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Sunday, April 22nd, 2012This past week, I’ve been playing one of the most critically acclaimed game of all time–Jonathan Blow’s Braid, an indie game with gorgeous aesthetics and a compellingly unconventional plot. I will confess my ignorance of this game until now: it was only the recent Atlantic Monthly article on Blow’s newest project, the forthcoming Witness, that [...]
Work with Video? Check out Two Great Free Sites
Thursday, June 9th, 2011Online video is a mess. The video tag in HTML5 could help to clear things up, eventually, but there is no single dominant format for online videos. Every company has its own format/codec, and every browser has its own set of plugins to play these. And as we know from the mobile wars, not all [...]
Use Visual Mess to Clean Up your Materials
Sunday, May 15th, 2011It’s Life, Jim, But Not As We Knew It: Odeo Goes Corporate
Friday, October 8th, 2010The one-time consumer-driven media site Odeo has gone corporate. Used to be that users could record and publish podcasts at the site, even export them to iTunes. Then Odeo disappeared for a long, long time. All of the podcast episodes my class recorded and syndicated through iTunes were suddenly gone. Poof. No explanation except a [...]
HTML5 is Making Video Easier, at Least a Little
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010If you haven’t been keeping tabs on HTML5, the new version of HTML currently underdevelopment, you might be interested in this cool project created by Google and Arcade Fire (my new favorite band). The project is called The Wilderness Downtown and is meant to show off HTML5′s new video tag. Just enter your zip code [...]
Odeo Back From the Dead?
Sunday, June 27th, 2010Use Viddler and Ning to Embed Private Video in a Private Network
Thursday, April 1st, 2010I have been interested in web video for the past five years or so–and those years have seen a huge number of changes, as popular formats have come and gone (remember Real Player?), as YouTube exploded, and as the web as a whole got much, much faster. I have been searching for the ideal way [...]
Video Games Go to Hell
Saturday, February 13th, 2010I’ve been interesting the link between gaming and reading for some time now. So, I’m always interested when games that are based on literary classics come out. The latest venture into this area is Dante’s Inferno by Electronic Arts. NPR covered the development of this game a few days ago, perhaps to ease the consciences [...]
Turn Your Computer into a Streaming Media Server with Orb
Sunday, January 17th, 2010Video is hard. Okay, pointing a camcorder at your nephews as they open yet another Star Wars Lego set is not hard. It’s what you do afterwards that gets challenging. In days before hard drive camcorders, you had to transfer your footage to your computer in real time, typically from a small tape called a [...]
Best. Podcasts. Ever.
Thursday, December 10th, 2009With apologies to the exceptional students in previous sections of my Teaching Literature course, I would say that the most recent batch of podcasts are the best to date. When I began the YA! Cast project in 2006, my students and I had roughly the same expertise with Audacity and other recording software. Not much. [...]
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