter.

Thing is with the ZPD it can work both ways. Early next year BETT will be at ExCel and probably the technology thought suitable for schools will not be far behind that bought for games etc over the holidays. The new possibilities will work back to King's Cross - the Guardian, British Library etc. There is still the rest of the year to work out some convincing scaffolding for Cross Media 2013. 

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Isca Wheelchair Dancers ready for Remix, creative commons but no sound...

Still waiting on Spotlight this evening around 6.30 I guess. Could it be possible that their version turns up on YouTube?

Meanwhile the Remix button is shown as there is no sound.

(As expected the YouTube robots have decided that Aled Jones has a case for the rights and advertising income. They have also decided to place an advert for his tour next year that includes Exeter in May.

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